Alphabet, the stock higher after reporting a quarter that is under way. We have full Team Coverage under way and gene munster is listening in on his phone, and lets start out with deerd deid bossa. Im sorry guys just on the call right now the cfo was just talking and i was listening so intently because she was talking about the Second Quarter and shes seeing some signs of commercial activity recovering and she said it would be too early and too premature to make any kind of conclusion or talk about how durable that may be. Going back to the results the ad revenues were hit and perhaps not to the extent that wall street was expecting and they echoed the comments that cfo made saying that it was a tale of two quarters, strong at the start and then ad revenue declined he also struck an optimistic note saying he had reasons to be confident. Have a listen. Let me just explain that to you. He said he was optimistic because as they saw after the financial crisis in 2008, one of the strongest
good morning. it s 6 o clock, july 19th, this thursday morning. jessica kartalija in for don scott this morning. we have weather and traffic together. let s head over to marty. let s take a look at the doppler. we have cloudy skies over the metro. there s a light shower, it s going to sneak in to columbia s slice of howard county i think maybe over the next hour. any moisture is not a bad thing. the mid 70s on tv hill. 76 is going to be 4 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. 89 at lunch on a way to a high temperature of 93. the mass heat index today 96. watch for a chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms, nothing severe expected. jessica, take it away. sglz thanks. now over to sharon gibala at traffic control. we already have enough problems as it is. three accidents. one of them on the inner loop, another one on the jfx in the northbound direction and a third one still there, 295 southbound at route 100. if you re headed downtown art escape closures are a