The month. David is here with the reaction. It is not very good so far. Certainly, we are continuing to see the headwinds from wall street friday. The gdp number that came out for the fourth quarter, not exactly the most ideal. A drop of 5 to 2. 6 picked 2. 6 . That is what asia basically woke up to. Kicking off a new trading month, take a look at what is happening with the nikkei 225. I will get to why a lot of these stocks rising. We are down about 1 . Dollaryen at a threeweek low. The yen is stronger against its u. S. Counterpart, despite the fact we have the u. S. Dollar strengthening against most other currencies. Some safe haven plays. A lot of ecodata coming out. China adding to the woes pmi unexpectedly drop into 49. 8. We were expecting to see a slowdown. Data suggest that the first quarter, we will see a little bit of pain in china. South korea, we are flat right now. The trade surplus falling. We are looking at 7. 2 billion, still a hefty amount for the current account. Of c
Mr. Alexander mr. President i ask consent to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Alexander thank you, mr. President. I ask consent to that the senator from colorado, senator bennet and i along with the sthor from maine senator king, the senator from new jersey, senator booker the senator from georgia, senator isakson and the senator from North Carolina, senator burr, be able to engage in a colloquy on Higher Education for the next halfhour. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Alexander thank you mr. President. And i i further ask mr. President , unanimous consent to use a piece of demonstrative evidence in my remarks. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Alexander thank you mr. President. Mr. President , the senator from colorado michael bennet, and i have been working for a year to make it easier for 20 million American Families who fill out a the federal Application Form for grants and loans for colleges to make it easier for them to
Knight when the networks decided they needed a midweek game. Now it depends on what conference youre in, how many days of school you missed. You can keep defending it. I would work on changing it. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, for this hearing. I thank the gentleman. Im going to thank the witnesses. A lot of expertise, real knowledge, appreciate everything you had to offer. Quite a diversity and experiences and positions here. Somebody who was a toplevel College Athlete and then went on to play in the nfl has very strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently, mr. Eilers, that weve got problems out there as mr. Miller, again very passionately, pointed out that needed to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the actions of a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board who suggested that these athletes are employees and, therefore, could, if they chose, vote to join a union. And so we explored some of the possible down
Trauma risks. They are asking to prevent players from being stuck paying sports related medical expenses. They are asking that Graduation Rates increase. They are asking that Educational Opportunities for student athletes in Good Standing be protected. They are asking that universities be prohibited from using a permanent injury suffered during athletics as a reason to reduce or eliminate a scholarship. They are asking to establish and enforce uniform safety guidelines in all sports to help prevent serious injuries and avoidable deaths, and they are asking to prohibit the punishment of College Athletes that have not xhited a crime. Is in any one on that list thats unreasonable . Is there any piece of that that your institution would say, no, im awfully sorry, we cant do that. Or let me phrase it positively. Would you each be willing to lead an effort in your respective conferences to see to it that your fellow member institutions say, absolutely, guys. You are absolutely right. Were go
Theres a big crowd surrounding the water fountain in eltoro elementary in morgan hills. Temperatures soaring into the 90s. It feels like theres nice weather but it feels really, really hot out here. Reporter when it gets this hot Morgan Hill Unified School district ironically operates under a socalled rainy day schedule. You can drink some water if you have a water bottle. Reporter water and a little less play in the direct sun. Fair amount of our teachers will put kid at lunch in their classrooms so theres basically a huge array of air conditioned classes they can go into. Reporter lloyd webb is the principal at live oak high school. He says coaches will lighten up on conditioning and shorten practice to avoid injuries and dehydration. We look for kids who appear tired, because sometimes they wont tell you. And then we pull them aside, give them water, let them rest. Reporter road crews braving the heat for a paycheck tell us the october heat wave isnt so bad. But over at cal fire, ba