And fibers of the security and National Threat concerns. This subcommittee hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but ive read some history, what was like to build the electric grid a century ago. We couldnt of imagine the technologies we use to power our homes and businesses today. The real challenge was extending power itself in every form of our society and there was a challenge that those providing power make money in the cities in well Populated Areas with business and commercial opportunities, with electric the government made a basic deal, we would provide an a monopoly over providing power and a lot of these areas, firms would make a lot of m
The 10 year is that for 24. 48 so it had been up at 425 and now we are down about three basis points. Its a pretty high level and we are up at the kind of levels we havent seen since last year and before that since before the financial crisis. The u. S. Dollar index is off about 1. 5 points. With these very high yields, it draws people into the dollar but they have started to give up some of the gains we have seen in the last few weeks and nymex crude is back up to date dollar per barrel at 81. 40 one cents. Jon i am watching some of the Energy Starts trending higher with oil pushing back higher and one of the big things outside the macro headlines is been the Retail Sector with so many Earnings Reports. We are still seeing a mixed picture from that group. Youve got a name Like Ross Stores with guidance that was crowdpleasing so the shares are up about 5 now but then you got farfetched thats getting crushed, down more than 40 with struggles for the u. S. Business. Dont go to sleep beca
While an additional 33 temporary Accommodation Centers are in readiness placement of common capacity of more than 20,000 people. In total , 10,000 flooded houses and 18,000 garden plots are reported across the region. At the same time, the most difficult situation is still in orsk, the ministry of emergency situations assesses it as critical. According to the Governors Press service, in the flood zone, directly within the city there are more than 6,500 residential buildings, 15 schools, as well as other publications; our special correspondent Stanislav Bernwald has the latest information from the scene. So, we are walking along one of the central streets of the city, just yesterday there were trams running here, garage residents were walking, today the water level here has risen sharply, we see this kind of seething, water is flowing everywhere here now, a little further, if you look past the intersection, there is already the mouth of the ural river, and there is quite a large and ser
Good morning its still moving to the westnorthwest it will continue that track through bahamas and cuba these are the spaghetti plots. The actual track has it looking like it will make a landfall in south florida going into early sunday morning between now and then you will start to see conditions deteriorate you have really the rest of the day today if youre in key west f youre in south florida to finish preparations and get evacuations underway alerts going on. A hurricane warning issued overnight for south florida in the purple also for the bahamas, the northern coast of cuba as well and still for the Dominican Republic this is a huge storm out there thats making its way close to the continental United States. If did downgrade to a category 4 storm, but i want to talk about that what its doing now is going through an eyewall replacement cycle. So its weakening because the thunderstorms right outside the eyewall are growing stronger than the thunderstorms around the eyewall, its kind
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