One of the most effective. You are about mobility of people and not been mobile. Whats the main lesson or surprise or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience and the last eight months or so . We lost about 80 of our business and eight weeks. We its been about a decade building. That was quiten surprising but the thing that may been more surprising is what happenedis next. What happened next is that people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic still had the desire to travel. They didnt want to get on planes, they were not necessary traveling for business. They didnt want to go to my hotel or they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live in that community and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. Theres just this fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, to see the world and i dont think that anything could stop it let alone a pandemic. People have to do it responsibly but there is still a very
Travel, i am glad to welcome the. Eo of airbnb, brian thank you so much for joining us. I have questions about your business in the olden times, in the future times. I want to start with one big picture question about all the enterprises that have an affected by the enterprise, yours has to be most affected. You are about mobility, and people have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get on planes, they were not necessarily traveling for business, they did not want to go to a hotel or crowded tourist district, but they did want to get in a car with a tan
High. It is still heading toward its Third Straight winning streak, up 65 points. S p better by 22. The nasdaq up 148. You could argue that the dow and the s p are hamstrung by some serious weakness in financials, particularly regarding citigroup. That stock is taking a hit right now. Its down about 4. 7 . We are watching all the financials. Goldmans down i believe we also have Morgan Stanley down and some of the other big names. Tempest fugit when unveiling more than a dozen new offerings. Apple time flies event just ended with multiple bangs. We will start with the sizzle but theres a lot of steak here. Lets get with the apple watch to begin with. You got to do the colors, right . This is sort of the lighthearted stuff. Blue, a new blue, a new, i dont know, kind of rose gold watch, theres a bright ferrari red, you can see that right there. Then sticking with the sizzle, they hired an artist who came up with customizable faces for the new sixth generation apple watch face. It is calle
Demands answers and asking the hard questions an independent panel is unveiled to review the World Health Organizations pandemic response. On how much now have all the sports stars continue to tumble at the u. S. Open to attend see the. Crashing out in the 2nd round. Us President Donald Trump appears to have backtracked on his suggestion that people should try to vote twice in the embers election to test the mail in a Voting System them across accuse the president of encouraging people to break the law hes now changed his position saying people should go to polling stations to make sure that their mail in ballots were counted helen fisher reports now from washington d. C. After the president appeared to our 2 supporters in North Carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the White House Briefing room the president does not condone unlawful voting by the president s been very clear about this some once again not surprised the media taking the president out o
Whitehouse leave me alone. [laughter] i am telling you, if we ever clean up plastics in the ocean, it will be because of these two folks in senator leahy and i will be willing coconspirators. I have been told about this a lot, and im astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation. We are going to have a hearing today about some solutions, and we are going to find a way to create some kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know they are doing it at the world bank, but i like the global fund idea where the world comes together under American Leadership to solve a problem. Thank you colleagues, for your leadership. Thank you, mr. Chairman. With all the joking that goes back and forth, it is safe to say that the chairman and i feel very strongly about this. We do want to help. Were inwhitehouse and i vietnam last year. We met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic pollution and had a great meetin