lauren simonetti watching the markets. edward lawrence also in d.c., and jackie deangelis in new york, but on the markets, lauren, we start with you. lauren: what a day, right? oil saw the biggest gain one day ever, up 25%. closing just over $25 a barrel. energy stocks rising in a big way. what happened? the president said russia and saudi arabia appeared close to a supply cut, taking oil off the market. we don t know if that will happen, if they actually agree to it or how much they will take off the market and where exactly they will put all of that crude because think about it, we re not using very much right now. so supply is certainly out there. anyway, great day for the price of oil. and with that, some of the big energy stocks as well. the oil news helped investors brush aside the news we got an hour before the market opened this morning. that showed last week 6.6 million americans filed for first time unemployment insurance. 6.6 million. if you add that to the week be
chairman for his tireless efforts on behalf of the weekend vulnerable. week and vulnerable. i like to thank my good friend for pulling today s hearing together amid the escalating outbreak of ebola across west africa, countries including liberia, sierra leone, guinea, and now nigeria. although i am not a member of the foreign relations committee, i do serve on the state and foreign operations appropriations subcommittee which funds the state department and foreign aid programs. i would also say to the witnesses that if you need extra money, ask for reprogramming. you should not wait for september, october you should ask for it immediately and him confident the appropriate committees will allow it. but if there is any doubt, there should be request for reprogramming. the current ebola epidemic has claimed over 900 people. it was detected earlier this year and is proving to be the world s worst outbreak of the virus ever recorded. it now appears this alarming, contagious
or was discovered in 1976 and has killed 90% of its victims in some past outbreaks. since march of this year, there have been more than 1700 cases of ebola, including more than 900 fatalities in guinea, liberia, sierra leone, and nigeria. this time, the average fertility rate in this outbreak is fromated at 55%, ranging 74% in guinea 242% in sierra leone. ratessparity in mortality are partially linked to the capacity of governments to treat and contain the disease and capita health expending by effective governments. there is also concern giving given modern air travel and the latency time of the disease that the virus will jump borders and threat lies elsewhere in africa and even here in the united states. ,n my own state of new jersey and a hospital just a few hundred yards from my district office, precautions were taken. a person who had traveled from west africa begin manifesting symptoms including a high fever. he was put in isolation. thankfully it was not ebola and t
palestinian land in the west bank. but separation may be the thing in order right now. otherwise we are heading for another century of conflict, which is not going to do anybody any good. i mean, if israel wants to be free and be protected, they have to understand that palestinians want to be free and protected, too. have hiserson cannot rights and freedom while stepping on the throat of another person and expect that person not to resist them a not to be angry. if america really were to care and want to be peacemaker, it needs to be firmer in asserting that the occupation has to end. not just let s try to do it and play the role of convener and then walked out and try to let them solve it themselves. they cannot solve it themselves. anthologies have taken hold on both sides that sort of inhibit them from doing it. america and the world has to be firm and say enough is enough, separate and separate now. host: riverside, california, democrat line. when israel first started,
we are glad it s over. i think i know why. there are so many voters in our primary. one, the people of tennessee to the governor how proud they are of his hard work, and i want to congratulate him. [applause] secondly, those who voted in the republican primary wanted to send a different redge, that we re not happy, that we re disappointed with the direction of our country, and we re hopeful of having a new republican majority in the nited states senate. there was another message in this primary tonight. in a large primary, in one of the most conservative states in the country, tennessee voters nominated a get it done republican governor and a get it done republican senator. let me tell you what i mean by that. what i mean is that both governor haslem and i are conservative republicans. both of us know when we finish our speech, we re not done. in fact, we ought to just be starting to work together with others and try to solve the problems that face our country. that s h