director daud. >> thank you, i apologize for being late. we haven't had a report for since august, since the end of august, so it has been a busy time. i will just highlight and i will ask mitchell to get up and highlight operation information and at the thofends report i will give a update on what i have learned in the past-since november whatever it was the day after the election, there have been a lot of changes every day. personnel wise we are just finishing up the interviews for the communication manager and dan meketa lieu the graphic artist stepped up to the plate and done a wonderful job. subon o'connor is here today. tia bon is the new member services manager and stepped in in september when we began had open enrollment madness. we filled two 1209 positions those are benefit and analyst technicians as temporary until the list can be certified. we were lucky enough to have two wonderful 1210's join us in open enrollment because as you will hear it is the busiest open enrollment in the last decade. and the overview of the employee en

cnbc's landon daud did i is watching your money. will we hit the magic number today?> reporter: a lot on top. the dow is less than 90 points away from hitting a new milestone, 20,000 after a triple digit rally yesterday. the dow has surged 9% since election day, from about 18,300. it will look to eclipse 20k today as the federal reserve is widely expected to announce it is raising interest rates for the first time this year and signal whether the economy has improved since the election. meanwhile president-elect trump will meet with top tech executives in new york today. the list includes apple ceo tim cook, alphabet's larry paige and cheryl sanberg. they're expected to discuss jobs. ahead of it will in "usa today" pledged big blue will hire 25,000 u.s. workers in the next four years. >>> apple's ear pods are timely on sale after a two-month delay. that's because apple was having trouble getting the wireless ear buds to work. airpods cost $159. don't expect to get them before christmas. shipping time has slipped to four weeks. you'll have to mark that off your list. >