Note to the public, there will be general Public Comment for every item on the agenda and an opportunity for general Public Comment for items not on the agenda and that would be during item four. We ask that you complete a speakers card and hand it to me and ill hand it to the president and shell call folks in the order we receive them. Call to order item one, roll call. President elmy bermejo. Commissioner wan is excused. Theres a quorum. Item for discussion. Welcome to the commission on the environment. This is our first meeting since the untimely passing of ed lee. I want to send sincere condolences to his wife and daughters. His last appearance was at the recycling press conference with the department of environment and he spoke about the work so eloquently like he always did. We are really, really saddened by the loss of our environmental champion and today well discuss ways to support and maintain his legacy. Reflecting back on a year ago this month was an overwhelming turnout at
Here shortly, and obvious knows that 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off of the coast of alaska and the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings for activities that were expect and warnings for the tsunami waves were recalled but i am sure that the sen or the is dealing with items related to and that other h issues. I want to thank the chairman mr. Mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here, and many of the staffs that are going to be hearing that we are back in operation. So we look forward to hearing about the sun jek the subjec reliability. And last year we looked at the reliability of the electric grid in light of the mixing fuel change. We have carefully distinguished on the issues of new items to have renewable renewals and also frequent response and also to adopt resilient metrics that needed to be developed. Fortunately when the secretary perry filed the report as a proposal to furk, i was more alarmed. It was the conclusion of the departments own staff, and it was a transparent attem
Dow down 37 points and the s p nudging back up towards the flat line at 2066 and change and nasdaq in Percentage Points the big lieutenantser, down twothirds of a point. Seven of the sectors are low for the year including staples, i. T. , financial, industrials, utilities and energy rounding out the bottom of the pack. Both down more than 9 year to date. Oil getting hit hard again today before staging a bit of a comeback. There you see its got modest losses right now. West texas intermediate at 51. 97. Ice brent crude at 56. 43, down 11 cents or about a fifth of 1 . And then ty yield falling enough that were starting to hear about lower mortgage rates. The tenyear right now earning 2. 221 . Euro Group Leaders meantime emergeing from a crucial summit on greece about one hour ago. The result nothing, according to reuters. Another meeting set for tomorrow. The eurozone summit is under way now. Yields meantime skyrocketing on the greek twoyear bond at 49. 5 . The etf that tracks greece all
If Kayla Tausche is at the nyse to tell us whats happening on the floor. Stocks for the dow and s p are in the red right now. The dow having its nay rowest trading range today since august 18th. The nasdaq has been flirting with the flat line for the last hour. It is just slightly into positive territory. The dow, the s p and nasdaq though even with todays trade all remain out of correction territory. Lets get the trading action at the nyse. Bob pisani joins me on the floor. Michelles getting ready to go on vacation, a lot of other traders are and very happy to be a somewhat normal august day here. The s p 500, very narrow trading range. Only 13 points. Got a little droop in the middle of the day. Stan fischer speaking exclusively with Steve Leisman. Some interpret him to be a little more hawkish. I didnt hear it but the markets seemed to react that way. Down just a little bit. Very narrow trading range, 13, 14point bottom to the top. Volume is heavy but declining. Heavy for august but
Hinojosa that mean guy. Thats me, mmhmm. Hinojosa and i told you that i was going to do this, because as one journalist to another journalist, its hard to kind of sum up, because you have interviewed every major rock and roll and pop musician and country musician that exists, i would day. Okay. Well, youre overstating it, but ill take it. Hinojosa overstating a little bit. If you had to choose your like, top mostmemorable interviews from this huge history, what would it be . What would it be . You know, maria, i have forgotten them all, actually. Hinojosa laughing every, single one even elton john. Mick . Mick who . Hinojosa laughing well, you know; sum it up. Yeah, its a tough choice, but i would say that quite often, it was the behindthescenes stuff that goes on that builds to a story that makes it memorable for me. For example, one of my favorites is ray charles, because at the time that i suggested the story, he was not really on the charts and getting the kind of acclaim he should