back into our community, and making sure that all of the businesses that have supported us over the years are here to support us in the future. reporter: time is of the essence, and the time is now. it is essentially critical, we re talking about businesses that for many, work on a month- to-month misses. reporter: economic develop alliance just released a survey of 2000 east bay businesses, predominantly sole proprietorship. overwhelmingly, they say this is the biggest challenge for now. to make the most critical piece of that is reestablishing the connection with customers, hitting orders going, and starting to get back into the flow of things. reporter: overdue rents, bills, hiring people paled by comparison, their small matters but any could end the business. trying to get out of that hole is a daunting proposition for many. reporter: this is really about survival, we will see how it gets in the future, but nobody knows so far. no one knows how may businesses
federal reserve vice chairman speaking in washington to the national association for business economics, saying that the fed is close log monitoring the coronavirus. so maybe a slightly different tone than last week. he said it will be a noticeable impact on china in the first quarter, and that could spill over to the rest of the global economy. too soon to speculation on the size or persistence of those global effects the probability of rate cuts reaching all-time highs for the individual contracts, april, a first duty now at 63%, it is probability of a second customer, and now over to 50% for a third cut in december for the first time, so the majority of position in the mart right for you, sara, going along with a huge decline in the ten-year to all-time lows and the downdraft in the stock market is now for there to be three rate cuts this year from the federal reserve. i know we parse every word from every fed official. is the bottom line here that the fed is maybe s
to be the ceo of at&t someday? i did not set that as an addition until i was 17. you grew up in oklahoma and your family was in agriculture business? the cattle business? where you ever interested in that business? and i started out as animal husbandry majors. and switched to something else. obviously. did you know what an animal husbandry major is? i do. i started out as an animal husbandry major myself. [laughter] but you got a job at southwestern bell. that was the result of the so how of at&t in 1984, did you get a job there? my brother got me on. [laughter] mr. rubenstein: ok. my brother said, i can get you on the phone company, so i went to southwestern bell and started out my first job to hang 19 inch, magnetic tapes on the tape drives. i will go find the tape, push load, and push start, and do that for 12 hours. mr. rubenstein: and that propelled you to stop, right? [laughter] pretty much the foundation of everything i do. my brother is a technician in n
is a u.s. president above the law? the lead starts right now. donald trump s day in court, as his legal team argues by the former president cannot be prosecuted, even if his actions were criminal. site i have skepticism from the judges will not decide how this case proceeds. six days before the crucial contest in iowa. a new cnn poll from another key primary state, chose a candidate gaining ground on the gop front runner. the defense secretary, treated for prostate cancer. the pentagon has been pressed on his hospital status. or the president didn t know one of his top cabinet members was in the hospital, and couldn t do his job. welcome to the lead. on pamela brown, in for jake tapper. getting ready for tomorrow s cnn republican presidential debate. we start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump, in a federal courtroom. lawyers say that he should be immune from facing charges for any alleged crimes that he committed while in office. the three appeals court
right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area , you are taking a live look at the golden gate bridge this morning and it is friday. we made it through the week. it is february 7th. i m michelle griego. and i m kenny choi. happy friday, indeed. let s get a check of that forecast, another chilly one. that s right, we made it to the end of the workweek. happy friday to you. it is a chilly start to the day. also tracking areas of fog. here s a love look with our roof cam tower camera, lit up this morning. oakland, 48. 38 in livermore. 48 san francisco. 44 in san jose. foggy in santa rosa at 38. currently. as we head through the afternoon, we are looking at upper 50s for the coast. low 60s for the bay, and mid to upper 60s inland with plenty of sunshine. but it changes ahead for the weekend. and it is a fairly decent start to your commute this morning. if you are out early, good news to report back no major delays. here s a look at the big map and overview. most of our