Manage to deal with human diversity i fits to improve on that front a reality well mainly lip service thats our topic today on made data we use business magazine whoever and however you off welcome to the program. Companies should be adapting to the realities of an open and Diverse Society however showing tolerance and respect for others in the workplace is perhaps easier said than done firms usually have to adopt a range of strategies to address the issue here t. W. Where an extremely diverse bunch with people from 60 countries working together and over 30 languages and the differences with celebrating go beyond just where we came from as my colleague shock has been finding out. Women and men young and old people of various ethnic backgrounds with different religions and world views different sexual orientations with and without disabilities the dont develop team in berlin is a colorful mix. I wanted to know how does it work at other companies how big a variety is there and how do the
Gavin new issuing the acting security of home secretary of homeland security, all the people, state and local leaders join us today. Were having a separate News Conference a little later on other subjects. I just want to thank everybody. Its been pretty amazing. In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations. Very quickly because we want to get this thing taken care of including fire management, assisting fwrans to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighters and First Responders are combating fires in california, oregon, and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire. An thats the largest fire in california. Thats the big one. Thats the biggest. And we want to thank all of the brave fighters, we want to thank these incredible people, the First Responders, Service Members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, putting their lives in extreme danger. Soon
Second term. The president also receiving , the companytok suing the federal government. Lets talk about how the markets are digesting this. Abigail doolittle running us. Joining us. Apple has been one of the companies driving the rally and apple just notified some employees that they plan to reopen a number of retail scores by the end of august. Walk us through the day. Again, recognize. Hopes about a fast tracking of the vaccine and treatment. Abigail lots of optimism. The s p 500 up for a third day. While it is nice to think that it has some of the do with the fast tracking of the vaccine and plasma therapy, it is interesting that the only major nasdaqo close down, the biotech index. The nasdaq 100, the new york faang index. Course if youof own that stock into the close today, you are eligible for the 41 split which will take place next monday. That does not create any value but it seems that it is somehow more attractive. Certainly attractive, the fact that they plan to reopen some
Listen, i know this market is going crazy after another fabulous day, the dow gaining 378 points i know it gets a little much as it is a 1 record high and Nasdaq Record high there are extreme valuations everywhere i see the mceldercloud stocks ad another incredible rally as few stocks are participating nasdaq is up 26 but a huge chunk of that is facebook, amazon, microsoft and alma bphat that gets the g in the acronym niece stocks are not that expensive if everything goes right for them everything that could go right has gone right the notion that apple supports a 2 trillion valuation is decemb disturbing for many people and there is skepticism that tesla up 390 for the year could be worth more than 375 billion. These are what people talk about. And theyre staggering moves when so many commentators said its absurd that tesla had a big market cap than ford and toyota, even though it makes fewer cars, its bigger than all of them combined everybody that fought them, they have thrown in th
The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First, the usual administrative matters like the theater announcements we use to receive, we are getting used to those, we follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeantatarms consulted with all the right people, we are seated 6 feet apart, that means no room for public or the media here but the media is participating and we hope the public is as well. And the videoconference is a real change for the United States senate and a very welcome one because it makes it possible to attract witnesses who have busy schedules on the same day such as today, by video conference, you may remove your masks since were 6 feet apart. The sergeant at arms, press gallery, architect of the capital, capital police, committee staff, Evan Griffiths for their hard work to keep us safe. We will each have an Opening Statement and we turn to our witnesses we thank for being with us today, each witness we ask you summarize