This that sort of optimism helping things out the dow futures implied to open up about 118 points higher this comes after a decline for the markets yesterday. The dow was down about 180 points yesterday you saw bigger declines in percentage terms from the s p and the nasdaq with the s p down 1 , and the nasdaq down by 1. 5 . This morning green arrows across the board. Nasdaq indicated up by 67 points the s p indicated up by 14 if you want to look at the overseas markets in asia, you will see the nikkei was actually in a situation where we have green arrows this morning in europe, but the nikkei down by a half percentage point. Shanghai down by 0. 2 . Hang seng ended higher by just over a tenth of a percent. In europe there are green arrows across the board look and youll see right now the dax is up by 0. 6 . Its the biggest advancer of the major averages there everyone looking better this morning after though comments from mnuchin look at the treasury market. Tenyear note yielding just
Frederickatlas douglass. Is my pleasure to welcome our guest today. Our actor, moderator and the state which University Professor from the university of maryland. Professor levine has been an influential force in american and African American literature for over 30 years and recently has contributed important work to the burgeoning field of hemispheric and transnational American Literary studies. He is the author of the 2016 book the lives of Frederick Douglass, and after todays production will be signing copies in the archive store. Please welcome Professor Robert levine. [applause] thank you forne the introduction. Thank you to tom for organizing this. It is an honor to be here. My guess is that you would rather hear an actor over an academic, so i will be relatively brief with the introduction. About five minutes. As a lot of you know, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, in the Eastern Shore of maryland. For the first 20 years of his life, he was a slave, moving back a
Area is reporting some clear skies right now with 55 degrees. They had been overcast for the past couple of weeks. San jose is cloudy at 66 and you will have to go pretty far inland toward the east bay hills and fairfield or vacaville. Near the bay there is no chance and there are low 70s with the high 70s peninsula and climbing into the mid 80s we will talk more about your eclipse weather at first lets send it over to jacqueline. This is a car fire that we have reports of and it looks like it is over on the shoulder but fire crews may have the right lanes blocked. Just be prepared if you are getting ready to head out the door we may see some delays. Other than that, it is a quiet ride over the bay bridge toll plaza. Back over to you guys. Thank you, jaclyn. This is the first time in a long time that a total Solar Eclipse is sweeping the United States coast to coast. Reporter millions will look toward the sky today are astronomical amazement. For the First Time Since 1979 the moon will
Weve got lots to talk about today, thats for sure. Harris bills latest bestseller, killing the rising sun how u. S. Vanquished world war ii and japan on sale. Speaker paul ryan advising members on the Conference Call to do what is best their district. He will spend his energy making sure Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with a democrat controlled congress. All right, i come out to you with the news of this and apparently he jumped back on the call, bill, this does not mean he is unendorsing trump. Your thoughts. Obvious republicans think trump will lose. Republican hierarchy thinks he will lose, and that may well be the case however last night in the debate, trumped stopped catastrophe for the moment. I think he did as well as he could have done under the circumstances. But, lets face it, if the Republican Party loses the house and that is ryans responsibility, then if Hillary Clinton is elected the country take as radical turn to the left. Harris what do you hinge the sudden
Ledecky strikes gold for the second time in rio. Were celebrating with all of them, today, wednesday, august 10th, 2016. Wonder woman is right there in the pool. We have here in rio. Got the gold again. No way anybody is going to catch Michael Phelps tonight. This is a sp today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today from rio and new york on a wednesday morning and let me say right off the bat thanks to those folks behind us because it is windy, wet and nasty here in rio this morning. Its day five of the games. Were going to be talking about day four for a long time. An incredible day for team u. S. A. , seven medals, four gold, led by a u. S. Womens gold in the gymnastics finals. I had so much fun for them. We caught up with them after the big win. You were there for the competition, got to watch it. It had to be so exciting. It really. Two