michelle seitz, russell investment ceo. bloomberg sonali basak, thank you as well. where goldman sachs small business event is taking place. goldman lacqua is with sachs international ceo. francine: thank you. we are in a new building with goldman sachs. let's get on to serious matters, which is trade concerns. our markets too pessimistic or optimistic about what is going on in the world? >> there is a lot of volatility. we saw that yesterday. it is a good question. underlying economic growth continues to be about 2% or thereabouts, essentially on trend. clearly there is a convergence of issues going on right now. some of the data out of the u.s. has not been good. we've seen bad german data. the issueata, .1, .2, around trade, yesterday the airbus and the tariffs, the trade escalation has gone beyond u.s. china and is now u.s. europe. clearly the market pullback. talking about your commitment to europe, are you hiring anyone to expand? richard: wealth management growth is one of our priorities. coverageue to hire people, client facing people. i was in switzerland l

we have had some resistance and i really want to stress and edge fa seitz to those people that in order for us to do our job and to allow cal fire and others to do their job, we need to clear the area so it is safe. it helps us fight the fire rather than worrying about rescuing someone from their home. >> any further questions? >> yes, good question. we do have someone for spanish melissa. raise your hand. she is right here. you can speak one on one with her at the conclusion of this press conference. for the sheriff. >>> so far the current power shut off has not affected our ability to evacuate people. one of the great things the sheriff's office learned from the pars -- if you're just joining us right now fire officials once again updating us on this kincaid fire that burned more than 10,000 acres, 0% con tainment. we have live team coverage on the fight against the fire, the evacuations and conditions crews are dealing with. >> we'll start with kpix 5 katie. we're in front of one of the homes that was destroyed. if you take a look you can see what is left of the kitchen. there is a s

has been leading the emergency operations center, as well as lee wilcox and our city manager, dave seitz, and many foks. our highest priority is continuing to support those residents who have lost power. working with pg&e to get the power back on. and certainly while many of us are frustrated with this turn of events, i would, should emphasize that we should not be taking this out on hard-working pg&e staff who are there in the field right now trying to do all they can to inspect lines and get power back on. i certainly want to thank our residents for their incredible patience and understanding through this time. we received reports about traffic this morning, traffic has never been great on any workday in san jose in recent memory. it was certainly no worse than any typical day here in san jose. and actually we had fewer traffic accidents, i heard, anecdotally. we'll get confirmation. we want to thank resident for their compassion, caution on the road. we hope they'll keep it up this evening if there continue to be outages in particular areas of the city. we discourage folks from drivin

alex seitz-wald, thanks for joining us. thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live. york. hey, pal. >> hey, hallie. good to see you. go nats tonight. craig melvin here at msnbc in new york city. two big domts. behind closed doors, house investigators are hearing what's expected to be explosive testimony from the man who is the first witness to talk to investigators, the man who is on that phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president. the u.s. army and senior white house official says he was so alarmed about what he heard, that he raised his concerns, twice. that bombshell comes as house speaker nancy pelosi takes a major step towards making the inquiry public. she's announced a vote on thursday to formalize the impeachment

alex seitz-wald, thanks for joining us. thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live. right now we'll turn it over to my colleague craig melvin in new york. hey, pal. >> hey, hallie. good to see you. go nats tonight. craig melvin here at msnbc in new york city. two big domts. behind closed doors, house investigators are hearing what's expected to be explosive testimony from the man who is the first witness to talk to investigators, the man who is on that phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president. the u.s. army and senior white house official says he was so alarmed about what he heard, that he raised his concerns, twice. that bombshell comes as house speaker nancy pelosi takes a major step towards making the inquiry public. she's announced a vote on thursday to formalize the impeachment inquiry. i'm going to talk to a top member of the democratic leadership, congressman jim clyburn. he'll join me ahead. >>> fanning the flames in california. firefighters here bracing for more dangerous winds as two major wildfires continue to burn in the northern and

seitz next month the spanish prime minister urged dialogue took a firm line on the supreme court's verdictor you. can blow today exemplary judicial process has concluded but at the same time confirms the sinking of a political project that's failed in its attempt to obtain internal support and international recognition leaving behind pain and confrontation on the fracturing of coexistence in catalonia about the within hours of the sentencing protesters came out onto the streets and gathered here at the main square in the city center they say they are part of what is being called the democratic tsunami but even but if they really want the bus i think what is happening is shameful but i think the conviction is really unfair and i don't understand how this can happen in the 21st century and you were here once again ok for you i'm here because i think the trial has been a complete fraud has been a trial that human rights international organizations have been that was having a lot of regularities i think we have to denounce it and this make a pattern. but not everyone sees it like this the cata