Under siege. But front line er doctors still manage to send a message of hope plus, weve got a live one shark tanks mr. Wonderful kevin oleary in the news tank, talking Small Business survival. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. The United States just topped more than 13 million covid cases, according to johns hopkins. Los angeles has just issued a new stayathome order it starts on monday. A full report coming and all of this as the virus has disrupted another american tradition. Black friday, normally one of the busiest shopping days of the year not in covids 2020 in many parts of our nation, thinner lines at stores. Smaller crowds at malls. Many people opting to shop from home instead its a trend accelerated by covid. Shoppers projected to spend as much as 10. 6 billion today. Thats according to the data firm Adobe Analytics and thanksgiving day spending rose by more than 21 compared to the same day last year. Total sp
How to get through this. Its been an extraordinary outcome. One i could have never perceived could happen in march when we were scrambling for ppp loans, the majority of my companies were cash flow negative we shut down retail, until we went through this extraordinary transformation we would have never shut down our headquarters we would have never assumed that we could make a pivot and start selling direct to our customers instead of through retail. Thats exactly what happened and when you sell something direct to a customer, you make almost 100 cents on the dollar versus 0. 50 when you sell through retail thats the reason that theres a massive digital pivot going on, and theres major cost savings also occurring i could have never foreseen this, 15 of my staff including the areas of accounting, logistics and compliance never want to come back to the office. Wow. Theyre raising kids at home in the suburbs, taking care of elderly parents. Another major savings. This is happening to ever
The afternoon. So very comfortable for us especially with dry air. And then back into the 70s by the time we get to 7 00. Well talk about the warmer weekend coming up. And there is a rush going on throughout the bay area to get students the tools they need so they can properly learn from home. Today you will hear more about this from the state superintendent as there is still a Digital Divide in so many communities. Education is one of the areas that were focused on as we try to build a better bay area. And there is some good news because there is something that we can do to help. Julian glover is joining us with more. Reporter yeah, that Digital Divide, the difference between students who do have access to a laptop and those who dont, it is a critical issue and we expect the state of california to be announcing today steps they are taking to close that gap, but there are also things that you can do at home. Well tell you about that in a second. Again, the divide was a major concern in
Riot near the courthouse setting off fires and attempting to break into a police station. This as the president vows to send federal agents to more American Cities. On the brink, millions of americans about to lose their benefits this weekend. The latest on at extra 600 a week lifeline set to expire as Congress Scrambles to make a deal. Triple threat in the tropics. Tropical storm gonzalo expected to become the first hurricane of the season gaining strength in the atlantic. Another possible storm taking aim at the gulf and the third threatening hawaii. Ginger is tracking them all this morning. Kim kardashian west breaking her silence, publicly addressing husband kanye wests bipolar disorder for the first time following his recent troubling behavior. Why shes saying family members are powerless to help him. Lucky to be alive. Help the hiker stranded in Joshua Tree National park in the dangerous summer heat for 40 hours. How his son helped save his life. Hes telling his incredible surviv
How the white house has celebrated the fourth of july through history. Washington journal is next. Good morning. It is Independence Day in america. At the white house later today President Trump will headline a salute to america event involving a flyover the washington on you meant. The head of those festivities ahead of those festivities, we are spending this morning asking viewers how you feel about this country this morning . Are you proud to be an american . If you live in the eastern time zone, call 202 7488000. If you live in the pacific time zone, the number is 202 7488001. You can also send us a text this morning. 202 7488003. Please involve include your name. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now about this question. Asking this question in the wake of a gallup poll last month that found u. S. National pride has fallen to record lows. From that pole, although a majority of adults in the u. S. Say they are either extremely proud or very proud, these