John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Crucial states. Markets are proceeding very cautiously. They are mixed at this hour after the dows 650point monday meltdown. We are only adding to that right now. Getting a little uncomfortably close to lows of the session. We are down 185. The low is a loss of 196 at the moment. You can see the s p is down seven but the nasdaq is holding on to some green here, up 50 points. No surprise, then, that megatech is powering the markets leaders. Could all that change tomorrow, when the top brass from facebook, twitter and google face the music in what is expected to be a contentious capitol hill hearing . Senator roger wicker is the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee. He will tell us what he needs to hear from Mark Zuckerberg, jack dorsey and sandar pichai. And breaking news out of tmobile. Forget telecom and 5g wars. Tmobile Just Launched a dual attack on cable and streaming leaders. Tmobiles ceo is here to unveil his brand new weaponry of offerings that has the stock moving higher a
West wind at 11. Right now a very, very shallow and kind of foggy marine layer that is kind of really stuck at the coast and trying to push into the bay the next couple hours and quickly move back to the coast keeping you in the 60s and 70s and the rest of us in the 80s and 90s this afternoon. Reggie . Thank you. Today we expect to get an update from cal fire to talk about how widespread the glass fire got overnight. Jobina fortson at the live desk with details. Jobina . Reggie. Cal fire will give that update from the Sonoma County fairgrounds at 11 00. Ee wie will stream it on our ma. Yesterday governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency in napa, sonoma and Shasta County for the explosive wildfires burning out of control. This will help direct more resources to the fire fight. Governor newsom said he also sent a letter to President Trump asking for fire assistance grants. Heres where the glass fire is burning right now in napa and sonoma counties. Its scorched more than 36,000
Unprecedented wildfires. Not just in number, but also intensity. I have approved the emergency declaration, as you know. Reporter President Trump met with the governor and cal fire officials to talk about Wildfire Response and also their differing opinions on cause. The president emphasizing forest management, with the governor pushing the discussion towards climate change. When trees fall down, after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry, they become really like a matchstick. The hots are getting hotter, the dries are getting dryer. The drought five plus years, losing 163 Million Trees to that drought, something has happened to the plumbing of the world. Reporter the governor the the president was asked about the state of his relationship with the governor. To that, President Trump responded its very good. Weve had great coordination, great relationship. I know we come from different sides of the planet, but we have a good relationship. A good man. Reporter for
Temperature s cool. Because it is day four and that is one reason why the Weather Service left it up but our inland east bay neighborhoods will still be in the mid to upper 90s as the heat holds on there and that is where the highest risk is going to be this afternoon. Look at this from the exploratorium camera. 53 with fog. You know things are changing when you see that happen. Here is a look at the accuweather 12hour planner and 57 at the coast and still some clouds at noon while the rest of us break out in sunshine and 67 to 88 and only 80 around the bay at 8 00 and not much warming and then 70s and 80s. That evening walk much more comfortable tonight than it was last night. Lets get back to reggie for more news. Mike, thank you. We live in strange times when we get excited about the dmv. But here we are. 46 more offices opening today including eight right here in the bay area. Heres a map showing you where they are. The list includes daly city, pleasanton, santa clara and the oakla