Here are select quotes from the different region which sum up what is happening nationally. Atlanta, tightness in the labor market continued with few reports of wage pressures. In minneapolis, regarding jobs, despite employer demand, job growth suffered from lack of available workers. In the dallas region, regarding the hurricanes, the impact from hurricane harvey, varied by location and industry. Most contacts do not expect significant, longterm disruption. One last thing to share with you, trish. I know how much you like discussions of the border adjustment tax, in cleveland, this quote. An apparel retailer beliefs removal of the border adjustment tax reapproval from the tax debate, eliminated element of uncertainty and risk to the retail industry. To sum up the beige book, tight labor market but only modest wage growth. An issue that perplexed the fed for several months. Trish adam, thank you. Reminding everyone, were awaiting on Roger Goodell, expected any minute to announce a decision whether or not they will allow players to take a knee ahead of the games. This story captivated country. Received the tanks of course of the president of the United States, who actually really, started getting everyone talking about it originally. Talk about the beige book. Adam johnson, bullseye brief publisher and founder, along with david nelson. Nicole petallides down on floor of new york stock exchange. Adam, starting with you, this is problem all along, right . No wage growth. How is it that unemployment is this low but were not seeing enough of an uptick in wages . Good news, trish, we finally started to see the uptick on most recent jobs report, that came out two weeks ago. That really didnt find its way into the beige book which is interesting. 2. 9 average Hourly Earnings gains yearoveryear. The highest weve seen since 09. Were actually starting to turn the corner. Trish you dont necessarily buy the beige book data . I do buy it but we have more updated data since they wrote that beige book. Trish david, are you confidence were con going to continue that trajectory . To adams point, wages are improving a little bit. Hang on. Roger goodell is about to speak. This is the moment everyone is waiting for. Were wondering whether or not or not he is going to allow players to take a knee or not. Is he coming to the podium there . Moye producer, lets see if we can look at the shot. Yes he is about to come out. A lot of pressure on him. Well see whether they start to get stricter with the players. Can you fix audio on that . Job to raise the bar. They have set a new standard for the draft, created a new experience for our fans that we think will be extraordinary, and we are confident that dallas will raise that bar even further. So im happy to introduce Charlotte Jones anderson, who will give her view of what to expect in dallas. Again the ownership was very supportive and were all very excited to be going to dallas next april, for the draft. Charlotte. Thank you, roger. On behalf of the dallas cowboys, the city of dallas, the city of arlington and the city of frisco, were excited that the nfl gave us opportunity to host the draft in april of next year and we have had some great Civic Leaders in dallas and across from arlington trish theyre talking about the draft in dallas for next year. So, were going to stay on this News Conference because we are anticipating much more than where the draft will be held. Were anticipating roger good dell will actually say saying about players taking the knee or not taking the knee during the National Anthem. That is the big question here. You have seen, adam johnson, viewers react. You told me yourself, youre a huge football fan, once you see them taking the knee so to speak, you turn the game off, you dont want to watch and i think your reaction is very similar to Many Americans reaction. Trish, i just keep trying to watch nfl games, i cant do it. Im so disgusted by the whole thing. I turned into college fan and rooting for alabama, sec teams in general. There is honor down there, tradition, that is sorely lacking in the nfl they havent figured it out in the nfl. I dont know why Roger Goodell waited so long to address the issue trish. Where is his true north, pride in country . The players out there are performing a job. You dont bring issues like this into your work place. It is work place issue for players. It is entertainment issue for us and offensive to americans like you and me, trish. Trish i wonder if he is motivated by fear . He may Say Something on this right now. Lets listen in. On going right now. We reviewed six weeks played to date, margin of victory, we talked about penalties per game and game presentation and changes we made, how that worked. Talked about focus on officiating. Very positive fan, excuse me, very positive feedback on the game. We also spent a great deal of time talking about our partnerships. We extended a partnership, expanded a partnership with ticketmaster that we think will be very fanfriendly. We think will give our fans better opportunity to buy tickets on a secure basis, give that to them on greater platforms which we think will be very positive. As always we add a report on health and safety and our initiatives there and impact that is having on our game. Lastly we had a special visitor today. We had the commissioner of the nypd jimmy oneill and his chief of mystery monahan. I specifically with them chief of police, terry monahan. To how we continue to expand relationships between our clubs, our players, our communities, and the nfl. And he was very helpful giving us insight into what their initiatives are here with the nypd. The initiatives going on in other parts of the country of which i saw firsthand down in miami as an example last week, we saw in philadelphia recently. The relationship between players and our communities and our Law Enforcement is very important to us. So that was very helpful. And yesterday as you know i made a brief comment about, came down to see you, im sure there will be more questions about our meeting with the players and owners yesterday. We also spent a great deal of time with our owners alone today, discussing our efforts with our players. I would tell you that there is a great deal of support for the efforts that our players have identified. Not only support, but recognition, these are important issues for our communities. They are american issues and certain things we really want to as clubs and as a league want to not only support but also be a part of, try to help lead with our players. I think those are the key issues. I would tell you though just on one other issue we spent a great deal of time talking about this morning was how much we believe, everyone, should stand for the National Anthem. That is an important part of our policy. It is also an important part of our game, that we all take great pride in, and it is also important for us to honor our flag and to our country and we think our fans expect us to do that. And so that is something we continue to focus on this morning but really talking a lot about the opportunities that exist with our players to try to go really make a difference in our communities in a positive way. So i will let you take questions reporter according to your statement yesterday, the president this morning both you and the league have disrespected he is wrong about that and if so why . As i just said we respect our country, respect our flag, respect our National Anthem. I think you look at our clubs and what they do on a daily basis. I think look at our players and what they do and how they participate in that. We all feel very strongly about our country and our pride. Well continue to do that. Reporter [inaudible] listen, i understand, were not, were focusing on what we can do and what we should be doing as an nfl i think we have a great opportunity here with our players to really Work Together and to try to help and make differences in our community. Things that we all believe are necessary to do and that is what well continue to do. Reporter commissioner, game operations manuel players should be on the field at National Anthem, stand at attention, with helmets in their hand, it is not rule but policy, why not make it a rule. Fans seem to want it and [inaudible] why not make it a rule . I think one of the things we need to keep focus on, again we believe that our players should stand for the National Anthem. That is an important part of our game and our moment and we believe in that. I think we also have to keep focus on this, we have about six or seven players that are involved with this protest at this point, and this is something that, what we try to do is deal with the underlying issue, and understand what it is that they are protesting, try to address that matter. Let me finish, if you can. So the important thing for us to be able to do that and take that opportunity to make real differences in our community, and that is really what is going to ultimately be important aspect for us long term. Because this is a longterm issue. We need to make sure we do that in the right wayport port would you agree the image itself would . I understand the way our fans feel about issue, about importance the flag, about importance of patriotism. I believe our players feel that way. They will state to you, state to everyone publicly, theyre not doing this in any way to be disrespectful to the flag but they understand how it is interpreted. Were trying to deal with underlying issues. Reporter thank you, roger. Jim trotter, espn. I dont know where you are. Reporter middle right here. You said you want the players to stand. There is no change to the game operations manuel. What happens if a owner still feels that he can discipline a player for taking a knee, what response will we see from the league if that were to happen . Jim, we just had two days of conversations with our owners of which, this was a fair amount of the conversation. And i think, i think our clubs all see this the same way. We want our players to stand. Well continue to encourage them to stand. Well continue to work on these issues in the community. Well address issues, i cant deal with hypotheticals right now. Well deal with those issues if they come up. For us right now, that is our focus. Reporter roger, over here. At this point what have your sponsors and Networks Said to you about this issue and what do you feel the effect is on your business right now of this mark, we had a report on that. We know how possible lar for the licensees. We all share that. We are in great contact with them. We understand issues. We want to make sure they understand what were doing. In fact if we want them to help us, they can help us in those issues. This is part of the effort understanding one another and make sure we do the right thing in our communities and right thing to support our players but also do the right thing we make sure we get back to football and in the meantime people understand how important our country is and how important it is to make sure were doing things the right way to honor our country. Roger, roger byron barnett, kgh in boston. What is your reaction to the lawsuit filed against the nfl and the Aaron Hernandez family and that the nfl doesnt inform players about the risks of cte . That is matter of litigation. That will work its way through the litigation. I think there has been a great deal of focus on this issue of brain trauma. Weve been through a great deal of litigation on this issue and settle ad major case on concussions. Well let the lawyers deal with that. Reporter roger. Im sorry i cant see you. Reporter nbc news. When you talk about supporting your players, what form or forms will that take . Because some people reasonably presume if this league were truly on their side supporting them in these causes and concerns they would not take a knee. So how is this going to manifest itself Going Forward . Are you willing to put the she had on the line to get into sticky political and social debates . Were not afraid of tough conversations. That is what were having with our players. That is what we had yesterday, to make sure we understand one another and understand where theyre coming from, and i think out of those discussions they understand that the owners. That owners and nfl can make communities better. That is what dialogue is all about and listening, understanding. So we can get that understanding between different parties . And that is what is complex about this . But that is why it is also important to do. I think that is where real change really happens. That is the opportunity for us in our communities. Reporter [inaudible]. Weve had discussions with them for over a year. I think we have a very good understanding of the types of things that theyre interested in, how they can get support from the nfl to do that. We want to do that. And that is, could be in the legislative matters. That could be in the community with, can we participate in, ride alongs and try to make sure we understand what is going on in different communities across the nation because the problems in one market are different than the problems in another market and so that involves the clubs and players getting together, making sure we truly understand what is going on in those markets, and that is where we see real impact. Reporter roger, Connell Mcshane with the fox business network. I do want to ask you a businessrelated question to the league. One of the things weve seen in polling this week, gallup had numbers, to show popularity of pro football started to come down but there is big political divide. Where republicans identifying as pro football plans down 15 . Democrats, only 3 . Does it directly speak to the anthem protest but what is your reaction to those numbers and what if any steps can be taken to reverse the trend . We believe in doing the right thing ultimately what you have to do and i think listening to our players, trying to understand players, addressing underlying issues, making communities better is realp student is. That longterm will benefit us. Reporter what about the split between the parties . What were trying to do is stay out of politics. Were not looking to get into politics. Were looking to get people focused on football. Reporter commission, you were talking about. Just a second. Reporter as you said you have been in discussions now over a year. More discussions over the past day 1 2 or so. Realistically can you tell us and tell the American People how close are you today to resolving this . Well, i think the fact is that we have about half a dozen players that are protesting. We hope and were going to work to put that at zero. That is what we like to do. We want to make sure were understanding what the players are talking about, and that is complex. Weve taken the time, i personally have taken the time to go on those ridealongs and figure out what things in our Community Players are expressing. Our clubs have much better understanding of that from meetings over the the last several weeks to hear from the players and dot tough work, try it understand what we need to accomplish together. That is what i think is really the opportunity and what is really happening. Yes, judy. Reporter [inaudible] i cant hear you, judy, im sorry. Reporter roger, did you come out of meetings with the owners with understanding that teams would discipline their own players for not standing, will not discipline them . No, we didnt discuss that. It wasnt necessary. We had a real focus making sure that all of our teams understood the kind of dialogue that took place, the kind of things they were interested in getting support from. And there was complete support for the nfl, each club supporting their players. And continuing the dialogue that they have had on the club level. I would tell you that there is unprecedented conversations and dialogue going on between our players, between our owners, between our club officials, between the league and that is a really positive change for us. And, we think ultimately it is going to pay dividend. Reporter you talked about having productive meetings with the players. Can you explain the protest and your understanding of that . Theyre incredibly knowledgeable, articulate, and they spent time to go into communities to talk about that. They are truly criminal justice reform, mail reform, talking about sentencing, talking about making communities together, that they have bipartisan support for across our nation and that need focus. Theyre talking about what we can do to support them to effectuate that legislative change. And that is again very, very positive. Theyre talking about the quality issues. Making sure that were doing everything we possibly can to give people an opportunity. Whether it is education or economic. What which can do to try to effect wait that. We believe with players we can help them and support them. Those are our issues, national issues, american issues. That are all important to deal with. Last question. Reporter roger, twopart question. Number one have two questions . Reporter do you mind . Have you at all communicated with President Trump . Do you have any plans to communicate with President Trump . Second question is football question, pace of play, how happy are you seems like the games are going quicker this year . Yeah i have not, to your first question. To the second question were very pleased with the pace of game changes. We have seen in particular, double ups, bother me so much on commercial format. Close to 90 reduction this year, it is good for the fans, good for experience of watching an nfl game, whether youre in the stadium or on television or on another platform. We said all along, this wasnt about reducing the length of games. It was the pace of the game. So the 40 second clock, as an example of a point after touchdown and after the touchdowns have had real impact, centralizing replay and bringing the surface tablet to the sidelines so the official can do it. All of that sped up what we considered down time, time that is not, we dont believe is attractive to our fans. Were happy with it. Long ways to go. Were looking to keep doing that what is good for the experience. Trish wow, that was kind of a nothing move from Roger Goodell, everyone. He had the opportunity to say the nfl would stand by the country and insis that players respect the