Stronger as well. There was a story this afternoon that the brexit party has decided not to compete in a few more seats. That could help out boris johnson. That is likely to lead to a potential majority for boris johnson, the market is assuming. As a result of which, the pound is going higher. The german tenyear up a little bit today, moving up by a basis point. We are barely moving, to be honest. What we are seeing is a bit of a reversal of what had been a very solid week. Yields have been going down throughout the week when it comes to the bond market. A little caution coming into the trade narrative. Vonnie risk assets rallying. This partially after larry kudlow, white house Economic Advisor, signaled the u. S. And china are booking progress on trade negotiations, saying, we are coming down to the short strokes. We are speaking to them every single day. We are joined by bloomberg trade reporter shawn donnan. Anyone who gets that golf reference realizes the short strokes to the whole
Weve been walking out in space and never all the ladies together. I know. All the ladies but not single. All the ladies ooh. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. Im marcus washington. And im kris sanchez in for laura garcia, and vianey arana is in for kari hall this morning, and at least were not seeing the drizzle. Its not drizzly out for most of the bay area but its cool, though. Look at santa rosa 46, napa 44, down through santa cruz 48 degrees. In through san jose still the 40s and if youre going to be headed now anywhere today, youre probably going to notice well have a little bit of that cloud cover, still going to be breezy around the coastline and concord i want to show this to you. This is typically one of our hotter spots. By 12 00 well be at 68 and get this, only expected to hit the low to mid70s but enjoy it because we have a warmup that may be approaching sooner than you think. Lets head things over to mike. All right vianey, the richmondsan rafael bridge where marc
Impeachment efforts as the white house walks back a stunning admission, aid from ukraine withheld for political reasons. A live report from capitol hill just moments away. Plus when i say union you say power. Union power union power it is day ten of the Santa Clara County workers strike but there is a deal on the table. Coming up in a live report, whats next. Plus the weekend is just around the corner and if youre headed to the beach, beware. High surf warning is in effect right now. When the waters will be safe. Today in the bay continues for you right now. Good morning on this friday. Thanks for sing yr morning here with us. Im marcus washington. And im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. We want to get to vianey arana, because we are talking the weekend and we are talking about the surf danger. We saw the waves start to build last night and right now that High Surf Advisory is in place through tonight. The good news it looks like the waves get much tamer just in time for saturday. Rig
Communicators of tech policy roundtable with three working journalist. We will look ahead to the fall at what the congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to tech policy. Lets introduce our panel beginning with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. We also have ashley gold of the information, and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town in the last couple of months. Do we expect whats going on with that case and we expect further attention to that company . Thank you for having. Great to be. The ftc 5 billion settlement with facebook which was the culmination of this long privacy probe prompted by the Cambridge Analytica data scandal has divided washington. On the one hand, you have republicans and Industry Groups say this by building daughters find because is the largest to come that that in history of te agency really, that it meant facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democra
Whats going on with that case and do we expect further attention to that company . Ms. Levine thank you for having me, it is great to be here. Settlement5 billion with facebook, culminating the cambridge Analytical Data scandal, has divided washington. On one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying the 5 billion fine, because it was the largest in the history of the agency, it met facebook was being held accountable. On the others, you have democrats and consumer and privacy advocates blasting the ftcs track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and how much money it has, this wont deter facebook from bad behavior in the future. Right now in washington, we are in this wait and see mode with facebook. Facebook is still doing damage control to convince skeptics and lawmakers who are, by the way, watching facebooks every move to see if there are any other privacy missteps. Facebook is trying to prove itself to these skeptics and lawmakers. At the sam