To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
And with his country in the grip of massive protests colombias president begins what hes calling a National Dialogue. The big. Thank you for joining us prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an unprecedented and symbolic victory in District Council elections voters turned out in record numbers after almost 6 months of protests that have cause a territorys worst political crisis in decades live to soft rock in hong kong in just a moment but 1st this report from scott hyde. In a sweeping victory prodemocracy candidates made huge gains in hong kongs District Council elections gaining control from pro beijing parties. The voters sending a clear message in the 1st polling since the protest movement began. Even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots after nearly 6 months of at times violent demonstrations the pol
Allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Before i ask for the roll call, the fans are on for a couple reasons. The building engineer is in route but not here yet. Please be prepared to speak louder cheese are all recorded both audio and video. Please speak louder today. The next genral item now before roll call is item 13 is pulled. It shall not be discussed today. We will notify people in advance before that comes back on the calendar. Now we will start before Public Session we will have the roll call. roll call . We have a quorum. The rules for general Public Participation will be in effect. If you want to speak, please submit your name but limit to two minutes when we get to times to speak on items in general or a particular item when called. We will go to closed session. Do we have a motion from the board . Motion. Second. All in favor say aye. Motion passes.
Im here for cal fox of the tertenderloin housing clinic. Im here for the tenants upstairs. Spoon they have been tenants f9 years and unlike the characterizizatiocharacterizatit seems like a nice guy, we had the opposite impression. They hathe showers were water w. This work being proposed would reconfigure the units, not just expand, so there is no effort to keep the tenants in. Whether or not theres been an implication of a notice of termination is not the point here. Were in the present. This is their longterm home. The work thats being done is purely elective and cosmetic and intended probably to quadruple the value of the property, not only by creating more size but by getting rid of the longterm tenants. This would eliminate the backyard which is part of the very, very limited open space. They have a dog that uses the backyard. There is very limited space in San Francisco and throughout the Mission District. Its so concrete and steel. This is one of the few places where they can g