Host and this is the Communicators Program on cspan. If it looks a little bit different in this age of social distancing, and the coronavirus, weve set up in separate studios here at cspan but we are pleased jonathan make on the left is the editor of Communications Daily and he is our guest reporter. And our guest this week is former senator gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters. Senator smith we appreciate your coming into the studio for this interview. Try to always a pleasure, pet. Thank you for having me. Host in this age of coronavirus how has this affected americas broadcasters . Guest in many ways its affected us, but i think perhaps its unfortunate, but it seems that the United States and our citizens become aware of broadcasting indispensable, irreplaceable role in the firmament of American Life when there are natural or other catastrophes and calamities that befall us. Because it is then that the architecture of broadcasting, one so
This is kpix 5 news. Coming up the weekend morning news. Pg e pays up billions of dollars to settle claims from devastating wildfires linked to the utilities equipment. Flu season off to an unusually early start and called more than one dozen deaths. And andy parker recovering after he got run over by an angry customer. It is just about 6 00 a. M. Good morning. I and devin fehely. Lets get started with our weather. You can see most of the bay area is clear of showers with the exception of the north bay on the south bay. Zooming into the north bay where we see the precipitation making its way on shore. Get showers here in the next 15 minutes or so while the Santa Cruz Mountains getting quite a bit of rain potentially making its way to san jose but it will rain its way out. That will change going into the afternoo g n ut here with our live camera. The wind advisory has expired. It will be breezy for the remainder of the morning. Current temperatures mild and mid to upper 50s getting clos
Because stocks may be barely moving but as joe was saying, bonds are moving in a big way. 10 year yield and treasury note back to october. While stocks are drifting on these record highs, we have a big rally for bonds. , a big bond bull says if it goes beyond this trendline in yellow, you would continue to see bonds selloff. Bondecent pullback for yields, it is right on that line. Stillnow, this chart may point to a move higher for yields. Mike who says there is no yield left to be found anywhere . Check out this Exchange Traded fund, an etf that tracks limited partnerships in the energy spaces. It has really gotten hammered since its high. Caused the yield to jump above 10 for the First Time Since 2019. Reducedan etf that has payouts pretty significantly, almost 9 over the past three years. Still, that double digit yield proves to be a good entry point. Hit int time it was 2018. The caveat in 2017, when oil prices dipped. The yield was above 20 . Taylor, obviously, whether this 10 yie
Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Reporter maryland congresswoman Elijah Cummings has passed away. Cummings was 68 years old. The nation loses a tighten of civil rights. There are those who seek to dominate our nation by dividing us. I remind you that our diversity is not our problem, our diversity is our promise. Reporter democrats stormed out of the white house meeting on syria. They accused President Trump of having a meltdown. We have to pray for his health. This is a serious meltdown. Reporter democratic and republican lawmakers in the house voted to condemn President Trumps withdrawal in northern syria. I view the situation to be very the United States strategically brilliant. A nasty noreaster packing drenching downpours and raging winds flooded streets and knocked out power to tens of thousands. Its been crazy. Like noahs ark. Reporter General Motors and the uaw reached a proposed tentative agreement. Could this end the monthlong strike. Reporter a utah trooper
Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common