At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
Out what the Federal Reserve is going to do to rev up the economy. Big speech coming from chairman powell. Odds are hes going to talk about inflation. He wants more of it. If thats correct, hell be printing a lot of money. Literally seven minutes from now make that nine or ten minutes from now, we will be allowed to give you the official word. And, by the way, thats what the markets waiting for. The dow jones average is coming off the dow is going to be down about 22 points, roughly that way. Lets see what happens when we get the feds announcement. The s p, thats coming off its 18th alltime high. Down a couple of points at the moment. The nasdaq is coming off its 38th alltime high. We did receive news of just over one million new jobless benefit claims last week, no noticeable impact on the market on that. That market, the investors, theyre really waiting for the fed. Five big tech stocks, theyre coming off record highs. Here they are this morning, premarket. Apple is up some more, but
A devastating explosion residents blame corruption and mismanagement the president says hes not ruling out a missile attack. And india plane skids off the runway after landing in carola at least 16 people have been killed. And hong kong chief executive kerry lam intent on the chinese officials a sanctioned by the us of a controversial security little. The u. S. State department has called for most top former top saudi intelligence officials sydell jobbery a value partner it comes a day off or it was revealed brief filed a lawsuit in washington accusing Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin selman of sending a hit squad to canada to try to kill him the state Department Says its concerned by al job reason allegations and says any persecution of his family members back in saudi arabia is unacceptable its also being reported that interpol rejected a request to extradite him back to saudi arabia because they said it was politically motivated well the u. S. State department comments were made in a
Beethoven. Beethoven. And beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven 2022 the 50th anniversary here on d w. Nearly 10000000 people have downloaded germanys new coronavirus tracing app in just 3 days. Theres still a ways to go Scientists Say that 60 percent of the public needs to use the app for it to be effective and the government says that by end is critical to kind of if the app can help to warn contacts of infected persons faster than was previously possible and every hour of Early Warning of a threat of infection is a gain in fighting those fires you can use this be able see. It as governments around the world track the virus can we be sure they also are tracking citizens. Tracing apps can we trust them are they effective. And this is the covert 1000 special im Stephen Beers in berlin its good to have you with us in a surge of new tracing apps help stop the viruses spread well hear from an expert in just a moment but 1st lets look at some of those apps and how they differ here
Will be like in future as we dont have much information that found out that. Even in countries that have demonstrated the ability to stop restaurants recent countries my stay to the possibility the surgeons. Also coming up u. S. President trump says hes cutting u. S. Troop numbers in germany because germany refuses to pay more for defense tonight a case of a president cutting his nose to spite his face germany as you know is very delinquent in their. Payments to nato so were protecting germany and it delinquent that doesnt make sense. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with what looks like a major breakthrough in treating covert 19 and. Comes not a moment too soon researchers at oxford in the u. K. Say the low cost steroids dexa methods could be the difference between life and death for people infected with the coronavirus in a major study the steroids reduced deaths by 30 percent in patients on ventilators and by 20 percen