. >> my name is david austin and i'm here to speak on behalf of april scott, principal of the school. i was brought in recently -- >> i'm let you continue and just so we move forward, i've been kind of lenient on letting people go over. i'm going to try to make it tighter on time. because we have about 150 names here of people behind you and keep to your time. thank you. >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. appreciate that. i wanted to speak directly to assisting principal scott. you was brought into helping her during a time when staff members were not availabl available to d what i saw was a lot of chaos and disorder to the site she was been instrumental in trying to shore up and trying to bring unity into the community and classrooms and into our department as a whole. i witnessed a turn-around myself just in a short period in which i've been there. the students, the unity the students have and the way the kids come to me in which i'm pleased and proud about. people speak of diversity but i see it on a daily basis and what i see in her absence is that disorder has come back becaus

. >> david mckenzie, thank you so much. >>> let's go now to austin, texas, where cnn is hosting three back-to-back town halls with three presidential candidates tonight. >> that includes gabbard and buttigieg and john delaney. this used to be about music. how did this festival turn into a political venue? >> reporter: i'm standing in a music venue right now. what was once a music and culture festival here in austin has really been dominated by politics, at least this year. it's been the biggest gathering of 2020 potential candidates or declared candidates to date this year. now, texas is, obviously, an early voting state and an important state in the election but not what this is about. the audience here far more younger and liberal than any audiences these candidates will see in, say, iowa and new hampshire. you're seeing a lot of people highlighting the youth and policy they think will resonate with young voters. there is also a debate going on in these town halls what kind of liberal, what kind of progressive are these candidates? you actually saw a interesting moment yesterday wit

. >> david asked me if he could do this at breakfast one day in austin and i was like, yeah, what the [ bleep ], we're running for senate and we've got, you know, if you want to bring a camera along sometimes, i just didn't think it would be this. >> we had to bleep it out. is he ready for primetime? >> no doubt. we're in a different paradigm right now than we were just say two years ago. you have the likes of beto o'rourke who seems to connect with the younger generation, speaks his mind. take two steps back. if we remember beto o'rourke, wasn't even a choice for the democratic establishment to run here in texas. they didn't want him to run against ted cruz and came out of nowhere and did so well. now they wanted him to run for the senate and decided not to. it's interesting, when he was on stage at that exact time on stage talking about that documentary, his senate campaign sent out an e-mail. not asking for money but what they were asking is to build their list because what they were saying is you should be the first to know, you should be the first to know whether beto o'rourke de

austin. scooters aside, and we live in this microworld of the twitter sphere. there is a bit of momentum. david axelrod tweeting, i've rarely seen a candidate make use of town hall as pete buttigieg tonight. crisp, thoughtful and relatable. he'll be a little less of a long shot tomorrow. >> any time you can get that kind of national tv exposure when you really aren't that well known is a huge asset for a candidate. and we're in this proving ground season where, in a wide open race, and you've got a couple candidates who have big name i.d. or obviously are on top of the polls, but you'll have candidates like mayor pete who can step up. there will be somebody next january/february who we aren't talking about now who is going to be near the front of the pack, i think, and it's just a matter of sort of who that is. when it comes to mayor pete, it does say a lot about what the incentives are in this era. a very talented politician taking a pass on statewide office to go directly from running for mayor to running for president. what's the down side of that? you get great exposure like last night. if

david pulkingham, "mama's worried." texas has been griffin's home for many years, a muhome: the venerable pbs show "austin city limits."d is her 10th studio album, as she's built a faithful following in folk and americana circles. she's won a grammy, and had her songs covered by many leading artists. and she's now reaching several generations of fans. >> i've been told that my sic's been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. weddings i find very surprising. i only have one love song, but they've used it at weddingit >> brown: bunly takes one. >> it only takes one. , that's doing something. those are big moments.op soully it's stirring some things up inside. like billie holiday's voice for me-- i get it now. she goes dp, so you can go with her there. and she's kind of holding you there with her, and it's auge gift. and mine's not exactly like that, but i aspire to that sort of thing. >> brown: in fact, griffin lost her voice for a period during her sickness and feared it might not return. diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, she's now cancer-fre following surgery and radiation. >> one of the things that i've ne

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david: from your description it sounds like power was a big factor. how are you losing cash on power, what went wrong? larry: a couple of things. in the wake of the austine inherited thatgs of customers we are not going to make money. see is put cash out in 2019 and in addition, we are heavily restructuring the business. that is a business that we have seen demand for new gas turbines fall, and we need to reset our cost structure to make sure we are profitable at lower demand levels. put all altogether, the team has worked. the numbers in 2019 will not be pretty. but the team understands and is ready for the challenge. worried about the debt trading situation, because there were some of those ratings that were dependent on casts that are not right anymore. larry: the investors understand that the deleveraging plan is one that is underway. we have announced that the sale of our biofarma oh business. -- biofarma business. up,of our stakes is worth -- $12 12 million. we have resources to help us bring down the leverage on the , and we think we are on a path to see our deleveraging goals through. david: you do not think there will be a rating review? agenci

david's here and he's going to tell us what they're talking about. what's up on "up"? >> yeah, you've been talking a bit about this this morning, the fact that several democrats have been in austin for south by southwest. senator amy klobuchar and senator warren were there as well. what's interesting to me is how those two in particular, alex, were walking into the lion's den of sorts. south by southwest is this focus on tech, and in recent days we've gotten new proposals from both senators about approaching big tech. you have senator warren with her call to look at some of the mergers and acquisitions that we've seen and to change how the online commerce marketplace works. senator klobuchar, on the other hand, saying she thinks we need to focus much more on antitrust going forward. so we're going to dig into their pro proposals and also look at the role technology has played and is going to play in this campaign leading up to the election. of course, a number of other candidates, including kamala harris, who's from california, and senator cory booker, they both relied on silicon valley for fund-raising. they've been quieter on this issue. >> i know you're going to dig into that

david. a lot of pressure on big tech these days some local politicians want to kick them out. some national politicians want to break them up the mayor of austinat way. 'rgotoalk to him coming up on "squawk alley." ande my portfolio. since i added futures, i have access to the oil markets and gold markets. okay. i'm plugged into equities - trade confirmed - and i have global access 24/7. meaning i can do what i need to do, then i can focus on what i want to do. visit learnfuturestoday.com to see what adding futures can do for you. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." i'm dominic chu. stocks are hitting their best levels of the day with every sector in the s&p in positive territory. let's drill down, though, on one of the relative underperformers. that's the utility group that group hitting a fresh record high, though, in today's trading. but as you can see, they're lagging the broader market among the names weighing that sector, you have centerpoint, ppl, and cms energy. all stocks to beat back downtown to you, carl >> shares of aurora surging this morning as the cannabis company announces it's pay pointing longtime activist investor ne