In its life as a Public Company at least and the biggest u. S. Grocer m a deal ever. And for the purposes of our hour, which normally focus on tech, a nice intersection between an old, Old School Business and a new one. Its amazing. Just from a headline perspective and news that affects people, i cant remember a deal this big i mean, maybe aoltime warner, but you cant eat time warner. Its really a way of bringing things together unlike so many people who are this deal is amazing, i see a number of challenges, potential problems with this deal not necessarily getting consummated, but actually making it work. The logistics operation that you need to run a whole foods is way different from one that you need to distribute using ecommerce if i want cheerios and gatorade, whole foods doesnt sell that so how do you blend the whole foods operation for say produce with the stuff that most people eat yeah, i mean, how do you do all that and be successful while still running whole foods in a way
Getting through as many as we can. Its a jampacked two hours. Why niles shorts amazon on the back of the deal, and former walmart ceo, bill simon, why walmart has more to worry about other than amazon. Bill miller, a bull on the stock, and talking to him about valeant, and alexander accosta reacting to President Trumps comments on cuban policy lets get to it we have details of the amazons deal to buy whole foods and what it means for rivals. Mike, this is a little bit of what it means because ramifications have many, many ripple effects, but the deal to buy whole foods makes it amazons biggest acquisition to date, and one thats royaling grocery and retail stocks. Amazon says it will maintain the whole foods brand with the ceo and cofounder somedaying at the helm, for now. The overlapping is high already, and the stores are are located close to many amazon distribution centers, which is an interesting point the partnership certainly arms whole foods with logistics and data expertise, an
After he had shot mike. Reporter sean says he knew, liked and respected benson louie and wayne chan. Cannot speak enough of how awesome they were and theyre good guys. Reporter as for mike lefiti. Est close to me. He was close to me. And i think its hard to lose all of them but mike was hard to deal with me for me personally. Reporter he knew jimmy, too. I spoke to him tuesday night after work. We joked. We laughed and we went home. Reporter he says there were no visible signs which makes it more confusing and painful. You dont understand, like, how that could happen. Or why those people . Reporter we have heard complaints about tough hours and a challenging culture at u. P. S. Over the past few days. Sean echoes that saying, its a good job. But a stressful one. I hope that if work was a mitigating circumstance to jimmy and thats partially what caused this, that its something that we can all see that we need to change. Reporter coach says he is also dealing with a good amount of surviv
Is hacked for ransom. Tonight case. Good now at 11 00 this bay area broadcast station is hacked for ransom. Tonight the fbi is on the case. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. Lets get live to andria borba who is live outside the kqed offices in San Francisco tonight. What happened . Reporter im told work was very tough here today as i. T. Professionals struggled to regain control of the network. According to a statement from kqed, some computers in the Public Television and Radio Station began acting up last night. In a statement to the San Francisco chronicle, our broadcast operations, tv and radio, were not affected and we have been on the air without interruption. We had an outage on the radio live stream from thursday evening to 9 30 this morning. This was the only issue that affected our services to the public. Inside kqed potrero hill headquarters these handwritten signs were posted near elevators and doors warning Staff Network security issue. Do not use your pc or
Youre about to jump 30 degrees today. Oakland 76. San francisco right now 68. Heres the area under the heat advisory. Its a wide range most of the bay area is under warnings or watches. Inland temperatures, 95 to 105 today. South bay 90 to 100. Big suhr will be in the mid80s. 84 in oakland. Redwood city 91. You can cool off a little bit in pacifica. Head to the coast where you can see the green on the screen. Average temperatures in the upper 60s. Upper 70s for san jose. But today were well above that. 12 to 17 degrees above average, betty . Thank you. An investigation is underway in a deadly shooting involving an east bay officer. It happened at the 2300 block of mansinita way. Few details are available, but officers shot and killed a 37 yearold man. The officer was not injured, but the contra conteras detectives are investigating. Kpix andria borba has the very latest. Reporter radio stations began acting up last night. In a statement to the San Francisco chronicle, our broadcast ope