He is now stationed in tucson. He and sarah are expecting our first grandchild. He is doing well. Thank you for asking. First lieutenant . He is a captain now. My daughter married the guy he trained with. He is now deployed on the nimitz. Great. Is that your plan . He is a test pilot. Yeah. Good call. That is great. This is an honor for me. We do the whole thing again. We do the whole thing again. The ceremony and however you ever you want us do it. I think they have got us in good shape and i am just going to recite it again. Keep your right hand raised. Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation that you will and faithfully discharge the duties of the office for which you are about to enter. So help you god . I do. Congratulations. And then we will invite the other family members up. Daughter, claire. Mike pence. Congratulat
Bloomberg technology. Lets take a look at the markets on the day. It was a risk on session, of course avenue do with the news out of madera that they have a vaccine that is 94. 5 effective on the volunteers. 500hat news, the s p finishing higher. Some nice gains out of the nasdaq. Moderna itself sharply higher. After the market, we did have news coming from brookshire and s. Her hathawaye berkshire added to their portfolio in terms of health care. Typically, health care a defensive space. With the virus, perhaps these additions have something to do with the virus. Stocks have been down sharply on the day after moderna news about the virus came out. Likingours, investors pfizer as well. All right, abigail doolittle, thank you so much for that round up. I want to get to airbnbs filing. The company disclosing details of its initial Public Offering plans for the first time, releasing Financial Results and previously confidential information on its operations. In ipo search that has largely
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
Our part to reach out beyond our comfort zone, listen to others, lower the temperature, and find some common ground. Next nasa straight oher jim, testifies on changes at the agency due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Ziverbs is it would be helpful if the administrator would highlight how nasa is implements Lessons Learned from commercial crew development. In november of last year this committee passed the nasa authorization act demonstrating strong support. Legislation strongly supported nasas key science priorities, aeronautics research, plan terry exploration, and other initiatives. Today the administrator can provide an update on these missions and describe any major impacts on cost, schedule or operations caused by the pandemic. Nascar plays an Important Role in americas whole of government approach to securing the space do name. Great power competition in space is a reality. Chinas space ambitions are wellknown and the communist party has devoted resou
To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France