Expected job report from the fed. Were going to talk a lot about that this morning. In the meantime, take a look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up a quarter of a percentage point. Markets higher in china too with the shanghai up. 60 . Hang sang putting in a similar gain. If you take a look at whats happening in the early trading in europe, things are mixed at this point. Dax is up a third of a percent. Cac is up just under. 20 . Ftse is down. 20 and check out crude oil price this is morning, up 1 settling in just under 45 for wti. Among stop stories. 65 billion transaction bayer hiking offer for monsanto to 127. 50 a share. Up from 125 offer. Monsanto acknowledging the latest offer. Calling the discussions con struckive. Have been in talk since may. Bayer believes acquiring the seed maker would position the firm to help farmers produce for a larger population. Well have a lot more on the potential deal in just a couple minutes with an analyst. Other news, volkswagen
You know, china has demonstrated some advanced capabilities on cyber. They havent conducted anything that might resemble warfare, per se, but they have stolen military secrets from the United States. That starts to see an area thats moving closer to offense than mere security and espionage. Russia has devil straighted a real cyber offense capability if you look at the war in georgia. There was a demonstrated capability to go on that kind of offense. And another looking to do a good job of that, if they want to is israel. If you look at the joint effort of the United States and israel to create the stuxnet worm that went after the Iranian Nuclear capabilities thats another major area. There might be some terrorist organizations interested in developing that. But those are the big players on the international scenes, the nation states to have any kind of real severe ability to conduct attacks. The nsa with north korea a lot of countries would probably have that capability. Its easier to
If you post an immunization rate and they are lacking, they will come up. I suspect if you did that for elementary schools, we are going to post the rate of the children immunized here, so what are your comments on that . First, i would like to agree with your last comment about posting rates for schools. We want parents to be informed about vaccines in general and we should also want them to be informed in the environment they are putting their children in. There is no doubt that is going with 40 or 50 of unimmunized children is there a push to do so . We should be letting parents know as much as possible about both because i read the pediatrics article that staff provided. If a pediatrician pushes immunization, she is more likely to convince someone to vaccinate them if she is passive, thats ok, i will sign a no. To what degree are we posting individual clinics or to individual schools . It seems like you should be doing that in santa monica. The rates for School Vaccination are Publ
That is surrounding vaccine safety. To prevent against future outbreaks, i think it is vital that we continue to invest in our nations vaccine production capacity, support cuttingedge science, and enhance the accreditation surrounding vaccine safety. So i have a number of questions, especially around our production. Over 20 years ago, partially in response to a Measles Outbreak, congress recognized the critically Important Role of vaccines by passing and creating the cdc vaccine for Children Program, which provides recommended pediatric vaccines to low income children. The cdc also maintains a stockpile for pediatric vaccines, so, dr. , could you tell us the current state of our National Pediatric vaccine stockpile, and is the measles vaccine included in that supply and can you elaborate on the role of the stockpile in addressing outbreaks, as well as how cdc works to maintain it . Yes. Be vaccines for Children Program includes a stockpile that is approximately 50 enough vaccine for 50
That question. You dont have a personal my sense is that the service has the cooperation has been enhanced by being within the same agency. I guess id like to add that i think the panels conclusion was, we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform at the service. For those issues, we didnt think moving them from one agency to another would address really any of the issues that we identified. And so while we understand that that was a serious debate, we thought that the focus really needed to be on solving the problems that we found. If i could say one more thing. I think one interesting piece on treasury was that, being an older guy, i remember well a lot of the discussion back in those days from within the service about, you know, gosh, treasury officials, wall street guys, finance guys, they really dont understand the Enforcement Mission well. So over time, youve had complaints about, you know, wherever they are, people are going to think its better somewhere else.