Sometime in the last day, but its still not clear if that was weather related crop wars harry joining us live in studio now. And you actually talked with someone who stuck out there. How are they doing tonight . She says burning man was phenomenal. At first it was great weather. Then the rain started to come in, but she says shes still trying to make the most of her time in the desert. Its a different experience now, but its still great. Heavy rains have left thousands of people stranded at burning man, including San Francisco, pride executive directors whose and fort i was going to leave yesterday i hope i hoped i was going to leave today, but it rained again this afternoon. So im probably not going to get out here till tomorrow night. Maybe the desert was hit with about 2 to 3 months worth of rain in just 24 hours between friday and saturday morning. You can see in the video that created a thick mud, difficult to walk or drive through. Event organizers closed the roads but some peopl
Leaves families scrambling to find rides for their kids at the start of a new school year. Access to transportation is really access to education. Across the country we are also seeing an increase in chronic absenteeism. Geoff and with more children becoming social media influencers, one state works to ensure they are getting paid for their work. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the newshour including leonard and norma core fine. The william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world at hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Geoff welcome to the newshour appeared on this labor day, President Biden has touted unions in play
Up in the north bay where youre sitting under that gray currently as we move into the afternoon today, its going to be our first afternoon of widespread 80s. So a warmer one than what we saw yesterday for sure. All of that full breakdown. Still to come right i that what we have a very light morning could be for you. The bay bridge, no major traffic there. 8 minutes, san mateo bridge just under 13, traveling across towards peninsula. Richmond center fell bridge about 6 minutes and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 18 minutes. Well, labor day is today, as we know and the activists roots of this holiday are especially visible this year. Weve got unions all across the country challenging now how workers are treated. Yeah, this year has seen an emboldened Labor Movement right here in the area. Weve seen. Teachers, city and Airline Workers all in the picket lines. And its the same story across the country. Experts say nation why we are in an environment its way closer to the air or fr
Picked up at the breakdown, more downbeat picture. So the acceleration really driven by net exports. It tends to a bigger decline it relative to exports. We look at domestically indicates this, private consumption, government spending, investment, all of this indicates it actually to curated so that sick new rules weakening. Signals weakening. Is the slowdown on china likely to reflect on the numbers here . If you look at exports thats contracted in the fact that china accounts for 20 of korean exports that suddenly imposing a track on the overall Export Sector. If you look at Customs Trade Data today, total korean export revenues have only about 12 year to year. But if you isolate exports to china, that has fallen by 25 . So that is the key driver of the Export Sector will be missed. In the months ahead, what are some of the key sets of data that you will be looking out for . We will be watching the High Frequency data so far but we have seen for quarter three so far still suggests it
South china sea. You like, and tensions in the south china sea. Because of the existin south china sea. Because of the existing complex south china sea. Because of the existing complex dynamics south china sea. Because of the existing complex dynamics that| existing complex dynamics that we are talking about, how difficult does it make for these countries when they have to, in a way, walk the tight rope and really pick sides between the us and china when theyre trying to move ahead and forge a relationship . Thats a very delicate issue. I mean, the asean group is trying to really remain neutral as much as they can, and they also need, in a sense, both g2 we call them the us and china to assist them in many ways, including in trade, economic activities, foreign direct investment. So theyre trying to basically pick up the best of these two in terms of trade, foreign direct investment, but theyre mindful of regional as well as global geopolitics which are influencing the way in which the