Hello and welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. Its good to have you with us. The shares of alibaba and 10 cent fell sharply on wednesday. Hit by concerns of a new anti trust legislation by the chinese government. Beijing has published a 1st draft of the monopolistic rules aimed at the countrys tech giants. Well, they are not accused of any wrongdoing. Investors fear that new rules could impact their growth in the future. Alibaba shares were down more than 8 percent on the day. That on the same date announced record turnover from its singles day sales promotion. Beijings actions come on the heels of growing regulatory action elsewhere against tech. The u. S. Justice department suing google for antitrust violations last month and European Commission filing antitrust charges against amazon. On monday. Lets go now to our financial correspondent in frankfurt, chelsey de laney. I do not believe that is jealousy. Maybe we can get chelsea up. Theres jealousy. Good morning, josi
His message, law and order and warns of economic collapse if his opponent, joe biden, wins the presidency. Biden taking a page out of the trump playbook, pushing a med in america plan for jobs. Coming up you, ill be talking with devin nunes on the Ongoing Investigation into spying on the trump 2016 president ial campaign and who could be held accountable. Senate republicans introducing a 300 billion coronavirus stimulus bill, democrats say this skinny plan does not go far enough. Beware, you could be exposing your personal information. Weve got the biggest mistakes you could be making when you get rid of that cell phone or laptop. Plus, reality tv will never be the same, the kardashians 14 year run coming to an end. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning green across the board. Take a look at european indices, the fq100 us up 1 , the dax higher by 134, england moving to curve coronavirus spikes, banning special gatherings social gatherings of more than six m
Personal lives. Nationwide u. S. Now has more than 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases. That is a quarter of all confirmed cases in the world. California is among the five states that account for more than 40 of all u. S. Cases. Back to school today for thousands of students in the oakland unified will district. All virtual for now as the Teachers Union try to reach a deal on how to handle the school year. This is day one of distanced learning. Reporter not a single sound in this high school. You cant tell it is the first kids, today a ghost town. The hallways, cafeteria, classrooms, all empty. The only activity we could find was School Supply pick up. This is a substitute teacher and said it is strange indeed. Ive never seen a first like this, never. The patient. It is all new to all of us. Start of the year is exciting, even if it is crazy and different like this. I am so proud of ementary school the principal popped into a zoom call with the first kindergarten class of the day. Th
In concord and livermore, clearing around the bay, 74 in oakland and 66 for San Francisco. It gets cooler tomorrow and i will have details on that coming up in just a few minutes. Good morning, lets look at the roadways. Metering lights are on. If youre going out the door and plan on taking the dried out of the east bay into the city, you have to be careful about the brake lights. There are no accidents on the upper deck. It is just busy. We have a crash reported just a couple minutes ago. Two cars were here blocking the middle lanes. This is westbound 580 before grand avenue. Traffic is filling where the accident scene is. Also busy, this portion into the Allatoona Pass is 36 minutes westbound from 205 over towards the 680 from tracy. Brake lights are there near mount house and the Golden Gate Bridge is foggy. That is the traffic. Developing this morning, one of californias top Health Officers has abruptly stepped down. That is according to the San Francisco chronicle. Sonja angel was
Scol in waao many already dreading day two. Good evening, i am elizabeth cook. s Juliette Goodrich spoke to students and teachers after the day was done. Empty halls, classrooms, welcome to the first day of school. How did school go for you . Good, it went good. Not so good when we asked mom. Was school ready today . Were they ready on day one . No, absolutely not, they were not ready. We could not find out what wink to get on, we can find out what class to go into, things were just kind of up in the air. Here we are in august and we are acting like the pandemic just hit us Lakisha Young is e director of oakland reach and set up a teaching hub this summer for students. She has a senior in high school. How is she supposed to compete when she wants to go to a Great College if she is taking off her school year with one class. They have been negotiating for more than four weeks of details of online classes and how much daily instruction to provide. Labor and negotiations can be challenging