Communicators, it is a look at some of the smaller phone, broadband and video providers and some of the issues they face. We want to introduce you to patricia jo boyers, president of a Company Called boycom vision that is located in Southeast Missouri. Patty boyers, what is it that boycom does . Patricia oh my goodness, peter, thank you for having me. It is an honor to represent my state. Southeast missouri is a predominantly rural area. We are at the foothills of the mountains. It is the mouth of the delta that runs through the Mississippi River and all the lush farmland in the state of arkansas. My husband and i are firstgeneration broadband, cable tv and phone supplier. We serve about five counties right at the cusp of the. Peter you say you serve about five counties. In what way . Patricia we are the broadband, video and phone provider. Peter just like and how many customers do you have . Patricia last check, we had 4,258. Peter can you make money with 4,258 customers in the broadb
Now, kira. We have got 30s on the map. A little frosty to start off this morning. A live look over san jose. You can see the sunrise there and this is what i mean when i talk about how cold the temperatures are. Were in the 30s in san jose. 39, morgan hill. It will get even colder probably within the next hour or so, but heres a look at your microclimate highs for the afternoon. In the 60s and a lot of people were asking me about the rain. Do we have any rain, good news, it is expected to remain dry at least for this weekend and of course people have questions about thanksgiving, whether youre going to be, you know, inside or outside. Likely inside, eating. It looks like we have a pretty decent weather pattern setting up and that will set us up for the lovely start. Heres a closer look at the headlines that ill take a look at during my full forecast. Kira . All right. See you in about 15 minutes. Thanks. At 10 00 tonight, the curfew for the majority of california goes in to effect beca
I think, runs fine on you tube out of all the corona virus cases in the world, one out of every 5 years in the united states. Despite hard lessons in the spring and restrictions over the summer infections, a still rising, new York City Schools are closing today and students will be learning from home. We have to do more to fight back this 2nd wave. So the state has made very clear additional restrictions are coming or putting more stringent measures in place, so we can get schools back up and running soon that we can protect new yorkers across the border. So why use the u. S. An economic powerhouse struggling more than any other country in the world . Total cases in the us of past 11000000 of the 250000 have died. And a growing number of americans are uninsured. Is the fault of outgoing president , donald trump, and can incoming President Joe Biden clean up the mess . A correspondent company in the chinmoy reports is on the border with mexico. But no one is talking about the wall anymo
Mountains, and at the mouth of the delta that went into the Mississippi River and all the lush farmland in arkansas. What we do is husband and i are firstgeneration broadband, cable tv and phone provider. We cover about five counties right at the cusp of the bootheel. Host you say you serve about five counties. In what way . Guest we are broadband, video and the phone provider. Host just like and how many customers do you have . Guest at the last building with 4258. Host can you make money with 4258 customers in the broadband industry . Guest oh, absolutely you can. We have done everything as frugally as possible. We have no middlemen. I have a very shallow bench. I have all first string players. My husband i built this company ourselves so we are first generation providers. We have been in the underground Construction Business for about 18 years and then we have had e opportunity to buy a home in rural Butler County where we were both born and raised and we had no video. We kind of lo
Philanthropy on education. It is to five minutes. 25 minutes. Welcome, everyone. We are so glad to have you here today. Thank you for joining us. We have a real treat today, two leaders of philanthropy talking about their involvement in this unprecedented time. Al gholston and carol, welcome. Im really pleased to have a chance to chat with you. Before we begin, i just wanted say im sorry for the loss of bill gates, senior. I know you and everyone at the foundation is feeling the loss. He was a tremendous man and many of us got a chance to know him in various ways, but probably not as well as you. He was a remarkable human being and a remarkable humanitarian. Thank you. So we are here at this unprecedented moment. Is kind of hard to imagine that we could have as many crises facing us all now. Weve got obviously the health crisis. Weve got the economic crisis. We are going through a reckoning on social justice. Many of us are experiencing climate change. Its only the tip of the iceberg.