You. John hope bryant is the founder, chairman and ceo of operation hope, largest Nonprofit Organization in the United States focusing a Financial Inclusion and financial empowerment, serving over 3. 6 million youth and adult since 1992. He is also the chairman and ceo of the bryant Group Venture in the promised homes company, the largest forprofit minority controlled owners for singlefamily Residential Rental homes in the United States. In addition to that, chairman bryant was recently named by American Bank magazine for the 2016 innovator of the year and hes also served the last five United States president as a counseling, as a counselor and advisor for all of them. We are very excited to have him this afternoon and would look forward to a great conversation and book signing featuring his latest bestseller, the memo. Without further ado i i would e to invite and introduce all of you to chairman, powder, ceo John Hope Bryant at this time, and my friend. [applause] , appear, lance. He
We also want to thank barnes noble for allowing us to be here with all of you. John obrien is the founder, chairman ceo of operation hope, the largest Nonprofit Organization in the United States focusing on Financial Inclusion and empowerment, serving over 3. 6 million youth and adults since 1982. He is also the chairman and ceo of the frank Group Ventures and the promised homes company, the largest forprofit minority controlled owners for singlefamily Residential Rental homes in the United States. In addition to that, he was recently named by american magazine for the 2016 innovator of the year and hes also served the last five United States president s has a counseling, as a counselor and advisor for all of them. We are very excited to have him this afternoon and we look forward to a great conversation and book signing featuring his latest bestseller the memo. Without further ado i would like to invite and introduce all of you too chairman, founder, ceo john obrien at this time, and
Live on capitol hill, the house is not in session but democrats on the energy and Commerce Committee holding a meeting looking at a trage. Theyll hear from med looking at traum brain injury. Theyll hear from medical professionals. Its about to get under way. Frank pallone, the Ranking Member of the energy and Commerce Committee, is leading the meeting. Mr. Pallone thank you, all, for being here today. I want to thank all of our participants at this joint energy and commerce and judiciary democratic forum. I want to thank our Judiciary Committee Ranking Member i call him chairman, mr. Conyers. I havent been in this position so i can refer to you as chairman but not myself. So thank you, chairman conyers, for joining us to examine the ongterm impacts of repetitive brain traumatic and particular trauma associated with sports. I look forward to the dialogue. Every week this time of the year Football Players at all levels take the field and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but m
Death. Puerto rico has 683 confirmed cases of the zika virus including 65 pregnant women with symptoms of the virus and that one death. Five patients with suspected syndrome of paralysis. The cdc also says one patient with a confirmed zika infection died from severe an normally low blood platelet levels. And the cdc is saying deaths from zika, all though theyre rare highlights the possibility of severe cases as well as the need for continued outreach to raise Health Care Providers awareness of possible complications that might lead to severe disease or death. So as we start to find out more about zika and how it works its way through the system, the cdc is now saying you need to watch for some of the other issues that occur when someone is infected with zika such as the low platelets and the paralysis syndrome. Coming closer to name. Meanwhile one Health Care Stock getting approval for a zika virus test. And dom has that story. Were watching a couple of stocks with the first confirmed
In europe. And then finally a quick look at crude before we get to a couple of the big stories of the morning. Wti at 46. 57. That would have been a good move around the 40 handle couple of days ago. Here are the big stories were watching today. Amazon crushing earnings estimate, posting most profitable quarter ever. We asked yesterday are they still sewing . Or starting to reap . Looks like the reaping has been. Cloud computing business. I thought they sold books. No. They have changed apparently. Side things. Other things in the last few years. Helped the Online Retail giant pull off the beat and stock took off. Jeff bezos net worth went up estimated 6 billion dollars based on how much stock he owns. And other stocks on the move this morning as we check into earnings central. Pandora reporting a wider First Quarter loss. Although it wasnt as bad as analysts expect. The streaming Music Service is raising full year outlook thanks to higher ad sales. And baidu fell to lowest level. Chin