Also a big announcement from bringing that money right back here to the states. Which everybody has been waiting for with the economy boost, that well see investment from apple into our economy over the next five years. That is really what springs it. Lets start with dow 26,000, apple is dow component. 321 points to the upside. 1. 2 gains for the big board. For the Dow Jones Industrial average, but across the board, you can see all milestones here for record closes, for the dow, nasdaq and s p. Since then we have hit eight, 1000 milestones. Eight trading days since the dow 25,000. It facessest 1000 point gain in history. Look at lead earns, boeing, almost 19 . America, caterpillar, great performers and eight, 9 gains there. Also watching cisco an united technologies. Weve seen a lot of winners across the board in technology, Consumer Products and that. Taking a look also as we talked about apple briefly. That was breaking news during the day. We contributed 250 billion. Adding jobs wit
To receive the congressional gold medal in recognition to his service to the nation as a soldier, and statesman. He is going to be presented the medal by a part san group and congressional leaders. This is going to be in the row ton d. A. He was a only gop president ial nominee to endorse the president. The gold medal has been arranged for george washington, rosa parks to frank sinatra, and the congress highest display of achievements and contributions. Mr. Dole spent 35 years in congress and most of them in the senate where he rose the post of the republican leader, and a position that he held for a record nearly 11 years n. 1996, he was the partys nominee for president and losing to bill clinton and he lost two earlier bids for the nomination. He was are also gerald fords running mate in 1996. There you can see the capital row u ton da, rotunda, and we watching as it is preparing to begin and the remasrks are to b starting at 3 00 p. M. Eastern time. Ladies and gentlemen, your attent
Quorum call the presiding officer the majority whip. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , now that the government is up and running again, we need to look ahead at what our legislative priorities should be. I cant speak for everybody, but i can speak for myself. My priorities are threefold. First we need to expedite Disaster Relief. In december the house passed an 81 billion Disaster Relief bill to address the disasters by Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Harvey and the wildfires out in the west. That has been sitting here since december and we need to act and act with dispatch. Everyone remembers Hurricane Harvey, we certainly do in texas, which pummeled us last august. It was last august. This is february. Most of the Media Attention in the months since has focused on the city of houston, which quite literally, was torn apart. They had more than 50 inches of rain fal
The entire block roped off, a bunch of investigators on the scene. This is video from earlier. Three people shot, all taken to the hospital. Folks who live here said that one of them appeared to be in critical condition, but no confirmation from the police of that. I spoke to remain off camera said he was walking home from work when he heard gunshots rang out. He said everybody around him, including himself, began running. They said they heard as many as 30 shots fired. One of the people which shot rain inside a nearby Apartment Building for cover. Folks who live here say there was another shooting a couple blocks from here last night at about the same time, starting a couple blocks from here, ending up at the apartment here on edgewood street. Right now the police say it is still early on the investigation and they do not have answers why. Right now we do not have a lookout as to who they are looking for, but a number of Police Investigators on the scene, trying to figure out what hap
Court appearance, the judge told him to wait until the proper moment. I have to follow the rules so just be patient. We all have to follow the rules. But the government says that fattah broke the rules to pay off a Campaign Loan for his unsuccessful run for mayor in 2007 he and four others are charged in a racketeering scheme, that they funneled money through a nonprofit and other companies to repay the loan. Two that benefitted they said were his wife and his son, chaka fattah jr. , who is facing charges in a separate case. Fattah says he plans to stay in office and run for reelection, i fully expect when we vet these allegations, well know they will no longer represent a cloud on my very good reputation and fattah deflected questions. What did it feel like posing for a mugshot and being fingerprints. I have talked about this, my lawyers are now answering questions. Fattah says he is now going back to work and looking forward to running for reelection for what will be his 12th term in