Tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. You can also watch all the past programs anytime at booktv. Org. Good afternoon everyone and if youve been with us the previous sessions,welcome back but if youre joining us for the first time , please welcome to North University 20 20 military writers symposium on weapon icing agent tactics with new implications. Id like to welcome you to our campus in our beautiful state and the only regret we have is that youre not able to be with us or in person to enjoy vermont university. Im author travis noris and i have the privilege of being a military symposium executive director and also director of the houston war center and also for everyone this issue is part of a program with george Universities Center for global resilience and security which is part of a larger initiative, the Environmental Security initiative. Where thrilled you are joining us today for a special presentation to award Adam Higginbotham that 20 20 military
Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
Welcome in to squawk alley. Dow down for a fourth day in a row. Have not seen that since february, but the dow repaired some ofthe internal damage the s p went green the nasdaq getting helped once again by a tech trade that seems almost impossible to kill. Even with invidia and the expectations last night. Yeah, in the green at the moment well see where that goes. Were going to start with some controversial ipo paperwork. It was the ipo that was and wasnt, now it is on again it company was one of the most widely anticipated listings of the area then travel grounded to a halt and with it airbnb bookings. Revenue started to rebound by june and july bookings returns to prepandemic levels. This could be a pandemic come back story, but much still has to be written. The main question will be whether or not investors give the startup a pass for this year air bnb had the record to even out profitability and enough cash on hand at one point to consider a direct listing. As losses have widened t
Many people. Tencent is one of the most active investors in the world. More than 450 investments under the companys umbrella and that is more than the number in softbanks universe and includes names like tesla, snap and epic. Thirdly, american businesses operating in china, like mcdonalds and starbucks, they rely on the wechat app for their operations so being cut off could jeopardize their business there. There are so many questions still outstanding but its really hard to understate the importance the daily role of wechat for chinese internet users. Its called a superapp people use it for everything from messaging and booking a doctors appointment and we dont have an equivalent here. Tik tok is popular in the u. S. Its looking at a sale to microsoft so it could get around that ban there is no such option for wechat, carl weve tried to explain to investors just how important it is on the other side of the world. Lets bring in global head of Technology Investment strategy at deutsche.
Economies the truth is many experts dont believe that will fully happen until there is a working vaccine but there is some promising news out of Oxford University in the United Kingdom according to a report in the New York Times scientists at the University Jenner Institute are ready to move forward with trials of an inoculation tested against previous versions of the crown of virus which were harmless to humans researchers at the National Institutes for health Rocky Mountain laboratory in montana tested the oxford vaccine on 6 monkeys now the animals were given a single dose and exposed to the current corona virus and after 4 weeks the monkeys are all healthy while other monkeys which were not inoculated and exposed to the corona virus did get sick speaking with the Economic Club of washington d. C. The United States top Infectious Disease specialist dr anthony said he was cautiously optimistic about these tests and spoke about the broader process of developing vaccines. There are goi