Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
Dick clark and john culver. Berkeley would go on to represent iowas sixth Congressional District for six terms. From 1975 to 1987. And i presume he would have served a lot longer if his health had held out, even though he lived another 30 lets see, you add it up, about another 32 years after that. Although berkeley and i didnt share the same political points of view, we did share a common approach for representative government, meaning with dialogue and feedback that was very necessary from our iowans if we were going to represent them properly, and most often the forum for that was our respective town hall meetings. Throughout our Service Together in congress, party labels didnt displace our ability to work with and for iowans. As one example, during the farm crisis of the 1980s, which is much worse than this farm crisis we have right now, we used our voices to raise Public Awareness and steer help to struggling farm communities in our home state. We did Everything Possible to shape f
Afghanistan. Both sides want a ceasefire. We areake a look at how shaping up for trading on the final trading day of the week in asia. We do have one market up and running, new zealand, trading for about an hour now, currently higher by 0. 5 , continuing to hover around record highs for the index. Sydney is poised to open higher as well. Futures currently up by 0. 4 . Different story elsewhere in asia. Y akei futures, weaker b little more than 0. 4 . The kospi is looking flat as well. We are expecting a fair bit of data out of japan and south korea today. We will break that as we get it. We will provide analysis as well. Lets get a little more on the markets now. Theinued speculation that reserve bank of australia will be delivering more stimulus. Shares have hit another record. We have the final policy decision for the rba due next week. Our next guest says it is three rate cuts in six months that will supercharge the markets. The chief Market Strategist of investment joins us now of
1 45 eastern today. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by robert lewis, former pastor and founder of better man, the National Mens organization from little rock, arkansas. The guest chaplain let us pray. Heavenly father, we give thanks for this new day and the hope that lies within it. We have been a blessed nation not by accident but by this. In you, god, we trust. Thank you for the men and women of this distinguished body who will again rise to face the immense challenge that will mark this day along with the special opportunities it holds for good. I pray you will make this body ready for both. In these turbulent times, empower their work with your spirit. Give them a difference making wisdom only you possess. Protect them from small ambitions. Call each heart here up to the higher ways of humility, understanding, and much needed unity. Help these leaders seek what is rig
[laughter] good morning. My name is jay inslee. Driving Climate Change fighting governor of the state of washington. I am here, i am here to tell you one simple thing. If you give me this microphone on the debate stage, i will beat donald trump like a two dollar meal. We treat our livestock with respect. We are different from republicans in this regard. We know mules are different than the current occupant of the white house because i have never met a mule that lies every five minutes as well. We have some difference here. If you have heard anything about me lately, i have some things to say about the current occupant. And somebody asked me why i have said those things. There is a reason for that. We know that our struggles against terrorism and we have adopted a mantra when you go through the airport. If you see something, say something. I see something so i am saying something. I am saying it is time to get a White Nationalist out of the white house. That is what i am saying. [applau