Win sunday. That would be a show of support for his attempts to revive a slumbering economy. Kathleen i am Kathleen Hays in new york where it is just past 7 00 p. M. Thursday. Treasuries rose and the dollar fell on reports President Trump is leaning toward Jerome Powell to be this the head of the fed. Yvonne it is looking to be more like an easy win for shinzo abe on this sunday election. The latest poll we saw, the Ruling Coalition said to have the best election outcome in decades. More than 31 years. That was facing opposition in disarray. The party had was losing hopes in the past couple weeks. Kathleen i guess that is one reason donald trump wanted to make sure everybody knew he would get this fed chair selected before he takes that very important trip to asia. He will have a lot of important business to attend to. The way the polls are looking, it looks like congratulations to abe on a victory. The question will be, what kind of momentum and support this to continueminister with m
Lets show you the video of the way it looked out here. There were two immediate concerns. Four fire crews, the first concern was the intensity of the fire burning cars and other vehicles in the backyard of this property. And unfortunately burning cars mean Petroleum Products and chemicals a toxic mix. The safety of residents next door was the second concern. Neighbors went door to take are door to make sure people were not home. One of the neighbors tells us the owner of the property that went up in flames is out of the country. It happened all in a matter of maybe 15 minutes, the explosion. It started out with some smoke. Then a first explosion. And then flames into the trees ob onto to the house and started shooting embers into the house next door. Reporter when we arrived we could hear some popping of what firefighters say may have been propane tanks. Fire crews were able to contain the fire to one single property. But embers did reach nearby homes and flames damaged fences at adjac
Held a hearing to examine congresses internal Sexual Harassment policy Committee Member Jackie Speier spoke. This is an hour and 40 minutes. For purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The hearing record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. A quorum is present so we may proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this important issue to the forefront and for tasking this committee to undertake a comprehensive review. Todays hearing is a criti
Committee on housing demonstration for the purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The hearing will remain open for five legislative days so that members may submit any material they wish to be included. Legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. A quorum is present so we may proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this important issue to the forefront and for tasking this committee to undertake a comprehensive review. Todays hearing is a critical part of the review pro
Proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this important issue to the forefront and for tasking this committee to undertake a comprehensive review. Todays hearing is a critical part of the review process. First and foremost, let me say that there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society. And especially in congress. This is an extremely important topic and it will take all of us working together to effectively address the issue. I believe as members of congress, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. A gender that demonstrates we are