He is the founder of the Dupont Center and his specialty is Global Security, everything from governance culture to state actors and nonstate actors and im going to try to explore as much of that todayas we can. I want to find out each day the Dupont Center publishes. [inaudible] it is a wonderful deep dive into a timely issue that goes to the heart of what we should be thinking about even if its not in the headlines. Anything from White Supremacy to whats happening with al qaeda and isis and regional powers and i encourage you to read it every day. I also encourage you to read the morning brief which they Stephan Group sponsored at the National Security produces in the 14th year and bring you the news every day about what you should be thinking about about National Security in a variety of dimensions. Ali, thank you for joining me today. Welcome. Please dont stay mute, this is your conversation. I want to start by talking about the book and then were going to turn to other things. And
Continue to keep funding this. Reporter the governor will not ease restrictions soon. One week does not make a trend that gives you confidence to generate headlines. We are looking forwhat and we needed to see another few weeks after this kind of data to come in, to feel for confident. Reporter im roz plater, nbc bay area news. New cases in california are on a slight decline. The graph shows a number of cases added each day since april. The blue line is the 14day average of new cases. You can see we have really high peaks, for several weeks from late june to mid july. This one right here, this is nearly 12 n,000 on july 7th, nearly 13,000 cases reported on one day, july 21. But the numbers are started to trend downward. 5700 new cases is bell below the 14day daily average of 8800. And the percentage of tests coming bay positive is dropping. Break news in the south bay. A senator announcement that cut a little of people off guard. San jose police chief eddie garcia announced he is retir
Sweet. Theyre could welcoming us here. Come by, free coffee for all until 9 00 this morning. And coming up, well shine a spotlight on the community. Melissa is making the coffee and says it usually is busier now. Im expecting a crush any minute n now. Somebodys holding back. Maybe theyre watching to see whats happening before they come to their favorite wawa. Maybe theyre hitting the closet for warmer gary because its getting cold outside. Right. Dont let the temperature fool you. The breeze out here is chilly. It has picked up, yeah. The winds in the Lehigh Valley gusting to more than 30 Miles Per Hour. Steady in allentown at 21 Miles Per Hour. Thats chillier air thats working its way into the area. A warmer start in some neighborhoods than it would be this afternoon. That would be delaware and south jersey. Look at the feelslike temperatures in the Lehigh Valley. Allentown, reading, lancaster, feels like 30s. You can expect that kind of wind and schil during the day in the rest of th
So whatever beat out fake news. No offense but which i really hate. Yes. Also literally as in im freezing literally. Gosh. My choice really just a letter. A single letter. The letter k. K. As in im running late. Ill be right there. K. K. I hate its all good. Its all good. Okay. What does that mean. No. Its not. I find k so much more disrespectful thats okay. You didnt have the strength to type the extra syllable. I will remember that. Im glad youre here with me today. Sal and mike are off today. We will start in washington where republicans are planning to celebrate passage of the tax reform plan after one more vote in the house this morning. Reporter an early Christmas Gift for republicans as Congress Votes to overhaul the nations tax code and deliver the gops bill to the president s desk before the holiday break. President trump tweeting this morning, the tax cuts are so large and so meaningful. The results will speak for themselves starting very soon. Jobs, jobs, jobs. After eight s
And many crash overnight. Maybe theyre bursting bubble is hurting us. One last one. Food police joined the president ial debate. Varney company is about to begin. Dont look now but it looks like we are in for triple digit selloff at the opening bell. We should be down 120 points. Chinas stock market was down 2. 5 overnight. The worries over there will affect their money over here. Full story coming up. Oil also down on the china selloff now 47 per barrel. Is that good for the economy . Good debate later. It is getting fairly close to 100 a share. Very much in focus this week they report earnings on wednesday. Some talk maybe they will have this urge we saw for amazon and google last week. We shall see. President obama in ethiopia this morning defending the Administration Deal with iran specifically citing Mike Huckabees criticism of the administration. If youre asking me how the arguments are going, its great. If youre asking me how the arguments are going, its great. If you ask me abo