Congresswoman claire booth luce. Im a curator for the house of representatives and that means i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im the historian at the house and my job is to collect biographical information on members, gather data and historic lists, we answer reference questions from our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. And we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. So we do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense of a very large institution. Use this column when voting for claire booth luce and make sure youre pulling the levers to reelect claire booth luce. She would have been the republican counterpart. She was someone who was wellknown to the general public. Her career really had started as a writer and editor. So
The result of a tornado that swept through tennessee last night while people were sleeping. The number of deaths is 22 so far in nashville and wilson and putnam and benton county. Ive seen plus fires but theres nothing quite like seeing what a tornado can do. I cant imagine what it must be like for that to have an atomic clock in the morning when no one knows it is coming. I will be visiting those areas in our office has been in touch with all of the counties and communities affected to make certain we get full f federal support to the governor and as a result of that call the white house put out a statement indicating the president may be in tennessee on friday that would be welcome as well. The country was transfixed by the impeachment process by about a month and now they are transfixed by the coronavirus i want to speak this morning about a hearing we had in the Senate Health committee that was reassuring to me and the democrats as well as the republicans there. It was reassuring b
The s p hitting another record high yesterday. The 16th of this year. The s p futures indicated up 12. Dow futures indicated up 27. Nasdaq futures are indicated up, too. This comes after gains for the s p and nasdaq of more than 1 . Pushing both indexes to record highs. Dow closing higher. It was up 130 points yesterday. A lot of this came after what we heard from jay powell. He was speaking again before congress and yesterday he said this is key. Yardeni pointed this out. Powell said we are waiting to become more confident that inflation is moving sustainably at 2 . It will be appropriate to dial back the level of restrictions. That is what the market heard. Not far from it. As a result, you saw treasury yields pull back. The tenyear yield at 4. 07 . The twoyear yield at 4. 49 . It is interesting because it is all based on inflation. We havent even any definitive proof that the economy is going to fall off a cliff. Maybe we can get that today. Maybe he knows something. When he said we
we are coming on the air following several big developing stories. a city on edge. new reaction to a disturbing video. and an interesting visitor on the hill. let s talk first about memphis. bracing for protests. the release of body cam footage of tyre nichols hours away. we heard the nichols family calling for peaceful demonstrations, with the five police officers charged with his death out on bond. our team is on the grounds standing by. also this hour, the first reaction from former house speaker nancy pelosi, you saw it live here, since the release of the police video showing the attack on her husband paul. you will see more of that and the former speaker s news statements in a moment. and back here in washington, what is up with elon musk on capitol hill today? what is he up to? why is he meeting with top republicans? we will have more on that. i want to bring in antonia hylton live for us in memphis, our senior legal correspondent laura jarrett is us with, along w
i m okay with it. sorry see you in a week. good morning. you re going caitlin s gone back monday . welcome to cnn this morning. we re glad you re with us on this friday. caitlin is off. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, march 24th overnight, significant breaking news the us launching strikes in syria. after an american contractor was killed in a drone attack. there are five other u. s. service members wounded. the pentagon suspects it wasn t iranian affiliated drone. developing news soon a top attorney, though for donald trump said testified today before the grand jury in the classified documents investigation. the new york times reports that evan corcoran is not intending to plead the fifth utah banning kids under 18 from using social media unless they get their parents permission. it is the first state to enact this type of law today, the united states and canada announcing a deal to turn away asylum seekers at their border, president biden set to