Cspan two. Isas Governor Greg Abbott urging local residents to get their flu shots early this year. He made this suggestion alongside Public Health officials at a Medical Center in dallas where he talked about precautions for slowing the spread of the virus. Want to thank everyone for being here in the medical school for hosting this event, for everything they are doing to help the people in this region as well as the entire state of texas, responding to all different kinds of medical challenges we are dealing with. In particular, what were focused on today. That is covid19 as the flu season that is coming up. As the flu season that is coming up. Just one of the topics we talked about before i do want to make a Compass Point regards to cover 19. People in the dallasfort worth area, one thing you have observed following the numbers is that covid19 numbers are improving in the sense that so many the point is the numbers of covid19 are going down from an elevated level. We are not at all
We have seen a lot of ups and downs in the Latino Community. None more stark than the last 3. 5 years. Donald trump his administration have pursued an allout assault on latino communities, from the moment he came down that golden escalator saying he was going to take on the mexican rapists. It started the moment he announced his presidency. Feeding the flames of fears and racism against latinos. It is baked into every aspect of how he has governed. This week was an especially poignant reminder of the terrible consequences of allowing that kind of hate to grow unchecked. Butought we could defeat a, it only hides under the rocks. When a president breathes oxygen in, it comes roaring out. On monday, we marked the oneyear anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in el paso where a gunman explicitly sought to target latinos and 23 beautiful lives were stolen from us and their families. I know what it is like to lose a child. It is awful. The stakes of trumps irresponsible policies, of divisi
Manufacturers, in an effort to less lessen dependency on foreign pharma. This visit ties directly to the start of the president s tariff wars back in january of 2018. Thats when he imposed 30 to 50 tariffs on imported washing machines that were mostly coming from south korea appliance giants lg and samsung. Since that time, whirlpool is up, just over 2 , while the s p 500 has scaled gains of 19 over the same period of time. Also, whirlpool has Just Announced some layoffs. We will take you straight back to ohio when the president speaks. But to the markets. Just a second ago, the nasdaq touched a record high, 107 points to the upside. We are still up about 101 at the moment. 100 points above the 11,000 mark. Right before the closing bell yesterday, the nasdaq actually kissed the 11,000 mark. We noted it, seconds since the bell was closing. Well, it closed one point below. Will we see it close above 11,000, if it can hold on to its gains it will notch its fourth Straight Record close. Do
Perpetuating the problems of the looking more or just that what we think we can do and not looking squarely at what the country needs to do. Those can be two different things. Does the department do any recalculation of revenues on the chance we could go a bit longer if congress tales to send the president the bill and are there any contingency steps the department is taking in case that doesnt happen . Them when we think about the impact when we think about the impact, it is not a small impact. Internal to d. O. T. , probably 4000 of our employees that would be furloughed. They range from folks on the federal Highway Administration who do permitting work to federal motive carriers. Those are primarily the agencies that would be impacted. External to d. O. T. We send out letters to all of the states and the territories, explaining what we would do in terms of Cash Management in the event that we started to go below the balance. Hes sensually portion of those states and percentages of t