California is progressive stance on issues from Climate Change to immigration has long come to appear to my eyes political opposition to president on trump in return to trace the states as dominated by liberal elites absent touch with the u. S. Heartland so what does this picture raji logical battle reveal about the choices facing americans in the coming president ial election earlier this year the 1st of 2 special reports of apes house went to find out. California has natural and manmade wonders hollywood Silicon Valley agricultural bounty and the 5th largest economy in the world it leads the u. S. In combating Climate Change and with 40000000 people is the most populous and diverse state but none of that seems to impress americas President Donald Trump very much the place is totally out of control you have sanctuary cities where you have criminals living on the taxes are way way out of whack and. People are stuck to move pretty sure for the president attacking california makes perfec
Were going to hear updates from the Controllers Office, Public Integrity assessment process and from the City Attorneys investigations and reports. On monday, the office of the controller released their first Public Integrity review report, focused on contracting procedures that the department of public works, in that report and its findings are the focus of this hearing. There are a myriad, concurrent investigations connected to the scandal. Both locally and federally. Our focus today is not on criminal charge or the fbis work specifically. Our focus here is less on individual bad actors and more on the systems and structures that enabled and empowered them to commit bad acts. And failed to provide oversight, accountability and transparency. And today were looking at public works. How the behavior in the complaints and the structures that allowed them to allowed for them to demonstrate the need for structural reform to preempt and prevent the potential for criminal and unethical actio
Demonstrations in berlin thousands of people take to the streets against racism and for gay pride. And gold goal or on the Business Leaders final match to his teams fighting for survival and for Champions League qualification we have the highlights and analysis of the least last game. Welcome to the program. More than 6000000000 euros more to help Vulnerable Countries battle the coronavirus pandemic the money is being raised at a summit organized by the European Union and Interview International aid Group Global Citizen the goal is to make potential vaccines tests and treatments affordable and accessible worldwide. Is was a slick to tell production as much a symbolic show of Global Solidarity as an initiative to gather puns to fight companies 19. The task of this size can only happen if the unites. 19 threatens not just people. But our common humanity. No one is safe until everyone is safe to me most help people in developing countries to cope with the impacts of this pandemic. Sunday
Juniors bakery took a ppp loan at the beginning of the pandemic now the company has been laying off its workers. All 650 workers. Some have come back. Well take a look what the they have done with the money the owner will be back with us a little bit later today on power lunch which starts right now. Thank you, bill. Welcome. The s p hitsi inhitting its hig level. Lets get to bob with more on those market moves for us. Bob. Kelly, five straight up days for the s p 500 and Global Markets are rallying as well we had a terrific opening. Once again were falling back on the usual. The big megacap names. You know those names im talking about new highs for amazon, apple, microsoft, netflix as well. Were seeing a notable rally over seas in china and china related stocks in the United States doing well. Were seeing new highs, for example in alibaba, Shanghai Exchange at a twoyear high as officials over there literally trying to jawbone the markets higher they seem to be succeeding in the short
Investigation and analysis that needs to be done on these topics . Were learning more information every day, supervisor. Thats the important of the tip line as well as the Public Integrity tip line, and our report will give you a breakdown of the large departments, so happy to talk to you about that as soon as we publish it. Supervisor haney are there specific topics that you identified in this report or more broadly that your office has identified as a need for a lot further investigation . And with that, what are the next steps for your office . I mean, one of the concerns that i have and i understand that we have, you know, recently been through a pandemic, and im sure you all are being pulled in all sorts of different directions. But it has been, i guess, about five months since this process first started, and theres a lot more that needs to be investigated and analyzed and reported on. What are the next steps for your office, and what topics are you going to be working on . How ca