Disproportionately are the ones testing positive in the state of california. Governor went on to say shelter at home will continue to be guarded for the next six to eight weeks. In the past 30 minutes we learned San Francisco recorded its first death a man in his 40s with significant Underlying Health conditions. And we learned a San Francisco Police Sergeant did test positive for covid19. The Department Says officers who worked along side him are now in self quarantine. And some of the numbers weesk been working with from china to italy with the rate doubling every week. Across the bay area there are nearly 1,000 cases as of this hour, reported cases. Making it in the bay. Thats tripthal amount we had this time last week. 358. Our skyhigh rent is still relatively sky high. So, in a matter of a week we tripled. But since the pandemic prices are coming down a bit. State wide more than 2100 cases. Rent is dropping. Take a look at the numbers. The majority of them in the 18 to 49 range. A
Couldnt put it down it was interesting. If you havent read it after this evening im sure you will try to get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to try to read it. Its fascinating, very wellwritten and researched. There is a narrative flow to it and its very troubling i have to say that that is the perk of the book i think. I would like to announce that our events in two days with ambassador dennis ross is unable to come to College Station and the family emergency. Kim ghattas is an Emmy Awardwinning journalist and writer thaawriter that covered e east for bbc in the financial times. She reported from iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon and the war between israel and hezbollah earning an emmy for International News coverage. On the state department and american politics regularly traveling with secretary of state including Condoleezza Rice cominrice, elderly clinton and n kerry, and is currently a non resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in
Mixed bag. The dax is down almost 0. 5 . The carmakers dragging on the dax. The ftse 100 is a different story, up 0. 3 . Some individual Companies Making gains. The british pounds giving back more of the gains of the week, 1. 3075. Pearson up after giving up the Penguin Random house it owns. Lets get to more with luke kawa, Bloomberg Cross asset reporter. It seems like this market is more and more moving on individual Company Names and less on a trade resolution or British Election resolution. Luke definitely. Weve taken a step back from the macro. That we are not really looking ahead to anything. We are just kind of in stall right now, waiting for the rest of the year to play out. Yesterday we tied for the smallest range in s p 500 futures of the year. We are getting a sense that last week was all of the big risk, and no we are winding down. Can year yield climbing higher could be the story of the year as we close it out for one more macro perspective. Vonnie we only have a few more s
The house floor. Watch live coverage of house rules, tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch online or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Next, former chicago mayor rahm emanuel and amazon Senior Vice President talk about Workforce Development issues. From the annual wall street journal ceo council meeting, this is 30 minutes. Rahm emanuel was the mayor of chicago between 2011 and 2019, also former white house chief of staff. They will be interviewed by my colleague who see at her editor live journalism as the wall street journal. Please welcome them. [applause] to do a couple of case studies and we have a short amount of time. Quickly, lets bring everybody up to speed. First, most people here, the headlines about the 700 mu dollars amazon plans to spend in the next few years. Give us a quick overview on how that works. 700 million, 100 thousand workers over the next six years. Its an aggregation of different upscaling programs. Our frontline workers, we give them a pro
Staff. Beths colletti is the Senior Vice President for worldwide Human Resources at amazon. They are going to be interviewed by nikki waller from the wall street journal. Please welcome them. [applause] we are going to do some case studies, and we have a short amount of time. Quickly, lets bring everybody up to speed. First, beth, everybody here caught the headlines about the 7 million amazon plans to spend to upscale workers. To us a quick overview. Facts,ou got the basic 700 million, 100,000 workers over the next six years. Aggregation of a series of different upscaling programs, starting with Fulfillment Center workers. Our frontline workers where we give them a program where they prepay even before they start their classes, 90 of tuition and books so that they can learn skills in things like medical things that will train them for jobs outside of amazon purity is a unique program because we realize that amazon may be one step in their career path. In addition, we have programs like