Way. What sent the cryptocurrency sit to its highest level in nearly three years. We start tonight with the story thats front and center for investors, and all of americas right now. Thats the vote counting under way in five key battleground states plus alaska eamon javers has more on where things stand at this hour. We havent really moved all day today, as all the vote counters around the country are doing their jobs biden 253, trump 214 in the race to 270 joe biden has more paths to 270 now than donald trump does, but its not over for either man lets start with arizona you can see where we stand in that state theyve been giving us new data throughout the day that is 11 electoral votes available there. Nevada was giving us data throughout the day still too close to call with 89 of the vote in in nevada georgia, another state where were seeing an interesting move by the biden camp, making a run at a historically very, very red state. 49. 5 for trump, 49. 3 for biden a difference there,
From facebook. Julia boorstin has been following the story. Its two reactive and slow about the hate speech. Auditors saying they watched the company make painful decisions that are serious setbacks and has not devoted enough assets to address these issues this report advocating they bring in more civil rights experts to the country, take steps to address concerns dedispute that post violating facebooks broader policies. Sheryl sandberg responding to the findings as hard as its been to expos o they echo the criticisms by the civil rights a groups behind the boycott that met with facebook management yesterday. They called the meeting disappointing. Now, facebook has said it would not fall not fold for pressure, but it does seem they could be compelled to take some of the recommendations. Julia, thank you. Lets get to steve weiss steve, it looks like facebook is under a lot of pressure when it comes to the issues of up civil rights and hate speech. It is im sticking with it ultimately i
Disturbing and said it could top 100,000 cases per day. And we are preparing to close the books on what has been a rough first half of the year its included a painful, record breaking sell off followed by a fast, record setting climb back up stocks set therefore for their best quarter in decades. 59 minutes left of the session morgan, we are up a full percent on the s p 500 yeah, were watching that last day of the quarter, last day of the first day my goodness. Coming up, as we wrap up the first half of the year, were going to focus on why not work from home. Twilio stocks up in 2020 well speak with the ceo about the demand for his companys Cloud Services during the pandemic mike is tracking the Market Action kayla has the highlights from fed chair powell and secretary mnuchins testimony on capitol hill and joining us to look ahead to the second half of the year is lori but mike, lets start off with you and a look at the market this is a good illustration of the old say a iing dont sho
Host next on booktv, programs from the archives that focus on technology. You can watch them by visiting the website of booktv. Org my job is to model risk for a living. The same companies that control the lions share of patterns that have an extraordinary amount of money that are able to attract the best talent and fo food. It is something that is Companies Like salesforce that are not doing amazing things. In addition to the things i might mention, they are also building the frameworks and custom chips. If its the case of Artificial Intelligence although that is cool to optimize our lives using data as currency what does it mean when we relegate that to just a handful of companies and handful of people working at these companies. What are the implications of that look like . Three of them are in china and they are back. Anybody that watches china knows they are still under the thumb of beijing. The. Hes very smart and a very effective leader and a longterm planner. China has a cultur
A michael local welcome to d w special coverage of the Munich Security Conference the annual event brings together World Leaders top ministers and experts the 1st day of talks have already shown potential progress talks between the u. S. And the taliban may lead to a fresh Peace Process for afghanistan and an unprecedented meeting between chinese and vatican diplomats has taken place for the 1st time in decades one topic has dominated the conference fears that the western powers could be losing their unified front on friday germanys president warned that a lack of western solidarity was fueling global insecurity todays panel is set to tackle that topic with nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh joined by pretentiously the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov we also. Understand that mark esper the u. S. Defense secretary may also be at the talk today at the event in munich we have de w. s chief Political Editor me. And here in the studio im joined b