Imagine. It is wonderful to have you all here with us this evening at the museum and also to all of you at home who are watching via cspan. We have this evening a wonderful presentation by john browne and then followed by a discussion with professor daniel of rice university. Without further ado i will hand it over to john browne. Help me welcome mr. Browne to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me. As someone who served on the boards of several museums and galleries i have a deep appreciation for the role that institutions like this play in the local community and indeed in society more generally. As a window on the path and an explainer of the present and as a guide to the future they are indispensable resources which go above and beyond what you can read in books. Houston is fortunate to have this place and it is a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist and subsequently an engineer ive always sought
Museum, and also to all of you at home who are watching via cspan. We have this evening a wonderful presentation by lord browne, and then followed by discussion with professor Daniel Minisini of rice university. So without further ado im going to hand it over to lord browne come help me welcome john browne to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me, to spend some time this week. For someone who is on the boards of several museums and galleries, i have a deep appreciation for the role that institutions like this play in the local community and, indeed, in society more generally. As a window on the past and explainer of the present and a guide to the future, they are indispensable resources which go above and beyond what you can read in books. Houston is fortunate to have this place, and its a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist and subsequently an engineer, ive always sought to maintain a Broad Perspec
3000 block of 9th street southeast. He hit me several times. I thought i was going to die. Reporter it happened monday morning shortly after midnight. Mr. Davis and his friend, timothy cox, were in this minivan. They were stopped because it was missing a tag and missing a headlight. But mr. Davis says there was more to it than that. What did they accuse you of doing . Sexual acts or Something Like that. We had our clothes and stuff on. We didnt have our clothes pulled down. We just pulled over. Reporter park police say they have no evidence the officer used any homophobic slurs. They say mr. Davis was tased before he was handcuffed. Driver was resisting shtionz so the officer told him if you keep resisting, i will tase you. The driver kept resisting and so the officer tased him. Reporter now, theres a Second Chapter to this story. This is what he looked like after the incident. There are two versions of what happened here. And coming up at 6 00, ill have both sides of that story. I got
Star state reporting on the impact of low oil on jobs and the economy in the great state of texas. First, lets get to bob in the heart of all the action down at the nyc. I can hear smashing in the background. All those records being smashed again today. I believe its been the best twoweek gain for the s p in three months and im just looking at the leaders here. Energy and materials are on fire. Once again. At that level this will be a new historic closing high. Well see if we get there here. Intraday inteks for new highs, theres a bunch of them. The s p 500 is an at intraday by semiconductor index, i mentioned this all week its been at historic highs. Midcaps have been historic highs. The nasdaq is at a 15year high. The russell is close to new highs as well. Well be keeping an eye on that. Leading the charge as mandy mentioned is energy and will we see brent up very strong this morning and close west texas intermediate. We get some of the more volatile names up. Danbury, halliburton, b
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