Were leaving this program here to take you back to the conference on free trade and prosperity with forum perspectives on trades and regulations. The last discussion of the day on free trade and agriculture, all of it available later on cspan. Organization. Without further adieu were excited to welcome our two extremely impressive speakers, experts on the topic of trade. Ultimately trade is an activity between countries. It may be carried out by individual people, and businesses working in the global economy, but this conversation would be incomplete without the International Perspective on this topic. That is why the Mccourt School is excited to welcome these two participants who will speak on the panel, foreign perspectives on trade. First off, we have nancy mclaren, president and ceo of the organization for International Investment an association representing the unique interests of u. S. Subsidiaries of global companies, or insourcing companies. Nancys advocacy efforts focus on edu
Good afternoon. Its wonderful to be here, ceo of the organization for international investment. I have a little over 200 companies into these are all firms that have made a deliberate decision to invest in the United States and employee americans here across the country almost 7 million americans get a paycheck. Companies like japanbased leota, german, switzerlandbased nestle and burger king. These companies have a lot to do with the daytoday existence of the trains you take to work in the morning or the cars that you drive and even your after dinner drinks as well. In the u. S. Workforce i think that we are almost to the point it is difficult to talk with her is a u. S. Firm or a foreign fi firm. Youve heard that distinguished career and he has a lot to offer so lets go ahead and get into it. Mr. Ambassador, todays conference is entitled to the treats dont matter. What type of magnitude and importance of the u. S. Eu relationship. Thank you for the invitation. Trade is the ultimate dr
That is right. Milder and that is why that snow and isis melting out there. Anything left over will be melt to go take we will be pushing 50 degrees even with the lack of sun. Nice thaw. The it has been a quick hit of cold air and then we will warm up. The split weekend. We will talk about some rain. Today is day to get everything done if you dont want to deal with it tomorrow. Different story. We have quiet conditions. Noticeably milder, we are still cold, it is member. We are waking up to temperatures in the the 20s and 30s but no teens and no nasty wind chills as wind is backing off. We have cloud over us right now, Holding Temperature to 31 r areas. East breeze coming in at five. It does feel like 26 on expos ed skin here in the city with that breeze. 26 degrees is current temperature in allentown. Thirtythree wilmington. Forty to our south. Capitol city of delaware check out coast coming in at the 41 degrees at this hour in wildwood. We have mild air, continuing to move in, and fr
Storm by the name of matthew is now lashing out at florida. This is a live look. We have a lot of different camera angles on this. The storm is now a category three but is still intense and can cause a lot of damage. Right now 2 Million People are under mandatory evacuations. 140,000 people without power. Thousands of flights have been canceled. Woman has died in florida, a storm related death. The death toll from matthew is climbing in the caribbean. In haiti more than 470 have died. As of that reports in florida, is a woman is all that has been released. A lot of people are just waking up. Lets get an updated track of the storm. Look at the path on the east day today. Then it will week into a category two. The one as it heads out to see. We are tracking this storm as it is happening. We have new video showing the power of matthew. So tough to see. That is not just a white of the weight, that is boat against the coastline in melbourne florida. It is tied to the. And battered by the he
Off friday morning. Temperatures have felt pretty good. We started the day in the 60s. We are warming fast. We already are in the 80s. We are at 81 at 10 00. That temperature will update shortly to 87. That will be the temperature at the top of the 11 00 hour. We are warming faster already and will keep warming into the afternoon. Into the 90s. Today a warmer day with above average temperatures returning. As you make your afternoon plans the high is up to 96 degrees with mostly clear in the forecast through the afternoon and early evening. Then i am tracking changes. Increasing clouds this evening and into tonight with rain chances back by the weekend. I will show you when to expect the best potential in just a few minutes. Spots like savanna already getting some of the heavy rain as the eye of Hurricane Matthew continues to slowly track along jacksonville also getting in on heavy rain. This is still a category three hurricane. It will continue to track of the coast and eventually brin