[applause] good afternoon, everyone. As we settle in i often pick a word for the day. A kind of how i govern myself often times and my frame of mind. But today im going to take an image of the day if you look at your screen, one of our commissioners shared with me this image and i think it sets the tone and stage and underscores the importance of why we are here. This is a chinese book for kindergartners and even if you dont speak chinese, circled r. Two letters, ai. Kindergarten textbook. The senator talked about us getting ready from grade school to graduate school. Now we are talking about kindergarten or even pre k. If we are going to keep ahead and stay number one when it comes to ai so i just want to start with this image because again it really for me underscores the urgency of why this commission was formed and why its so important as we are here today. We have a broa had a broad mandh concrete steps the government should take to build and maintain a Machine Learning work force
To 66 with sunshine around the bay, 61 to 69 inland and then were all back in the mid to upper 50s by 7 00. A lot more sunshine, a lot less breezy today. Enjoy it. Here is sue. We are going to the bay bridge. Take a look at the backup there, just slight backup for those paying cash on those left hand cash lanes. If you can carpool thats always a great way to go even when the met rieng lights are turned on, those carpool lanes are usually moving by at the limit. Here is your approach to the bay bridge on the east shore freeway, a little bit more crowded but still moving nicely, no stalls or accidents on that stretch to get you on through. Road work coming over the waldo road, southbound 101 through the Robin Williams tunnel and that should be picked up momentarily. Here at the live desk i have an update on that breaking news i mentioned at the start of our show. A stabbing at a Safeway Store in San Francisco and i just was able to get some more information. We have learned that it was a
Chipping away, dialogue shares sink to the bottom of the 600 as the Semi Conductor Company Delivers a cautious Fourth Quarter forecast. Choppy waters for mass group. The danish shipping giant, the cyber attack proves worse than anticipated. Another stumble on the cat walk the german online retailer lowers its Profit Guidance citing weaker trading in october and Profit Margins so the ecb president mario draghi is due to speak at the forum on banking supervision in frankfurt. He hasnt quite started this speech yet but joining us today is nick guardside from jpmorgan Asset Management nick, thanks very much for joinings just before draghi gets to it. I want to ask you, as a fixed Income Investor here, how focused are you really on the Banking Sector in europe right now. Clearly a couple of years ago, we were very focused on the Sovereign Finance linkage. Does that still play into your framework or do you think that draghi has succeeded in severing the linkage between the two . No, draghi h
Shuster was touting the open process laid out a Leadership Conference today to reporters. Its boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. However, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. So technically, this isnt the most open process but with a highway bill thats spanning hundreds of pages and over 200 amendments submitted from the house, leadership has to do something to try to kind of limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill shuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this, so here we go, he tells the house rules committee. Why did it take so long and what is the current deadline . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the diffi
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