Onjuly 19th, a bug infested update was sent to millions of computers running Microsoft Windows Around The World 7 crashing the systems of organisations from banking, to healthca re, and airlines. According to one estimate the Disaster Cost top us firms more than 5 Billion. Microsoft has announced changes to how it interacts with third Party Security firms. Our Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman looks at the effects of the outage. Thousands of flights grounded. Doctors appointments cancelled. Tv channels falling off air. The It Outage felt Around The World injuly has been described as the worst cyber event in history. Microsoft said around 8. 5 million computers Around The World were disabled after a cyber Security Company called crowdstrike sent out a corrupted Software Update to its nearly 2a,000 customers, many of them huge companies we rely on in our everyday lives. Look atjensen. Are we going to disney . Were going to disneyland right now. Jo and her children were among the thousands a
Now. A very good now thursday morning to you, thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Were starting out with fog in some parts of the bay area. Kari hall is tracking that for us. Kari, i saw a little bit coming in this morning. The visibility cut down in some spots down to zero. Looking good here in downtown san jose and that fog will cause a lot of problems for the morning commute, especially in the north bay and then the sunshine returns this afternoon and there is no rain in the forecast. Lets get to that visibility right now as we look at livermore down to zero and only a quarter mile visibility in novato and half mile visibility in santa rosa. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, that advisory those numbers well show with that camera. The Golden Gate Bridge an easy drive as far as the volume of traffic but the fog advisory from chp as we talk about fog impeding the view of the bridge itself. There goes a
Results. We will get congressional insight all morning long. We will hear from georgia congressman earl buddy and connecticut senator rand paul. Loss of 100 points on dow futures. Markets extending slump from yesterday as more lockdowns and the threat of them offset positive news on vaccines. Its also been a big week for retails, bjs and macys reporting this morning all the numbers as soon as they hit the tape. Working from home may not save you money. Why paying a new tax while working remotely. A little holiday decorating can carry you through some tough times making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen european markets feeling the sting of more lockdowns, red across the board in france, england and germany, all down about 1 . Mixed story in asia overnight with fractional moves there. Kospi and south korea shanghai to the plus side. Cheryl casone has all the news that you need right now, good morning, cheryl. Cheryl good morning to you, dagen. United stat
Statewide restrictions on thanksgiving celebrations. We will show you the exchange. Chaos in the city in the state. Do as i say, not as i do we have been hearing a lot of that and rightly so because there are so many examples of democrats especially very rich democrats breaking the rules they impose on everyone else. Now, we find california Governor Newsom dined with Health Officials and lobbyists, no mask, inches from each other breaking his own rules. Theres the mayor of philadelphia squeezing in Indoor Dining hours before he banned it. Thanksgiving is one week away. How will america handle the lockdown when our leaders do what they please . Thats the same throughout the show. Not that Much Movement in stock prices of this morning with two days of decline taking the dow jones well below the 30000 level. Not Much Movement at this point. There is vaccine news. Phase two of the astrazeneca vaccine trial shows a strong immune response in older people, good news. It uses Different Technol
Had yesterday. Heres a live shot of alcatraz was San Francisco behind it to just a little bit that was behaves there do want point out a little bit up north you might get a stray shower potentially were talking north of Sonoma County. Getting up there. It may drift a little bit to the south you might see some scattered clouds throughout the day but basically want to go with mostly sunny for much of the geography. Chilly 30s up there in the north bay again this morning, although not quite as bad as yesterday 35 up there to napa 36 santa rosa, 37 in 40s fell out much of the rest of the geography of the 37 Half Moon Bay at 11 00am were at 6068 by 2 oclock coming up a little bit were time out what you can expect into early next week marty sounds good dave get to the news this morning. We have the latest for you on the coronavirus pandemic that continues to surge across the country over the past week, the virus has claimed the lives of more than 1000 people a day. The u. S. Has recorded its