Coming together. Edward lawrence with the very latest. Reporter thanks for that intro, neil. President donald trump on twitter calling for more Federal Reserve rate cuts to take on china. Also help keep the economic expansion going. The president also saying he expected that drop in the dow this week but also expects ultimately a bounceback. I would have maybe anticipated even more but ultimately it is going go much higher than it ever would have gone. China was like a anchor on us. China was killing us with unfair trade deals. China, what they were doing to us, for years and years, taking hundreds of billions of dollars out, stealing intellectual property, targeting our farmers, all of that ending. Reporter this the price of taking on china now. Add into the drop of the 10year yield, helping the president s case for more rate cuts, falling to a lowest level since october 2016. The trade dispute more than a year old, hotter than ever now. Some experts say this could be a prolonged trad
Defined in many ways by seismology and by these quakes. The quake was so powerful that people in the bay area felt it, especially up in high rises. The shaking triggered elevators to shut down at a condo complex in downtown san jose. People they recorded video of light fixtures swaying, doors opening and shutting and furniture shaking. They told us they felt more of a rocking sensation, rather than a shake. They said it lasted for what seemed like a couple of minutes. A construction worker was installing tile downtown when he felt the ground start to move. I was using the tile saw and it felt like the tile saw was going to tip over. When i went to my partner i said did you feel that . It was more of a rolling feeling, kind of like on a boat or Something Like that. Very scary. It makes us wonder here in Northern California, if it is going to trigger something here. 300 miles north of where it all happens, we have our own looming problems. The biggest Natural Disaster threat facing every
And short form video startup quit be looking to raise another 500 million ahead of next years launch on top of the 1 billion it has already raised. Ceo meg whitman tells us how the servicele streaming will compete. First, major news out of apple. Apples chief designer, jony ive , longtime designer, is leaving the company to form a long time to form his own design company. Ive is responsible for the look of some of the iconic products including the iphone. We got a press release minutes ago from apple. There is a quote from tim cook is a singular figure in the design world and his role in apples revival cannot be overstated from 1988s groundbreaking imac and the iphone. To a certain extent, this is not incredibly surprising. Over the last couple of years, ive has sort of taken a step back from the public eye, from the day today in the design at apple. He was very focused on building apples new headquarters, its circular headquarters in cupertino, california. Cook goes onto to say apple
We recovered . Yes, we are on our way. Our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. Since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. Currently we are at 95 of our precovid hours of operation. In the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our hours. We have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. They are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to San Francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. Can we talk about programs after covid . Absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. We were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. We doubled our level of programming for personal finance, Small Business help, jobs and careers. We have a dedicated Small Business center here at the library. There is a wide suite of pr
Of first 5 of california, jacky wong. Thank you so much for joining us. [applause] she wanted a piece of the action too, so she came all the way down from sacramento, because im really proud of everything we have been doing in San Francisco. It goes back to 2018 when the voters of San Francisco passed proposition c to invest more resources into Early Childhood education and i want to acknowledge someone who isnt here but a leader in the effort and thats former supervisor norman yee, who did a really great job of focusing on child care and making sure we have support and resources. As a result, San Francisco has been able to do some transformative work and im really proud of it. We knew that there was a need to recruit and retain Early Childhooded educators and we have been able to provide increase in salaries with subsidies that lead to over 1600 early educators receiving raises of 12 thousand, which helps us with not only recruitment, it helps with retention. We have been able to doub