Welcome to todays hearing on support for healthy air travel. Air travel plays a Critical Role in business, commerce, education, travel, and tourism. We take for granted that we can travel great distances by air. That weredestinations once reserved for imagination. Air travel moved from our imagination to a real audi reality that has changed the way we with each other. Our dependence will only continue to grow. Global air travel will nearly double. As with many other industries, the pandemic has dramatically impacted commercial air travel. In the u. S. Alone, Passenger Air travel was down 96 . Worldwide, the air travel industry is projected to use more than lose more than three hunter billion dollars in operating revenues this year. Shiftpple effect of this goes well beyond the airline. Full recovery requires ensuring safety and reestablishing the confidence as we continue to face the risk of covid19. These are positive steps, but are they enough to ensure safety and reestablish trust .
Consider Caroline Harrison as one of the most underage or to serve in this role. Well learn why in this segment of first ladies, influence and image. Here to tell us more about Caroline Harrison or two guests who know the office well. The first ladys historian, the director meredith of that enormously popular first ladies exhibit at this milled sonia. Its edi i thank you for coming in. And bills seale, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that buildings. Among his books is the president s white house. And doctors, were going to start with an illustration tonight. For the government was spending a lot of money. Its she got into it by wanting to create a house, they were crammed in this house. The only lived upstairs. You see, understand on the picture, the middle of the upper picture, the columns and the street side of it the office was on the left. Its the east room was below that, and the other public rooms on the ground floor. Then the
Runs here. They were safe bets and safe harbors in the middle of that whole virus storm. Apparently proving that even after the fact right now. The point in the selloff, everyone was abandoning stocks, no matter what their business prospects, how many regret doing that now . Knowing that all of those issues have come storming back, in fact race to highs beyond their old highs. And, look at the dow, look at s p 500. Even with the selloff here, five, six Percentage Points away from alltime highs. Not too shabby. A lot of this is built on optimism, today notwithstanding about the reopening of the economy across the board despite more than a dozen case reporting spikes in cases, most say the spikes are manageable. That is really in the eye of the beholder. Jackie deangelis breaking down what were looking at. Reporter good afternoon, neil. You point out the nasdaq is moving higher but the rest of the markets are pulling back. You have the push pull here as market moved high as you know, inv
It is my privilege to introduce jim bridenstine. Jim . Thank you, jim thank you bob, our highest priority is and has been bob and doug, and a couple of days ago we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge there is not that we were in a lightning storm, the challenge is that a launchgood in fact trigger lightning could in fact trigger lightning and the rocket could become a lightning bolt. We had these parameters set ahead of time, both nasa and the spacex teams knew what the parameters were. There were limitations i should say. The limitations were exceeded and that put us in a position to delay the launch. Though,this is certain, we will launch american astronauts on american rockets, from american soil and we will priorityh the absolute being the safety of our astronauts. I am very proud of the nasa team, proud of the spacex team. A lot of the comments that i had in the interviews ahead of time where, are you going to feel undue pressure, because of all of the at
Entities are all shut down. We have to restore order to our society before we can start addressing issues. Before we turn back to where we should be spending energy, make sure justice is served, just is served swiftly and we learn what george floyd gave on monday. I want to be very clear, i will have the team talk about what transition last night when the state assumed responsibility over the 630 of the third precinct, the state secured critical assets and where the land Going Forward to ensure tonight our buildings do not burn, our citizens are sick there, and that space that we are going to create allows us to get back to the conversation of serving justice and making sure we are not adding to that list of names. I want to be very clear and speak to the community. The very tools we need to use to get control, to make sure buildings are not burned and the rule of law collapses are those very institutional tools that have led to that grief and pain. Trustrstand there is no in many of o