Amy in philadelphia, a black mother who was attacked with her family in october by a horde of Police Officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia young was driving an suv with her twoyearold son and teenage nephew when officers descended on the vehicle, broke all its windows, assaulted and arrested young, pulled her 16yearold nephew frothe car, and grabbed her child. We will he rickia her own wordand speato her aorney. Then we look at how the ridehailing Companies Uber and lyft scored a major victory against Worker Rights with the passage of proposition 22 in california. Theyre now pushing similar measures in other states. With this passage, this will basicivers like me from protections afforded to most in the state. These companies are promising to roll out this model tionwide. It foretells a grim future for gig workers across the country. Amy we will look at other Ballot Initiatives around the country. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democr
We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who resigned over what he called vein of toxicity running through company culture. Those stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . The barclays bond etf up 8 10 of 1 . Tones of riskoff, uncertainty around the pfizer news. Pretty interesting,
That housing remains a priority, Small Business remains a priority, and that San Francisco really goes back and actually makes due on its promise to include black san franciscans in every part of the Economic Development and the success of the city moving forward. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. That completes the cue. Chairwoman thank you so much. Thanks for the tremendous amount of really knowledgeable and compelling Public Comment. Supervisor mar . Thank you, chair ronan. I also just wanted to thank all of the Africanamerican Community leaders and activists for sharing your powerful comments. And, of course, thank you to supervisor walton, director davis, and mayor breed for your bold and thoughtful leadership on reparations for the Africanamerican Community and reinvestment and full support and equity for the Africanamerican Community looking ahead. So, yeah, i you know, as so many speakers noted, this is long overdue, but im really excited that, you know
Want to make sure we have a robust system of investigating and acting on those complaints. With that, ill wrap it up again with thank you so supervisor safai for calling this hearing. Thank you supervisor preston and thank you ms. Torez and lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 3 . Thank you mr. Chair. We have james from dp checking to see the status of the callers and it looks like we have 10 listeners with eight in queue. James, if you can unmute the first speaker, please. First speaker, please. Hello, thank you all so much for your time today and for your detailed conversation. Im speaking on behalf of the San Francisco chamber of commerce. At the chamber, weve had the pleasure of working with sense and theyre the only Scooter Company pardon me nerring with the chamber of commerce and its a great member of work with as well as the only micro Mobility Company that was nominated as a finalist for business awa
It will beevie says to salesforce what instagram was to facebook. Planning a new set of chips to outperform intel. What it means in the next generation of macs and more. First, u. S. Stocks dropped monday amid a surge in case of covid19. We are expecting to hear more about the Vaccine Distribution as states try to outline the doses, how many they will get, and one. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle with the latest on how it is played out in the markets. Breakdown that and what is to come this week. Abigail an interesting day we have had big gains on positive vaccine news and this week the vaccine will start to be distributed in the u. K. There is some expectation that will happen next week, but we had a bit of a down day in some of the indexes. We had strength is the nasdaq 100 and other techheavy indexes. The nasdaq 100 up a nice day in a row its longest daily winning streak going back to december, 2019. That strength, emily tesla the stock up 7. 1 , continuing to store up till it will be