Reciprocate and the federal government is on standby to help. I am impressed the coordination and preparation has really gotten good. Randy, congressman, republican of texas, 14th district, we appreciate your time. [inaudible conversations] i want to thank everybody for gathering here today, especially want to thank senators cornyn and crews for taking the time to join us today and being part of the Aerial Overview were able to take to get a better assessment of the entire region as well as to work with us here on the ground. I want to thank the two local area congressmen, one for the two strict and congressman and adjacent district as well as lieutenant government patrick and state senator nichols and local representatives, thank them for being here. I want to thank your judge, thank you for hosting us and being with us. Its been a pleasure. Working with you through this. Thank you for being here. Of course. And mayor i think is still here, they are, thank you for being here. I want t
Deal to buy the company could come in next few days and theres a third bidder enter the fray walmart, wait, what. Thats right we have the details walmart entering that one. The sports world at a virtual stand still. The nba pauses playoffs to put a spotlight on Racial Injustice in america. The Houston Rockets owner will join us. Well talk about that and the hurricane as power lunch starts right now thanks stocks are giving up sol me of their early gains. Bob has the latest for us. Banks and health care are leading but most Everything Else is down. Sell off in the middle of the morning. That as an attempt to take some profits on tech stocks these sell offs dont last long. Look at the triple q here in is the nasdaq 100 at a new high its a rule here it goes up for four days and maybe down one day we have seen this for a couple of months now. Here you see the teams to sell it off it doesnt last very long. Theres been a lot of people arguing, look at the megacap tech names its time for a pa
Reporter . [inaudible]. Texas Governor Greg Abbott in response from hurricane after the category storm came to shore about 1 00 oclock this morning. In neighboring louisiana. About 35 miles from the texas border paredes joined by senators and ted cruz. [background sounds]. I want to thank everybody for gathering with us here today. Especially want to thank senators cornyn and chris for taking the time to join us today and being part of the Aerial Overview that we were able to take to get a better assessment of the entire region. As well as to work with here on the ground. Also want to thank the two local area congressman, and the congressman, as well as the governor dan patrick. In the state senator nichols, and local representatives stephen think all of them for being here. Of particular want to thank the county judge. Thank you for hosting us and for being with us. It is been a pleasure. And working with you through this pretty so thank you for being here. Of course. And mayor, i wan
Out what the Federal Reserve is going to do to rev up the economy. Big speech coming from chairman powell. Odds are hes going to talk about inflation. He wants more of it. If thats correct, hell be printing a lot of money. Literally seven minutes from now make that nine or ten minutes from now, we will be allowed to give you the official word. And, by the way, thats what the markets waiting for. The dow jones average is coming off the dow is going to be down about 22 points, roughly that way. Lets see what happens when we get the feds announcement. The s p, thats coming off its 18th alltime high. Down a couple of points at the moment. The nasdaq is coming off its 38th alltime high. We did receive news of just over one million new jobless benefit claims last week, no noticeable impact on the market on that. That market, the investors, theyre really waiting for the fed. Five big tech stocks, theyre coming off record highs. Here they are this morning, premarket. Apple is up some more, but
True regardless of where they are, and whether they are run by republicans or democrats, are trying to find a way to give voters options, ways they can vote that they feel safe, and feel convenient to them. This means expanded voting in almost every case. Every state is going to see a Record Number of ballots received by mail. It also means expanded early voting, finding appropriate voting sites for voting in a pandemic, which means they need to be large enough to accommodate social distancing. Also making sure that Election Officials can recruit enough poll workers to staff those sites. We need about one million poll workers in the president ial election, but the fast majority but the majority of poll workers historically have been over the age of 60. Host define for us, the difference between mailin voting and absentee voting. Guest that is easy. There is essentially no difference. There are basically three types of mailin voting in the United States. There are a small number of stat