Public. Deciding that the scrutiny directed toward him had become too much of a distraction. The resiliency of facebook, despite the backlash over big tech. I get that. Im not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have work to do to build trust. What does the future hold as we head into 2020 . A special edition of Halftime Report in San Francisco, begins right now. And we welcome you to 1 market we have a great lineup today were going to be joined exclusively in a little while by snowflake chairman and ceo Frank Slootman as he prepares to take the Company Public in the year ahead. Frederick kerrest, the cofounder of okta, that stock up more than 90 this year were joined by Brad Gerstner who helped us take stock of whats happening in the valley throughout the year. Deirdre bosa is with us, covered the ipo and Venture Capital markets closely as anybody its great to have both of you here so brad, interesting year to say the least. Uber, lyft, they go public wework blows up. What do y
But the underground station has now reopened. And we just learned within the past couple of minutes, that that sint is all clear. It is no that incident is all clear. It is not related to the other two. We are only looking at two incidents at this point. The bbc reporting that one person is dead in the attacks and others injured. Emergency crews and armed Police Rushed to investigate an incident on London Bridge saturday. Witnesses say a white van jumped a curb and mowed down pedestrians. A triage area was set up nearby to treat the injured. Witnesses say they also heard gunfire. Two bangs. And in a video posted on twitter, police were heard telling patrons in a nearby bar to get down. Another Video Showing Police evacuating London Bridge station. Police also used a double decker bus to block access to the popular landmark. And the incident comes two months after a vehicle slammed into a crowd on westminster bridge. Police believe that incident was terror related. Tonight, multiple und
Country. And as kpix 5 shows us, some of the marchers have stories of painful loss. Reporter they march to bring attention who what organizers call an epidemic of gun violence in the u. S. 33,000 people a year are killed by guns. Reporter and the protesters wore orange tshirts matching the Golden Gate Bridge. Walking through a dense fog this morning. Nothing in my life prepared me for my son being murdered. Reporter many came for deeply personal reasons. But this woman says she wanted to honor her son william who was savagely beaten and shot to death in november. I would say as a mother, you know, hug your kids, and you know, when you see them, and let them know that you love them, because you never know when Something Like this is going to happen. The bay areas antigun rally was one of 500 similar events in cities across the country. And inspired by the sandy hook massacre, and organizers say they are taking aim at common sense legislation that they believe would reduce gun violence.
They are missing the point. Microsoft has just confirmed that American Technology rules. The big five have the ideas, the profit and the growth. And, you know, that might be a problem for one of the big five, amazon. There are report that is the government is checking their prices. Are they really discounting . Thats a small scale investigation, but it may be the start of a pushback to the extraordinary power that amazon has acquired. In a moment, the full story on tech and the presidency on brink of a big win or a big fail. The friday edition of Varney Company can is about to begin. Stuart oh, look at the futures. Were down 50 points at the opening bell, 28 and a half minutes from now. Well check that market when it opens. Oh, dear. I told you a moment ago that microsoft reported stellar profits, and so they did. But the stock price is slipping a little after a big runup when the results were first announced. Profit doubled the, the Cloud Business took off, and were going to try to fi
That did not go down well. Senator schumer, all condemned the president. Very few republicans wanted to comment. Speaker y and z be. White supremacy is repulsive. Politically, the president increasingly isolated. Charlottesville has led overdue condemnation of the entire term presidency. Business also backing away. Seven ceos know like the president S Advisory Council plus Union Leader Richard Trumka appeared ceos do not want to be associated with this president see. It classic trump counterpunching style, such has gone on the attack. Jeff bezos earns the Washington Post which is a harsh term critic. There you have it. The most chaotic politics of this presidency so far in a market that ignores it and rallies again. Youve never seen anything like this. Varney company is about to begin. Such you at the group on one side that was bad of was bad in his grip on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. Ill say it right now. You had a group on the other side that