The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
Lies in state. The civil rights icon, the first africanamerican lawmaker to in history to lie and stay there. Kelli meyer has the story. All members rise for a moment of silent, a somber start to the week as lawmakers pay respects to one of their own 80 yearold georgia congressman john lewis who spent much of his life fighting for racial equality died friday after a 6 month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was the last survivor of the big 6 civil rights leaders of the 1960s i first met john norris in 1968 in Atlanta Georgia. At the funeral of doctor Martin Luther king junior lawmakers like North Carolina democrat ek butterfield and Georgia Republican buddy carter. Praise lewis says the moral compass of congress is certainly a great loss. The state of georgia, but also to the nation voters first elected louis to represent his Atlanta Georgia district in 1986 Georgia Republican congressman doug collins was just an intern, we ended a run same elevator, almost every morning together. He l
Chairs this subcommittee. The committee will come to order. Welcome to the fiscal year 2021 labor hhs subcommittee markup. Joined by my dear friend tom cole. I want to welcome mrs. Lowey, Ranking Member granger and the subcommittee members here in person and those by a secure video teleconference. Just to mention we have in person chairwoman lowey, Congress Woman lee, Congress Woman clark, Ranking Member cole, Ranking Member granger, Congress Woman butler, congressman graves. Those participating remotely are Congress Woman frankle and bonnie coleman. Before i give an opening statement, im required to offer a brief explanation how the markup will woman. Todays room has been configured for the six foot distancing between the staff and members and the press corps. And some have used security video teleconferencing to participate remotely. Video teleconferencing, once you start speaking there will be a slight delay. Speaking into the microphone activates the camera. Displaying the main spe
P president driscoll, you may start the migrant. Meeting. Due to covid19 and the Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the tre tree restrictionn teleconference, this meeting is being held teleconference. In our published notice and on the web page we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or by leaving a voice mail manage. I will ask all members of the board to mute themselves to minimize background noise and keep your cell phone remote, as well. Board members will unmute themselves to comment. There is staff in the background managing the Technology Functions during the meeting to switch from my slide presentation to whom ever is speaking at that moment. Thank you to all who have put this meeting together. Technology and this device is increasing and there will be more changes, all to make the meeting and the interaction go smoother. At this point, can we ask ase commissioner to unshare his screen. Square with arrow and not an x. Thank you. Item number 13
There is a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sfgov tv. On behalf of the commission id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452 and pound, followed by pound again. When Public Comment is called, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. You will be you will hear an automated voice that will tell you when it is your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. I will alert you when your time has expired. These instructions will be repeat. If they havent already done show, im going to ask the commission and staff to minimize microphones to minimize background noise. And id like to note that item number 9 has been removed from the agenda and will be rescheduled to a different meeting. Madame president , your first order of business is item three, approval a of the minutes of. May 12, 2020. Yes. Commissioners, before you have the minutes of may 12,