Foster not chief astronaut. We will first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Nasa,t a great day for what a great day for spacex and the United States of america. It has been nine years since we have launched american astronauts from american soil and we have done it again. I want to be clear the mission is not yet over. We are at the beginning, but so far, everything has performed very, very well, and we are excited about the fact that bob and doug, our american heroes are safely in orbit and on the way to the International Space station. Congratulations to nasa team. Congratulations for the leaders who have been on the nasa side leading our commercial crew program all along, and you and your team have done an absolutely marvelous job. Of course, elon musk and your team in spacex, this launch represents the best of everything that america has to offer. Showso will it also the process, to my nasa administrator who got the program off the ground when there was not a lot o
Dragon arrival configuration is complete. All valves appear closed visually now. Arrival configuration complete. Houston copies. Never, welcome to the International Space station. Please come aboard. Endeavor copies. We will be there in a second. We have bob behnken entering the International Space station. Followed by doug hurley. [applause] houston, we see you. It is a great looking photograph. Standby. We will call you when we are ready in the next few seconds. Got a bunch of happy and grateful people making their way in right now. Demo two crew now entering the International Space station. They entered at 12 22 p. M. Central time. They are over turkmenistan. The crew gathered in front of the cameras at node two just behind the hatchway to the crew dragon. We are standing by for a welcome ceremony. We will have vips in Mission Control houston ready to greet the crew. Station, were just about ready. Stand by. Station, it is houston. Confirm that you are ready for the event. Houston,
Good news good news folks i know youre worried that everyone is suffering during this pandemic were lonely were scared and if i have to teach my mother how to use zoom one more time im going to throw her out a window not the real her but the laptop with her on it so she sees it as it goes down and smashes into the ground and maybe that will stick with her for a bit but no is not true not everybody is having a rough time some people are doing room only well americas billionaires have seen their wealth increase by 12. 5 percent during the lockdown period the institute for policy studies released a study thursday showing that in the 8 weeks between march 18th and may 14th the country superwealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a norm its fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwh
A. M. , dr. Joshua gordon, director of the National Incident of Mental Health, on the impact covid19 is having on Mental Health and the nations Mental Health care system. Host democrats plan to vote this week on the 3 trillion financial package. Providing funding for the postal Health Services. Senate republicans are questioning the need for a funding bill. Some culling it aspirational. We will take your calls on it. If you want to comment on the phone lines, its 202 7488000 , mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. You can text the set 202 7488003 text us at 202 or comment onk us facebook. The bill starts out with 500 billion going directly to state governments. 170 5 billion would go to Public Health emergency funds and offer 75 billion for housing assistance, 25 billion for the Postal Service, tribal relief, 10 billion of this new package would go to Small Businesses. 3. 6 billion dollars for the fall election, offering direct each household. The election aspect, the Washington Times hig
He is telling the truth in terms of this is a very difficult situation at best. It will take a long time for the economy to recover and it is tragic for many. He keyed out the 40 of people making less than 40,000 per year losing their jobs in march. A difficult message but a truthful message. Right now the markets appear to be coming to terms with it. In the near term, support is holding. We are still stuck in a range even though it does feel risk off. It is risk off. David tech has given us a break thus far. His tech holding up again . Abigail tech was holding up, you had the faang Index Holding up. Do your point, out of the march lows, tech is up in a big way. The faang index up 20 . To the downside, the financials continue to lag. This year there down 30 . That is 10 of the market. The s p 500, to continue the rally out of the march lows, you will need to see all the sectors get on board, the banks, the industrials, and some of the cyclical sectors are lagging. One reason the banks