Asretary burwell, who served hhs secretary during the obama administration. Let me begin with the learning curve you had as president of a you. And what have you learned about a you and Higher Education in general over the last two months . Secretary burwell like everyone dealing with the uncertainty of the covid19 crisis, we have been on a steep learning curve, doing things we have never done at the university. The main thing is our move to Online Learning, and moving off our campuses. Thingsre the two largest , as well as, we are like everyone else, and our staff and faculty are also working from home. Those of the main areas where, like everyone else, we have been asrning and acting nimble, we never expected we could. A lot of learning in terms of how our community can act together, and that was across all parts of our community. And that has been one of the and the samenings, time we have learned things that are challenging, things like online commencement, trying to do more commen
Steeper decline. We will have the first numbers. First contraction in 6 years and also hearing from Federal Reserve jay powell later today. Also another big day for earnings, boeing is in focus this morning, wall street journal reporting reporting thae aircraft maker is facing criminal probe into Quality Control issues on still grounded 737 max fleet. The company also reported looking to raise capital to major bond sale. On tap before the bell this morning, General Electric is out with its earnings along with master card and ensurers anthem and humana, after the numbers attention to microsoft, facebook, tesla, markets are higher, take a look at futures, gain at the start of trading, dow futures right now showing a gain of 180 points, three quarters of 1 . S p is up 25 and nasdaq higher by 93. This after the dow, nasdaq and the s p 500 erased early gains yesterday to actually end lower. Dow industrials were down 32 points at 4 00 oclock on wall street yesterday and nasdaq down 122 and s
Friend. Were watching that very closely. Were keeping close eye on washington. Were focused on capitol hill. The house taking up the stimulus measure, relief measure, whatever you want to call it, to the tune of 484 billion. Now the house physically there, in person, some Wearing Masks to make sure they get this done. Lets get the latest from chad pergram, how this will all sort of fan out. Chad . Reporter hey there, neil. This is the debate. They started 15 minutes ago on this bill, about 324 billion of this goes to Small Businesses. You might recall a couple weeks ago that fund ran dry. The cupboard is bare. The cost of this bill ballooned from 251 billion specifically to Small Business, to 484 billion as you say. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says democrats improved the bill. There is money in here for hospitals and testing. Listen to the speaker. Im very pleased that it was transformed from a bill two weeks ago on the floor where the leader in the senate said, this is it, 250. Were no
6 00 a. M. On the dot, lets check in with steve pretty warm for most of us. It will be later on today. We had a warm day yesterday for some and we will continue that today vessel for sunshine for all and on sunrise here there is a little log on the santa cruz coast but 43 for the more in santa rosa and 49 and then as a so temperatures are running cooler because of lack of cloud cover and some of that fog is going right down the coast north wind, northeast and i think you all know the drill napa airport is 38 but brentwood is 57. 43 in lake port and santa rosa but the north wind and clear skies equal sunshine and warmer temperatures. Look for a chilly cold morning, maybe, compared to the last couple mornings. We had fog but thats not the case now but highs are in the 70s and temperatures are above average by a good five or 10 degrees here. So, we did have something around fremont is that still there is that better . Its been cleared up which is good, and that is gone now and traffic is
We have a little fog but not much going down the coast. Look at travis, 54, vacaville 59 with that north breeze. Theres a good breeze in the hills, 39 degrees for Half Moon Bay, a lot of 40s including santa rosa 42. Temperatures will be above average today, so look for highs in the 70s, and maybe an 80 if that north wind holds. Fairfield got to 79 yesterday so it will be close. Highs all above average for the coast, the bay and inland. Sal, we had an issue and thats cleared now . It has cleared up. One of the things we know is that traffic on days like this clears up. There are crashes that clear up, then the commute just goes back to this. This is 280 in san josi. Normally at this point it would be pretty crowded but right now its not. Northbound 280 there on the right. We have heard the rumblings of reopening. I know any sort of reopening is going to bring back the traffic so enjoy it for a few days. Well see when we get back. This is just a temporary thing. Now back to the desk. We