Insensitive is on the way out. A Northern Ohio man painted his entire lawn to show his support for President Trumps reelection. President trump calls it a beautiful job. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 13th. From abc news, this is world news now. Hope you all had a great weekend. We do begin this halfhour with the u. S. Reporting more than 60,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. Florida topped 15,000 cases in 24 hours. After months of resistance President Trump wore a mask in public for the first time paying a visit to wounded troops. Reporter more than 135,000 people in the u. S. Died of the coronavirus to date. Florida, reporting more than 15,000 new cases, a oneday record for any state. In texas cases and hospitalizations topping 10,000. Military medical teams deployed to houston. They acknowledge the fact the numbers are continuing to rise. Reporter arizona is one of several states setting daily death toll records. Once you are driving home and thinking
Unveils the conservative Party Election platform this morning. Should businesses be perturbed by some of her policies . This is bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Check out what is happening to equities. Yesterday we saw the biggest drop on the stoxx 600 since september. Today the decline continues. Biggest twoday drop since november. We are down of further 0. 5 . Index is rising today. The first day of gains and seven after falling to a november low yesterday. The u. S. 10year yield unchanged at 2. 2 , dropping 10 basis points on wednesday to 2. 3 , the lowest since april 19. Ing. Is fall there is less of a flight to safety haven assets today. Its biggest gain yesterday since june 24. Lets get to first word news. Starting with the u. K. , Prime Minister theresa mays conservatives are expected to unveil their Party Manifesto today ahead of the u. K. s general election which takes place in three weeks. May will tell wealthier, elderly voters they will have to pay for prom
Than we hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full complement of folks there at the Budget Department as well. The budget approach takes a different approach this year than weve seen in the past. This is portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. The administration has also requested robust fund frg the cleanup of Nuclear Waste left behind by our countrys cold war legacy. The budget request proposes deep cuts to research and development for energy and science. It also proposes to phaseout innovative programs that have had demonstrated success. I understand what drove this proposal, but im also concerned by certain parts of it. The United States is the world leader in science and energy. We like it that way. We want to keep it that way. And at the core of that is the work done at our National Labs and universities by the men and women who dedicate their careers to further science. Members
Than we hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full complement of folks there at the Budget Department as well. The budget approach takes a different approach this year than weve seen in the past. This is portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. The administration has also requested robust fund frg the cleanup of Nuclear Waste left behind by our countrys cold war legacy. The budget request proposes deep cuts to research and development for energy and science. It also proposes to phaseout innovative programs that have had demonstrated success. I understand what drove this proposal, but im also concerned by certain parts of it. The United States is the world leader in science and energy. We like it that way. We want to keep it that way. And at the core of that is the work done at our National Labs and universities by the men and women who dedicate their careers to further science. Members
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start, but hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn of the president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. While it took us a little bit longer than wed hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full compliment of folks there at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy takes a different approach this year than weve seen in the recent past. The president has made a concerted effort to increase funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration to focus on our Nuclear Weapons program. This is a portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. The administration has also requested robust funding for the cleanup of Nuclear Waste l