Ho a the gun that built an american dynasty. We are having this talk taped by cspan. During question and answer if you can step to the microphone in the middle and speak loud and clear to it, that would be fantastic. Laura has worked for the bbc since 1993 reporting for radio and television programs. Vi her first book a very british family, chronicles for engine luish roots. Tonight we are exciteed for her to share her american roots. Are you a weeks ago during a lantern tour i gave a tour around the site. I would not have known was his simple tombstone meant. Oliver and his family have also buried in evergreen. Its time for his great, great grandfather to share for about the win chester. [applause] amy, thank you so much and thank you to all of you for being here. I cant tell you how touch i am that you are here listening to me talk about what i thought was a pet project. Im thrilled to see that it has a wide audience and thank you to c span. When i was a congressional intern i watche
Tech was clearly one of the best performers with the nasdaq the biggest gainer out of the three biggest benchmarks. Joe absolutely. Kind of unusual because we have this modest dow game that really the tech performance. Matt we do have a seventh consecutive day of dow jones records, nineday winning streak but seven days in a row, we hit a new alltime high on the dow, not something we have seen on the s p. Dramatic. It be more its much more dramatic if you look at a longer period. I also wanted to show you microsoft. Scarlet showed me this earlier, sans going to rip off one of the functions she sought me she. Howed me how to use its the probability of certain moves, so we can see on the far intela big move here in shares. They were up almost 7 today, which has only happened one time since april. You can see its basically three standard deviations away from the mean. It fell to its lowest level since 2011, and there has been a letup and the insatiable demand for government bonds. Yields a
Side until the 10 00 our. I will be here at noon as the storms start to track in once again. It was an explosion and then we waited a minute and there goes the transformer and then all of a sudden there went again. 3 times it exploded and then the power went out. We will check on traffic but this morning so many people still dont have electricity because of those nasty storms. A lot of power lines down on the westside. Were of the hard hit areas. What is the latest from the Power Companies . With thousands of people still waiting for powers to be restored in the eastern communities, Mother Nature has helped those right here in westlake. We have lots of trees and branches snapped on the side streets making it difficult for these crews to get things back take a look at what we are seeing off of first street and columbia road. Were at the entrance of the rta park and ride in the road is blocked by downed trees and branches. The parking lot to a nearby plaza is also covered with debris, an
People wondering whether their doctor visits and prescriptions will still be covered. 3 this is about you; this is about your loved ones, this is about your neighbors and friends. Former Iowa Governor chet culver is referring to the potential privatization of medicaid in the hawkeye state. This is part of Current Governor terry brandstads medicaid modernization initiative. The plan involves letting private Insurance Companies determine whether or not they will cover people who are on or want to be on medicaid. Brandstad feels that this approach will create a Sustainable Health care budget if the private sector takes over. As a resultmr. Culver is Holding Town Hall meetings across iowa to hear from people who arent satisfied with the new initiative. We want to make sure that their voices are heard as this is deliberated, this change from a state managed model to privately managed. People like local resident pinky problem but meetings like this inspire him to get involved. I cant see mys
Transition is delayed we could be looking at all or nothing. Thats exactly right. If it is delayed we will end up with more ice and freezing rain. Also some of the computer models are hinting at a weaker system. Carol several gop candidates just wrapped up a forum in front of hundreds of voters in greenville. Michael faith and family were the main topics today at bob jones university. Wyff news 4s corey davis was there all afternoon. Hes live and local with the candidates views on family values. Corey . Four gop president ial candidates spoke passionately about including faith in their decisions and the importance of strong families. Senator ted cruz just finished dr. Ben carson former governor jeb bush and senator marco rubio all spoke earlier. Some of the policies we have put forth as a nation actually break families down. We reward people when they have a whole family, we take the money from them even though theyre struggling together trying to strengthen their families and raise ch