Skin two. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Mighty god, teach us to trust you more fully, to wait quietly for the unfolding of your providence, to pray fervently, and to worship more humbly. Reassure us with your wisdom, power, and love, that your providence will prevail. Lord, you are our shelter for every storm. Remind our lawmakers to remember how your purposes have prevailed in our nations history so they need not fear for the future. Provide them with a firm faith that will enable them to meet the daunting challenges of these times. Lord, lengthen their moments of prayer until their lives become a continual aspiration after you. We pray in your matchless name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivis
Experiencing what is known as the icebox. Effect. Where in effect, most looks at the sun. And it gets quite cool. Virtually, all of oregon is now choking on smoke. Thats whether you are inside or outside. Countless thousands of oregonians are under evacuation orders. Any are quite literally fleeing for their lives and abandoning their homes is the flames approach. When i was home this weekend initially thought that a number of my communities had been hit by a wrecking ball. That mr. President really understates the situation. Because usually, you can hit by a wrecking ball, theres a little bit left, its not just ashes. Now thousands of people in my state have lost their homes. Theyve lost their businesses, they have lost lifelong memories. We brought a picture to a family of a loved one. Lovely that they cherished. And it just struck me that is those kinds of memories, losing them, painful in any instances. And of losing houses and businesses and the like. The death toll has been risin
Yeah, thousands of students reported to class virtually but teachers. And their union and the district are all still trying to hash out what the plan is going to be for Distance Learning even though online instruction as daryn mentioned begins this morning. Gayle ong takes a look at whats going on. On monday thousands of students with the Oakland Unified School district will report to class virtually in the zoom call usd spokesperson john sasaki had little to say about specific teaching plans, partly because the district is still in negotiations with labor partners the beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is sort of the Teachers Union and district have been negotiating logistics teachers are asking for a reduced schedule working 5 hours a day the Oakland Education Association posted their proposal on facebook as
All across the east. Not much of a bounce back as of right now. Lets bring you up to speed on the flight to safety, gold has retreated to the tune of 23 an ounce now are well shy of 1700. But the yield on the ten year treasury, that remains stubbornly near its lows. That indicates the move into safe u. S. Bonds remain intact, 136 on the tenure right now. Move on to politics, the democrats debate tonight right before 7 00 p. M. , at the South Carolina primary, Bernie Sanders will be attacked. Especially after he doubled down on his admiration for fidel castro. Also crunch time for Mike Bloomberg, he can show he could debate, and joe biden has got to show hes up for the fight ahead. As usual in the hectic times, a big show on the way for you, and a moment you will see the president go after cnn, what a putdown it was. Varney company is about to begin. How can you justify to their American People have an acting dean i would note intelligent. First of all i want no help from any country an
Goldman sachs restricting travel from south korea, northern italy. The president from india, looking much more reassuring tone than he is hearing elsewhere. Take a look. Looks like h theyre getting it under control, more and more under control. I think that is a problem that will go away. We lost almost 1000 points yesterday on the market. That is something, things like that happen. You have it in your business all the time. Had nothing to do with you. It is an outside source that nobody would have ever predicted. Neil continuing today. That disturbs a lot of market technicians who generally like to see a rebound after 1000 point hit. Just because were under water on some averages over the year, theyre up appreciably over the past year. Deirdre bolton what is driving the latest followup selloff from the New York Stock Exchange. At least if you judge by the sectors putting the most weight on the markets it seems to be the coronaviruss potential effect on the Global Economy. That is real