Independents, 2027488002. You can also send us a text message. That number, 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good wednesday morning to you, you can start calling in now. It was expected to be the most highprofile testimony of the week and there is plenty of reaction to get to. It was a nine hour deposition and most of the reporting comes from the Opening Statement that William Taylor made yesterday. It was a 15page Opening Statement obtained by the Washington Post and other news outlets. Here is a bit of what William Taylor told lawmakers at the outset of his testimony. He said Gordon Sondland told me that President Trump had told him he wants ukraine president zelensky to state ukraine will investigate the Energy Company where joe bidens son had worked and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. Ambassador sans len tol
National currencies and subject to supply and demand for their own capron is director of the Financial Technology research and Consulting Firm kaplan asia he says libor is expected to prove more popular than other digital currencies. Well i think what were looking at is a more likely adoption a platform with something might be quite a bit quaint news completely decentralized moves very difficult to use when you have one of the things that facebook is trying to implement with this is usability so in all likelihood at this launches it would be tied in to things like whats out its but messenger now the platforms like e bay as well as credit card so they use ability in the adopted option of. Crypto currency or as a matter of changing money to moving value you much higher than the coin well i think for governments and the reason that theyre so concerned about that is theres obvious laundering in k. Y. See concerns around that as as one of the officials mentioned before is going to want to w
Gold prices is up 1. 3 . It is currently 2,382. If you are watching bitcoin, it is pulling back a bit. Yesterday, bitcoin was above 72,000. It is 70,452 right now. Oil prices have been picking up steam as well. In the nmeantime, we talk about a. I. Every 20 minutes on this show . More frequently. It could be a drinking game. We will continue the game in a different way. Elon musk speaking out on x saying his guess is we will have a. I. That is smarter than any one human, probably, by the end of next year. He said within the next five years, the capabilities of a. I. Will exceed that of all humans. I dont know if that is com commentary on the intelligence of a. I. Or humans. Oh, burn. A year from now if it could be that smart that quickly, sam altman talked about chatgpt 4. 0 as a competent helper. They always do something that is a little wrong. The answer is not always exactly the way it is supposed to be. Ight. Are we a year away from the competent helper being a super competent huma
Hour, hour and a half or so. Leaving south philadelphia, heading through center city be ready there. They are workinge and westbound on the schuylkill expressway, out near king of prussia interchange coming from south jersey no problems on the freeway or 55 and mass transit so far so good, thomas , back to you. Keep it flowing, thank you gunfire erupts in the streets of phoenixville striking one Person Police have found the weapon, and now they are looking for the shooter. Our jenny joyce joins us from phoenixville, good morning to you, jenny. Reporter police are actively investigating, this shooting, right now, Little Information is available, what we know is that the shooting happened here on the 200 block of Bridge Street, just before 10 00 p. M. Last night. You can see police are on the scene at childrens plaza, evidence markers, police tape, investigators, covering this quaint, block, according to police one person was transported from the scene where a waiting an update from inve
Investigators say its unclear what triggered the shooting, who shot first or how many shots were fired. Both the 41yearold officer, a nineyear veteran and the suspect were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. A lot of things that are happening that are coming in really close for us to Pay Attention to how we put ourselves out into the world. Reporter this is the second time in two weeks that a San Francisco Police Officer has been injured in confrontation. On october 18th, bicircumstanycr was run down by a suspect wanted in a weapons investigation. He sustained life threatening injuries and still in the hospital. When ever they wear their badge their lives are at risk. Nothing is routine. Reporter police say they recovered a firearm from the scene thats believed to belong to the suspect. They say they are investigating carjacking of a taxi cab that happened shortly after the shooting to see if its related. Laura malpert, nbc bay area news. Thank you. This is not the first violent