Fierce. About 90 miles east of daytona is where it sits right now after really devastating the bahamas. David i dont think we still understand the extent of it. It is really tragic what happened in the bahamas. Theres a lot of rain and water coming. The storm surge they are worried about up and down the coast. Alix in the markets we are paying attention to the broader political sphere. 8 10 upres up by by 0. 8 . The cable rate up over 1 . Yields in the u. S. Now up by three basis points. Commodities, buy everything but the u. S. Dollar. Time now for the global exchange. Joining us in hong kong is bloombergs chief north asia correspondent stephen engle. From outside westminster is bloombergs anna edwards, and from new york is bloombergs michael mckee. First we want to start with hong kong, where leader carrie lam announced the government will formerly will formally withdraw the extradition bill. M the government will fully withdraw the bill in order to relay consent. Alix can we say the
President trump tweeting about Jerome Powell again following the fed chairs comments the last hour. Morgan, the president continues to tweet in realtime im reading some of these tweets for the very first time. I can tell you, just a second ago, i was in the west wing and saw Peter Navarro and Robert Lighthizer, just standing just outside of the oval office, presumably set to go in and meet with the president to talk about this chinese retaliation this morning. They didnt talk to me, so i dont know exactly what theyre up to there, but they are within feet of the oval office as of a couple of seconds ago. So the president tweeting, within the past couple of seconds about china, responding here, saying, our country has lost, stupidly, trillions of dollars with china over many years. They have stolen our intellectual property at a rate of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and they want to continue i wont let that happen. We dont need china and frankly would be far better off without t
And wilder with bigger storms, hotter and more freezing temperatures and greater extremes at seemingly all times of the year. And second, that forecasters are Getting Better at predicting whats about to hit us. They still dont get it right 100 of the time, of course, but their act rahs is city has definitely accuracy has definitely improved and so has the timelessness of their reports. In fact, these days were aware not only of one weather model, but of multiple ones simulating the future space of the atmosphere. Theres a north american model, the european model, the global one and a number of others, and theyre forecasting not todays weather or tomorrows, but weather over the next ten days and beyond. Andrew blum got interested in this stuff. He wasnt satisfied with the past explanations that attributed the advances in weather science simply to faster supercomputer ands better satellites. Andrews a journalist with a knack for making complex systems accessible as he did in his previous
In 2016 and its aftermath. For more information, check out wer site at booktv. Org. Greeting and welcome to todays meeting from the commonwealth chair of california. I am bill grant chair of this program. It is my pleasure to extend a special welcome to club members. At this time, please turn off all cell phones and noisemaking devices. The event is being video graphed and recorded for pod casts so we dont want extraneous sounds. Many tup topics are coming up and i invite you to visit our website at commonclub. Org or call our 24 hour reservation line. Stevens book will be for sale in the hobby after the program and he is happy to sign the book. If you have friends who want to be here this program and were not able to, the pod cast should be online in about a day. Cspan is here to record it for tv. And he is speaking again thursday in palo alto at the community center. You have want to find out more about that go to the szhi. Com i believe. Schi. Com to find out more information. That
As well as many other topics at the commonwell club, and i invite you to check our web site for a complete listing of e vebls. Call the clubs 24hour reservation line. Steven druers book will be for sale in the lobby after this program, and hell be happy to sign the book. Also for if you have any friends who wanted to hear this program and were unable to, the podcast should be online in about a day. Cspan is here to record it for tv, and hes speaking again thursday in palo alto at the coverly community center. If you want to find out more about that, go to the Silicon Valley health institute, svhi. Org svhi. Com, i believe, to find out more information. But thatll be a good place if you want go there as well. In terms of questions, i put out question cards on all the seats, and what id like you to do is when you fill the question cards out, pass them to the aisle, and then pass them up. Ill be sitting here, that way i wont have to go down the aisle and block the cameras while theyre rec