I do not consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Aliko dangote is widely known to be the wealthiest man in africa. So is that a title you are proud to have . Or is that one where you get so many people calling you for money that you wish you were not the wealthiest man in africa . Aliko first of all, david, it is great to be here and seeing you today. Well, you know, when they call you the wealthiest person in africa, it comes with a lot of baggage. Of course, there are so many demands. People come up with so many different demands. But it is good because i like to give back to the society. David so right now, you are involved in many philanthropic endeavors. Lets go through some of them before we go to how you made this money. Recently, you had an event in new york
A minute but check your weather. Rain. Rain and a little bit less cloudy. Running a few degrees colder through the north bay. Santa cruz as well 41 degrees. 43 degrees in san jose. 38 in rose. How much cooler are we running compared to the past 4 hou24 ho . Look at pacifica, about 13 degrees cooler than yesterday so what about that rain . Your temperature trend for today will include a lot of cloudiness. Ill take you through the rain time line shortly. Lets check in with mike. Rain time line vianey said that. Traffic time line we have that as well and in fact the time line were getting shorter as far as the drive, if youre paying cash from oakland side, we have fewer cars in the backup and still dont have all the lanes open. We still have that one closed, so of that early commute we talk about the early bhurs we see 5 00 tends to loosen things up a little bit as they open up one more lane and traffic should build though, maybe 7 30 8 00 and things will thin once again. Contra costa cou
Highs will range in the upper 50s to 60s. 58 to 63 degrees. Some rain, not here, up toward portland and seattle, and high clouds into Northern California. Current numbers, chilly as dave mentioned. 30s to the 40s across most areas. San francisco right now, 47 degrees. 7 00 lets check in with allie. Its been a little bit slow for me because there is not a whole lot of traffic to talk about. Lets talk with the south bay commute. The only issue there eastbound 237 west of the north first street ramp there is a hitandrun crash. Luckily no one is injured and traffic overall is pretty light. We see a little bit of slowing in the eastbound direction of 237 closer to millepedes. Ill hone in and tell you about it there. There you go so that will be something you have to look out for in the south bay. Thats the only problem really there. Earlier there was a crash southbound 680 at the pinole bridge. The traffic we saw on 205 and westbound 580 has now cleared. Heres a look at your drive on the Ri
Silicon valley is more about other things of software and services. San Francisco Igm launched the successful ipo creating 125 million. The company is developing antibodies to treat blood thinners. Biotech is not my area of experti expertise. This morning i would like to talk about Genomic Research and i would like to talk about the Positive Side of it. Crisper will let us do this. You are looking at inside the lab of the Company Created by trevor martin. Hes joined by two expert in the field of medic Kristin Brown of bloomberg and aaron broadway. I read that gene sequencing is an equivalent of reading a document and crisper isa process. Is that a reasonable place to start in. Crisper is a tool for programming biology. When you think of our dna is our insides. And this has been possible before. I mean we are all hearing about crisper but it is new and the best and most advance way of doing it. Yes, there has been way to edit this document before. They but suffer from various incidents.
Ceo Dennis Muilenburg is out effectively immediately as they struggle to get the 737 back in the air. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this monday, our Investment Committee today, joe ter nova, brenda is back, the cio of sand hill Global Advisers the end of year rally continuing boy, what a difference a year makes, joe, right . Certainly does. Remember last december . I certainly do. That stunk. It did. Not this time around. Not this time around. 30second record close of 2019 on friday, up 28. 5 yeartodate could have the best yearly performance since 2013 remarkable. We had a liquidity correction this time last year. We had a Federal Reserve that was clearly hostile. Weve seen significant pivots in that record. The earnings picture really hasnt changed in 2019 we know earnings have basically been flat. Where we sit right now looks as though the runway is pretty clear for further price appreciation were now getting participation not just from techno