Trump growth agenda. One more number for you, please. This rally has added 4,856,000,000,000 to the nations wealth since the election. Got it. Today the president travels to puerto rico. He will see firsthand the recovery effort. Personal insults coming in from the left. This opinion piece appears in todays New York Times. Quote an unfit president fails puerto rico. The writer, michelle goldberg, calls the president one of the worst people and a nasty show biz huckster. Well, on his trip today the president is not scheduled to meet the mayor of san juan who criticized him as a sexist, but he will be pledging billions more in aid. You want to know how your personal information and that of 145 million other americans was stolen from equifax . Stay tuned. Their guy will take the heat today. Itll be political theater. The lawyers will be watching. Can you say class action suit . Where they get the money and you get nothing. All right, everyone. No, we have not forgotten the outrage in las
Center. This morning there are signs of progress. Plus just one week after finishing his final big tour, rocker tom petty has died. Well look back at the life of the singer and songwriter who said music was the only thing he was good at. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Humanity revealed itself last night. Everyone who was there, everybody who is watching the coverage of this, i think all our lives have changed. The search for answers, after the deadliest mass shooting in modern u. S. History. Were hunting down and tracing down every single clue that we can get. Investigators have a big job ahead of them. The motive for the attack remains unknown. The insanity of a scum bag mad man. How dare any human being do that . The responsibility for this epidemic of mass execution lies with policymakers. Emotional calls for new gun laws from senate democrats. Theres a time and place for political debate. Now is the time to unite as a country.
Unarmed Security Guard that helped confirm the shooters room. Paddock shot lu the door wounding him in the leg. Paddock then shot 200 rounds in the hallway holding up the police until the swat team arrived and blew up the door and found the shooter dead. Why did he do it, we still dont know. Next headline. 4,940,000,000,000, thats how much the value of all stocks has gone up since the election. Another one, we are only 338 points away from dow 23,000 and guess what, we will go up a little more when the market opens up today. Varney company is about to begin stuart all right, come on in jeff flock, live in las vegas. Jeff, we understand theres some talk about the shooter planning an escape that he would survive this . Give me the story. Jeff the authorities think because he placed the camera out in the hallway outside his door that he could see from the inside, that that may have been his plan to see if the coast was clear after the initial attack so that he could get down to his car wh
Politics, the daily life, the challenges relating to the gaza strip. This event is the latest in meis george and Rhonda Salem Family Foundation series. Mr. George salem will be with us soon, i suppose. We are not relatives, although were both salems, but were distant cousins, perhaps. This event today is being live streamed from our web site, and i think also cspan3 is covering it as well. Itll also be available later as a video or a podcast from our web site as well. Because its being recorded and just for, you know, general decorum, please put your phones on silent. That are available at the front desk where you signed in. Were looking today at the critical political and humanitarian situation in gaza. A lot going on in and around the gaza issue. Tensions between the Palestinian Authority and in the movement itself shifts in the gulf involving saudi, uae, possibly impacting the situation in gaza. Gaza has been under a blockade for almost a decade now. Things have recently gotten wors
Many states across the u. S. Have been dealing with drought this summer. To up states deal with the droughts the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Held a hearing focusing on drop trap preparedness and Water Management. Ge Water Technology division and state water agencies gave lawmakers the recommendations for increasing Water Supplies. This hearing is little more than one hour. [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources a committee on water and power will come to order. The purpose of todays hearing is receive testimony on water supply and drought issues. We will hear testimony on a range of water related topics including infrastructure and supply, certainty in planning, and innovative Management Practices that are critical to maintaining secure Water Supplies. This includes items that are crucial to arizona such as the Colorado River drought planning and watershed restoration, better use of existing reservoirs, reliable water supply