Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. This is a great day for us. Of course it began well in the Supreme Court of the United States when the constitution was upheld and that was a beautiful thing and now we are here to talk about how we go into the future. When we won in 2018, we said to the American People that for the people, we would lower the cost of health care by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and preserving the preexisting condition. Low er health care costs. Bigger paychecks by building the infrastructure of america ain a green and resilient way and third, we would have cleaner government. Cleaner government by improving, enhancing the voice of small donors and the grass roots in our political process. Between now and fourth of july, we will bring the aca enhancement legislation to the floor on june 29th. Next week, we will bring the justice and policing act, part of our bill initiatives to the floor. Before the fourth of july, well bring this important l
Building. Katherine scott is live with new details on what went wrong. Reporter sara we just received word that operations at the courthouse are shut down for the rest of the day. What exactly happened is unknown. We hear that two elevators were involved here and the issues were connected and two people were injured. These elevators were in the employee elevator area. This is not where the general public area. I was actually in one of the public elevator when the alarm sounded and the building evacuated. There are still people outside and the word is just starting to spread that operations are shutting down here for the rest of the day. Initially they said an elevator dropped and now they are saying it was a malfunction. The issue was with two elevators here and two people were injured. This was the employee who was in one of the elevators at the criminal Justice Center at 10 20 a. M. When a loud noise was heard. We were on the 11th floor and heard a loud commotion, a loud boom. It lit
You have a red tie. You wear socks all the time. Blaming shawn in the morning with dao vu. There you go. I think ive got red for all of us. Including my red shoes. I red a moot color, which is none. A lack of color. Coming up on the morning blend, just in time for valentines day, the choice, producer micah chats with one of the stores, the movie on the latest book brought to the big screen. Plus theyre keeping the fever alive in the Las Vegas Strip and in our studio. The australian bee gees have a Live Performances celebrating with us. First up today, a mix of classical, jazz, latin and classic pop. Pink martini has performed with more than 50 orchestras world wide and tomorrow night theyre teaming up with our own las here with more, Michele Madole of the las vegas philharmonic. Also with us, our students kelsea au and erika dalton. Chelsea is the winner of the Cox Communication young artist concertexesion. Erika dalton won in 2014 and is runner up this year. Good morning to all of you
The president president tgif, everybody. The Unemployment Rate has fallen to 4. 9 . Even as more americans join the job market last month. This is the first time the Unemployment Rate has dipped below 5 in eight years. Americans are working. All told over the past six years our businesses added 14 million new jobs. 71 months of private sector job growth. Over 2014 and 2015 our businesses added more jobs than any time since the 1990s. Most importantly this progress is translating into bigger paychecks. Wages have grown at their fastest rate since the crisis and the policies i will push this year are designed to give workers more leverage to urge wages and explosions. Unemployment, deficits, gas prices are all down. Jobs, wages, and the rate of the insured are up. I should mention, by the way, since i signed obamacare into law nearly 18 million americans have gained coverages and our businesses are created jobs every month since. On that all of them fulltime jobs. As i said in my state o
Employee with the company and ive watched her be involved with knowledges and universities and the key to almost all of them to succeeding is leadership. If you have strong leadership, be it a company, school, university or agency, i will show you an agency or school or entity that on its way to be more effective with everything that they do. We make it too hard. A hearing withng the federal management subcommittee going through the gao highrisk list. One of the issues we focused on was the cost of Weapons Systems overruns. The cost is gone from 200 billion per year to about 400 billion per year. First the number two person for acquisition the air force, we said talk to us about how long you have been in your job, what kind of turnover you got from your predecessor. This was in the Bush Administration. Had beeny position vacant for 18 months before i got there. There had been an acting person in place but not a Senate Confirmed the person. I said toind of me about your direct reports.