So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. You know, were for those who have come here regularly, youre used to seeing the biggest and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the bestselling authors of history books, leading professors, documentarians, but when we were planning this Years Program we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time weve been doing these. Don miller, author of masters of the air, and ddays in the pacific is also one of our longest standing advisers and counselors. Shes a perennial conference presence. He is also like we heard from rick at kinson this morning hes also looking into another time period in our important period in our history, and will be soon coming out this october with vicksburg, grants campaign that broke the confederacy. You know, when planning the committee decided on this idea for a session don told us i
Early, its made things a little smoother today, but still expecting a big turnout. If you havent voted, avoid the long lines later today. Thats a message i expect youll make at did beginning and end of our segment. How are things going in california . Its been fairly smooth in the bay area. Tell us in terms of the voting and ballot counting how its going. Theres a fewishes here issues here. There are the two big steps weve taken. Every active registered voter in california received a vote by mail in advance. 22 million voters on the rolls, more than 12 million ballots cast as of midnight last night. Great return. That means theres nearly 10 Million People who play be voting today. Maybe they were returning it by mail, a great first choice, but voting in person, bring your mask to keep voters and poll workers safe. The polls are open until 8 00 p. M. Its been light. We havent seen too many huge lines. We know its always busiest within the last couple of hours. Tell us if you expect to h
Growth play so it doesnt make sense but we will break it down. Guy we are getting some data out of the United States, wholesale inventories month on and that number has been trending lower. Trade sales coming through significantly better than anticipated, 5. 4 . The prime number was really ugly and that was 16. 9 which has been revised slightly higher but this is late data so in the rearview mirror. The claims data is more highfrequency. We got that earlier on, a little better than anticipated, lets break it down. Were looking at jobless claims coming in above one million for a 16th straight week in while it was slightly better isn what was anticipated, basically double what we saw during the first of the financial crisis. Continuing claims track the number of people claiming ongoing on a plummet benefits and that declined to the direction is encouraging. Of the hotspot states where we have seen covid flare up, texas saw a pickup in claims, arizona little changed and california dropped
Not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your in
Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this wil