Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. As we begin our final day of consideration of the fy21 spending bills, id like to thank you all for your kind words and well wishes and ask you, please, to indulge me in just a few more reflections. I came to congress in 1989, one of just 31 women in the house and senate and to this committee in 1993 alongside only six other women under the 64member panel. This body is better for the 100 women serving in the 116th congress and for the many women in the room today. Its my honor to address the full committee for my final time as the first woman chair. You know, its ironic [applaus [applause] thank you. Its ironic that back in 1993 i had to choose between serving on appropriations or ways and means. I was fortunate to be given that choice. And today, we markup my final appropriation bills in the ways and Means Committee room. I chose appropriations because i believed it was the best place to give more people a better chance at a better l
Rather than the protests of the moment. I mean, i was just reading playing on this because there are hundreds of people here. Theyve all been encouraged to break blankets, make something to eat, something to drink, very much show solidarity for the people in garza without a cutting. And so i must protest in the sense of what we saw on the 1st day where the police got involved. So people to bring in blankets for bringing food and drink by putting up flags and fighters all over the quad head. Which way we saw those process on 1st, like theyre also being encouraged to right message of supports messages of support on the ground, which will do whatever they can just to show that the people who because i have no fee for government, im going to bring in mason, whos one of the organizers here . Im make some you say all of these people here. Its a completely different atmosphere. So what we saw on the 1st day, right, right. Yeah, um, thursday honestly was very traumatic. The police cracked down
Buildings in pretoria. With it being celebrations of south africas 1st free and democratic election, the pro, Nelson Mandela and the African National congress to power. 30 years ago, the hundreds of University Students across america have been detained so far as routers against the one guns that have been gathering steam spreading throughout the country. And these have car without non scale arrests on campuses in recent days times using chemical irritants and tases to disperse the students. Some universities have had to cancel their Graduation Services while others have seen in time buildings occupied 5 protesting students. Lets just over a week since students at Columbia University big gun demanding the school divest from israel students at columbia, hofords georgetown, mit and George Washington university began demanding the same. The protest spreads from the northeast to campuses in michigan, texas, and california. We have a team of correspondents covering this story for us in the u
New castle county. And were following an investigation into a possible attack in a famous shopping district in paris. But the big story on action news this noon is the chance for strong storms that could cause flooding. Sky6 live hd checking out Philadelphia International airport. Accuweather tracking drenching downpours and the possibility of damaging winds on a very humid morning. David murphy has the latest from Storm Tracker 6 live double scan radar. Reporter within the last 45 minutes a severe thunderstorm watch was posted aacross southeastern pennsylvania. I couldnt be surprised if this drops into New Castle County delaware and parts of south jersey, as well. Up until 8 00 p. M. As we look at thunderstorms rolling in from the west northwest and winding up down the shore later on in the evening hours. Theres a likelihood of severe thunderstorms as is posted by the storm prediction center. This is different from what i showed you. The watch comes from the local Weather Service offi
2 . Road map begins with earnings from hp a big hit from the stronger dollar. An exclusive interview with meg whitman in a minute. Beat from lowes and from target. Those stocks both higher in the premarket. Hawkish or dovish . Janet yellen day two, heads to the house for her second day of congressional testimony. First up, the dow and the s p coming off record closing highs. The nasdaq aiming for an 11th consecutive day of gains. Better than expected results from retailers, target and lowe and yellen back to the hill for testimony, before the House Financial Services committee. Jim, three sessions left in february. Weve had records on the dow, the s p, the mid caps the russell, the dax, the ftse. Whats left . It all makes sense. When youre in a Conference Call like i was, listened to the amazing cfo from home depot, really is the dean of cfos, and shes tracing out a story which says, you know what people are spending much more on their home and we have homes coming off of renting and b