4th and 5th. Booktv. Org. Now, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes a look at the u. S. Agency for International Development, food for Peace Program and other ways to district food aid more effectively around the world. The witnesses including the acting director of the food for peace office and an official from the Government Accountability office. This hearing is 90 minutes. Our Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing an historic humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide who are in need of food aid. The United States continues to be the world leader in providing over a third of all emergency food aid, over 2 billion annually. Despite our shortfall there are other donor organizations not meeting the challenge. In next years farm bill operations we want to do more without spending more money. Over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill with the u. S. Cargo and preference requirements. The farm bill requires aid to be sour
Lets go to the maps again to give you an idea if you are rolling off the blue route, again the broomall interchange right there by the springfield country club, to kind of give you a locate or, water main break in norristown, main, just off of walnut. Now we just saw few no, maam ago from skyfox the Water Department on the scene. The kids were getting pick up on the school bus. So thats going to be a hot mess here along main as you roll through norristown. Septa says, because of an equipment issues from yesterday, thats a left over for this morning, they say to expect delays and overcrowding on the Regional Rail lines today. I dont remember having any equipment issues yesterday on the Regional Rails. But, heres a mess, too, this is wide load sitting off to the side here westbound schuylkill jammed, from approaching city, out to belmont. Sue, weve got good looking forecast for your hump day . A lot of sunshine for halloween, expecting quite a few more clouds, so we will go with a seven
State victories and macrons swearingin. Oil up on news of more Production Cuts and an Empire Manufacturing the first negative read since the election. Our road map begins with a cyber warning after hackers attack 1 50 countries over the weekend. Microsoft said it should serve as a wakeup call to governments around the world. And theres an agreement on the extension of the Oil Production cuts. The white house is hopefully to quickly pick the next fbi director. Will democrats make that possible . First up this morning, asian governments and businesses reporting some disruptions from this Wannacry Ransomware worm this morning. Its locked up hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries since friday. Security experts warning of further disruptions as more systems come online today. We have examples of schools for instance in south korea warning their students not to fire up their computers today for fear this could get a new leg as people turn things on. Whats amazing about
Getting through as many as we can. Its a jampacked two hours. Why niles shorts amazon on the back of the deal, and former walmart ceo, bill simon, why walmart has more to worry about other than amazon. Bill miller, a bull on the stock, and talking to him about valeant, and alexander accosta reacting to President Trumps comments on cuban policy lets get to it we have details of the amazons deal to buy whole foods and what it means for rivals. Mike, this is a little bit of what it means because ramifications have many, many ripple effects, but the deal to buy whole foods makes it amazons biggest acquisition to date, and one thats royaling grocery and retail stocks. Amazon says it will maintain the whole foods brand with the ceo and cofounder somedaying at the helm, for now. The overlapping is high already, and the stores are are located close to many amazon distribution centers, which is an interesting point the partnership certainly arms whole foods with logistics and data expertise, an
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