Welcome. And we are delighted to have all of you with this today. The committee gathers to examine this state of the television and video marketplace. Im glad to convened this hearing with my colleague, se senator cantwell, hours established panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. The honorable michael powell, president and ceo of an cta the internet and television association. The honorable gordon smith, president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters and our former colleague. Mr. David kinney, ceo of nielsen. Mr. Craig aaron, president and ceo of free press. Americans are living in the golden age of television. Weve never had more choices and access to video content. When viewers tend to be home at a certain time to watch their favorite show, they are gone. Television experience is moving away from dependence on fixed schedules, programming links and the confines of the Family Living room. With the development of overthetop technology, digital programming and s
Problem. Sea levels are rising but new data shows the ground is also sinking. Why is that happening and how fast is a potential impact . First lets get a check on the markets. The dow industrial barely hanging on to the green, the s p 500 in the red, down fractionally, but nasdaq composite off by a third of a . Chips have been the hottest area of the market lately but also pulling back a little bit down almost 2 at 1. 6 . Down about 4 . For more on whether markets stand after a strong recent run lets bring in mike from the new york stock exchange. The market keep it up . I think you might expect down actually about 12 from friday morning, that may be you wouldve thought the market wouldve had a harder time handling that. In fact, the market that was pretty overheated over four months, last week was only the third down week in the last 18 or 19. The cooling off is happening in an orderly and relatively painless way because it is happening through rotation and a broadening of the market.
Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, were covering two big stories. Both happening on capitol hill right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson rolls the dice on a foreign aid package with his own speakership on the line. But, first, the exceedingly rare event of an Impeachment Trial for a merv the president s cabinet never got off the ground today in the u. S. Senate it. Took a little more than three hours for the democrats in the senate to end the proceeding before it began against Homeland Security secretary alejandro mayorkas. Raising a lot of questions about constitutional process and politics. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill to show us what happened. Good evening, chad. Bret, Senate Democrats stuck together to end the trial before it even began. They did not vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment. They voted along party lines to rule the articles Ou Out Of Sync with the constitution. Raise a point of articl
Nationwide, an average gain of 225 cents per gallon. 2. 40 as the National Average price and this is just the start. In houston, the sun appeared briefly. It was a curfew overnight. 14 looters arrested. The rescue operation remains in full swing with the volunteer navy plucking thousands from their flooded homes. Thats the inspiring part. Youll see more of it on this program today. The media however, they just had to spoil it, didnt i. . The president went to texas to offer federal help and they picked on melanias shoes. Enough, please. Today the president goes to missouri. Hes refocusing his presidency and the deal with, grow the economy. Most of america likes this. Varney company is about to begin. Well, look at that. The sun came out this morning. That is the son in houston, texas. Came out however briefly. First appearance since thursday of last week or obviously a very welcome sight. Jeff flock, the man from richmond, texas who has the best of the volunteer navy yesterday is now w
Environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2018, and for other purposes. The First Reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. Ll points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed two hours equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the fiveminute rule. An amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of rules Committee Print 11531, modified by rules Committee Print 11532 and the amendment printed in part a of the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted in the house and in the committee of the whole. The bill, as amended, shall be onsidered as the original bill for the purpose of further amendment under the fiveminute rule and shall be considered as read. Points of order aga