Continents defenses schools were shuttered bill inches were evacuated soldiers battled wildfires the hottest summers in europe in the last 500 years have all come in the last 17 years take a look at the heat map of europe. I know you think thats a joke im not kidding that is the real people have and here is the weather man. This is bad bad this is not the only place in the world succumbing to heat in the home to 1300000000 people has been scorched for more than 37 secular days temperatures reached 48 degrees celsius 118 degrees fahrenheit in new delhi the highest temperature ever recorded in that city in june and the arctic is thawing so fast scientists are losing their measuring tools as i think we all know the Climate Crisis is causing all kinds of side effects not just heat and drought in fact this is the 1st 5 months of 2019 where the weather is january through may period on record for the contiguous us say ive always said americans dont just seem apathetic. About called the Climat
Of a u. S. Trade war, is it a risk to investors . First, to our top story, facebook shares took a hit earlier today after the wall street journal reported Mark Zuckerberg knew about the social networks problematic privacy practices. Facebook uncovered emails in the process of responding to a federal privacy investigation, raising concerns that they would be harmful to the company if they became public. The journal says that is part of the reason why the company salt sought a quick settlement. Here in me in san francisco, our bloomberg tech executive editor, so, tom, explained this to me here. The nuts and bolts here. What is the journal saying that facebook uncovered . Tom they are referring to an email exchange, which, by the way, they have not seen them. We certainly havent. We dont know where they got them. Apparently there was this exchange in 2012, around the time that the ftc was handing down this consent degree punishment about facebook and its privacy practices. At the time, th
The movement against the extradition bill. The chief executive in definitely postponed it, but not withdraw it. Many protesters say it was not enough. They wanted the chief executive to not only apologize, but withdraw the bill. But she says that they will not consider it until at least through the rest of this year. Protest organizers say they are angry and are calling for people to come out. Already, we are seeing families coming out the starting to fill up part of the square. Many of them are carrying white flowers, which some flower vendors are selling around the subway entrances in support of the one protester who did fall to his death late yesterday after climbing scaffolding. There was quite a press conference that we saw yesterday. Thane lam spoke for more one hour. When asked about if she was to resign, she was quite defined on that regard. Defined on that defiant on that regard. Ed absolute stephen absolutely. If she repeatedly asked would resign and she dodged the question a
Firms ceo. And congress probe into big tech kicks off the discussion on how facebook and google are challenging the news industry. We will hear from a top lawmaker who does not think big is necessarily bad. But first, to our top story. Apple has a backup plan if the u. S. China trade war continues to escalate. The companys manufacturing partner says it is able to make all iphones bound for the u. S. Outside of china if necessary. This group now makes most of apples smartphones at its chinese factory. Our bloomberg tech editor joined vonnie quinn with the details. Alistair this is an executive who was talking to investors and other people in taiwan, and our reporter in asia, debbie wu, was there to listen. This is more of a plan. They did not say apple asked foxconn to do this yet, but he was saying they are very capable of doing it. It has raised a lot of questions. We spoke to an analyst over here who looks at the smartphone industry, and he was saying that actualre talking about fina
The sea breeze kept our temperatures cooler yesterday. Yesterday was the coolest day well see so far this week. Today a little bit warmer, but thats going to set us up for even hotter temperatures ahead. We have the High Pressure thats going to start to dry us out today and i did bring down the temperatures just a little bit compared to where it had been yesterday morning because the models right now were trending a little too warm. I brought them down into the upper 70s, concord 82, so as far as the main temperature difference, i would say two to three degrees. Not a huge rise in temperatures but again, by tomorrow and into tuesday, were tracking again that High Pressure, where well be seeing 80s and 90s again. Ill have a look at that of course coming up in 15 minutes. 65 in San Francisco. Right now. So much cooler than it was a week ago. I know. Vianey, thank you. We look forward to that forecast. They paid for their gas, drove off and their cars stopped dead. Several drivers in the