mr. wilbur ross. ... administration. welcome, everyone and thing you for joining us today for the annual outlook on the 2019 hurricane season. the united states is fortunate to have such dedicated experts at the forecasting offices and at the national hurricane center including the pilots and staff who fly to g. for hurricane hunter aircraft that you see here. the hurricane hunter aircraft will go for 800 hours last year. year. while on the ground, i had the privilege of meeting many of these men and women. they are professionals. they generate heaps of data used to determine storm's intensity and direction. it's not just the center of a biometric low that is measured and analyzed, but the air for thousand on all sides of it including above and see his. professionals worked tirelessly to issue alerts to the public and emergency officials about the potential for hazardous weather. they work even harder during the off-season. they learn from every storm and apply that to future forecasts. i'm proud to note that the predict

mr. wilbur ross. >> i can see how efficient noaa is with their sbrukss and rest of their activities. thank you, neil for those words. and especially thank you for your leadership of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. welcome, everyone. and thank you for joining us today for noaa's annual outlook on the 2019 hurricane season. the united states is fortunate to have such dedicated experts at noaa's forecasting offices and at the national hurricane center, including the pilots and staff who fly the g-4 hurricane hunter aircraft that you see here. noaa's hurricane hunter aircraft were alost for 580 hours last year. while they were on the ground i've had the privilege of meeting many of these men and women. they are consummate professionals. they generate heaps of data used to determine a storm's intensity and direction. it's not just the center of a baro metric low that's measured and analyzed. but the air for thousands of miles on all sides of it, including the sheer above and the seas below. our noaa professionals work tirelessly to issue alerts to the public and emerg

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mr trump's tariffs. no country in the world meets this criteria and wilbur ross has said this measure is, if imposed, means to use currency policies to get vantage of american workers and businesses that this notice, victoria, by the commerce department, says it would defer to the treasury department in determining whether any currencies have been deemed undervalued and it also specifically says the movie is not aimed at any central—bank action that results in currency swings and according to people familiar with the administration's internal deliberations, this move to include the new currency tool has been pushed by mr ross and white house trade advisor peter navarro since the early days of the trump presidency and this latest initiative could also ramp up, victoria, the pressure on china to compromise with the united states on a trade agreement. —— trump. victoria. thank you. now let's brief you on some other business stories. what might be the retaliation? china may have tested its nuclear option in the trade war, we are talking about government bonds, it sold $20 billion worth of us government bonds i

mr. secretary, we appreciate your time today. that is commerce secretary wilbur ross uber television and radio. -- joining us on bloomberg television and radio. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is ok balance of power." in new york, they set a new in the art world. for this art. here to contrast this with a $100 million moan a soul this nae this week. emma: what we are looking at with both of them, certainly -- kcoombs, people say oons, people say this is their best. the price had been set in november with a piece. that is why this particular koons has done well. a lot of his work is controversial, but this one is considered as one of his best works. i shouldn't have to defend the monae. i got to see it. they gave us a bit of a preview ahead of the auction. tad andou talked with you know this area terribly well. is this about the art or keeping someoned trying to find to invest too much money? emma: we don't know the identities of the buyer. we know it was steven mnuchin's father who bid on the koons piece but it was not for himself, it was for s