Good afternoon. President elect biden and i just met with some of our nations business and union leaders. Together they represent millions of workers across our country. And some of americas leading technology, auto and retail companies. We had an important conversation about the impact that this pandemic has had on workers. Especially essential workers, frontline workers, who have risked their own health and the health of their families and many whom have given their own lives to keep us safe and keep our economy running. And we all know that this pandemic and this recession have hit communities of color particularly hard. Black americans and latinos are threetimes as likely to contract covid as others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. And last month, the Unemployment Rate for black americans was almost twice the rate of others. And we have also had a conversation about the impact this pandemic has had on our econ
The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at
In his new book christian says if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . Computer science and poetry tackling the ethical and technological. His work has caught the attention of people like elon musk who said his book the human human was his night table reading. It questions whether its a replication of an epitope vias and how can we get a handle on technology before you lose control . He argues although with trained these decisions force eventually humans will need humans. Well be discussing a lot in the next hour and i want to ask your questions but if youre watching live with us please put your questions in the text chat on youtube so i can into end of the conversation today at the thank you brian welcome in thank you for joining us. Its why pleasure. Thank you for having me. This is not your first book of course could i want to ask the opening question and its not the type of question you ask an author bu
Human learning. Hes best known for contributions documented in bestselling book, most human and algorithm to live by. Christian is taking questions such as we continue to rely on systems to solve our problem, what happens when ai becomes a problem. Computer science and poetry, christian has spent career tackling the ethical and technological implication of a society thats become more reliant on technology. The work has caught the attention of Technology Leaders like elon musk who said christians book was night table reading. How can we get a handle on this technology before we lose control . He argues that although we train to make decisions for us, eventually humans will need humans. We will be discussing a lot in the next hour and i want to have your questions too. If youre watching live with us, please put the questions on in youtube so i can work them into the conversation today. Thank you, brian, welcome, thank you for joining us. Its my pleasure, thank you for having me. Great. T
Else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. Parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a Community Driven program. The program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted were here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. Yeah. We partnered with the pavement to Parks Program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot Community Ga