Twitter and facebook scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce committee on wednesday. Examine whether that content liability shield section 230 is still relevant and needed. This is one of the days in the market, im not sure what is happening in the overall dow matters so much to the tech story. April sl about flat on some promising iphone 12 order lead times. Then if you look it at the nasdaq zoom is up amazon, etsy maybe thats some halloween eagerness. Yeah, a bit of a mixed bag today, jon you have the stay at home names you mentioned. Tech broadly lower weve got that doubleheader again this week. A hearing following by earnings from the Big Tech Companies. And its interesting, looking at facebook and alphabet this month, theyre actually outforemaniou outperforming the big tech names. Alphabet is up 8 . Facebook up 7 again, we see the theme. The pressure is on in terms of antitrust and regulatory scrutiny yet, the stock prices not really reacting those are the two names that h
Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this mornin
Madam secretary, please call the roll. [roll call] clerk madam chair and carrs, you have a quorum directors, you have a quorum. Because we are on soundproducing electronic devices, we will not make this usual presentation. Item 4, discussion whether to invoke the attorneyclient privilege and conduct a closed privilege. Madam chair, it would be appropriate at this time to open the Public Comment line for Public Comment only on the invoking the attorneyclient privilege. Great. Are there members of the public who would like to speak on us going into closed session. Moderator, please let us know. Clerk all right. And for members of the public, the phone number, if you are listening via sfgovtv call 8888086929. The code is 9961164. In order to join the queue for Public Comment, you must press one, zero. Well just pause for a moment to wait for anyone who wishes to address the board only about going into the closed session for matters in the closed session to do so. Great. We cant hear opera
Now on bbc news. Click talks exclusively with legendary uk rapper stormzy about his appearance in the upcoming watch dogs legion videogame. This week. Fact checking the president ial contenders. Stormzy takes us for a ride through a ride on his hometown. And chris takes us for a ride through his kitchen. Welcome to click. I hope youre well. As we head into autumn, the world has some pretty big milestones ahead of us. In the short term, the biggest is the us election. The election of the moment always feels like the biggest yet. But this comes at a time when trust in politics and politicians is at a real low. The final president ial debate has now taken place and the idea, of course, is that these debates should tell voters about the candidates policies, and help them to make an informed decision at the ballot box. But as well as becoming big, mudslinging, shouty arguments, the rallies and debates have also been riddled with untruths. We live in a time when disinformation is dividing us
Any that might be there. Well bring updates when we learn more. Back to the other fire, you can see how close it came to homes as firefighters worked hard to get the fire under control and take a look at this video just how intense the flames were at times. That fire was reported just before noon at the South San Francisco hillside sign. Cornell bernard joins us live with the very latest. Cornell . Reporter dion, so many neighbors breathing a huge sigh of relief that fire got way too close to homes, burning up to a few backdoors. Thats where it happened burning across the famous sign hill. Luckily, firefighters stopped it just in time. It took off in seconds flat. Reporter neighbors living near sign hill in San Francisco had moments to react. A fastmoving fivealarm grass fire took off through trees. I ran down to the end because this hill is full of trees and brush and being city owned and i was concerned there would be fire here and sure enough, there was. Reporter neighbors on ridge