Good afternoon and welcome back colleagues and members of the public to our first meeting in september. Today september 5 as we return from our summer legislative recess. I hope everybody had a safe and relaxing time away and are ready to get back to work. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll . Yes, mr. President. I apologize for the echo. We are going to take care of that right away. Supervisor chan, present. Supervisor dorsey, present. Supervisor engardio, present. Supervisor mandelman, present. Supervisor melgar, present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor preston, present. Supervisor ronen, present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor stefani, present. Supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land a
It is 10 00 eastern time. The dow is down 11. Nasdaq is down 129, nasdaq sliding because big tech is almost uniformly down. The tenure treasury yield is shy at 491. Oil slipping below 85, now 83. 79. Bitcoin, 34,000 a coin, 341 to be precise. Latest read on pending home sales. Lauren the number is 72. 6, a surprise increase of one. One in the month of september. August had an alltime low so a small rebound from that. It didnt he decline further, comparing this observer to last september home sales down 11 on the year. 3 problems remain, mortgage rates, inflation. Stuart the Real Estate Industry and the market is in bad shape. Now this. It was the first piece of legislation under the new speaker, declaring solidarity with israel. It condemned hamas, called for the release of hostages and israels right to defend itself. Nine democrats voted against it. It wasnt about sending weapons to israel. It was about condemning hamas atrocities. That is what those 9 democrats could not handle. Deep
This is an Ongoing Investigation in the early stages. More information will come out in conjunction with the Attorney Generals Office as the lead prosecutor. We cant share all of our information now and im sure you understand that. I will give out two numbers that go to a tip line, 911 is also appropriate for this. If anyone can call these two numbers it goes to the state police tip line. 2072139526. And 9002. And well be sending something out later that has that information in it if you werent able to grab that now. Again, this is a very fluid situation. We have a lot of resources, as chief st. Pierre mentioned earlier on a ground in a coordinated effort to apprehend this individual. Weve notified the Department Of Education and they have determined what they will do with the schools. A lot of area schools were shut down today based on our conversation with them. As more information comes in well provide it to you. Thank you for your time. That is a very difficult time for the communi
Sandra and thanks to your team and crew. John im john roberts. Thank you. Im Trace Gallagher in for martha maccallum. John roberts will stay with us live from jerusalem. We await the state Department Briefing after hamas releases two american hostages for humanitarian reasons. We have greg palkot live on the Israel Lebanon Border where the israelis are evacuating a town. First we have breaking news coming. Lets go to mike tobin. We have mortar or rockets coming in. Mike . We have a flurry of rocket fire. Weve seen that really since just about every night fall we see them. Tonight it was more intense. If were in cover right now. I see more launches from the gaza area. Big flurry of activity. That looks like its coming down. I dont think its going to intercept. Very well we could get some strikes here. Theres quite a few theres one going across the screen there. So quite a few rockets, quite a few intercepters making the doing their job. Were hearing a great deal of impact. If i shut up,
David we are following two hugely important stories changing by the minute. We will bring every update him a congressman jim jordan appears to again have fallen short. This is the third time as the house of representatives makes yet another futile attempt to elect a speaker. Until theres a Speaker Congress can do nothing to advance legislation or funding and that includes funding for the war israel. As israel pretends for a potential confrontation that spilled beyond gaza. Im in for neil cavuto, thank you for joining us, our top story, another failed attempt to vote for a speaker wrapping up on capitol hill, chad pogrom live on capitol hill. Reporter jim jordan thought he was going to do better, he did worse. Hes going down in flames. He lost 22 ballots, voted on speaker on thursday, hes down to 25, brian fitzpatrick, republican pennsylvania, kane of new jersey and mark molinaro, republican from new york. They are tabulating the official ballots. Patrick mchenry, acting speaker pro tem