Director of national intelligence. Watch online on seesmic the oracle or listen on the free cspan radio app. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced monday the state legislature will debate a bipartisan proposal to help Small Businesses during the pandemic. The governor was joined by state officials who announced a new app to help with state covid19 Contract Tracing efforts and to provide an update on covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations. This runs 40 minutes. Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are
Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
We have foxbusiness Team Coverage with blake burman at the white house. President elect bidens transition. Gerri willis standing by but we begin with jackie deangelis. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. History is being made right before our eyes. Dow about 30,000. I think is interesting today, not just the dow but look at the s p 500 on a percentage basis of a little bit more and even the dow industrial. 500 is broader than the dow 30. You can see this was a big broadbased rally across the board. I think that is important. Look at the dow winners because it gives you the sectors, energy is moving today, we see the financials moving higher today. Walt disney is a big winner today but it wasnt just stocks, it was oil as well. Over 45 a barrel, disclosing under that level and it took the Energy Stocks up because the investors are basically betting on recovery for the economy and that means more demand for oil and that means these companies will do better. Having said that, lets take a pause
First, our top story, google agreeing to buy fitbit for 2. 1 billion in cash. The fitness tracking Device Company jumped on the news. I am joined by garrett divina. What does fitbit know about hardware and software and health that google doesnt . Gerrit a good question. Google has been rumored about talking about a smartwatch. But the operating system has been a collapsed and is not as has been eclipsed by competitors. And is not as popular as android. What they are doing is saying lets buy fitbit and build our business from that. Taylor fitbit is seeing its third annual year of sales decline. Why is it an attractive choice . Gerrit its one of the few choices, im not sure attractiveness is what is going on. As you said, they have been in decline, they struggled as apple came out with the apple watch and can do things a lot of fitbit devices cannot. The price was a premium for fitbit that it is still cheaper than when it went public several years ago. It is a small amount of money for g
Launches. Tv googleour top story, agreeing to buy fitbit for 2. 1 billion in cash. Taylor San Francisco blockchain the fitness tracking Device Company jumped on the news. Will week is wrapping up. Divina. Ned by garrett there is still a lot of skepticism around the world what does fitbit know about about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Here to break it all down and hardware and software and health that google doesnt . Tell us all about it is the garrett a good question. Firms head of research. Google has been rumored about yourt to talk about what talking about a smartwatch. Firm is. On your website you have it very clear picture of solving the scaling issues of going and the but the operating system has been a collapsed and is not as Security Issues is that how you popular as android. What they are doing is saying lets buy fitbit and double our business from that and build our business from that. Fitbit is seeing its third annual year of sales decline. Why is it an attractive choice