The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi
60 points after the dow closed at a record level yesterday. The s p closed lower yesterday all the major averages moved off the highs of the session this morning the s p is indicated up by 5 points the nasdaq up by 10. This came after the feds decision and after if looked clear that Republican Leaders reached an agreement, at least in principle, on where theyre headed with the tax bill well talk more about that green arrows across the board this morning in asia, the nikkei looked like it was down by a quarter percentage point similar declines for the hang seng and shanghai. This morning in europe, with some of the early trading, you will see that there are some declines across the board. The biggest loser is the dax down by a half percentage point. Cac in france is down by 0. 4 . We have the bank of england and the ecb going to be releasing some policy statements today check out crude oil prices which were lower yesterday crude oil at 56. 59 couple of big economic reports on the agenda
Live from london also coming up. Another bloody day in syrias rebel held enclave of Eastern Ghouta unicef is so outraged its a blank statement saying words are not enough. That we are ashamed of. An apology and an admission oxfam says its investigating twenty six new cases of Sexual Misconduct. And a final farewell to Morgan Tsvangirai zimbabwes late Opposition Leader is laid to rest in his hometown. Under the Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas has called for a new International Peace summit between israel and palestine within the next few months is a world powers at the u. N. Security council to back the process and says any settlement reached must suspend americas recognition of jerusalem as israels capital our diplomatic editor james bays is there first sir james how much is the scenario that abbas has proposed. Well he certainly needs to try and kick start the system the International System to make this happen and his way of doing things is not the way of the United States certainly
Forecast for the year. The company is spending more on employee raises here in the u. S. We will have more on this in just a few minutes. Matt wildfires are threatening a resort town in washington state. Several large fires burning near chelan, washington have already destroyed about 75 homes and businesses. 200 activeduty military troops have been called in to help. Cory i was up in Northern California weeks ago. It is unbelievable what is going on there. Matt a suspect in the deadly explosion in bangkok was seen on security footage. A man in a yellow shirt was seen taking off a backpack and walking away. The bomb exploded in a bangkok Shopping Center popular with foreigners. Searching through Hillary Clintons emails. 305 emails were flagged. Clinton said she did nothing wrong by using a private server while in office. She joked about the messages yesterday while campaigning in iowa. You may have seen that i recently launched a snapchat account. [applause] i love it. I love it. Those
And vote on this bill after things getting and popularity to combine their version with house version and hopes to get it to President Trump for christmas. Next up will take you alive to a forum on preparations for the next health pandemic, scientists and doctors are reviewing current influence the dangers and future challenges. Hosted by the Johns Hopkins school of Public Health it live coverage around hes been to. It is a combination of protection in their age group that has seen the related strain of [inaudible] but [inaudible] also now look at historical tenements from 1890 to 1918 to 1,962,009 and theyre all different. They share pictures and come at odd times and come in the summer and the effect more of the younger population but they are quite different and that means for the future we need to have systems to have Technology Information and what it looks like. David, in 1918 there were no pharmaceutical interventions available to help expand the pandemic. We now both antivirals