And 10 minutes. The timing of this symposium is intentional. 75 years ago next week, General Macarthur was recalled from retirement to u. S. Service, starting a road that defined him and asia are many years. World,rstand the modern you have to understand to understand much of the modern world, you have to understand the stories we are exploring today. In the Memorial Building next to us, the general is buried with his wife. We also have a temporary exhibit new the theater to your left on the liberation of the philippines, which i incurred you to explore. Take times during the breaks. The museum and this building will be open until 5 00 today. This symposium is another Great Partnership between the city of norfolk and that General Macarthur foundation to provide key support for the memorial and its programs. I would like to recognize them for their support. We have several Board Members here. I would like to recognize them for their support. Also might staff who are here today my staff
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Of exhibits on his life and times and we have an exhibit to your left on the liberation of the philippines. I encourage you to explore and take time during the breaks. It will be opened until 5 00 today. This symposium is Great Partnership between the city of norfolk who provides key support to the macarthur memorial and their programs. I know we have several Board Members here and id like to recognize them for their support. I would like to recognize my staff who are here today and, quite frankly, helped make this happen. I may be the guy up here giving the welcoming remarks but without their hard work and dedication, we wouldnt be here today and we wouldnt be having the program were going to have, amanda, robert, please give them a round of applause. [ applause ] at this time, im going to bring jim forward who will emcee us for the rest of the day. Again, welcome and lets have a great day. All right. Welcome, yall. Glad you all could make it. This is our 15th symposium. We started in
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The top earner today. We will hear from Business Leaders on how reform should be done. Lou dobbs weighs in. Melissa our very own Charlie Gasparino goes oneonone with municipal analyst. That should be very interesting. Lori lets get things started with the latest addition of stocks now. The 20 you see volatility here. The fix is to the downside today on a day where we are gaining triple digits, unlike yesterday where we love triple digits. The majority of the dow components are in the green. We have economic numbers showing expanding numbers in the u. S. Service. We will take a look at a longer term chart. Back to you. Lori thank you, as always. Melissa breaking news. The Budget Office releasing the latest numbers. What we can expect our deficit to be. Rich 845 billion for this year. This is the first time in five years. Lets take a look at the next ten years. Then it starts to climb up again. The aging of the population and Interest Payments begin hitting the budget even harder. All th