Promising results from both of them. Later, we are expecting news from astrazeneca, thats a british company. They are going to announce the results of their phase 1 trials of a covid vaccine. Now, positive news on a vaccine usually moves the market. It certainly did last week, and i think its helping futures this morning, too. There is news on a new stimulus plan. The president says he would not approve any plan that did not include a payroll tax cut. All right. Now look at the market. It has turned around. Earlier today we were way on the down side. But now we have moved to the upside i think its on the strength of this vaccine news. The dow held to the 26, 600 level last week. 8,000 points above where it was when President Trump won election. By the way, a new the Washington Post abc news poll showed joe biden with a 15point lead, 5540. This is 106 days before the november vote. We will be talking a lot about election risk on todays program. Then theres this. For the 54th straight da
Treasury secretary digging in his heels on the topic of reopening saying, we cant shut down the economy again, sarah. Gary he cou gary cohn joins us and last month there were more bubbles to come hell join us to weigh in on todays down turn. And the black swan of 020, thats what sequoia labelled the pandemic in march. Well talk to partner roelof botha about how he views the startup landscape right now lets get to the selloff and our team of reporters to break it down mike santoli tracking the plunge Brian Sullivan on energy stocks. Meg terrell covering one big area of the market for the market, the rise in covid19 cases in some states mike, start us off with the broader ugly action that youre seeing in the final hour of trade. There was an easy way to deal with that and hard way we took the hard way a sharp and violent flush, maybe the start of something deeper. I want to point out stops along the way. The easy way is to flatten out the rally and go side ways were below a 5 pullback. T
Right so tight its time to boost your news i. Q. But do privacy advocates have legitimate concerns about this technology and will it spread to other cities potentially across the nation while i am joined by arties Rachel Blevins to discuss more of these details rachel this is pretty shocking what do we know about this program so far right now thats launching in baltimore rise of a Baltimore Police department has started this 6 Month Program to test out this aerial Surveillance Technology that covers 90 percent of the City Employees are saying this could be a great tool to help crack down on criminals but this service is being provided by a private Company Based in ohio and its being funded by a private donor now i had a chance earlier to talk with retired baltimore supervisor dr Michael Wood Jr and he said baltimore likely isnt the only city that is considering this take a listen. Company has quite an orwellian name for assistance surveillance kind of sets the stage for what were talki
Firefighters, our muni drivers, our Health Care Workers. They are essential city workers who are showing up and who are interact aing with the public more so than most others and they have, we know, concerns about their own health. So they cant always n their capacity, practice social distancing. That ier are taking care of us so its important that we take care of them. And one of most basic things that we can do is to ensure that they have access to testing. Now last week, we announced a partnership that would allow our First Responders to get priority testing through a number of health care providers. And here in San Francisco, we know that it has been very frustrating because we have lacked the testing that we need in order to really put people at ease and ensure them that they are safe. This means that so many of our workers are have a lot of uncertainty. And uncertain that theyre exposed and that they have the virus and thats why its important that we do everything we can to ramp
And i say that to the mta as somebody who absolutely believes that the agency was chronically underfunded for many years when it was treated solely as a general fund department. Transportation, both on the operating and capital side, was in the puc days when muni was a puc property, always fell to the bottom of the list. And there have been a number of things that have happened, prop e in 1999, the Charter Amendment that i did in 2007 that brought a significant amounts of fee and fine revenue that used to go into the general fund was diverted to the mta and most recently what the entire board of supervisors put on the ballot and passed proposition d, the tnc tax that is a new source of revenue. And i look at those things, and i realize that fair box recovery is important. And i agree that people who are more affluent should pay for it, and we all know that, and just your slide 7 showed that in almost all of those categories, people of color and lowincome individuals were very large pro