are going to. this is the thing around here. we started out in the year 2000, 318. this is the chinese t-shirts. right now the lines are crossing or paper in 2015. we were at 271 and the b. are 25 and passed in two years. it's not as if and the public is not aware of it and i hope the public watching and we are trying to communicate we have to understand we have a problem we have to fix and this is one area we are going to do that we need to modernize the marine corps and aircraft and maintenance in an expeditionary way. we need to invest in advance capabilities in space, cyber and electric warfare. we need to accelerate and that key technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum science, hypersonic's. this is probably the only audience i can talk t to that knows what that is. the thing is we were passed up. putin lies about us so i don't believe this but he says we've now passed up the united states in hypersonic's. the new weapon systems to talk to groups that are not familiar with it and you

because these individuals are sons and daughters, they are fathers and mothers, they are cousins. and so we can't lose track of is a ne case, which devastation to that family and community. as medical examiners we work in it daily and really are the young sung surrounding the work that we are doing on a daily basis in working in this epidemic. >> it looks like we have a question from laura on twitter. if you want to ask a question, please do with the #post live. the question is if you could have a set or points of data about this crisis or data patterns that you don't currently have, what data would help you make the most impact in your work? >> a scientist and a data question. we use data quite a bit. i was not a data guy until i got involved in this. what we are using this -- and the university of cincinnati is probably in the forefront of this. they have been able to pinpoint not just overdoses or crime, but many of the social issues. what they are doing is took a county in ohio and able to anything out within a two block area were most of the issues. it wasn't necessarily robb

most impacted are the ones who are leading us so those are kind of the framework that we've had and many communities have used and organized around historically, but that has really come to the forefront, i think, as this administration has really intensified and ramped up its attacks on marginalized communities of all kinds. >> can you hear us? >> think that one of the things we have to recognize is the strategy in the community, right? and one of the things i used to cringe at with the relief effort in community would be that we have to do more because it's better, and instead of talking we have to go out there and do the work because people see us on the table and -- as opposed to this scriptural imperative to be out there and to help people in their time of need regardless of what their background is. anti-poverty which is the most pure form of justice is deeply rooted in our tradition and something that we can draw from. so i think that when i carry that into forms of activism and when we talk about muslim issues and talk about what scriptural integ letty is, and what thnrid see rac

if they are moving and we are continuing to stop, it is less of an issue. if they are blocking us to get to stops, it is a huge issue. where you are going and where we are coming from is this is stuff that can be changed. we haven't seen it to date. that is why we haven't been super concerned about it. obviously, as we talked about the environment that is changing every day and there is more and more buses every day. as these become more of an issue , places like 16th street , we legislated elite transit lane on 16th street several years ago. we haven't implemented it yet. it was legislated, there wasn't as many tour buses and shuttles. and now there is. if we were to put that in place, we would need to go back first and legislate a muni only lane because we know that interviewing what is going on on the street, it will be a problem >> got it. so it seems as though because we don't have data on its, we are also not able to say that even if we were to allow a certain amount of other vehicles besides public vehicles, we really couldn't estimate whether or not

the forces which are sent are forces that are likely armed. the western powers are not providing soldiers, which means the contingents very often are not a very good quality. .ome countries are making money each blue helmet is paid $1400 per month. themcountries are paying $400 and keeping the money. the soldiers are not sent to fight. they are sent basically to stabilize a situation after a peace agreement. to don't have to expect them be fighting forces, risking the lives. they are coming from a foreign country, they don't have any stake in the country, very often they don't speak the language of the country. --re are checkpoint forces they are checkpoint forces establish ties -- a stabilizing -- forces stabilizing the conditions. calledaverted what we [indiscernible]which was specially a formality but [indiscernible] which means be allowed toay and their mandate is to be robbers, but they don't have capability to do it. it's not the u.n., it is the member states. is, when you say we should have a strategy command and there are 100 officers

we are working -- we are working with d.b.i. to understand what the criteria is for applying for an unreasonable hardship and for this specific business, since there is that pole in the middle , you could qualify for a technical and feasibility period but given her situation because she is on a month-to-month and because there is a proposed remediation of creating a brand-new entryway, not at an angle, would serve to be -- would cause severe financial hardship for that business, if not displace her as a business tenant. the second case, a community center is currently going through lease negotiation and the landlord is using the responsibility for compliance with the ordinance as a condition of the lease renewal. this space has a major slope in the sidewalk to the entryway. under the ordinance, that would be considered one step. the business of the category three. in this case, after consultation with the organization, we connected them with a pro bono legal service organization. they are currently helping them figure out what t

those who are in that category are trying really hard to stay there. however, there are not enough people applying. not enough people from diverse backgrounds, rural, minority, whatever-- with the possible exception of international students for whom we get more applicants then we can take. there is large groups of students for whom they understand the value of going to college, understand the value that it would give them in terms of lifelong earnings, but they don't think about going somewhere other than the closest college. there is an outreach effort that certainly we do, that all of our major partners and competitors in the education system are also trying to figure out how to do better, to find people who we think can succeed in our colleges and just get them to apply. once they are there, they may need some more support services. they are not different from the types of support services we try to make available to all students. it is more knowing that some students need to be watched a little bit more at the beginning. danielle: we have about th

you are on the left.t wondering if this concerns you at all, that there is no one that people really want, and they all just want someone new? >> no, it is not concerning this early on. we are talking 2020, but i think everyone has the same message, so no matter if they are 70 something or 40 something, it is going to be anyone but trumpet. i think that they will have the exact same number. >> trish: i don't think it's that easy. i am just saying. i am going to go to someone else on that. it's not that easy. you know it? you guys ben hillary clinton. you thought it was going to be a slam-dunk. easy peasy, read, but what you found is that the american people respond to authenticity more than they do to a lead is critical is it for kathy's team there to put up someone who is actually relatable? >> this anybody but trumpet narrative i think is bad. to be honest, that is spot on, trish. they are looking for on authenticity. you see such a high percentage of voters who are interested in someone new. beto o'rou

how important are some of these etf's, are some of these mutual funds we are tracking to the overallverse? gershon: i think it is so much more important than loans, because it takes three or four weeks to settle a loan. having outflows that are 2%, 3%, 4% of the market is scary. what happens if we get 10%, 15%? remember, most bond trades, you get your money into or three days. a loan is 2, 3, 4 weeks. i worried we will hear liquidity fund issues from some of the mutual funds. jonathan: let's talk about that, luke. a lot of retail has been getting access to things that are not liquid, but give the illusion of liquidity because you can buy the etf. what are your thoughts on that? luke: i have had a problem with that for a long time. this whole daily liquidity on an illiquid asset class looks really alluring. you think you can get in and get out. most of the time you can. investors are little bit late to that trend. i agree with your other guests, you can run into problems further down the line in the market can get very gappy in funding outflows. the price that will be offered as we ge

the folks who are really at risk are the folks who are furloughed. working are going to get paid. when they get paid is a function of when the government opens again, but they will get paid. no one works for free. the folks who are furloughed would need legislation to pay them for the time they were furloughed. this -- paychex go out today and the folks working today will get paid. they are due to be paid for the work on the 11th and if the government opens up, they will be paid on the 11th. host: mick mulvaney talking about the pay schedule for federal workers. they are receiving a check today for the work they did in december before the shutdown and those who worked during the shutdown that started on december 22nd. myron, milwaukee, missed 4 -- wisconsin. caller: i would like to call in at first say i am quite tired of hearing the partisan issue as it relates to legal immigration and the building of the border wall when it is really just a humanitarian issue and i hate how it is being politicized. i think this is a humanitarian issue that we are n

we are getting away from what we are familiar with. we are shopping more from the couch. we can get the goods to the door front. what is drawing us out you have the house? food and beverages, entertainment, personal care and medical and fitness. those categories specifically food and benches and entertainment is very active. as we moved to home goods and delivery service, there is definitely a friend includes the groceries to get the goods to the front door. one of -- i think one you have the ones to highlight as far as the quick to fix retailers locally, albert'ss started here in bay area and is moving to brick and mortar stars. there are others that come to mind. most of them are in appairrel. amazon is the one exception. clicks to bricks including amazon go is in san francisco in seven locations throughout the bay. now on 300 california. 2800 to 3,000 square feet. then most of the pop ups which is a trend for the clicks to bricks operators are in new york, la and san francisco. that is a way to text the market before they get to physical brick and mortar stores. there

are the companies in talks? don: we are not talking about whether we are in talks. companies hav engaged in the past and continue to on some level. there is apparent to everyone they can watch this that the companies are involved in extremely difficult litigation processes and were bound by certain confidentiality requirements, were bound by the things going on in court. the process of negotiation is something we are open to. emily: the sec has brought an antitrust case against qualcomm. qualcomm has said you are in settlement talks with the ftc. what are the chances these cases go to trial? don: there is a pretty good chance they go to trial. we are anxious to go to trial in san diego where we can prove that apple and its contract manufacturers, have breached their agreement. they have not paid us in close to two years for intellectual property that they have been paying us for in some cases for 10 years. apple has told those manufacturers not to pay us and they are obeying. we would like that to get to trial and we would like to establish our right to have those r

i think you are at a place where we are beyond that. devastating decisions are being made even with people giving input in the opposite direction. can.e done as much as i as a senator, i am leaving soon to point out all the problems with this type of decision-making. we are in something that is incredibly sober as it relates to syria and possibly afghanistan coming soon. i am hoping the president will make decisions that are not ultimately devastating. host: that was the outgoing tennessee from tennessee who has been chairing the foreign relations committee. we are asking active and retired military, what is your view of him? the president just returned from visiting our troops in iraq and germany. he stopped at a base in germany for refueling and spoke with of the troops were about an hour. "we have incredible people representing our country, people that know how to win." bradley byrne from alabama, great gesture from potus to visit with our troops overseas. i am glad president trump is with our troops. i understand a sacrifice our men

ng nejra nejra: we are showing you what u.s. futures are doing. how concern is the ugly open on thursday? we jump to us. let's get the first word news with debra mao. huawei has been arrested in canada over essential violations of u.s. iran sanctions, prompting outrage from china. she faces extradition to the u.s. and in extradition into whether the leading telecoms equipment maker made sales to iran despite sanctions. the arrest provoked a strong protests in the u.s. embassy in canada. arabia, russia, and other members of opec meeting in the anna have recommended in oil production cut and -- meeting in vienna have recommended an oil production cut. core opecfrom the group will meet to thrash out a consensus. largest andussia's nonstate oil company says he is hopeful there will not be a need for a large supply curve. i hope maybe, these measures will not be necessary. as i mentioned, the price is where it should be in my opinion. we are not working with the volume. is notduction cut something we are working with. macron has vowed to face down the

central banks are signaling we are slowing down. they are alert.backstop if we were to go into a downturn. francine: megan greene there will be staying with us. coming up next, the government shutdown enters its seven-day with all signs pointing to a lasting into 2019. and of course, the border wall. this is "bloomberg." ♪ viviana: this is bloomberg surveillance. let's get the business flash. nestle gearing up for its biggest push yet into the booming vegan market. they plan to launch next spring "the incredible burger" under its gourmet label. nestle is racing against unilever and new entrants, beyond meat, to find products that resonate with a new generation of consumers. instagram redesigned its platform for horizontal scrolling. the update forced app users to swipe left and right instead of scrolling vertically. that sparked complaints. the app quickly reverted to its original feature. it says the redesign was a test that went wide by accident. that is the business flash. francine: thank you so much. the partial u.s. government shutdown looks t

they are not promoting your workplace ideals. they are not on the same page. were ceo of for some time -- you were. one of the questions i ask in my book is how might the internet be different if more women were involved in creating and designing these systems in the first place? do you think trolling would be orh a problem at reddit facebook or twitter? >> it is unfortunate that they were mostly started by white men and run by white men for so long and most of the engineering teams were white men. nobody experienced it in the way werepeople of color or who women or non-binary experienced it. if you don't experience it, it's hard for you to address it, and there was not anybody calling attention to these problems. you see it on other platforms, too. nextdoor and airbnb are trying a fix problems that came from homogeneous workforce, and now they are trying to bring in changes to make sure their platforms are more open and more inclusive and do not reflect the early that their employees did not experience. emily: let's talk about this book. what do you think can

pimco are saying there are recession warnings. the other side of the coin, citigroup saying by global stocks on the debt. -- on the dip. the bulls some would say are back in the agenda. about the new central bank governor, is he more market friendly? the oil is on the roll over. nothing seems to be taken at face value. this is wti. a quick flash of that was a staggering. $52. you can see that slow drift. top story on oil this morning. saudi arabia may cut their export to the united states to a 13 year low. how is sterling? nejra: i have decided to show eurosterling today. i know i could have shown cable, but we are seeing that unchanged. traders do not know where we go from here. theresa may is entering this period of wargaming. it is interesting you are seeing the euro gaining against the pound despite what some saw as a bit of a dovish start to mario draghi yesterday. euro gains, sterling drops. we have seen eurosterling strengthen. today's session we are looking at it on an 89 handle. italy considering the structural deficit in

what are we seeing?put it, a very quiet opening with the flat and 76 trading what we are also seeing is the banking index currently flat. we are keeping and i on the current counts which were affected because of rate cuts over the weekend, but we have seen regular games come in. on the other hand we are keeping an eye on commodity stocks which are currently trading muted and we keep track of some of these names. >> thank you. about howen talking dismal year has been for asian stocks but if you are looking winners, india is the spot. spike, this oil rally that really spurred volatility, new zealand and india has managed to carve out games for asia, and india has that falling oil price falling, local investor demands, and in new zealand there's more of that insulated market. >> it was in johannesburg, where the jamaican market went up 20% year to date, quite something. as we were talking, china's top policymakers are pledging 2019, the world's second-largest economy is confronting an economic slowdown, yet

we are at full employment. caution flags are there. is not going to go through the roof, but it is still strong. >> that was christopher aleman. let's get another check on the markets. s&p are allsdaq and up over 3%. sincee for the next day 2016. the russell 2000 is up more than 4%. since 2011. them a lot of that is being led by energy shares. was500 energy index, that up several percent today. a lot of gains in exxon mobil, conoco as well as other major oil companies. let's take a look at those names. chesapeake energy, and exxon mobil are up. the others are also moving higher. this is one of the worst performing sectors on the year in the s&p 500 but today, the second-best performing sector. we are seeing crude oil rise today and that has a lot to do with it. again, a good day across the markets as we head towards the close. wee of the best gains that have seen since 2015. the dow, s&p, and nasdaq are all up over 4% right now. >> markets rallying this wednesday. welcome back to bloomberg businessweek. joining us also is our editor. r

to get to where we are today, we are in 2018. we just finalized our last outreach for this phase of the project. it got us between -- depending on what phase or area of the project we are, we are at different levels of design, but we are really only about ten and 30% design, and we just really looked at the pitfalls. there aren't exactly a lot of environmental fatal flaws, primarily the challenges will be historical properties and that sort of construction. it will be difficult particularly with traffic control and being able to take lanes in the middle of the night it will be quite difficult day today. funding is probably our number 1 driver. the estimate for the project, at this point if we were to start today, is around $350 million. however, we don't have the funding for it. we are seeking other funds too, and the same pots of funds that. is looking for. we are trying to look for opportunities on -- there is a strong case to be made to seek funding jointly to build the connection along hillcrest. there will be independent uti

collecting, they are data about what you are talking about what you , are interested in, and as they collect data on you as you browse. it is the usual privacy invasion. the more it goes into different parts of our home, the more it is going to be listening to us. and collecting data on us. i think we have to be very careful about what we are giving up which we , tend to not be. we just click on that, i agree button. at another level the security on these devices is terrible. especially in the internet of things. we have already had examples of people hacking into baby cams and collecting information on the movements of your baby, which is scary. the companies are not sending these things out with any kind of reasonable security, so the , badin which malefactors actors could , hack into our homes are terrifying. host: i want to let you chat with our callers. gina in florida, you are on. guest: good morning, c-span, america. i have a question. i do not have a alexa. i have a cell phone. my sister and i, i notice when i call, we talk about issues. the other day and it is happened with

no scott you are you are your receiver comment you are a clue in the race is what you are doing is exactly what the other parties in germany trying to do and also the media in germany trying to do for years and years yeah just to put or to the family we were around five and a half five and a half this means since for five and a half years you are the the other parties and all the media trying to push in a nazi corner in a writing corner because this was in the past always a good means just to get rid of a new party they did with the republicans claim they did with others here or don't you know only that when alexander garland described the nazi period as a suspect of bird droppings in over a thousand years of successful german history did you not think how deeply insulting must be to the families of six million holocaust so then you have freely to see how he meant it i talked to him and i said only with that comment now i am not i'm not a happy bus but on the other hand don't see really not to you there's no you know it's all going to be a no no what do what you know if you're not happy wh

no you are you are your recent comment you are through in a rage because you are doing is exactly what the other parties in germany trying to do and also the media in germany trying to do for years and years here just to put or little sammy around five on our five and a half this means since for five and a half years you are the the other parties and all the media trying to push in a nazi corner in a writing corner because this was in the past always a good means just to get rid of a new party they did with the republicans played it with others here and don't know later when alexander garland described the nazi period as a speck of bird droppings in over a thousand years of successful german history did you not think how deeply insulting must be to the families of six million holocaust so then you have freely to see how he meant it i talked to him and i said oh you happy with that come now i'm not i'm not i have been busted but on the other hand don't see very not me in this know what you want or not going to be another know what use what you know if you're not happy when you can easil

♪ caroline: these are the top stories we are covering -- steve mnuchin says markets are stable, the treasuryecretary called wall street banks to confirm the liquidity and contain the fallout for tensions between the fallout in the fed. china announces another round of tariff cuts, lowering impact -- import taxes on more than 700 goods and what a good me to the global economy. some opec members and that production costs could deepen and be extended. equities were hurt with the worst selloff on record. right now, let's check in with the u.s. markets. >> good morning. afternoon, markets are under pressure today. the dow jones and s&p 500 and nasdaq are down more than 1% after last week, they closed their biggest weekly loss since 2011. the s&p 500 is down for the fourth consecutive day of more than 1%. let's talk about the government shutdown. do the market -- does the markets really care? chart here shows the history of the shutdowns in 2018 and what you can see is only just the markets brushed it off. 1/10ly cost the government of a percent every week they were shut down. we don't actually ha

we are down .8%. the csi sectors on index have seen losses of more than 10%, some even 20% given that we have seen these national scandals on back fees, the u.s. trade. chinese that is the week market we have been talking about all year long. china has seen some decent gains here in tokyo and taipei. a bit of strength into the chinese renminbi. we are waiting to see what will come out of the central economic work conference happening on tuesday. we see the likes of the south korean won and the ringgit and the yuan. we will see if what we hear from the fed this week will be dollar positive or dollar negative. we could see some weakening further ahead. on commodities, a decent bit when it comes to iron ore. hovering. we haven't talking about corn as well as soy, all rallying. china will be buying up more these american goods. key question is whether terrorists will be reduced on corn and soy. corn futures up modestly by .1%. let's look at first word news with paul allen from sydney with more. : senior u

with the armed services committee they are everywhere there are seven islands so far that they are creating everything is nothing but bombs and military equipment. our allies in that part of the world think they are preparing for world war iii. and then so anyway not just there but all over the world for many years in africa and so i'm very familiar with that. with that military operation and is that far south it is scary. so the national defense strategy commission describes a combination that isn't a word that we use but and then according to the response with that nuclear triad and hope for the best. united states must be committed to ud the it with that posture redo which is with that operations that should consume six.4 percent of the defense budget and what we get from it so let's get back to the priorities i had we already talked about three of them as a blueprint and we will do that we are on mind to do that and with that readiness situation and the fourth is caring for servicemembers so those competitors they don't care about people. on this is that we have to continue to do that a

many investors we are seeing are saying this is where there are few opportunities.hereooks like certainly some of the cheaper assets are, it is priced in the negative story so if there's a more positive story on trade, the biggest gains are in asia, probably asia fx more than equities are bonds. nejra: let's talk about one emerging-market and that is india with the shock resignation of the r.b.i. governor yesterday. we have seen assets reacting from equities to the rupee and this is well -- while state elections are happening. are we seeing a turnaround in the knee-jerk reaction of the resignation of patel? mark: that is investors realizing like the answer to the previous question we have a massive discount in india in assets. we have seen the rupee banks rapidly and growth in india is 7%, the markets got hit a lot so indian currencies are one of the cheapest in the world. yield.rs a high real overall, the fundamentals are looking good and they are looking at her good compared to a month or so ago because oil prices have collapsed and one is -- that was one of the t

the northeast who are setting up shop who are illegal. we had somebody call from north carolina talking about his about thehis concern policeman shot in california. talking about how the sanctuary cities were responsible for that but they are not. the sanctuary city -- whatever bill, does not say that the policeman cannot report these people to i.c.e. i am a retired federal employee. from the veterans administration. i am also very concerned because , whoe moneys that this man is occupying the white house at this time, wants to put towards this bill. he knows nothing about history. he knows nothing about anything. host: were you ever furloughed? caller: never. never. that is one of the institutions that will never be furloughed. we pray for it but were never lucky enough to be a part of that. host: eddie is calling from the bronx, new york, he opposes the shutdown. eddie, good morning. caller: good morning. good morning. i oppose the shutdown. n children didala not have to die and congress should investigate what happened to them. willnot

they are on board. as congress encourages that along i believe we can prioritize that spending and maintain the strength and security of america while reducing debt at the same time. it is the only caucus in congress that has had the chairman with the task whether it is defense, foreign affairs, although as chairman our members, to have them at the table in laying this out is huge. >> one point to make is once again, if the rnc view of what the gop should be doing were fully enforced, which you hope it will be, entitlement reform would occur such that you would not be asking generals to page these pennies. we are spending money where we should not be spending money. >> i promise that was my last question, i will turn it over to you. the noncosmetic difference with marke leadership walker and mike johnson is that mike johnson is going to dealing with the majority, with the democratic majority. on how the position rnc will work constructively with nancy pelosi. >> next question. [laughter] mr. brooks: so

but we are tougher.. we are the leukemia and lymphoma society.ay not have heard of us - but our game-changing research has led to the belief that the cures for cancer are in our blood. we are the leukemia and lymphoma society. beating cancer is in our blood. >>> this is a fox news alert. i'm robert gray. parts of the government are shut down. congress and the white house unable to come to an agreement to avoid a partial government closure. as of midnight on the east coast as much as a fourth of the federal government is unfunded. hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be furloughed or work without pay this holiday season. at the core of the dispute, president trump and republicans demanding $5 billion of funding for the wall on the u.s./mexico border. in a joint statement senate

we are delighted they are as high as they are.itiatives we work on for female entrepreneurs, specific hiring practices and what we do in hiring people, hiring goals, what we set for managers and stuff like that. i think sometimes people leap too quickly to what their checklist is of initiatives. if you are actually going to take this seriously and do it well, it has to be something that really deeply is suffused in the culture and everybody lives every day. again, you can have a good list of initiatives. but if it is not really in the culture, then it is just not going to work. emily: before we go, i understand there is a third collison brother who, as i hear, is even more tech savvy than you are? tell me about tommy. >> yeah, so tommy is a four years my junior. and tommy was very interested in this topic that we talk about, about the implications of technology and the fact that more of our lives are moving online. he was really interested in that before it was the talk of the town and before it was the cool thing to be into. so h

you are not alone. this is happening around the country this is the intergenerational gap with kids who are in their twenties or thirties and their grandchildren these people in the past wouldn't but they have to now you see housing in markets like dc and new york and out - - l.a. becoming completely unaffordable. we can try to expand affordable housing and recognize like teachers or municipal workers to set aside housing they are doing that in other cities what do your kids do quick. >> he did mention they were college graduates. >> again you start to wonder about college i do think it is with in terms of identity and knowledge but we don't know this and maybe there is a debt of student loans. >>host: you write in your book since 2005 there is a substantial increase in the percentage of debt held of the late middle age due to more people going back to school for further education but also how much it takes to pay off student loans. >> we need to talk about debt forgiveness and to make it more effective

we are having.ve and negative impacts. emily: what is going to be big in 2019? >> voice as well as altogether. >> micro mobility may not be as big as we thought. scooters. b2b and financial services and international companies coming to the u.s. will be a trend. emily: that was y combinator. is shakingglossier up the makeup industry with an almost entirely online business. the beauty company is entering phase two. emily weiss tells us about glossier's social commerce vision, next. this is "bloomberg." ♪ emily: when it comes to the beauty industry, the glossier founder emily weiss is the customer experience is broken. she started a beauty blog that evolved into a rising social commerce star that is shaking up the $45 billion beauty market. raised $85 billion in venture capital, dropping new products every few weeks. we spoke to the ceo about surpassing more than $100 billion in sales this year. >> beauty is undergoing an incredible transformation. it is a $445 billion dollar market. be $700 billion i

s are great. there are a number of vacancies right now that are plaguingism are plaguing i.g. offices. i would expect -- again when we are talking about the subpoena cannon, the cavalcade of investigations or whatever, i would expect for committee chairs who have a lengthy list of priorities that everything they don't see any direct benefit to them will get pushed to an i.g. or g.a.o. my suspicion is i.g.'s. that is something to watch. it is not going to play into a narrative of congress versus the white house. if you are looking at the oversight taking place, look at the referral letters going from the congressional committees to the i.g.'s for sure. >> one other point. there is a tug of war going on between the executive branch and congress over the i.g.'s. they have a little bit of independence, and they are well situated to play both sides against the middle a little bit. in the fast and furious litigation under the obama -- ich i worked on -- there was a question about whether or not the white house and the justice department giving documents to the inspector general, tha

we are airing on the side of caution before preliminary findings are presented. we are working through the final repair options. it is a very complicated issue from restructuring engineering standpoint. >> do you want to add anything for this commission? >> good morning, commissioners. i am with the tjpa senior construction management. to add to what he has just said, we were also in parallel with the preliminary findings. we have been able to start developing the fix at fremont. it is anticipated that loss will be presented to our board on thursday as well, along with various other analyses to show how much effort has been going in to this project since september 25th. so there's a lot to be presented , hopefully in the next couple of days. >> i don't know what will happen between now and 48 hours from now, but would you like to speculate for the transportation authority and for the public as to when these fixes will be effectuated? >> i can put framework on that to show you there are two paths that will happen. we will talk about the repair. everyone has been f

are we out of the woods? >> i don't think we are. inay has been interesting the last few days because essentially tuesday sidelined, that was not until today. with actually seen it to your break from quite important and technical levels. way.is going to go a long we just think it's a matter of time before you do see inverted. i don't think anything has changed. i think the risk is that we will invert. the bigger question is much talk about, how negative is that? technically, if you do look back over time at what happens, when is a negative for the actual market, what is a negative in terms of recession? it's the negative signal, and that's going to be the slowdown thing we are going to keep a watch out for. vonnie: relatedly, let's talk about the dollar index. obviously, that will have a very large consequences for every other credit to emerging markets. what about momentum, what do you think of the dollar? >> technically is a little bit of a tricky one. the trend is still up for the dollar despite everything that we've seen. so far.

we are working out the final details of making sure the eyes are dotted and peas are crossed are's are dotted and t's crossed. it is good news. build on is som needed for people in farm country -- farm bill done is so needed for people in farm country. sideositives of the senate are that it includes the basic safety net programs that american agriculture accounts on. strong conservation programs. some of the as provisions that i helped write are in this bill, including expansions of broadband in rural america and supporting new as beginning farmers as proposals that i worked on that includes having april health liaison health liaison. health care and health care cost is something we hear over and over as being a key issue. can you explain why things like broadband or health would fit under a farm bill? it touches almost every part of life in america, and certainly in minnesota. rural broadband is more like a utility. if you're not connected, you cannot compete. farmers appreciate this so much. it is a good thing that we have these provisions included in the farm bill. we are authorizin

we are in a different situation. the radar shows the system and where it has gone to southern california bringing the heavy rain. the woolsey fire has burn scars and that is a big problem. look at this. the last 12 hours with clouds are gone and the rain is gone and we are left with beautiful dry conditions and beautiful as you look outside. santa rosa is hitting 60 degrees. oakland is overachieving at 62. san jose at 58. we see warmer temperatures today and the upper 50s and low 60s are expected just about everywhere throughout the bay area. we have a cool night tonight. last night, the communities dropped below freezing. 35 degrees is expected in santa rosa and 39 in morgan hill. clear skies mean that he is escaping with no cloud cover to keep it in. that is what we see. it is beautiful day tonight and cool in the north bay. saturday is gorgeous but sunday could get cloudy with a slight chance of showers. friday 1:00 is gorgeous and saturday, the same story. go outside. cindy has a system tracking and it looks the

are talking --ut are provided in places remote, some of the places that these same services are noteadily provided for. for various reasons, depending on whether there is enough funding available in the states through other means or whether clinics scarcity of that provide these services and also, whether the women can find them affordable. many, many years ago i did visit a planned parenthood clinic and i found them very accommodating. they did not insist on anything. it wasn't for abortion services, but i did not find them to be antagonistic or insisting upon their way in any way. i haven't heard of that. it distresses me to hear people just call up and spew out a bunch of stuff i don't think has it.validity to support a bunch of opinions is i think what it is or maybe it is just rumors. host: you say you have never called in before. why was this an important enough subject for you to call in on? -- we don't know why people make a decision to end a pregnancy. are left in positions in which they might feel they have no choice. financial positions, they might be abandoned why the fa

and to my understanding, we are. i have good reason to believe that we are. i.t.roe: a question on the , when you put this -- i assume you are the project manager in putting the system together -- how is it that you think the id system will work, and the g.i. bill did not? actually another project manager, but i am the liaison between the board and i.t.. this is actually a very different scenario than the g.i. bill. first off, as of this past weekend, we have deployed the solution for all the importance implementing this bill. it is deployed. the caseload work has been incrementally delivered over the last nine months. two things that i know of that they are finishing up next month and i have very good confidence about those. a very important difference in this scenario than the g.i. bill scenario is that in this in the, two criticalng v.a. systems that we have actually had boots on the ground working very hard on long before this bill passed. there were execution teams who were very familiar with the -- and aty funded, so the level of requirements we had to

we are almost to the water table. we are close to being at the bottom of the well. wells arement of the that this is going to be the bottom layer where presumably things may have fallen or dropped when the well was in use. or it could have been used after they were done using it for water, it may have been used as a trash pit. people would throw away things. to us archaeologists, that's what we are looking for. those are the clues to learning out the past. we are very excited. we are going to get down to that layer once we remove this other half. then we will be ready to penetrate down to the bottom. one of the more interesting things about the top of this particular well was that we encountered barrels placed in the top. we think the sequence of events may have been that once they decided that this was no longer going to be used to get water, they filled them with clay, but toward the top, the embedded two wooden barrels. this is a drawing of the sidewall of what the barrel the barrels look like in place. this one was two feet wide and two feet deep. there was a re

some are scalable, some are not. it is reevaluating the program. there are projects underway. it is ones expect aren't underway or what we would need to defer to a future year. >> in regards to you mentioned this does not include the wind fall money we are anticipating. how would we allocate this based porn what we have here? >> as tim said this doesn't include windfall. this was put together before the windfall became appainter. i will bring a recommendation to the board that will recommend the use of those revenues to accelerate the replacement of light rail vehicles. we brought you an furringsal item on that. the customer survey showed where did you weak point was. did you most important thing to do is get out cars out and new cars in sooner. there will be a met cost to doing that. that is what i will be proposing. we will have to go to the board of supervisors to appropriate those funds. they were unexpected. before going to the board of supervisors, we will come back through this board. >> director aiken. >> it struck me we have a vision zero goal of eliminating fatalitie

they are talking to me. they are talking to our viewshes. they are saying we want a diplomatic channel. but do they really -- i don't think they should have it with russia, china and iran. >> given the sanctions, they feel they need to reach out to somebody. maybe it's a way to get our attention. they may not have any other resources to export the oil. but a lot of the oil licenses are being groonltd those countries. the longer it goes, the less chance we have to get paid back. trish: i want to keep talking to them and talking to the vice president rodriguez. and i would like to talk to nicolas maduro himself. i think it's important that u.s. hear from him. and it's important that the american hostages get released. it's part of establishing trust and establishing a relationship. thank you so much. the taking of american hostages, this rampant poverty, this community where you have people left looting for food. food trucks they are looting. these are all problems for venezuela. but the real problem as hans articulated so well for us tonight

you are right. they are going to be still in the region. we are still going to be there. and they did to this visit. i mean, the signing of the maga hat. somebody came on and the analysis was it's a violation of the hatch act. is he signing a maga hat. we know the guys like the hats. they want him to signed hat. he used of the word what is the word he used? suckers. america is no longer suck ires. how dare you call our troops suckers. he wasn't calling the troops suckers. america, part of america first philosophy. we don't need our troops fighting at a disadvantage. it's always the overreaction. i don't think you do it maria harf. >> maria: thank you. i try not to. i think people do. every little thing they blow out of proportion there were legitimate things to criticize on this visit. his language matters. right? >> tom: did the suckers bother you? >> maria: not the worst thing i have heard him say but i didn't like it. i don't like when he is asked are you nerve bus about coming to a war zone he made it about how dangerous he was about the danger? >> lawrence: wasn't th

they are either being leased but we are having problems where the persons are saying, we are putting it on the market but three months down the line it is still being shown as a lease. we still have to keep it on the list for vacant storefronts. >> so in some retail it is hard to lease right now for a lot of reasons. we will not get into that right now. we are just trying to figure out how do you know a bad player to a good player, how are you defining that? >> at this point, what we are doing is if they come up to us and say that we will apply and we will put it on the list, sometimes we update the case and the reason this number is big because a lot of these cases are a yearly thing. where it goes through the list and next year it is up on the list again. because they paid their fees and they are still open for a whole year. i think there is only a few cases where we have one owner having multiple open spaces or open storefronts or vacant storefronts. and now we are working on it and figure out whether it is a good thing to send it to a hearing and preparing those cases for a heari

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