Dire conditions in senegals crop until after 3 months of rainfall in just 24 hours. Millions of students and teachers return to class in pakistan as schools and universities reopen after being shot for coronavirus for 6 months. Thanks for joining us the u. S. President donald trump has been branded a climate arsonist as wildfires burning across the west coast has become a hot political issue he visited california for briefings on the growing disaster insisting scientists are wrong and that it will get cooler democratic rival joe biden accuses trump of failing to acknowledge global warmings effect on the wildfires which have chilled with these 35. 00 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Exhausted firefighters are doing what little they can to battle the monster inferno consuming towns and homes and lives. Mondays drier conditions and gusty winds meant no respite as nearly 100 fires continue to burn across 12 states get these otherworldly scenes are New California has now experiencin
Over the spread of coronavirus tensions have been running high in hong kong with ongoing protests against the passing of a new security. Donald trump has been branded a climate arsonist says wildfires burning across the west coast of the u. S. Become a hot political issue the president has visited the state of california for briefings on the growing disaster insisting that scientists are wrong and that it will get colder. As more. Exhausted firefighters are doing what little they can to battle the monster inferno consuming towns and homes and lives. Mondays drier conditions and gusty winds meant no respite as nearly 100 fires continue to burn across 12 states give these otherworldly scenes are New California has now experiencing several summers of severe wildfires realizing predictions of a climate report released by the white house in 2018 but President Trump who flew to california for fire briefings continues to deny manmade Climate Change exists it will start getting cooler i will j
Lows the ceo will be here to tell us how he and his company delivered. Plus the university of arizona claiming it has found a new way to prevent covid outbreaks, testing the sewage coming from dorm rooms president Robert Robbins will join us, as power lunch begins right now. I cannot wait for that story. We wait for the beige book from the fed. Dom chu has more on the markets. So the dow is up almost 300 points at this stage, the highs of the session more importantly were keeping close to dow reclaiming record territory. Anybody who has tuned into power lunch or cnbc in general the last several months knows we continue to make these record highs with the s p 500 gold star there. The nasdaq always creeping higher here. Believe it or not, that 12,000 market was hit early today it open up at 12,050, roughly that level just to put things in perspecti perspective, if you look at the nasdaq over the last year, from the lows we saw up until where we are right here, were talking north of 80 ga
Messages about covert 19 and covering up a crisis. And questioning the president s story puts a fact check warning on tweets from donald trump. And joining with sports including a Pivotal Moment in the race for the german football tight so it is by meaning voters who dont mean one bell in an empty stadium to make 7 points clear at the top of the book to sleep. Ok were going to begin in hong kong where more than 200 protesters have been arrested after a standoff with police in the heart of the city. Police used pepper spray to disperse crowds rallying against a bill that could see people jailed for mocking chinas National Anthem but theyre also demonstrating against a security law proposed by beijing activists insist its going to mean the end of hong kongs freedom and rights but probation politicians say its necessary to defend against what they call home grown terrorism. I think people need to recognize that our separate systems is based on our ability to National Sovereignty security
We will hear from japanese epidemics at the center for strategic and international studies. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I am mike green and a professor at georgetown, we are delighted to have all of you join us in discussion over the next two hours with four of japans rising academic thinkers on Foreign Policy and economic affairs. This is the seventh cohort we have invited under a program called strategic japan. Eight years ago we discussed with the Prime Ministers Office how to expand Strategic Thinking dialogue, planning between the us and japan. One thing to think about which was new for japan was the need to go beyond the traditional bureaucratic sources and to tap into the growing expertise among japans academic experts on issues that affect foreignpolicy and to bring more academics into the tent in japan and expand the dialogue with the us and to make sure japanese scholars who are making an impact in japan are sharing their ideas with the us, getting reactions and re