to get things started off. the dow is down by 17 points but the s&p and the nasdaq is there. nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2.4% for the month. the s&p saw it s best july by ten years. it was up by 5.5%. that s nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. that s out at 10:00 a.m. eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. right now it is a little bit higher 0.546% stimulus talks in congress. trump administrations officials and house speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. the sticking point continues to be a boost set at $600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and speaker pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct cash payments of $1,200 to most americans. and
enter foster care everyday in the united states. showing up at their new home with just a sack or bag full of clothing. 3 but now a local couple wants to change that. as our jetske wauran tells us. this family is hoping to raise awareness and money to help foster kids. 3 3 diana, larry, earlier this evening, i caught up with the baker family to see how they are helping the transition into foster care, and making it little bit easier for children. 3 janel and matt baker have always loved children. they ve been fostering kids for awhile, and in 2014, when they found olivia.they knew, they would adopt her. she is about to turn two on march 19th. she will forever be with us. olivia s the family s bundle of joy. when we first got her, they are about to turn two on march 3rd. olivia is the family s bundle of joy. when we got her, her belongings came the first one didn t have anything and they didn t have anything to bring us for him and the other one came with a possession of a tr
booktv. he talks about the shifting alliances in the fight against isis and the u.s. government s relationship with the kurds and the current situation in syria. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome on this very snowy day. this book roundtable with david phillips. i am professor of political science at barnard and deputy director for social sciences and programming. on behalf of of the hammer institute and columbia university and want to welcome you to this book launch, book conversation the kurdish spring a new map of the middle east authored by david phillips sitting here to your right. david is director of a program on peacebuilding and rights about the study of human rights. he has worked as senior adviser to the united nations secretariat and the foreign affairs expert and senior advisor to the u.s. state department. so positions, different academic universities conflict resolution program director at the american university program on confli
now joining us on booktv is robert george, professor of juris prudence here at princeton, university. way want to talk to him about his recent book conscience and its enemies: confronting the dog mas of liberal secularism. dr. george oh, do you you define liberal secular system. guest: a view about human detonation and dignity that competes with other views some secular but not liberal, some religious. it s a view that is very common in places like the one where we are right now university communities. i would venture to say it s the predominant view in the elite sector our our culture and prominent in europe, which has become a very secular society. it embraces ideas about liberty and the personality, about the nature of human beings about ethics that are distinctive in our own time. it s associated with socially liberal views about matters of sexuality, abortion life and death issues. generally identity issues. kind of the spectrum of so-called hot button morally charge
missouri hours after the police chief tells michael brown s family i m sorry. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m christine romans. we welcome our visitors in the u.s. and around the world. let s start with the terror alerts at home. officials scrambling to reassure americans subway systems are safe to ride. after getting blind sided on thursday by a warning from iraq s new president that isis plans a terror attack on mass transit. officials say subways are safe for now. that al qaeda cell in syria may be a danger. there is no indication the air strikes disrupted the khorasan s plans to attack in the u.s. cnn s jim acosta has more from the white house. reporter: john and christine, this started with abadi told reporters that baghdad intelligence said there was a terror plot aimed in the subway systems in france and u.s. that sparked a lot of concern in the obama administration. officials said they had no credible evident of a plot. late in the day, the official