40. The mogul is out and his brother calls him sick and depraved. Plus nasas project to fly you across the country in just three hours. Only on cbs this morning jeff glor takes off on a jet designed to break the sound bare yore without a winner doughbreaking sonic boom. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. People heard their house shaking. There was a loud explosion. Flames are being seen in the sky. Rescue efforts are under way after an oil rig explodes. The rig burning for hours in lake ponchartrain north of new orleans clearly visible for miles across the huge lake. Were engaging this thing, were taking it by the horns, were going to take it until the job is done. Fire Officials Say they finally feel like theyre getting the upper hand on the wildfires devastating Northern California. Were not out of the woods yet but were making tremendous progress out there. The death toll in somalia rises. Its the singest deadliest attack in somalias history.
Jonathan it was better with cable down and the euro at 1. 17. Alix talking about cable, take a look at the gilt market. In the gilt market you are seeing yields up about four basis points. After thetively flat data out of the u. K. Unemployment and wages. Dollarmex down slightly. Aluminum missed, down 1 . David it is time for your morning brief. We will start out here in from two fed president s, bill dudley and Robert Kaplan in a discussion. U. S. Nutes later we get Housing Starts and Building Permits for september, and the Senate Finance committee will meet with President Trump. Jonathan chinas president xi jinping laid out a roadmap to turn the country into a leading country by 2050. He warns there may still be a bumpy road ahead to success. Our development is due within a great situation. Slight but our challenge is tough. Jonathan opening chinas doors to foreign businesses and monetary policy. Joining us are Tom Mackenzie and enda curran. Just run us through the highlights of what
Welcome back. What come to bloomberg daybreak europe. Anna i am anna edwards. Germanlets get into the chemical maker. We are talking about polyurethane, polycarbonate, they are guiding higher. Second Quarter Sales 3. 9 billion , the market had penciled in 2. 4 4 billion. Significantly above 2016. The sales came in, that could be the ebitda. 577. 5. Ket penciled in this is about coatings, adhesives, and specialty chemicals. They are my wing mulling over hundreds of deals. They are expected to produce 5 billion years 5 billion euros over the next few years. We will ask the question to the ceo. Dutch paints the maker and chemicals business, fascinating comments coming through. We have earnings for the Second Quarter. Revenues up by. 4 . By 4 . Akzonobel convening an extraordinary general meeting to improve shareholder relations. Theexpect to they expect ebit to be higher. Reporting this new structure and also Senior Executive pay will be aligned with this new plan and this new executive,
Child and they know other options exist. She then will say i will be a strong advocate for great Public Schools. Other topic shell hit upon as i where up is this discussion nationally about forgiving College Student loans or making it easier tore people to repay college loans. She is also expected to say that one of the problems with our current Education System is its set up to try to get everyone to go to college. But that a fouryear degree is not appropriate for everybody. Then shell talk about the every student successful act. And president elect trumps vision of using the 20 million in the community where our children are educated. David Teachers Unions out in full force blasting and trying to influence the president elects pick for education secretary. Melissa the democrats questioning devos have received over 700,000 from Teachers Unions compared to ,000 the republicans have received. Will this have an effect on how the dim krats press devos . Jim, let me start with you. Among t
Ok. Gentlemen, our first speaker today is dr. Timothy s sydnor. He is professor of english at the City University of new york, Bronx Community college. He holds a doctorate in english education, a masters in religious studies, and masters of divinity in theological studies. Person,e have a museum a lawyer, and a theologian. [laughter] discussiono our today the perspective of a scholar who pays close attention to the power of words. All the monuments on our collective commemorative landscape have back stories, stories of individuals or groups , who decided to erect them where or how they are, and to read the words on them that we see today. His 2011 book, an illustrated guide to virginias Confederate Monuments, is the First Complete catalog of virginias monuments, but it is much more than just a catalog. It is a study through those monuments of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Sydor has finished a