Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser
Checkbook tv. Org for schedule. Elaine white is the author o and the author of this book and august 1920 tell us about i it. This is a sleepy Southern City in the middle of summer the legislature usually in recess. It is the time when you sit on tiyour porch and for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last inn deciding state that women across the country and then its all coming down. How many women were in america at that time . About 26 million women and as we know for africanamerican women and native american women but jim crow laws in the south bay denied the votes that 27 million women the politicians are worried about it there was an election the governor isct very worried he is up for reelection so it was a political freeforall to the legislature in nashville spin before we get to the characters involved. In fact what i write about of the participants in this political bellow right in their memoirs how hot it is and especially for the women coming d
Bracelet until his next Court Appearance september 4. When his full bail conditions will be laid out. Prosecutors argue that he is a flight risk because he holds dual citizen ship. American and french and has a considerable amount of money including a bonus from google they believe to be worth 120 million. His father, stepmother left the courthouse after signing his release bond. His Business Partner and brother were also in court. At a News Conference prior the his arraignment, the u. S. Attorneys office presented details of his indictment. A forensic investigation revealed that on or about december 11th, 2015, levendowski downloaded to his google computer approximately 14,000 google files. Reporter in the indictment its alleged the 39yearold made a decision to resign from google no later than september 2015 and then quit his job in january 2016 and gave no notice to the company. Shortly after, he signed a term sheet with uber. The sequence of events is stunning in the speed, the scop
Wish to offer them our very best wishes on this special occasion. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues in addition to my duties in this house. I will have further such meetings today. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Her predecessors excellent work in making sure this economy grows has been confident in our countrys growth despite the troubles and tribulations that have been set before us. Our debt has now our deficit has now come down and our debts are oversubscribed. Will she take this opportunity to invest in our economy even more than she is already and perhaps even take a chance to build more homes . Friend makes a very important point about investing in infrastructure. He refers to housing particularly. We are doing exactly that. That is why we have seen over a quarter of a trillion pounds in Infrastructure Spending since 2010, by putting in another 22 billion pounds from Central Government for economic infrastructure, we are seeing billions of pounds on ra
Lands to keep you cave rules aligned with the eu. In early is down trade. Is there more to come . We will talk about that with the mliv team. Wrangling over that u. S. To limit will continue today. The next big risk from the u. S. We are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. Lets take a look at futures. They are deep in the red. You can see here the percent missed price for dax Index Futures is down more than 1 . Indications that we have a weak open in frankfurt not quite as half percent. You can see the middle range if 50. Look at the euro stoxx investors continue to buy treasuries in the u. S. Pushing the yield down, falling five or six basis points in the last couple of days. Were looking at 2. 33 . Now down seven basis points over the last three days. Guy 28 minutes to go until the start of european trading. Lets take a look at what asian trading delivered overnight. Japan down and korea continuing to be hit and hit hard, down 1. 42 . So my conductor stock