Service, and brought to you today by your television provider. [background sounds]. Host good evening everyone and we are ready to get started and thank you all for being here here. On behalf of townhall, and technical books, set up in cafe over here in a special guest tonight, i hope everyone in the room will get a chance to visit. And so excited to welcome you tonight are very special doubleheader giving you with you gina chang. And Amir Alexander. I am hoping many of you may be returning to our building the first time after a a few years. We have been remodeling the space and for many more of you, maybe this is the First Time Ever to townhall. Welcome, this is exactly the type of thing that we want to do. Im so pleased that we have these two fantastic authors to present to you tonight. We love all of our lecture programs. All of the political talks, arts programming that we do here. But i am especially happy about this mathematical approach to thinking about the world. Im a reformed
Modeling around the next few weeks and what we are anticipating based on the good work that has been done by millions of californians to bend the curve and what the modeling foretells in terms of the future and how we continue to navigate the shortterm, and some of the strategies and thinking in the medium and long term. I will start by asking doctor galli to come up and share some of this open sourced mobility data that we have been receiving on a daily basis that really tracks the tracks in a very private way the aggregated data around movement wrought the state of california and it gives us a good sense of how effective our stayathome order has been and how to store nearly impactful all of you have been in terms of practicing physical distancing and youll see from the mobility data that is shared with you county by county how that is impacting our larger trendlines and how it is impacting our modeling and very positive ways. It is also a cautionary tale because if we pull back from
The slow areas to start. Well track the trivalley. The Speed Sensors around the rest of the bay are showing a lighter flow of traffic including highway 4 which is at speed. There is a build starting subtly at the bay bridge. Developing on capitolill this morning, House Speaker nancy pelosi announcing a formal impeachment inquiry in to President Trump. The House Speaker accuses mr. Trump of betraying National Security and the integrity of american elections with his conduct. Today in the bays tracie potts live on capitol hill to break down what it all means. Tracie . Hey, laura, good morning. So what it is and what its not. Its not a finding of wrongdoing or even a charge for President Trump, but what it is, is a step forward for democrats in this impeachment journey. It is a formal inquiry now, so everything they do, the hearings, the testimony, the evidence, is now part of a formal process to determine if the president broke the law. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official, lawmak
India the country where gold prices have soared to an all time high it was one of 3 countries to take markets by surprise on wednesday the Indian Central Bank cut its benchmark rate by 35 basis points more than analysts expected. But india wasnt the only surprise for investors Thailand Central Bank unexpectedly lowered rates for the 1st time in 4 years and the reserve bank of new zealand cut the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to one percent the lowest level ever this series of rate cut decisions could be a sign the u. S. China trade war is taking its toll and central bankers are trying very best to avert recessions cutting Interest Rates makes money cheaper to borrow and that generally boosts spending where Economic Activity may be stoli. Some analysts say it may be too early to cut rates despite the Global Economic slowdown as it leaves Central Banks with fewer instruments to spur expansion if economies do take a downturn. But just how rattled are the markets our financial correspo
India the country where gold prices have soared to an all time high it was one of 3 countries to take markets by surprise on wednesday the Indian Central Bank cut its benchmark rate by 35 basis points more than analysts expected. But india wasnt the only surprise for investors Thailand Central Bank unexpectedly lowered rates for the 1st time in 4 years and the reserve bank of new zealand cut the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to one percent the lowest level ever this series of rate cut decisions could be a sign the u. S. China trade war is taking its toll and central bankers are trying their best to avert recessions cutting Interest Rates makes money cheaper to borrow and that generally boosts spending where Economic Activity may be stoli. Some analysts say it may be too early to cut rates despite the Global Economic slowdown as it leaves Central Banks with fewer instruments to spur expansion if the economies do take a downturn. But just how rattled are the markets our financial cor