A lifeline for sears that may be too little, too late. And the wait is over for baby yoda fans everywhere it is friday, february 21, 2020. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning. Happy friday welcome to the show. Here is how stock futures are setting up their friday today. You can see here, stock futures indicating 140point drop for the average. S p open down about 17 points. The nasdaq is off by about 75. This is after a wild ride that had the dowdown about 350 points you can see there in that time lapse, a huge volatile trade in yesterdays session. In the bond market, 10year benchmark below the 1. 5 mark. 1. 48 there. Twoyear at 1. 37 . Treasuries a key focus as people buy up the safety of u. S. Government bonds lets send it over to Joumanna Bercetche in london with an update of what is happening around the world good morning. The handover from wall street has been interesting we are seeing a little green here shanghai composite up. The tech sector slightly better up 1. 1
Commission. But as long as there is a sponsor it goes through a legislative process for a zoning change to that table that exists in the planning code saying what is allowed, what isnt allowed, requires conditional use, neighborhood notification. Any change comes to the Planning Commission for recommendation as a proposed ordinance or zoning change, and then from there it goes on to the Land Use Committee and board of supervisors and finally the mayor. And its all done as a proposed piece of legislation. And from there the Planning Department makes the change to the map and from 30 days after the mayor signs it, that is what become it is new zoning in that district. Because its an individuallynamed district, thats the part that makes it easier because you dont have to change it for all of them. You can just change the one little thing. Correct and one last question for jen since she is here. You dont got to get up. Is that little bit of yellow, is that monterrey . Sf gov tv . Which yel
Ahead of the Conference Call to the g7, leaders, a lot of focus will be on whether they will step in with coordinated action or words to assuage the markets. Ahead of that, markets are rising. The stock europe 600, 4 and the that saw a lot of losses because of the epicenter in europe still in italy, up today. The dax up. S p futures, gains across the board. A caveat. Yesterday, we saw similar gains and they peter off as the day went on. Today, there is expectation from g7 and that the fed will possibly step in. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with Viviana Hurtado. With an update on the coronavirus. Governments around the world preparing for emergency measures to fight the outbreak. Drugmakers hope to have antiviral treatments ready within the month and vaccines by next year. Of cases number worldwide, topping 90,000 but reports suggest over half those people have now recovered or have been released from the hospital. Central bank, it has cut rates and signals
Hudson. My name is richard weitz, and the director of the center for political director of the center for political and military analysis here at hudson. Today we are honored to talk about an important report and the port subject that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association on empowering congress a nuclear authority, blueprints for a new generation. I want to take the welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you might have now, that would be very helpful. The report and either work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association has been over a year, and independent project over collaborated with these organizations last you doing through events on hill, congressional briefings on the Nuclear Threat, the too
Hudson. I am the director of the center for political military knowledge. Today we are honored to talk about an important report, important subject, congressional efforts to oversee the Nuclear Security effort, more specifically a report copies of which are outside by the partnership for secure america and the Arms Control Association on empowering blueprints for a new generation. I want to welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier if people can silence any cell phones you might have, that would be very helpful. The work we have been doing with the association, we collaborated with two organizations the last year and doing three events on the hill congressional briefings on Nuclear Threats and tools of the trade, encountering the threat and the global Nuclear Security architecture. The report and presentations we gave in congress, the Macarthur Foundation. The agenda for today, we have 3 presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional Nuclear