The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
Epicenter of the pandemic, with more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined apart from china. Phil im phil gayle welcome to the program. U. S. President donald trump has just declared a National Emergency in the united takes over the spread of coronavirus. The move opens up billions of dollars in disaster fundings and gives special powers to health authorities. Pres. Trump to unleash the full power of the federal government in this effort today, i am officially declaring a National Emergency. Two very big words. The action i am taking will open up access to up to 50 billion of very importantly very important and a large amount for states and territories and localities in our shared fight against this disease. Phil lets get more from dw correspondent Stefan Simons in washington. Any big surprises in the president s announcement . Stefan no, not really. We would expect he would declare a National Emergency and he tries to clean up the confusion he left with the add
You can. Its a steamy start, a warmer one, too. 76 degrees right now. Just a few scattered showers to the north. These are quickly coming to an end in the area. Theres a chance well see showers developing this afternoon. Look at the numbers. 70s from allentown, philadelphia and dover. Were headed into the 90s this afternoon. 75 at 6 00. Breaks in the clouds at 9 00 79 agrees and by lunch time well be up to 85 degrees. Then well be watching for those popup showers, a chance of showers, ill go through it hour by hour with the futurecast when im back in ten minutes. Lets see if the roads are moving along nicely. Jessica boyington is watching first alert traffic. We got away with it yesterday, we didnt have the ongoing construction being an active scene on the vine street expressway but were back in bids again this morning. You can actually see, we have Police Activity here on the scene. This is the vine around broad street actually. So were blocking off the eastbound and westbound sides a
Out of the way here. You might expect residual delays with Police Activity on the scene. This is our camera around broad street where we usually are diverting people off right here. On the westbound side were still not having problems or backup. All traffic moving along just fine. As we head out the door, to cheltenham, theres an accident on easton road and royal avenue. Watch out for that. There will be a lane restriction there. As for mass transit, currently no problems or delays there. The area bridges, construction on the Burlington Bristol bridge scheduled until 5 00 a. M. The ben franklin bridge two lanes are blocked heading into philadelphia. The tacony palmyra, no problems so far. Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting and the victim is 6 years old. It happened in grays ferry just before midnight. Police say the boy was playing basketball with other kids in his driveway. Investigators say theres no evidence of the shooting. 5 01 now. Happening today, jury selection be
Frontal boundary at the moment some moisture already starting to fire up. Mostly not hitting the ground, at least within the range of the local view here but it is a sign that the moisture contend continues to build if that is possible, continues to get more saturated in our atmosphere. What that is allowing for is a very very, steamy start to the morning here. We are at 79 degrees, already this is barely up at philly international. We should make an easy run toward 90. We will flirt witt. 69 degrees in mount pocono but eventually there will be showers and storms that come in. Than though we will start with sunshine dont get too used to it. Cloud will rebuild and we will end up with showers or gusty heavy thunderstorm but this is not anywhere near the Severe Weather threat we have seen in the past two tuesday. It is a much nicer forecast down the road here but both today and tomorrow still tracking some storms, for two separate regions and i can promise a decent weekend forecast for no