Also stay the same, as well. 41 counties in california are now in the most restrictive purple tier. The vast majority of our students are still in Distance Learning right now. Reporter under the purple tier, any class that resumed in person as of tuesday can continue, but for the majority of California School districts still doing Distance Learning be reopening plans are now on hold, until conditions improve or the school gets a waiver. Primarily this has the largest impact on districts that were putting their plans in place for a return in 2021. Reporter margaret represents 77 teachers from a School District in Contra Costa County, which is doing Distance Learning, but was consider league opening january 22nd. Thats not gonna happen. Reporter the Teachers Union president said the next opportunity to make a decision is in march, and she plans to push for not reopening at all this school year. Thats moving to the purple mix, even a stronger argument that we should not consider going bac
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im john for the with caro quintanilla and Julia Borstin well start with apple, a cost cut for Small Developers josh lipton breaks down the news for us. Here is how the new program is going to work its called the App Store Small Business Program it launches on january 1st and it does represent a big change here. Developers earning up to 1 million during the Previous Year will now be eligible for a commission of 15 on paid apps and inapp purchases, and that is half of apples Standard Commission apple says the new program will impact what it says is the vast majority of developers selling Digital Goods and services on the store. Tim cook saying in a statement the app store has been an engine of Economic Growth like none other, creating millions of new jobs and a pathway to entrepreneurship accessible to anyone with a great idea for investors this change is also important remember, the app store is critical for apple it accounts for an estima
With so many businesses working remotely. One of the biggest work from home names is slack, which has seen a flood of new customers as remote work continues. Shares had been soaring, but got pummeled in the last few days after the Company Reported a miss on feelings expectations. Ceo of us to discuss the slack. This is a pretty big move and one of the biggest selloff of slack shares in particular since you have been a public company. What is your take . It gives the backdrop of a lot of volatility. I definitely think the billings missed you mentioned is important. We were a pretty young company, 6. 5 years old. We are coming into our sophomore year. There is rightfully a lens of skepticism on whether this growth is durable. Happened this quarter is different. We had the pandemic. Record unemployment. New paid 8000 net customers in the quarter. That brings the total to 130,000. 130,000 businesses, they are small and medium businesses around the world. They more accurately reflect the br
Trump and his assault on truth by the Fact Checking staff at the Washington Post. Fact checker column for support in the post back in 2007 and was focused then on the 2008 president ial campaign. The column was revived as a primitive feature in 2011 by Glenn Kessler. And became famous for falsehoods with pinocchios. It was one pinocchio for understanding the fact were for for outright lies. But nothing had quite prepared this truth squatting effort for the sheer scale and brazenness of trumps audacity during the past few years. By the posts latest counts theyve made more than 19000 statements since making office and they havent knew Fact Checking team examines a number of the president s most frequent distortions and most dangerous deceptions. In their book, lecter reporting, provides an essential resource for all of us trying to keep her own eyes on the truth and avoid being blinded by trumps a blatant and repeated disregard for it. Today, Glenn Kessler remains the fact checker editor
Okay, lets talk about that cruise ship, the grand princess, where that Placer County man disembarked from in february but died today. That ship was out again on another cruise, but its now headed back to San Francisco after some of the passengers fell ill. Now Health Officials are investigating whats being called a small cluster of cases. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith joins us live from the cruise terminal in San Francisco with an update on that cruise. Christie . Reporter well, we were out here when the ship last took off from San Francisco, and now it wont even be allowed to dock until everyone on board is tested. Those test kits will be flown out to the ship, and the tests taken to a lab in richmond. February 21st, a cruise on the grand princess left from San Francisco to hawaii. Our cameras were there, and we asked passengers leaving for the 15day cruise if they had any coronavirus concerns following the outbreak on the diamond princess. I had concerns a little bit with it just kept