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
Coronavirus death toll after the us despite this restrictions are being east well go live to a correspondent in Rio De Janeiro to see how people there are reacting. In sports for a minute as making a late rush hoping to stay in the bundesliga for another season after a 5 star performance against potter brought. A 1000000 blue cross thanks for joining a day of street protests around the world are keeping the focus on Structural Racism across the society s. Grief and frustration sparked by the death of george floyd a black man who died under the knee of a white Police Officer in the u. S. City of minneapolis in may was met by far right groups out to protect monuments that they see as part of their national identity. Police had warned everyone to stay home the threat of spreading the coronavirus was too great but in the air at Trafalgar Square smoke bombs in tear gas bottles and rocks were the main concern as police try to keep antiracism protests separated from counter protests nearly ev
An islamist attack killed 12 people out of berlin Christmas Market opposition politicians in germany say authorities still have plenty of questions to ask. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the u. S. House of representatives has voted to impeach u. S. President donald trump on 2 charges stemming from his alleged attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden now both votes fell along party lines almost all democrats voted for the charges republicans voting unanimously against them but this doesnt mean that President Trump will be removed from office the process now heads on to the senate where hes likely to be acquitted by its republican majority. After hours of debating the 1st article of impeachment for abuse of power past the hives. On this vote the yeas are 230 the nasal 197 present is one. Article one is adopted and just minutes later the 2nd article for obstruction of Congress Went as planned for the democrats on this vote the yeas are 229 th
Livingstone, Deputy Director in our Global Energy center where i need to work on climate and advanced energy. Thank you very much for joining us here today. Its a terrific to see a full room, particularly amid the dark days of august when so many folks in dc leave for cooler or at the very least, less humid climates. It is surely a traffic registration of interest in this topic and before we get started let me give a big thanks to zach strauss and are Global Energy and art interns who are instruments and making today happen along with our talented medications and events team. They are truly a testament to the assets and professionalism of the Atlantic Council. Dive in to todays discussion by noting that not only are you here because youre fascinated by the narrative that surround the climate challenge in the Energy Transition but you are likely also very interested in the narrators that help us to understand the complexities, ambiguities, leading characters in the emerging solutions at