Today along with films comfort cautionary measures social distancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking. This podium we hope everything will go well we hope that this mosque can be fruitful we will be in with. It for easter and might see fewer hollywood stars in attendance but one Silver Lining is that the festival has done better in terms of gender parity 8 out of 18 films in competition directed by women. Actress Cate Blanchett leads the jerry. Was to the swinton receives a Lifetime Achievement award the competition runs for 11 days before we find out who will take home the series coveted golden lion. 8 out of 800 films by women directors and im joined by my colleague melissa horrid melissa some pretty impressive gender parity there for venice so finally we might say is there did dare we hope that the golden lion might be taken home by a woman well yes it could well be taken home by a woman couldnt i mean if we think about the comparison with great recent years this is a m
Biological materials to make things like headphones. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us. Across europe borders are closing and businesses are shutting their doors as People Get Ready to wait out the coronavirus pandemic at home italy is still the worst hit country in europe but spain is now also preparing to announce tight new restrictions on Movement Across the nation thats after 1500 new cases were reported in spain just between friday and saturday. Madrid has turned into a ghost town instead of the usual traffic jams motorists have an easy drive through the capital the Regional Government has ordered the closure of bars and Retail Establishment only pharmacies Grocery Stores and newsstands can remain open many residents have fled the city to go to the countryside or the coast those still in madrid are trying to get by as best as they can. No steam we put up with but im not so worried but im still thinking about the situation now we have to be brave and stick togethe
The president s campaign, and any russia relations to it. The commander in chief holding a customs and Border Protection roundtable in this hour, set to begin in just a few minutes. Immigration reform agenda will take center stage at this hour, but you can bet if there is any opportunity for reporters to ask questions, they will ask about that fisa memo, and the concerns that it brings about the fbi and quite frankly about security in this nation. Well bring you the president s comments from the event as soon as we have them. I promise you that. But in the meantime, fear, yeah, you could say its crippling wall street at this now hour. Not entirely. The vix is surging, this is the socalled fear index. That level of 17. 14 is the highest level since august. The higher it goes, the more fears in the markets. Spiking 26 . The dow meanwhile sitting near session lows, shedding 500 points, call it 563. 95 right now and, of course weve got 59 more minutes to turn this around, keep it static or
Nearly 3 hitting 48 a barrel again, first time in two weeks. Well debate whether you should buy oil stocks on this crude comeback. Justice department announcing plans to end the use of private prisons and shares of the two largest private prison operators just getting crushed today on the news understandably. We have the latest details on that story and whether that industry can survive. I mean, the shares down almost 40 . Theyre losing almost half their market value on news just out this afternoon. Exactly. Tesla model s in flames in the test drive in france. Nobody was hurt. Pretty amazing images there. But the news is raising a new round of questions about the cars safety. Well tell you what tesla is saying and impacting the stock. Starting with walmarts earnings. An eye opening beat. Courtney reagan, wow quarter for the Worlds Largest retailer. Yes . Yes. Investors werent sure what to expect from the Worlds Largest retailer and walmart did beat on earnings. Walmarts revenues beat,
Ied a hire whats going on here and in a lot of other institutions, the inner disciplinary approach to things. When we interview younger people they have a very broad set of skills and i think i continue to encourage that to be the case. The intersection between media law and practicing journalism is very important and through wade and a lot of other peoples effort thats an initiative that needs to continue in a significant way. Nowadays people have to understand technology and they have to understand they have to have deep subject matter expertise and i think i would encourage this university and other universities people are trained with depth and not just shallow knowledge thats imagine or active. But limited knowledge of subject matter which is how some people white wash tv reporters. We need more subject matter certain tease and expertise and i think there is a lot more room for that. We can think about subject matter expertise but something that is sort of one of the prerequisites