Happy friday, welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. A look at the markets this hour. Its fairly quiet ahead the threeday weekend. Marginal gains for the dow which is up by three hequarters of a point. S p level. Nasdaq is up by two. All three indices up more than 1 for the week with the nasdaq leading gains. The defense stocks keep on rolling. Boeing, general dynamics, lockheed and northrop all at lifetime highs. Im courtney reagan. Here is what else is happening. The second reading of First Quarter gdp at 1. 2 despite beating estimates its the weakest reading since the First Quarter of 2016. On the economic front durable goods falling for the first time in five months dragged down by orders for transportation equipment. A new forecast from t11 to 17 named storms during this Hurricane Season that would be above normal. Courtney, welcome. Lets hope they are wrong. It is championship time. The Pittsburgh Penguins are heading to the stanley cup finals after an unbelievably dramatic game
Soaking up the sun. And the president is writing to his wife saying what a fabulous place this turned out to be. The cold has disappeared in just a weeks time. As he leaves key west after that first week he promised our city commissioners whenever i get tired i will be back. 12 weeks later hes back. So each november and december and each february and march the president would take up residence a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month at a time. And it becomes literally the functioning white house of the United States. President truman on his first vacation to key west is invited by the navy to go out on a captured german sub. So he and his 16 closest staff go out on this captured german sub. The captain of the sub is a missouri native. Of course as fate would have it they submerged to 450 feet and the sub springs a leak. The logs are on our official website. They werent the least bit concerned. They had a missouri captain. They knew he would look out for them. After time, the instrument
Im congressman french hill and i represent central arkansas. Today i am at the Central High School museum here in little rock, centerpiece of the civil rights trail around the south. Here in 1957 was the Biggest School integration crisis following the brown versus board of education. This memorial is right here at Central High School one of the , most beautiful high schools in our country. Im an avid outdoorsman and so the National Park site in arkansas that has the most meaning to me is the First National river and our country the Buffalo National river. I have been going there literally for about 55 years and so i have many, many miles on the river and wonderful, happy memories of floating americas First National river, the Buffalo National river. Teddy roosevelt landed a charge to protect americas wild places and special places. He believed in the strenuous life and now more than ever our young people, our families need to get outdoors and enjoy american thats why if youre watching
The Northern Neck National Heritage Area officially launched on July 17, more than two decades after the Northern Neck Planning District Commission began the effort to earn the designation.
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