Alexandria, virginia. To start off the afternoon, please welcome philip green wall. Philip is the cofounder of emerging revolutionary war and the fulltime contributor to emerging civil war. He is the author or coauthor of two volumes in the American Revolutionary war series, and three volumes in the emerging civil war series. One of his books as downstairs, as well. Phil graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in history from wheel and Jesuit University and has a graduate degree in American History from george mason university. He is currently a supervisor and park ranger with the National Park service in florida. You can ask him about the fun things he may have seen recently there. With, that let us learn a bit about why someone would want to burn down boston. laughs applause i will move the microphone up. I am a park ranger in the everglades. Dont bring any snakes. I know that was a big concern. Did you but todays top is centered on something farther north. Being a Baltimore Orioles
Making money. Charles s p 500 hitting another alltime high today, but google is a drag on nasdaq. Blue chip names are powered by really strong domestic consumer economy. That is trying to lift the dow. Speaking of consumers, confidence report from the Conference Board missed. Key components, including business good, business bad, plentiful jobs all bottom much better. Clearing, the Conference Board declared there are no indicators or indications that consumers will curtail the holiday spending. Were halfway through the earnings season, on cusp of big fed decision. In the hour i want read on markets from jack ablin, and jeff saut. Jeff, i will start with you. I was impressed by blue chip earning results, guidance from him. There is sense of anxiety on the market. Dow was up one point right now. People are still hesitant. If you look at big money poll in barrons, 27 of professional Money Managers were bullish. That is about as low as it gets. Were seeing breakouts. Financials start to co
With me are the bbc s deputy Political Editor, vicki young, and shadow business secretary jonathan reynolds, Transport Secretary mark harper, and Liberal Democrat olly grender. Yes, we had that big, important result for the conservatives, ben houchen has held onto the Tees Valley Mayoralty for a third term. You will know if you have been following all the Election Results that labour have won with a pretty historic swing the Blackpool South by election. There are a lot of people, of course, still coming in, we are yet to hear from counts right across the country, in terms of those local councils. Lets just get a thought, first of all, from our panel. So far, how disappointed are you . fin panel. So far, how disappointed are ou . Panel. So far, how disappointed are ou . , panel. So far, how disappointed are ou . ,. ,y you . On the cancer losses, clearly it is disappointing you . On the cancer losses, clearly it is disappointing to you . On the cancer losses, clearly it is disappointing
Is not enough progress. And that there is is there any way out of the impasse. Also coming up showdown in Spain Catalonia defies a deadline to abandon plans for independence madrid says that it will start taking back control of the breakaway region on saturday. And the soccer fair play demand fair pay denmarks womens world cup qualifier is cancelled and a rout over wages the Danish National team simply wants the same conditions as the man could this be a landmark moment for the womens game. Plus an explosion at a factory baking firecrackers exposes the dark underside of indias festival of lights environmentalists welcome the new ban on fireworks but some people arent happy our social media team has more. And asterix and all blix the beloved comic book heroes are back with. A new adventure this time their creators are sending them on a bad dash across italy. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us. Leaders are meeting in brussels for a two day summit to discuss issue
Have been down here a thousand times. Second and leticia. Yes, second and front street. Hello. We have got plenty of fire restens. We have police blocking off most of Market Street. We have a gas Company Behind us. We have Salvation Army behind them. Red paws is out here checking on pets and all that a lot to cover from olde city, philadelphia but couple other big national stories, and for one, donald trump fires the attorney general last night here in the United States. Also tonight at 8 00 a big announcement in prime time, going to announce his Supreme Court nominee. One of those nominees is from pennsylvania. Yes. So, he has an office in the city. Three or four blocks down that way. A lot going on in olde city in our town of philadelphia so lets get to weather and traffic and we will join you inside. Noticeably colder morning then yesterday you are feeling it outside mike and alex, bus stop buddy is properly bundled up for teens and 20s and also celebrating the philadelphia 76ers vi