What putin actually said was that trump was colorful. The word colorful. In russian can also be transcribed in and bush as bright. In english as bright. Amy we also talk about her new book, which has just been shortlisted for the National Book award. The President Trump said tuesday his administration would help puerto rico wipe out its 73 billion debt to help it recover from the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Maria. Then walkedirector back those comments. You will get response from Puerto Rican Born new york congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, who would to puerto rico with andrew cuomo two days after the storm hit. We need to make puerto rico whole again. Are 3. 5 million citizens. These are american citizens. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In puerto rico, more than 90 of the island still does not have electricity from the power grid and half of the island does not have clean drinking water.
Should expect the rain to arrive, how it will end up with the evening commute, how much rain to expect and when the sun will return, coming up later. But first send it over to roqui theus. Rain is not good for the commute. Take a look at the Altamont Pass coming off of the 205 at 38 Miles Per Hour and you keep driving into northland road and it gets actually slower. Youre driving at just about 30 Miles Per Hour once you hit the road and then it frees up through livermore. North tracy boulevard to Altamont Pass, westbound will take you up to 28 minutes right now if youre headed out. The dublin interchange here, slow traffic in the commute direction, Altamont Pass at 680 will take you about 15 minutes. And moving over to the bay bridge, headed into downtown San Francisco right now, carquinez bridge to the maze will take you 19 minutes. The metering lights will turn on in about 30 minutes or so. If you want to avoid the roads at all costs right now, heres a look at mass transit throughout
Very excited. Again, we did hit 18,000. Pulled back a bit. I think the important think is were approaching the historic highs. With a historic closing high. That was way back on may 19th. Broad group of stocks leading, right now you have disney leading, and you have chevron and exxon. Along with jpmorgan when would a great week last week. Its a pretty broad advance. Energy is leading 3 1 advancing to declining, and its been marching forward throughout the morning. The volume is on the moderate side, the vix is declining, and Oil Volatility is declining. I think thats the big story. People keep asking me, why are we advancing today . The smart money was short oil into the doha meeting, widely expected there would not be any big agreements. You bet buy programs coming in, take a look at the sectors, energy are leading. That would support the idea, that we are getting some short coverings in the energy group. Back to you. Your other big story is, as, of course, bo been mentioned, crude bo
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