Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
Come back to me, sir. Reporter u. S. Postal service mail carrier carl bracey was the driver. Police were looking for a stolen white chevy impala with tented windows. The Police Officer believed the suspect was armed. Bracey was driving a white chevy malibu. I never had a gun pulled out on me but to have several guns is devastating to me. Reporter San Rafael Police chief dianna bishop. He made a mistake. This kind of mistake is rare, but it happens. Reporter the person who reported the vehicle stolen didnt know his license plate. Attorney john burris is representing bracey in a lawsuit filed by the police department. He said the officers on dispatch should have found more information who they were looking for before stopping bracey. Very disturbing. All you really had is a black man in a car. Reporter the vehicles tented windows prevented police from seeing braceys ethnicity. We were three quarters of the way through getting you out of the car, it came out there was stickers on the side
Or weeks. And concerns over Election Results uncertainty and rising coronavirus cases worldwide caused stocks to tank today. All three were down 3 . The dow closed at a low not seen since july. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. With less than a week to go, many Bay Area Community groups big and small are mobilizing their communities to get out the vote. Abc News Reporter kris reyes has what is driving them to make sure as many ballots are cast as possible. Its a critical thing for our community to enable people to safely vote in a pandemic and to ensure the democracy has today. Reporter the oakland as are not just talking the talk but lending the coliseum. 10,000 Parking Spaces to be used as an accessible voting site from saturday to election day. Gestures big and small are happening. Grass Roots Organization bay rising action is reaching out to under served community, especially new immigrants. Everybody has face masks on, gloves, sanitizing their hands. There is texting,
Record high today, up more than 17 this year. Check out the big tech names hitting fresh alltime highs in todays session, apple, microsoft, facebook, amazon, netflix all marking new highs. Is this headed straight for a giant iceberg, guy [ laughter ] when you read that, you hesitated reading that this is the bubble in my head literally said should i read this or should i skip over it, titanic tech run headed straight for a giant iceberg. I went with it lets go with the metaphor. I am a fan of leo i know you might find this propostrous but leo is a huge fast money fan we should collectively give a shoutout so i was talking to the great dan nathan earlier today and we were just talking about the move in amazon. Amazon is up 3 today. Amazon has added this month which i think today is the 9th of july. Just this month its added almost a quarter of a trillion dollars to its market cap. I think there are only 22 companies in the s p 500 that have a market cap of a quarter of a trillion dollar
Trillion another half trillion since then is nothing to news at. Especially important week and i know we will get into this later, it is so whether or not they have been trying to build out a effort with iphone sales slowing down not due for the same kind of growth they saw kind of over the past decade wwdc important because of a dust up with a major developer they have been having in the past week not major because of the size of the company. We might be reaching a detaunt in that. And i know youre bringing us a big interview with brian chesky this hour. Thats right, im really excited to be part of this additional west coast coverage and to that point i sat down with brian chesky over the weekend and we talked about the travel rebound, and what the business likes like in this post kovid world take a listen. If there is a shut down or multiple shut downs, if communities are shut down, we will be okay we cut a he looks like dollars in marketing brian was very cautious about this it is a