Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
Golf its good to have you with us police here in germany launched raids against some of their fellow officers on wednesday officers suspected of trading neo nazi images in private online chat groups 29 Police Officers in the german state of north rhinewestphalia have been suspended 11 are now under criminal investigation images shared in the groups include pictures of adult hitler and nazi symbols such as swastikas and this is not the 1st time that germanys Security Forces have been at the center of a scandal involving far right extremists. By this grace and a slap in the face for germanys Police Forces thats what the interior minister in north rhinewestphalia called the discovery of czech content in which 29 Police Officers shared right wing extremist material. Including for example pictures of hitler of swastikas of imperial war flags but also many more horrible images like the fictional depiction of a refugee in the gas chamber of a concentration camp Police Officers from different
Their children and for their families and for their nation itself. No one could make that choice for them. They had to that themselves. Today, the world sees they are choosing cooperation over conflict, friendship over enmity, prosperity over poverty, hope over despair. They are choosing a future in which arabs and israelis, muslims, jews, christians can live together, pray together, and dream together sidebyside in harmony, community in peace. Me congratulate the people of israel, the people of the United Arab Emirates, and the people of the kingdom of bahrain. God bless you all. This is an incredible day for the world. This is a wonderful and beautiful occasion. I want to thank all of the members of congress for being congressmen,s, congresswomen, we appreciate it so much. Everybody wanted to be here. Important day for the world, important day for peace. Before the parties signed the accord, i want to ask Prime Minister netanyahu to say a few words, followed by the foreign minister o
4 , amazon off and google off. But netflix is the out liar this morning. Netflix shares really out performing this year tesla is down about 14 this morning. If you look for a full week it is down about 24 . But you know that is only about three weeks of gains it has lost it is still up about 24 over the past one month 90 over the past three. Considering that, and all of the moves that this and other stocks have had, lets get to bob with more Market Movers bob . John, 41 declining to advance in stocks. What we dont have today is they have just barely avoided the moves. They moved down, oil, the energy ets is at the lowest level so theyre doing nothing but drifting lower this morning. Banks got lower yields and a flatter curve. We are off of the lows and we are at about 116 right now so just off of these lows here for some of the tech names, but not much, it looks choppier than it did on thursday and friday when it was straight down. So a little choppier there as you see today. A healthy