48 hours witnessed his return to the u. S. And pausing menopause. Doctors say a first of its kind operation can delay the change of life by up to 20 years. Well look at the potential benefits and safety concerns. Its tuesday, august 6th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and White Supremacy. The death toll rises from the weekends Mass Shootings. Youre part of the problem, mr. President. His words have no meaning. It was a slap in the face quite frankly. There are growing calls for lawmakers to pass stricter gun laws. For gun owners who say it means theyre going to come for my guns. Bingo. Youre right if you have an assault weapon. North korea has fired another round ofct theaunches come after the u. S. And the south started joint military exercises. Stocks slide after china let its currency slide to the lowest level in more than a decade. I think it is a full blown currency war. R. Kelly is facing news charges accused of p
Clara, cupertino, saratoga and san jose. Higher clouds looks like were on the tail end of it. Some will drag across. Look at that. Rain. Moving into the desert. And also east of l. A. And san diego. If youre going down there, keep an eye on things for us. Well get the higher clouds. Still be there. Not as intense as what we saw yesterday afternoon. Warm to hot. Kind of muggy. But by tomorrow, that low starts to make its move. And pretty significant. Highs today, 60s, 70s, 80s. To near 90 degrees. Sal is here at 7 01. And he tells us, the traffic is mostly moderate. Our friends in Livermore Valley are having a tough morning. Ill explain in just a second. If youre driving over to marin from richmond this is your commuter. It looks normal. When you get over to marin, you wont find it especially hard to drive in marin county. This is 880. Its recovered after an earlier crash northbound near 23rd that was gone. And traffic is recovering nicely. Westbound bay bridge. Backed up full strength.
The trade fight drags on, theres going to be a recession by next summer. Right before the election. Both sides have dug in. All signs point to a lengthy fight. Thats that. Now the market. Following that huge selloff, we have a modest comeback this morning. Down 767 yesterday, maybe back up 100, 200 for the dow at the open this morning. The s p was down, what, 2. 5 yesterday. Its coming back this morning, less than 1 . The nasdaq which was down 3. 5 yesterday, back up 1 this morning. This is not a robust rebound so far. Modest, at best. Check Interest Rates. The yield on the tenyear treasury this morning coming in at 1. 75 . By the way, more rate cuts likely coming from the fed this year and rates in europe are still heading south. Hard to believe. Hardly any government over there pays any interest at all. As for the flight to safety, the price of gold this morning at 1478, up another couple of bucks. Oil, not calling that a flight to safety but a key indicator, 54 a barrel. So how you
Podcast episodes, just blocks from the capitol dome. All this thanks to our gracious host here at Georgetown Institute for constitutional advocacy and protection. And, for this episode as well, the american constitutional, constitution society. The leading Progressive Organization and network with over 200 lawyer and student chapters nationwide. All this week, we are talking about what happens after mueller. What are the challenges and prospects for our Democratic Institutions . Today, we are focused on what happens the day of Robert Muellers testimony to congress. Prior to the announcement of muellers testimony, the houses effort to bring the report to life seems to be getting nowhere and we are checkmated. 13 weeks have passed, and the house hadnt succeeded in having a single fact witness testify publicly. Stymied repeatedly by the administrations reflexive and ultra aggressive policy of interposing dubious defenses that Left Congress having to choose between caving and litigating. T
Mueller will testify under oatht for at lea five hours day. President trump repeatedly called the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. Today Robert Mueller, the lifelong republican and now a private citizen wil have his say and the consequences could be enormous. Well be followinghis all throughout the day and standing by to help us is our team correspondents and analysts. I am going to start out with kasie hunt on the hill for us. A hisric day, t years in the making savannah. Well see Robert Mueller in a few short mutes here sit down with the House Judiciary Committee thats going to begin at 8 30. Thats the larger of the two committees. There are 41 members on theig intellce committee. Each one is going to get about five minutes to speak. This is going to focus on alged obstruction, volume two of the Mueller Report. You will see all of those instances laid out and the report during the course of the hearing then well have a little bit of a break and the intelligence will take over. The