Id appreciate it. Im going to take the role now, vice chair. Present. Commissioner palmer. Here. Commissioner thomas hicks. Here. So we have a quorum of the commission. Good afternoon, i thank you for joining us today as the u. S. Election Assistance Commission convenes an Election Security forum for the security challenge Election Administrators face ahead of the 2020 president ial election. This vital conversation will provide us with a better understanding of ways the commission can help jurisdictions address a variety of Security Issues, including those that stem from aging Voting Technology. When Congress Passed the help america vote act of 2002, it established the eac as the only federal entity solely focused on Election Officials and voters they serve. Part of our charge is to be the nations clearinghouse on Election Administration. It is this responsibility that brings us here today and guides our Election Security efforts. Eac prides itself addressing significant issues and th
Points higher right now. The s p 500 looking to open little over four points higher lets show you what happened over night in asia as well maybe were pushing a little bit i was going to say, i thought it would be the opposite situation but the hang sang off little over 1 almost 1. 5 . Shanghai composite down. European equities as well right now. We see whats going on there there you have green arrows across the board finally the number that Alan Greenspan says he likes to look at, treasury yields. Show you where things stand. Thats a sad i look at all those things its a sad commentary on our life. I dont know if its sad. Sad that its the first thing i do oh, to see before coffee, before brushing my teeth, before anything. Yeah. Shaving shaving any way, developing story this morning, over the british ship that was seized by Iranian Revolutionary guards last week, iran releasing new video over the weekend shows commandos repelling on to the deck tanker from helicopters uk leaders spent t
Of a percent hang seng was up by just over a tenth of a percent and the shanghai composite up by 1. 25 . Active trading in the european markets. Things are relatively flat cac is flat. Ftse is up by a quarter of a percent. And we are watching crude oil prices this morning. Saudi arabias Energy Minister announcing a supply cut in december of 500,000 barrels a day. That would represent a reduction in Global Oil Supply of half of 1 saudi said its making the cut because of global oversupply the minister making comments talking about how the markets being down are misreading whats happening here wti still just above 60 a barrel and we have a big news of a deal sap buying qualetrics. They compete with survey monkey. Theyre buying it for 8 billion in cash. That was as qualetrics was set to go public this week they offer software to collect and analyze data qualetrics competes with survey monkey which went public in september. Shares of ap trasap trading at. Morgan stanley who was the underwri
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The uk. We are keeping this very mild air. Blustery wind, but it is where the wind is coming from that is important, coming all the way from sirs, from madeira, from the south, bringing the Warmth Northwards into the uk, bringing a lot of cloud. The cloud has been dinner across Eastern Parts of the uk, so there has been weak winter sunshine around. Much more cloudy out to the west, where we have seen some rain. This rain is really gathering pace across wales, heading to the north west of england. That could push into parts of Northern Ireland on the South West Of Scotland by the end of the day. A very mild, though. Those temperatures are 12 to 15 degrees once again today. Through this evening and overnight, the rain continues northwards, getting up into the central belt of scotland. Some heavier rain for Northern Ireland. Then we see this shorter, sharper burst of Rain Sweeping Eastwards across england and wales, driven by some quite strong wind once again. Temperatures really wont dro