Theres no room for the public, but this is all streaming and there will be an unedited version that anyone can watch later. Our witnesses are participating by Video Conference today and some senators are as well. I would like to Say Something about mass. The office of attending position that he says since were six feet apart, we dont need to wear masks, although some may. I have one and i wear it outside because as dr. Redfield reminded us yesterday, its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee. Sergeant arms, the capitol lice and chun check and Evan Griffith and the people with all their hard work in helping us keep safe and helping us do these conferences by video which everyone has become pretty expert. Senator murray and i will have an opening statement. Well turn to our witness who we thank for being with us today. Each witness if you would summarize your remarks in five minutes, that would leave more time for questions and answ
Anticipated ipos cnbc confirms that doordash and airbnb is expected to release the valuations in the upcoming s1 amendments and particularly door dash seems to be employing a technique that weve seen before from epic in doing this ipo pricing process and also getting quite bate of interest because of the pandemic right with so many more options like a three main options on the table now to go public, its interesting that door dash is forging its own way, elements of the traditional ipo with an auction process. Carl and jon, what is interesting about these two ipos, they were talking about this earlier, i heard leslie say something, benefitting in different ways from the pandemic also the strategy. They went to local smaller markets, particularly doordash going to the suburbs but, carl, you see airbnb, there were not many options to go to hotels or get great lodging in the smaller places thats all people want to do now. The they want to avoid the big cities and go, you know, outside of
I see no hands. Next item. Was the calendar of future meetings . I think it was everything right . Was it difficult . I called everything, yes. Im going to ask that we schedule donte king here present at the Commission Bias is an extremely important topic which addresses the bias in policing. This revision and all the hard work we did Means Nothing if were not willing to address issues of bias, racism and antiblack sentiments within the department. When the allegations came to light back in february 2020, i asked that this matter be agendized so we can speak get directly to mr. King and address these troubling allegations. Our request was made to investigate the allegations. However, thats not d. P. A. s responsibility or their jurisdiction. As the policy making body of the San Francisco Police Department, it is incumbent upon us to find out the truth of the allegations and address them. Last week i did ask to agendize this item. I believe that what was agendized was a report by d. P.
Forecast. We will bring you that interview with the ecb president. And the ax falls again at goldman. The bank prepares to cut jobs for the second time in three months as the focus returned cost cutting. Very good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program. Lots of breaking news to get to. Lets have a look at some of these numbers coming through. Have the numbers coming through from the shipping business which transports 1 5 of the worlds containers so really interesting insight into the way the Global Economy is spinning and the shipping industry in particular. We are getting the numbers through. We already heard from them last night about how they were upgrading their guidance, raising their fullyear guidance so that already sets a positive tone. They said they will initiate a new Share Buyback around 10 billion danish krone. That program will run for 15 months. E will be speaking to the ceo that is the conversation at 7 30 u. K. Time, so in around 25 minutes time. Let me get to some
The us says its hoping to begin a program of vaccinations against cover 19 could begin as early as december, the 11th head of the White House Vaccine Task force. So the plans to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year 2 vaccines are up for approval in december. Both said to be 95 percent effective. Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval. So i would expect maybe on day 2, after approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people who will be immunized across the United States across all states. In all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine. , theres been a surge in new infections across the u. S. , which has now recorded more than 12000000 cases. Hospital admissions have doubled in recent weeks and daily deaths and they are in highs not seen since may. And g. 20 leaders have promised to spend no effort in making sure that vaccines