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Speaks out in his 1st video appearance since being discharged from the hospital after being poisoned. The u. S. President downplays coronavirus hospital and returns to the white house but his doctors say hes not out of the woods yet. And in sports. Quarter finals at the french open well number one beating russias caring catching up to stay on course for an. Ok lets start this with a dramatic turn of events in the political turmoil gripping the start after mounting pressure from protesters the Electoral Commission has now a null to the early results of sundays parliamentary vote. Of violence where the demonstrators stormed state buildings there accusing the government of rigging the. Election in its favor the president. Jeenbekov insists hes still in control of the country but the movement against him may be getting stronger the protesters freed the former president back at some bias and other senior officials from jail charles stratfords is our correspondent joining us here on the news
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Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
Regular meeting of the Public Safety services committee. Im rafael mandleman, the chair of this committee, and im joined by our vice chair and supervisor, our clerk is john carroll. As usual, id like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for staffing the meeting and i. T. In lending their support. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I do. Thank you very much, mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, board member and City Employees during the covid19 health emergency, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee will close v. This was pursuant to declarations and directives. Community members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically presentment Public Comment will be available for each item on this agenda. There a Public Comment callin number across your screenful your opportunity to speak and speak during Public Comment speder available via phone by calling 4156550001. Once youre connected and prompted, enter the meeting i. D. Of 146