Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
We are going to get started here tonight. My name is seth mnookin im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start. First Communications Forums are held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am t
Held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different breed than we initially thought would he here because jeff howe called me up at a little past five and said his daughter was and as
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Its 7 right now at andrews and 61 though in frederick. So that cooler drier air is descending in. Ill tell you how long it will stick around coming up in the first alert seven day forecast. But right now its time for timesaver traffic and larry miller. Your time 6 01. Were doing really well around the capital beltway. No major issues to slow you down either on the inner or outer loop. 295 and 395 both on the maryland and d. C. Side free and clear of any issues. You can see traffic certain hi rocking and rolling both on the inner and outer loop but nothing to slow you down just yet. From our maryland camera we can see things on i270 from frederick to the capital beltway. All lanes are open as you approach clarkburg and making your way into bethesda. Well have another look at huh traffic is. How traffic is shaping up in virginia coming up in ten minutes. Over to you. New this morning d. C. Police continue their manhunt for marcus king. A 19yearold man who lives in shaw. Now charged in co