It is 10 00 and good morning, everyone. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the budgets hearing on oversight of the Congressional Budget Office. This hearing will focus on Cbos Organizational and operational structure. It is the first of five hearings that the Committee Plans to hold regarding oversight of the congressional budget. The goal of todays hearing is to learn more about cbo, which was created as part of the congressional budget and impoundment act of 1974. For decades, this agencys primary function and duty has been to assist congress in the federal budget making process by providing cost estimates, economic analysis, working papers and other insightful publications. Members of the house and Senate Budget committees rely on cbo as an objective, impartial resource when writing budget resolutions. The agency also plays a key role in advising this committee as it enforces budget rules. Without question, there are dozens of fine men and women employed by
Shanghai composite was flat. In european trading, things are barely changed the dax and ftse slightly higher cac down about 0. 1 . Italian stocks down as well, but in spain stocks are slightly higher checking out wti, still above 50 a barrel sitting at 50. 84 a barrel were following a developing story out of Northern California Deadly Wildfires burning unchecked there. Officials say 23 people have died from those fires. More than 3500 structuring have been destroyed leaving hundreds missing in chaotic evacuations firefighters are battling high winds as they try to contain two dozen blazes spanning eight counties yesterday a mandatory evacuation was enforced in sonoma county. Well get an update from Northern California later in the program. I didnt understand why this had been so hectic why people didnt know to leave and confused they were dealing with winds that were above 70 Miles Per Hour on sunday night when you think about that, that means the fire is moving over 70 Miles Per Hour,
Korea higher by a percent overnight. Looking at the action in the European Equity markets. The futures picture here, the dax higher by 1. 6 italy up by 1 green arrows across the board. Looking at the action in crude wti, highest level yesterday since february of 2017 today up by 1. 2 55 is the level. Brent is at 61. 59, up by more than a percent we will have more on the strong markets in a moment first were getting new details on yesterdays terror attack in new york city. Eight people are confirmed dead. Dozens of others injured after a man deliberately drove a truck down a bike path in lore manhattan. Lets get toContessa Brewer live on the scene with the latest good morning good morning the home depot truck used as Deadly Weapon still sits in the intersection behind me, blocked off by crime scene tape and surrounded by investigators. This is a tactic that isis has called for, turning everyday vehicles into Deadly Weapons and it was successful yesterday. Eight people dead. The number o
Decemb december k putting together two companies that in terms of programming are similar. Its not like were going from one network that does reality or that type of programming to sports or lots of scripted work or whatnot this is putting those two things together the question is are you better off putting those two together or in this new age of media trying to go into scripted gore into a premium thing scripted. Scripted. But this has been bandied about. For a long time they were two sort of theyre not like outliers that deserve to get together. If it was going to happen, would put these together for scale thats where the synergistic value is some analysts would question this how much more power does a discovery scripps together have in terms of carriage agreement Going Forward . How much value proposition, if you want this channel you have to take this channel that was more scripps problem than a discovery problem zaslav yesterday admitted we are managing through the new times, dau
Reason we couldnt do more of Affordable Housing well be addressing that combroirlg. I i know that the coalition of Supportive Housing providers identified barriers like that h s rate and other funding and centralized intact and the other key issues and barriers they emphasis multi barriers i know that dph and other agencies are looking at this the last suggestion from i think the coalition which im sure will speak in the moment moving away from a onesizefitsall to a addressing the diversity of the population i wonder. Before we get you agree b with that we should be looking at designing services and buildings that are catered to specific populations so right now we have a mix we have seniors mixed with folks that may be able to go to work and healthy if we get better assessments to our clients the only way to drop to increase the case manager level in the buildings so be able to see the patterns to move folks to different buildings to take advantage of the scale of provisions selfsuffi