Deborahears, my wife and i have traveled across the country, especially across the towns, to learn about those parts of the american story. For conversation about future travel, i am glad to welcome the. Eo of airbnb, brian thank you so much for joining us. I have questions about your business in the olden times, in the future times. I want to start with one big picture question about all the enterprises that have an affected by the enterprise, yours has to be most affected. You are about mobility, and people have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get
People have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get on planes, they were not necessarily traveling for business, they did not want to go to a hotel or crowded tourist district, but they did want to get in a car with a tank of gas and go to a community, and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. So i think there is just a fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, the see the world, and i dont think that anything can stop it, let alone a pandemic. Obviously, people have to do it responsibly, but there is still a very strongwil
Travel, i am glad to welcome the. Eo of airbnb, brian thank you so much for joining us. I have questions about your business in the olden times, in the future times. I want to start with one big picture question about all the enterprises that have an affected by the enterprise, yours has to be most affected. You are about mobility, and people have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get on planes, they were not necessarily traveling for business, they did not want to go to a hotel or crowded tourist district, but they did want to get in a car with a tan
With a tough question. Dont mess with me. The House Speaker claps back at reporters at a fiery News Conference when the first votes could be held just ahead. Thousands of cases involving passengers and drivers. Walking wounded. The sharp and shocking new rise in injuries of people texting and walking. And cowboy down. Touchdown, trubisky. The Dallas Cowboys handed their Third Straight loss as the Chicago Bears come up with a big win. Today, friday, december 6th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody, we are coming to you on a busy day with another mass shooting in america. And for the second time in a week its happened at a military base. Its the Naval Air Station in pennsylvania. Pete williams has the latest. Lets get right to him. Pete, what are you hearing this morning . Its all over now but the first calls came at about 6 30 this morning and the facility was put on lock down. The
Interest fact Nestle Waters north america doesnt pay a dime to the communities for the water they struck with they do is hire a company with an existing permit to extract the water like 7 springs Water Company and high springs florida and that Company Obtains the permit nestle pays loads of money to upgrade that companys equipment and sucks up millions of gallons of Natural Spring water and bottles it for mass consumption however aside from the 150. 00 application fee nestle doesnt actually pay for the water theyre taking from the community that means as was noted in an editorial from the Orlando Sentinel at a Editorial Board florida doesnt tax the producer for taking water and doesnt tax the consumer for buying it which makes you wonder hock watchers is mesley cares so much about the converse that conservation of the water they make billions of dollars from why are they willing to pay the communities a reasonable and beneficial amount for said water. Well find out why as we start watc