A day. Yesterday that was a big head wind as the market did get up the s p just to the cusp of those old highs. We did it without the help of technology, of the big Growth Stocks everyone is talking about this rotation the nasdaq has had yet another of its fairly routine pullbacks so far it has bounced to maintain this up trend today yes, tesla helping it, but really it is the old favorites as well, just picking up the slack and the s p is right back to yesterdays afternoon highs before we had that shake out going into the close. Julia, david faber mentioning last hour the passing of Sumner Redstone, a legend in the content world. Coin that phrase content is king. Has a bit of feeling the end of an era, of course, he lived well into his 90s but what are your thoughts on what a figure like Sumner Redstone meant in his prime and who is defining this era right now. Well, certainly, jon. He was the ultimate media mobile of that raera. He was responsible for the consolidation of so much con
Lets check in with our industry forecast. That kind of disturbed me, dont let science get in the way of open something that is what we have to rely on, isnt it . The 12 hour planner, upper 50s to near 60 as we head through 7 00. Clouds will peel back to the coast revealing sunshine and 71 to 79 for our bay and inland the same as the last couple days and gorgeous evening on tap. And well take a look at the warmer weekend coming up. Uc berkeley confirms eight student athletes have now tested positive for covid19. Health one of the areas that abc 7 news is focused on in our effort to build a better bay area. And Julian Glover is live with what we know. Obviously a big concern. Reporter yeah, a big concern for the student athletes out there. It is pretty hard to imagine that sports could go off happen, rather, in the fall when were getting news like this. Eight uc Berkeley Student athletes testing positive for the coronavirus. We dont know which sports they are involved with just yet, but
Nearly a dozen shark sightings off cape cod forced the closure of several beaches on monday. Swimmers were held out of the water for an hour or more until the allclear was sounded. Sharks come to cape cod to feed on the seals. Sightings this year are slightly off from previous years, but that may be because the pandemic is keeping the shark spotters away. Turning now to that deadly explosion in baltimore that leveled three homes and killed ateast one person. Firefighters scrambled through the wreckage. Heres abcs rachel scott. Reporter the search for survivors after a catastrophic gas explosion shook his Baltimore Neighborhood leaving one woman dead. The call coming in just before 10 00 a. M. It appears as if i have at least three dwellings that have completely exploded. I was sitting in my house, all i could hear is boom when i got into the alley, three houses, they were collapsed into each other. Reporter firefighters digging through the rubble. I have three children trapped in the d
Back at this particular moment and talk about facebook the inside story couldnt be more timely. I am just going to start off we have a lot of places to go with this kind going to start with something timely. This morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of her and the fact trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently about why Mark Zuckerberg hasnt fact checked. Tell us about your relationship with facebook and free speech. Im going to throw a big question to launch this off. Guest it is good to be here again with some virtuosi. Like a lot of things you cannot just tease out any one problem of facebook dna in its origins. In the case of trump obviously it wasnt something they talked about but by the time the campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook blather on top of the way that it dealt with controversy and it first came out in 2015 when he po
Something timely literally this morning we heard about the hacking of twitter trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook has had a lot of criticism over the years i wrote a column recently on why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Why it is this relationship between facebook and the white house and free speech . I will throw a big question to launch off. Thank you for doing this. Its good to connect with you again. Like a lot of things you cant just pull out one problem of facebook from its dna and origins and in the case of trum trump, obviously he was not a factor in the early days in the dorm room but by the time the Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook with the messy way it dealt with controversial content and the same way in 2015 when trump posted stuff that was anti muslim and it actually did violate the companys community standards. But facebook decided not to mess with that. Even though it may have violated the st