Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Big tech feeling the heat today, executives from facebook, youtube, twitter are testifying on capitol hill. The hearing looking into whether or not social Media Companies are doing enough to battle extremist content. Separately, nbc nightly news featured Silicon Valley insiders, exgoogle employee, calling facebook a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election and doesnt stop there page one of the wall street journal, an argument for why todays tech giants may need one day to be broken up. Joining us, columnist from new york times, and larry hippo good to have you here on a day theres so much. Does it add up to one narrative, eric, or not are these disparate stories . I think the Common Thread is lack of transparency on the part of Tech Companies, they say they do no harm and are good for society, people are realizing products are somewhat addictive, there are some things about the product they dont understand, str
Just 1 these days, 1. 1 higher for the blue chip. Today is a broad based rally compared to yesterday, the s p up 1 as well as the nasdaq and russell. Dom has a rundown we hit the 26,000 mark, a shot of keeping it for the close this time. Remember, it was a year, a little under a year weve seen a 20,000 to 26,000 rally, just 4 between that last big move in 25,000 to 26,000, but still, look at the Drivers Behind it. Theres familiar names we talked about for quite some time with the dow, heavily weighted ones between the 25,000 and 26,000, boeing added 350 points. Caterpillar contributed 90 points, and United Health 66 the biggest weight, General Electric took eight points away, and Goldman Sachs took 36. Between 20,000 and 26,000, similar names. That 6,000 point rally, 1236 points of that was boeing alone. United health group at 323, 3m, 490 points, and the laggard were shares of ibm taking 26 points off, and General Electric at 89. As we talk about 26,000 numbers, these are stocks to wa
I independent isolated act. We are still waiting for the report waiting for a transfer to the another facility. The reality is that mikal henry was not supposed to be in jail. Senior investigative report er. Janelle, as we first reported, Michael James had a history of mental illness. He was well known in the Community Around here, having appeared before Mental Health court on various misdemeanor charges many times. The irony of this case is the fact this he wasnt supposed to be in jail as you just mentioned. He had served his five day jail sentence and was waiting on a bed to open up. He was beaten and killed in his jail cell on his sixth floor early last friday morning. These pictures provided by his family in louisiana show happier times. And this video also shows where michael spent his last moments outside of the santa clara jail. In the courtroom for Mental Health cases before judge steven mandly who specializes in cases such as this and knew him well, sentencing him for five day
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