Statistics. Trust me, i got a lecture this morning on my way into work about these risks of age and weight, and the number one message i have worldwide is not what you or i think or what all the good people of journalism it is what the medical people think, and they are one week out. They are one week out, and then they are in search of pneumonia. The linkage of bacterial illness with this virus is what the pros are worried about. Wish everyone a speedy recovery, but that is a timely reminder. We will have plenty more on that. Lets get to bloomberg first word news with three to ritika more on the stunning news from the white house. President trump has tweeted that he and his wife milani a he and his wife, bonnie a trump, have tested positive for coronavirus. They plan to remain at the white house. President trump will continue to carry out his duties without disruption. In london, a warning that the city is at a Tipping Point when it comes to the coronavirus. Residents are taking immed
Science and technology being applied to deal with them today. After that, Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Then a campaign profile of joe biden. Host eric jay dolin, in your new book about hurricane history i , thought it would be interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes would rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer. Isaac kline became more and more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office
Interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer, isaac kline became more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office of the Weather Bureau in washington, d. C. To decide whether or not a hurricane was coming and whether or not you needed to put up hurricanes warning flags. The local meterologists such as isaac kline had left latitude in calling the shots. So on the morning of september 8,
Of todays lecture, to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in , if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture sponsored or cosponsored by the center of president ial history, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. Thanks again for coming. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the Clement Center for southwest studies. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Starting with our friends for whom we are cosponsoring tonights event. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially bono spitz, who along for those people who ha
Territory. We will see how long that lasts. A strengthening dollar today and treasuries at around 63 basis points for the 10 year yield. European markets are returning today. The ftse 100 was the only one open on may 1. The rest were closed. We went lower the first thing this morning. The ftse opened and was trading higher, but all of the others lower. Out of the gate as you say, we got a stronger teller today. A big move coming out of the ecb tomorrow sorry, out of the Constitutional Court regarding the ecb. We had some really poor Economic Data out of the manufacturing front in europe as well. The italian 10 year selling off just a touch. Brent crude up by 1. 21 . Climbing init risk europe unbidden mounting economic concerns over u. S. Suggestions that china hid the severity of the covid19 outbreak. A sickly escalating rhetoric, which is being a little bit aggressive towards china. We have a speech from the National Security advisor today which called out china and the suppression of