Current magical . And, the genetic code of ethics. In our medical technology series, we sit down with the coinventor of crisper to discuss Gene Editing Technologies and the future of fighting disease. But first our top story. Wework has picked nasdaq as the venue for its listing. The startup is making changes to its Corporate Governance to address investor concerns. No member of the cofounders family will sit on the board. At one point wework was valued at 47 billion. Now it is expected to be worth 15 billion. We were joined by the ceo. In new york, jillian has been covering the story for us. Let me start with you. How shocked where you that they are doing this ipo . If you read bloomberg, you shouldnt be shocked. Im losing track of days. This week is crazy, but we broke this week that the company was weighing Corporate Governance changes because tepid demand from investors had caused investors to rethink how they could improve things. Not shocked this morning. The changes were maybe m
the. i am ari melber. i will be joining you now for the next two hours of a special holiday edition of the bee tonight on this friday december 29th. donald trump s criminal trial several looming in 24. that s where we begin tonight, and we ll do it a little different tonight here for the holidays. i have former federal prosecutor joyce vance, already with me to start the show. we are looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with the, joyce, but first show you and every something we put together to consider the historic indictments on the road that donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal of the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsified business records. we have one set of laws in the country that we apply to everyone. this will now be months if not the next year of our lives. the former president was placed under arrest on charges brought by the government he once led. the guy running for president
key piece of the trumpian republican strategy is to stoke the same lies they pushed in 2020. you would think that after charges were brought against a former president at the federal level and against many of his acolytes in five different states, that they might try a different approach. maybe cut it out. instead, four years later the same old dog is relying on the same old tricks. this time the language is getting darker. listen to how trump talked about the election over the weekend. the radical left democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020 and we will not allow them to rake the presidential election in 2024. listen, we don t need votes. we have more votes than anybody has ever had. we need to watch the vote. we need to guard the vote and stop the steal. don t worry about voting. just worry about guarding the vote. stopping the steal, his favorite phrase. is daughter-in-law/rnc cochair seemed to go even further. we are sending a loud and clear message to an
The 60s. But dont get used to it. Changes on sunday. Sal, what do you want to start with . One near the airport. Northbound 101 well start there. Theres a crash and traffic getting up to San Francisco International Airport may be affected as theyve issued a sigalert. Its going to be there for a while. If you dont need to be on 101. Use 280. Southbound 880 at industrial. Theres an injury accident involving a motorcycle. And that one involved no injuries as we look at interstate 880 it looks good heading to the silicon valley. It looks nice or going the other way to downtown oakland. And at the bay bridge, were light compared to where we should be at a fiveminute delay. 6 01, back to the desk. Were getting more information about the shooting in parkland, florida. Authorities have identified the victims and provided new information about the 19year old whos been charged in the shooting. Nikolas cruz has confessed to the shooting. He took an uber ride to the school and was in the building
The transports to record highs again today. Plus the grocery wars are heating up again. This time walmart is making a newing a b decision to go after amaz amazon very interesting a lot of people in new york city are very excited about it. Well explain coming up in a little bit. Good for brooklyn. We start with our top story right now, executives from two scandalridden companies have been meeting facetoface with lawmakers on capitol hill today. Cnbc cnbcs wilfred frost has the highlights of the wells fargo hearing, about millions of unauthorized accounts opened by that company and aditi roy has the latest on the exequifaxs ceo, the attack that compromised the data after more than 145 million milliamericans. Aditi, start us off. Reporter former equifax ceo Richard Smith was grilled for close to three hours by about two dozen lawmakers. As he headed out of the hearing, i asked him about the breach he remained tight lipped eped a walked past our cameras. Gave an eight page remark before he