I got there probably through the most backroad possible. Walk us through starting with college. It was just my ten year reunion in. I didnt attend. I graduated in 2009 from Wesleyan University with a degree in sociology and i just read in the wall street journal 2009 was the worst job market for generations i had the good fortune to walk right into that. After a bunch of internships, working in music for a while i worked in Book Publishing an agency for a couple of years here in new york and after that i joined a Startup Network doing a sort of netflix for ebooks type of app and i was there for three months, sort of like the person who knew about books and publishing. It was a fourperson company when i joined, three were founders. From there i went to San Francisco and worked at a Data Analytics startup which i thought would be a great application of my sociology degree. Little did i know it wasnt exactly what they were looking for. I did that for 18 months which were probably the team
Thatwould be julie would be one of the many superlatives we have had. The s p 500 earlier touched 2600 and it is nearly at that level. What is curious and interesting is that once again, these gains are coming on no particular catalyst. We have a holiday shortened trading week. We have got this big surge in stocks, technology in particular doing well. This is evidenced by the upsurge in the nasdaq. We also have some earnings reports to chew on. We have got two food related earnings, going in decidedly opposite directions. Hormel foods out with sales that beat analyst estimates, but on the flipside is campbell soup, a decline of more than 7 , the most in a single day in nine years. A cut their annual profit forecast. It is hurt by an ongoing dispute with walmart. Basically, walmart is saying it has been cutting its inventory of campbells. That is taking a toll on the company. I mentioned Technology Shares doing well today. We have some analysts and other types of commentary. Marvell Tec
Reporter Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Pam plenty of protesters greeted the president even before his speech. They get a third outside the betty mann on center this morning to go with his own rifle. Police kept them behind their kids on the corner of washington and mason street some are very angry about immigration issues. At the president s other stops, the demonstrators protested government drones and the keystone and expel all oil pipeline. Reporter the president attacked a lot in during his time in San Francisco. After take after talking Immigration Reform and chinatown at 119 mason st. He attended to fund raisers one at the new San Francisco jazz center in hayes valley that benefits the Democratic National committee. Tickets theyre going for as local as 500. Then the president had much at the home of cells for dot com ceo mark than off. The bright private fund raiser was detect roundtable of sorts and tickets to that were 30,000 a piece. From there the president left San Francisco on
Today. And chuck yager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier has died at the age of 97. A look back at his remarkable life. And we begin with a Major Development in the fight against the coronavirus. The uk has started to administer the first doses of the pfizer bitcoin te biontech vaccine to its first citizens. This 91yearold grandmother became the first person to get a jab. Her name is maggie kenan, and she says she feels privileged to be vaccinated because it means shell soon be able to spend time with her family. Heres how the British Health secretary reacted to that moment. Its been such a tough year for so many people, and finally, we have our way through it. Our light at the end of the tunnel as so many people are saying. Just watching margaret there, it seems so simple having a jab in your arm, but that will protect margaret, and it will protect the people around her. And if we manage to do that in what is going to be one of the biggest programs in nhs history. Go maggie,
Speak freely on social platforms the utmost form of rna. Sentiments echoed by german chancellor Angela Merkel said the right to freedom of opinion is a fundamental importance. The chancellor considers it problematic that the president s accounts have been permanently suspended. The San Francisco Police Department is bracing for a protrump protest today after twitter banned him permanently. Our producer saw one protrump and two antitrump protesters. In the wake of the capitol hill riots, battle between pro and antitrump forces have moved online were ordinary folks reporting another round of family breakups. The bitterly divided country. Im just another casualty. My family is just another casualty. Because of politics. I had to lose a family member, had to be blocked on facebook because we disagreed over something very fundamental. Shannon the fbi to might warning about possible armed protests they say in all 50 state capitals around Inauguration Day. Even amid intense pressure from corp