[applause] [cheers and applause] c oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her Family Members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause
Virtually. Commissioner williams. [off mic]. Is your mic on . Here. Just one moment. Okay. Next on the agenda is the item 2 discussion if possible action to elect an interim president of the Building Inspection Commission. So we will take nominations. Im not sure if you know how to how would you like to handle that . Supposed to do nominations first . Yeah. Do you have the rules in front of you . Sorry deputy City Attorney rob kapla. I reviewed them recently but this is a situation with a band new that we dont have a normal situation. Its want the first feeting in february so the bylaws allow to select an interim president to preside over this meeting and the next until we have an officer election for president and Vice President on the agenda. Go ahead. So its my understanding that we should still follow the process of the regular election which is first allow for Public Comment. Second is to request nominations. I have a question how we do that. Is it fet bell cal or by raising hands
Chester hospital has told a jury today she had not harmed any children. Well be outside children. Well be outside Manchester Crown court for the latest the lucy letby latest live from the lucy letby trial. And as he steps down from trial. And as he steps down from his key position at google, the godfather of Artificial Intelligence warns the Technology May not be too clever for us all in the long run. Should we shut up shop on the chat bots . First, though, the latest headlines with. Tamsin latest headlines with. Tamsin mark, thanks very much. Good afternoon from the gb good afternoon from the gb news room. At tztot. Afternoon from the gb news room. At tztot. A afternoon from the gb news room. At 12 01. A nurse afternoon from the gb news room. At 12 01. A nurse accused of muttottng at 12 01. A nurse accused of murdering seven at 12 01. A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and ottompttng murdering seven babies and ottompttng to murdering seven babies and attempting to kill ten othe
The little of february. The nikkei 225, stronger by. 25 . We did have the first day of the fiscal year for japan. We are seeing investors at the start of this week doing profittaking, particularly when it comes to the performers. We are seeing broad upside as the nikkei comes online. Watching those chip stocks. We had news of further investment from the governor government, looking to make those two nanometer chips. That would be a significant uplift when it comes to those chip and ai and tech related names. Topics moderately higher at this point. Dollaryen trading at the 151 level. 152 is potentially where we see intervention. Of course, new year, same old issues when it comes to the battle between the dollaryen. The same old currency problem confronting traders and the government. There will be Big Questions as to how the intervention will play out, and how long it potentially can last, given we know currency intervention does not tend to be longlasting. Even if it is heavyhanded. In
Referring to what may be bad blood between President Biden and benjamin netanyahu. A distant connection but there you have it. Good morning, 10 00 eastern, straight to the money, mixed picture. That i was up 70 nasdaq down 20, no clear trend at this point. The 10 year treasury yield Holding Around the 40 level, the right apps, 450, the price of oil moving closer to 80 a barrel, 78. 51, bitcoin in the low 60,000s. As the markets on thursday morning now this. The president has bowed to the wishes of hamas. He has suspended arms sales to israel. This is an astonishing reversal of decadelong policy. America placed a weapons involvement on our closest ally in time of war, the israelis are about to finish off the terror group that brutally attacked them on october 7th. Biden is telling them dont do it. Biden is saving hamas. Wasnt always like this. After the october 7th atrocity biden said america would make sure the israelis, quote, have what they need to protect their people now and always