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however, headline in the wall street journal today, conservative house republicans say they have the votes to block health care. how about that? well, the salesman in chief, that would be president trump, is trying to turn that around as of right now. you are going to see a grit deal of political nastiness today. democrats get their chance to question supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. yes, it will be nasty and you ll see it. it seems investors not distracted. stocks will open just a little this morning. if the tax cut is still on track the trump rally is still on track. watch it unfold with us. varney & company is about to begin. due to unprecedented treatment, judge garland was denied a hearing and this vacancy has been in place well over a year. i just want to say i m deeply disappoint that it s under these circumstances that we begin our hearings. i do not know of any other supreme court nominee who was selected by interest groups rather than by a president in co
train continues philip morris, kkr are among the names to watch before the bell today. news corp., activision. the ecb will announce its policy decision later today. the market is hanging on those two reports. kayla, thank you very much. we ve got some big corporate news for you this morning. twitter, that was your top corporate stories. shares getting slams slammmed. the stock is down big time, about 17%. wiping out basically a sixth of the company s value. earnings and revenue did beat the street. that was not the problem. this was. slowing new user growth and a severe decline in timeline use. that s when a user refreshes their twitter spaj, being used as one of the key measures of how active users are. ubs out this morning cutting price targets from 55 to 35. what does this say about twitter? these crazy valuations. i don t want to say they haven t revolutionized the world. they have. but is it possible that this is the beginning of the bubble getting ricked? i was t
ended at 9 o clock last night, our board of directors with 30 people we have a very large board of directors unanimously voted to support option 4 at the pagoda theater. it is rare that 30 people agree, especially the 30 people with whom i m involved. i come from a family of 45. rarely we have collaboration, rarely consensus. so, i ve been involved with i ve been with north beach library, so, different opinions. i respect and everyone s opinion that has come before me today, but this just happens to be what we looked at it very thoroughly as we have. it s a 30-year old organization and we ve tried to take in every side of it. and like i said, we unanimously support option 4 at this time. things could change, but today december 4th [inaudible]. thank you. thank you. graziano [speaker not understood]. my name is graziano mukasey and i run a small business in north beach. [speaker not understood] found out when it s supposed to start. and nobody ever came. nobody e
we have written a joint letter that i d like to read to you today in support of option 4. the chinatown community development center is a proud long-time supporter of the central subway. with the north beach business association, we endorse the concept of an extension to north beach and fisherman s wharf. we support director reiskin s proposal to study extraction of the tunnel boring machine at the pagoda theater with an alternative of behring the tbm under columbus avenue. we also support the mta s efforts to plan for a station at the pagoda theater and additional stations to and from fisherman s wharf. this will create a north-south connection that serves the eastern edge of san francisco, connecting important neighborhoods and communities. the north beach business association, we have over 80 members in north beach would like to add a few more comments, which is, we would like to see the excavation in a new station at pagoda palace, but we want to make it clear that we do