Hear and why do you persist in behaving as a democratic super pac. Were not doing that. And this is why i opened this hearing with calls for more transparency. We realize we need to earn trust more. Rerealize more accountability is needed to show intentions and show the outcomes. One of your researchers warned Senior Executives our algorithms exploit the the brains, more decisivdecisivenes time on the platform, more time on the platform, the Company Makes more money. Does that bother you what its done to politics . Senator, i respectfully disagree with how the systems work. We design our systems to show people the content thats going to be the most meaningful to them, which is not trying to be as divisive as possible. Most of the content on the systems is not political, its things like making sure that you can see when your cousin had her baby or okay. Okay. Im going to move on to google here but im telling you right now thats not what im talking about. The cousins and the babies here.
All in the bay area, low clouds, lots of this mo the afternoon hours, we are watching the fire zone forecast is welcome to the wind picks up, nothing too extreme around time is 50 miles an hour. More of your forecast a few minutes. Standing by right now we have an update on the commute. Reporter good morning, we have traffic that is moving along slowly on some of these commutes at the bay bridge toll plaza for example. You will see its backed up all the way to the main metering lights which are on, this is about a 15 minute delay, nothing unusual about that should be gone by 8 00 unless it is a problem this is the 880, i moved too quickly for me. Here it is, goodnews. If you are leaving the city in fremont, the crash is clear, traffic on the ultimate pass approach is still very heavy. The south a commutes to 80 in san jose and all the other freeways are doing well, lets get back to the headlines. Straight to a developing story, we are following overnight, hundreds of people took part i
Nasdaqs going to be up about 60 at the opening bell. From the low of march 23rd to the close yesterday, the value of all publicly traded companies has gone up 12. 2 trillion. You have never seen anything like that before. Next, tesla. Musk does it again. Grabs the headlines with a five for one stock split. That may bring in more Retail Investors. Doesnt change teslas business, but the stock is up bigtime premarket. A gain of 84 bucks per share. Apple announced a four for one stock split a week ago and apple this morning is leading the big tech rebound. Its up four bucks. Then theres this. The big ten, now the pac12 have canceled their football seasons. Looks grim for the college game. This is a financial story. Colleges will lose billions. That virus changed everything, didnt it . Larry kudlow joins us again later. What does he think of a 12 trillion increase in the value of American Business in less than five months . Hes got something to say about it. Hes on the show. Wednesday, augu
Right this hour, where there is still here one hour left of it. Good to have you with us here for closing bell. Im Contessa Brewer in for sara eisen today. It has been a big year for stocks the dow, the s p, the nasdaq all on pace to close the year higher by more than 20 well tell you which names have seen the biggest gains and with tech up by nearly 50 this year, well have an exclusive interview with Tech Hedge Fund giant, dan niles. Hell give you a peek into his 2020 playbook. Also, we didnt answer bills question lets do it what is your drink . Whatever gets put in front of me great answer. Very good answer, indeed mine might be an Old Fashioned tonight. We shall see but we have to get back to the show lets take a look at whats driving the show 59 minutes left. Were down 40 points on the dow. A little bit of rebalancing as investors get ready for the new year President Trump tweeting today he will sign the phase i deal with china on january 15 and Consumer Confidence data out this mo
It will slowly lift throughout the day and others will get some sun and clouds but 40s and 50s, very mild air mass in place. Cloudy drizzle throughout the day. Rain returns late saturday into sunday. Low 60s including san jose is 61. We are starting in the east bay steve but we are going to try to touch all the commutes. The each bay commute has a little bit of a delay here. You will also see some slow traffic on the east shore freeway. 33 minutes better than yesterday at this time getting out to the bay bridge is backed up for a little bit. Coming up we will touch on the san jose and the south bay commute. Now it is 7 02 pellets go back to the desk been we are working on a couple of developings story. One is in east san jose. Thats where a rescue operation is wrapping up after car ran off the road and into a creek this is the scene on clayton road. It took rescue teams about two hours to bring the driver back up the slope. Based on how far he went out mail slide, for him to be awake a