A few days ago it was the nasdaq at 7,000 overnight in asia, the nikkei, if you think these numbers have been good here, up by more than 3 . It had been closed for a bank holiday over the last two days so it had some catching up to do right now you can see the hang seng closed up by a half percentage point as did the shanghai if you look at whats been the early trade in some of those european markets that we watch closely, up across the board gains of almost a percent for the dax in germany and the cac in france. Ftse hanging in there. Still in the green with italy and spain, each up by 1 and look at crude oil prices yesterday a rally in crude oil, up by 2. 1 this morning additional gains of 11cents. 61. 74 a barrel for wti big corporate stories of the morning. Tesla is still struggling with production the carmaker releasing Fourth Quarter delivery numbers that fell short of expectations again, pushing back production targets for the model 3. Tesla delivered 1550 units of the highly an
We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 95. The nays are 3. The bill as amended is passed. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune mr. President , i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to ten minutes. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The senate will be in order. Mr. Thune mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i want to express my appreciation to my colleagues for the passage of the federal Aviation Administration reauthorization act of 2016. By passing this legislation, which i offered with the Commerce Committees Ranking Member, senator nelson, and our aviation subcommittee leaders senators ayotte and cantwell, the senate is seeking to end a string of short extensions with a comprehensive reform proposal now on its way to the house of representatives. Bipartisan efforts at both
Thank you all. Today on cspan3, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee authorizes a measure to use military force against isis. Beginning at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Then at 2 00 eastern, former, current and future chairman of the Republican Study Committee talk about conservatives in the newly elected congress. Watch live coverage from the American Enterprise institute here on cspan3. The white house ebola coordinator around head of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases gave an update on the west africa update and funding for the u. S. Government response. They spoke at georgetown university. This is an hour. Thank you very much. Thank you all for being here this morning for a very important conversation regarding an urgent challenge that we face as a Global Community. Over the course of the last year weve been engaged here at georgetown in a very significant conversation regard region the future of the university. How in the face of a whole set of new disruptions
With bodily fluids, blood, fece fecesvomitous, things people doo o talk about which is the reason healthcare workers are the ones who are most at risk because they put themselves, they run in to the fire, not away from the fire. Thats why we have the risk translated into infection. Gets extrapolated by the American Public when they see ebola, they think somehow, everyone is at risk, and youve got to keep telling them the scientific facts, that they are not. I remember so clearly, jack, being on ted coppell, nightline trying to explain to someone who was arguing against me that the risk this was 1982 and 83. The risk, they say, well, why dont we not allow gay waiters to wait on tables in greenich village . Because we know now that a substantial proportion of them are infected. So what happens if they bring avacado you have a cut on your hand, you pick a plate up. People were focusing on that. So you had to bring the scientific evidence. Is that possible . Yes. But do a probability curve