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jong-un and decision on the world body as they prepare to pick fifa s new president. voting has begun in iran s first election since the elections from the nuclear deal and turn out is high so far and voters taking part in two polls one for parliament and the other for the assembly of experts and that is the body that gets to choose the country s next supreme leader and andrew simmons reports from tehran. iran is used to elections but this is billed as a pole to take islamic revolution into a new era, one that could be more moderate and he believes change is coming. she became the first woman vice president between 1997-2005. the hostages are in our hands. reporter: back in 1979 she was the voice of resistance, age 19 spokeswoman for iranian students who held 52 americans hostage for 444 days in the u.s. embassy crisis. she is now serving a third term as vice president, this time under rouhani and she believes the conservative majority in parliament will be over ....
pulls out of the fifa presidential elections. iran s president says there is a high voter turn out in the country s first elections since the lifting of international sanctions. people are voting in two polls one for parliament and one for the body of experts. a large number of hopefuls have been banned from running, around 12,000 people wanted to stand for the 290-seat parliament, but only 5,000 were given the go ahead. reporter: all sides appealed for a high turnout, and it looks like the voters have listened, throughout iran polling was brisk. the supreme leader cast one of the first ballots. translator: reports indicate a massive turn out. reporter: rouhani, standing for reelection in the assembly of experts is hoping for a turn out similar to the 72% that made him president 2.5 years ago. turnout like this should favor the reformists. they are hoping to make a big dent, enabling rouhani to encourage more investment in this economy. translator: we want ....
against north korea. i m in los angeles, home to the film industry, but it s not just the big studios, making the big films these days, it seems diy is in at the moment. i m here with the sports, including counting underway fifa elected a new president. iran s president says voter turnout has been strong in the first elections since international sanctions were lifted. people are voting in two polls, one for the 290-seat parliament, and another for the assembly of experts which could be choosing the next supreme leader. a large number of hopefuls were banned from running, about 12,000 applied to be candidates for parliament butting only about 5,000 were allowed. reporter: throughout iran polling was brisk, a nation no longer under international sanctions. the supreme leader was one of the first to cast a ballot. the president is standing for reelection to the assembly of experts. translator: reports indicate a massive turnout. reporter: he is counting on a s ....
is financial tension in the system out there but was not aggressive as far as talking about interest rate and left the door open and left herself some flexibility. the dow is the laggard today, limited by stocks like disney, which we will talk about later in the show. the nasdaq is the best performer of the day. if you look at the s&p over the course of the day, it saw a little rocking this during her testimony. it seems as though investors were paying more attention to the pre-released testimony than the q and a session since much of that did not focus on monetary policy, but other issues. let s look at the sectors on the move. health care doing the best today. the interest rate sensitive groups like utilities and telecom are lagging. at volumeooking today, which is declining versus the 20 day average in almost all of those sectors we just looked at. utilities with a slight uptick and consumer discretionary s, a slight uptick, but on the days we have seen heavier selli ....
the job training programs for african-americans in this group to go into these areas and earn as they learn. colleges we have 18 or 19 colleges whose mandate is to take the money that we give them to the farm bill and spend in teaching, research and extension. why not create the other spending category for scholarships and loan forgiveness? students who will go in and take openings of these job in agricultural business. please, we have got to get the putto get off the dime and the issue of african-american employment on the front burner. that is the core of all of the domestic issues we are facing. that is the childbearing group. what are these fathers to do? what is there for them? that is why we have so many of the situations in baltimore, chicago, and other places and it pipeline totraight why we got 1.2 million of them sitting in the prisons. would you help us with that? i would love to work with you on it. ms. yellen: i want to assure you that we recognize how se ....