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Authorizing highway, bridge, aviation, and waterway projects. Members are working on 170 amendments. They plan to complete work on those amendments around midday today. That will be followed by a vote on final passage of the package. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving day. Other we ask your continued protection empowerment of those who tend to the sick and those who medical solutions to this dangerous pandemic. The work of the house these last few days to votes. Wo upport for the department of agriculture. During these times Food Production and delivery and the many e been among challenges facing our nation. Whatever the particulars of this may it proceed through the legislative process ultimately help the benefit of all americans. We ask, also, your continued protection and empowerment of hose who live heroic lives d
What about the nationwide demonstrations the pandemic is also caused food prices at the Grocery Stores to spike, but is relief ahead for consumers. The olympics may redefine the rules on athletes and demonstrations early today starts right now good morning, i am phillip mena i am Frances Rivera an impassioned plea to not let George Floyds death be in vain. Afterward he marched near lafayet Lafayette Square Kristin Walker has more he did not deserve to die over 20 i am asking you if that is that what a black man is worth 20 . On capitol hill an emotional and raw appeal from saw loanious floyd, demanding justice for his brother, george. He pleaded for his life he said he couldnt breathe. Nobody cared nobody people pleaded for him they still didnt care justice has to be served you dont even do that to an animal his life matters all our lives matter black lives matter floyd describing the despair he felt watching the video of an officer kneel on his brothers neck eight minutes and 46 secon
New week, jim, with the focus once again on a resurgence of cases in certain parts of the country for the virus. Concerns about china, as well. And then the overall as we, of course, know, expectations regarding the economy and what the impact may or may not be as a result of what i just mentioned. Well, i think that its always surprising to me as someone who i think lived through it like you do that people in some of these states did realize the level of contagion. I mean, this is one when youre in the room with someone who has it, youre going to get it if you touch someone who has it, youre going to get it i dont know, did people feel they were immune i think there was a sense that maybe new york was isolated. I dont think this will be like new york because i think they learned how to treat people. So, i think the big scare of the hospitals being overloaded will only be perhaps some i mean, we had a war zone here in new york. I dont think that will happen there. The chinese situation
Power lunch starts right now the s p 500 briefly dipping below 3,000. Bob has more on todays sell off. This is a very interesting day because its complicated we had a 70point swing in the s p 500. Wii right on the verge of going positive its not simple to say this is a day when the cyclicals started rallying the market is bit unsure of what to do. Just take a look at the dow leadership here. You say, look at all these industries rally here. 3m is up boeing is having a good day. Were seeing the other stocks. Raytheon is on the upside. You say the cyclicals are doing well thats not really the case look at the dow laggards, for example. You get defensive names like merck and pfizer caterpillar is still down. Banks are still down even though they are off the lows. You see its not quite simple to say the cyclicals are rallying boeing has been on a wile ride for weeks. It was 176 earlier in the day. Its been moving up and moved into positive territory. It was 155 two weeks ago it goes down t