This is an entirely remote hearing pursuant to House Resolution and the regulations. As a general rule, i will ask askeral rule, i will that microphones, including those of members and witnesses, be cap muted to avoid background noise. Members are responsible for on muting themselves when they wish to seek recognition. Somebody is not muted right now. Can you check to see if you are muted . Required tobers are leave their cameras on the entire time they are in official proceedings, even if they step away from the camera. Hearing, theremote Committee Chair is officially closed. Members who sit with their devices in the room must wear headphones to avoid feedback, echoes, and distortion resulting from more than one person on the platform sitting in the same room. Use are also expected to social distancing guidelines including the use of masks, gloves, and wiping down the area in the hearing room. Questions, if the witness is also in the hearing room, it would help if you mute while the a
Sitting there for about a week come underneath the strong ridge of high pressure, now making its move. Mostly cloudy skies underneath that, get the low clouds and up above we are starting to get an increase in the haida midlevel clouds, 50s on most of the temperatures. San jose is 50 degrees. Starting tonight. The lows on its way. Not only dry lightning, possible thunderstorms and scattered showers saturday with ray north, i have seen some eye popping amounts of rain forecast in the north. I will focus on that about 10 minutes. There is an onshore breeze for most. That low as it approaches it will pick up the cloud cover will increase. We will see temperatures today starting to slide all back down. 60s and 70s on the thames. Lets go back today no. In minneapolis another night of riots, demonstrators demanding justice for george floyd. An africanamerican man who died in Police Custody on memorial day, suffocating as a Police Officer jammed his neck on floyds neck his knee on floyds neck
Peter this week on the communicators, we want to introduce you to luther lowe, who is the Senior Vice President for Public Policy for a site called yelp. Mr. Lowe, what exactly is yelp, and what do you do . Luther thank you for having me on today, peter. It is a pleasure. Yelp is a website and Popular Consumer application that allows people to connect with great local businesses. It is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gems, at a way for consumers to warn fellow consumers about not so great businesses. Host how many visitors a month to have . Luther depending on how you break it out, there are folks who access it via mobile web, the website, the app, it is north of 100 Million People then we have 200 million reviews that have been submitted. Host how do you make money . Luther yelp is a vertical Search Engine, not unlike google. If i do a search for a dentist in san diego, there are handful of dentists who are paying to basically have
Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec
People to connect with state and local businesses. Its a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gyms and a way for consumers to warn fellow consumers about not serving businesses. Host how many visitors a month did you have . Guest depending on how you want to break it out, theres folks that access it via mobile web, via the website, via the app. Its about, north of 100 Million People and then we had over 200 million reviews that have been submitted. Host how do you make money . Guest not unlike Services Like google, Search Engines, it is a vertical Search Engine, basically if i do a search for a dentist in san diego, there are a handful of dentists who are paying to basically have a sponsored clearly labeled as such link that lives up of the organic search results and, therefore, they get more discovery of the business and more people, or patients coming through their the door. Host you are the senior vp for Public Policy so obviously we ha