With support from our Comcast Cable partners this weekend we travel to lansing michigan. Coming up we will talk with authors base year as we first learn how the city was chosen as the state capital and then about 15 minutes the story of arby olds and the auto Company Founded in lansing and later we take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as we hear about james turner and the founding of lansing. James turner was a pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. He had a slightly more sensible approach, but we didnt do that. Wehad nothing here, there was no transportation. They had so much to build a castle city and that was the very interested and exciting and unique story oflansings beginning. The legislature established the state in about 1836, about a year before it became a state. They designated detroit as the capital but they were fearful that detroit could be easi
In the United States, are expected them to cut rate another quarter point, dropping the ball on all of this and president declaring not even two weeks ago that hes an enemy, reminder how easy it is to make friends in the city, dow 75 points, lets get the latest first on the trade front on whats going on there and growing talk that at least the talks are back on and so far no one is throwing dagerds. No one is throwing at each other, the jobs are fundamentally strong, 130,000 jobs in august, 3. 3 over the past months, the white house economic adviser say it doesnt really matter that the jobs missed the estimate because the Labor Force Participation edged up. The people on the fringes of this come are coming in and getting jobs, if you peel back some of the numbers, consumer is still spending and thats in construction 14,000 jobs in construction, half in Residential Home construction, people buying homes, consumers are buying, the other half divided among specialty trade construction and
And i heard you were a fan rollercoaster as well then ive got some tips for you for your next perfect weekend away hello and welcome to another fun filled edition of your own max im your host meghan lee heres a look at what else weve got coming up on the program. A visit to one of germanys a lasting garden gnome factory. And. How forum austrians enjoy some traditional grilling in the great outdoors. But 1st we start off with a day or devil of sorts a young rosa from estonia is in one of the worlds best slack liners now for him the slacker the line the better because that means more flexibility for tricks and flips roza has become a master of this art but like with anything only practice makes perfect now some of his stunts have taken him years of fails and falls to perfect but all the hard work finally paid off when he established a world record. Its 9 in the morning in vasco a village in south eastern a stony on. One of the worlds best slack liners its the start of a normal training d
Cents. The price of gold holding steady. Its up just a little. Have we got a price there . Okay. We will get to it later. Its 1300 an ounce. What did you say . 14 . Gold is 1400 an ounce this morning. Big gain yesterday, a fractional gain this morning. Got that. Investors do not know what to make of this. Chinas leader goes to north korea. Interesting that right after that visit was announced, President Trump called xi jinping and worked out an extended meeting. So its a threeway dance and no one knows whether it helps the trade talks or not. Look at this, too. After a big rally yesterday, no significant pullback this morning. Yes, the dow, the s p, the nasdaq, they will all open lower but all three are still at or very close to their alltime highs, despite whats going on around the world. Go figure, maybe. Friday morning. Varney company about to begin. Stuart want you to see the video. Look at it. Its cooling down a little bit now but that was a massive explosion at an oil refinery in
Objection. Ms. Collins madam president , as the snoor senior as the senior republican woman in the senate today, i am pleased to begin a series of speeches, along with my good friend from california, the senior democratic woman senator, senator Dianne Feinstein to commemorate a significant milestone in our nations history, 100 years ago today the Senate Finally passed the 19th amendment which affirmed the right of women to vote in elections. Madam president , all of us recall that in 1775, as the Second Continental Congress was forging a new nation conceived in liberty, be a gale add Abigail Adams admonished her husband john to, quote, remember the ladies, end quote. Despite Abigail Adams advice, it took a century and a half for women to adhief their right achieve their rightful place as full u. S. Citizens. On june 4, 1919, the United States Senate Passed the 19th amendment to our constitution. The courage and determination exhibited by generations of women and men were rewarded in ju