And that has been the promise of democracy since 1787 and it is still roll. I intend in pennsylvania to make sure we keep that promise. As you said county top to report results and again these results are coming in more slowly than they have in the past so we have to be patient. But confident that the vote will be counted and counted accurately and they will be counted fully. The delay we are seeing is a sign that the system is working. This is a new system that went into effect with act 77 last year and there are 3 millions mailin ballots being counted. That tax longer than that takes longer than the way we used to with the in person voting. We may not know the results even today but most important thing is we have accurate results. Even if that takes a little longer than we are youve to. Our democracy is being tested in this looks. This is a stress test of the ideals on which this countries founded. The basic rule of one person, one vote, that still carries and has to carry here. Our
The supposed vow of William Randolph hearst to reform spain at the end of the 19th century. This is become over the years an allpurpose media anecdote. Useful in describing any number of media sins and short comings, including the scourge of fake news. Including the scourge of fake news. So what are we talking about here . What are media myths . These are prominent stories about and or by the news media that are widely known and often retold, but which under scrutiny, under examination, dissolve as wildly exaggerated. Media myths. And in a way, media myths are cousins to fake news. We thought of cases of fake news that have mass car aided as accurate for many years media myths. And also they could be thought of sort of the junk food of journalism. The junk food of journalism. Appealing, alluring, delicious, perhaps, but not terribly wholesome and not terribly healthy. The junk food of journalism. Some of the features of media myths, these invariably are pithy tales, suck sink and short
Spreading. Here in the bay area the number of positive tests generally remains below the state average of 5 with the exception of marin county where cases have shot up due in part to an outbreak at san quentin prison. Joining me to discuss the prissituation is dr. Matthew llis joining from san rafael. Marin county is experiencing the largest covid spiking the bay area largely due to the outbreak at the prison. What is being done to manage that contagion . We have seen in the past w weeks a remarkable increase in cases attributed to marin county because that facility isn within our ries. There has been almost 600 cases now at that facility and about 600 if you includstaff. Up until, for the first three months of our outbreak here in marin county we had a total of 1000 cases. You can imagine almost 600 in two weeks drives those case rates lyup dramaticand has established us as having the highes. Incidence they wi we are working with the California Department of corrections to offer consu
Investments ever. Were closing in on new records in the markets, this amid new optimism for that potential china u. S. Trade deal as you saw stocks are set to open higher. And the tech lash heads to the states a major multistate investigation into antitrust practices at google, set to be announced later on this afternoon. David, kick us off on t. Interesting here. In so many ways. 3. 2 billion as you said the stake from elliott, the largest single investment i believe they made at the company, a long letter comes out this morning detailing the reasons why this could be a 60 stock within lets call it three years or so, 2021 is what theyre talking about. 65 or so upside to todays stock price. They believe 5 in dividends and 55 stock price, you could get to 10 earnings per share grower with significant margin improvement, what theyre calling for. And buyback. Something i want to make sure people understand here, it is interesting, people who know the company well, but sort of are vaguely
And now nelson peltz wants to restore the magic at disney that he believes is lost under bob iger. It is super tuesday and while nikki haleys last hope in the 2024 election. It is anything but for investors looking to breakout the election stock playbook. Its tuesday, march 5th, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im frank holland. Lets get you ready for the trading day ahead and kickoff with the check of the u. S. Stock futures. The major averages all fell from the record alltime highs. You see in the red across the board. Nasdaq down more than. 50 . The dow would open 60 points lower. A big part of yesterdays pullback was linked to apple off the 2. 5 decline linked to the 2 billion fine from the eu alleging anticompetitive behavior in the music streaming space. Shares of apple here. Fractional losses doing nothing to top gainers with more than onefifth of the s p trading at fresh 52week highs. Disney, amazon, Jpm