That was Edith Roosevelt, speaking in new york city 20 years after she left the white house. She was the matriarch to a rambunctious family and her husband, Theodore Roosevelt, was as outgoing as she was private. She was the groundbreaking manager of the white house, overseeing a major renovation that added a west wing, separating the family quarters from the president s office is for the first time. Good evening and welcome to cspans series, first ladies. Edith roosevelt will usher in season two of the series and the 20th century. We have two historians who know the roosevelts well. Meet Kathleen Dalton. She is the author of Theodore Roosevelt a strenuous life. And Stacey Cordery is the author of a biography of alice roosevelt. Welcome, the both of you. The 1900 election. It does not last very long because an assassin has other things in mind for president mckinley. Tell the story that brings the roosevelts in that very momentous time into the white house. It is traumatic because Theo
Volatility is up 10 alone. The tenyear is sitting at 2. 036 . Were seeing if it gets to that key 2 or even below. Thats a very key level. As for wti, crude is down by 3 , currently hitting shy of 40 even. Gold is a winner. A little bit of a safe haven, currently sitting at 1159. Well bring you more on the gains weve been seeing recently in gold and the dollar is lower today. That is also helping gold. Who would have thunk that the tenyear note would have been right there at 2 and crude might dip into the 30s this summer . Im tyler math sin. Mandy drury here as well. Lets get right to the nyse and bob pisani. We had a very modest attempt at a rally mid morning and its basically failed. Were sitting at the lows pour the day. The s p 500, a bit of aa surprise at the open. We got down about ten points. Suddenly we were much weaker. Heavy selling at the open. Many people thought this was probably european sellers that were unhappy with what was going on over there as well. We attempt add br
Have that fourth bracket designed to make sure we dont have a big drop in income tax rates for high income people. Neil the president with Maria Bartiroma had a different take on the same subject. When paul mentions one more category which i would rather not have, he is playing on what he said, the middleclass is not being properly taken care of. Neil whether you need that bracket to show concern about this, that you are going to rain it in for the very wealthy. Right now the top rate is being reduced from 39. 6 to 39 the understanding being some of those would be ensnared at a higher rate, not necessarily bring it up, something in between. Hard to tell but sort of a moving battle. Adam shapiro with more on this. Keep in mind next week we expect the Conference Committee to come out with the budget resolution and both chambers will adopt what comes out of that. We expect to see details of tax reform as early as the week of october 30th though kevin brady is not saying when he will share
Weapons and a criminal past. One neighbor is little shaken up and explains what happens when she was told to evacuate. Thats what made us go out and look. We went out and looked. The cops said get back in and so we stayed inside for a while. We said we have to leave. Reporter they are waiting for the all clear to go back into their homes. I heard Authorities Say they did not find the suspect and if they see him, they are instructed to call police. Now to the latest on the wildfires that have ravaged northern california. The flames are almost out but the destruction will be remembered forever. Fire officials updated the number of buildings destroyed. Fema has given out more than 6 million in aids. Firefighters expected to have the fires contained by tuesday. Thousands joined in a ceremony today in santa rosa to remember the victims of the north bay fires. Some lost their homes. Some lost their lives. The governor proclaimed today as day of remembrance for the victims. Reporter this is o
News after some scary moments in the sky. 56 people headed to ft. Myers, florida are safe and sound. They made their way down the i 95 corridor when their plane hit a bird. They turned around, it landed safely at dulles. An american tells us all those people will be it in florida tomorrow morning. U no to the talk about the metro sick and now to the talk about the metro sickout. Is it true some metro workers will have to give three days notice if they will be calling in sick. Lots of questions tonight. We ask transportation reporter pete to separate fact from fiction. A lot of rumor about this standup. A very high number of sick requests for friday. 500 of them. Metro has denied them all. Workers are protesting the new sick policy the agency has. It is true in some cases workers must call out sick e workers say they are just following that policy. Metro spent wednesday night doing everything they can to derail the threat of a sickout. Riders like john jan questions how they can keep mo