Out of millions of dollars. Medawar was extraordinarily, um, good at what he did. He was the consummate con man. [ music ] i would ask the, uh, witnesses to, uh, rise. Andand raise your right hand. In the summer of 2002, a ceo is called before congress, grilled about why his company has gone bust, and why shareholders have lost a total of 180 billion. Each of you is now under oath. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman. I served as ceo of worldcom for 17 years. During that time, i helped a Small Company rise to one of americas largest corporations. Bernard ebbers, former ceo of worldcom, symbolizes an era of corporate greed and fraud. Worldcom is one of the fastest Rising Companies in u. S. History. And one of the hardest to fall. The year is 1983. At a diner in the small town of hattiesburg, mississippi, local businessmen meet over coffee and donuts. Ma bells monopoly on Long Distance is breaking up. The businessmen see an opportunity to get in on the Long Distance game. In the early days, the
It is a cooling cloudy start to our friday. Temperatures running in the low to mid 50s. A live look at our Treasure Island camera, we can see the clouds in the sky. Mostly cloudy skies and some peeks of sunshine as we go through our day. Sistine San Francisco, 68 for a high and san jose and 67 for concord. A strong ridge of High Pressure builds in for the weekend and i will let you know how warm it will get in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check in with gianna with a look at traffic. Good morning, lets look at the roadways. There have been a number of changes to mass transit this week. I want you to stay updated on that. One of the latest changes happened this week, the vta light rail where service resume from 6 am to 6 pm. But again, a modification to the schedule and modifications to bus services as well for vta. They made several changes this week as well as focusing only on their 17 core route. And for bart, Weekday Service running trains for the Weekday Service. Just a heads u
As we start our friday. As we had through the afternoon we will see seasonal daytime highs. Right around where we should be for this time of year. Looking at 60 degrees for a high and San Francisco, 63 in oakland, 68 and then has a and 67 for concord but mostly cloudy skies and peeks of sunshine. Inland you might see a little more sunshine as we had through the day. A warming trend on the way for us. This actually as we look ahead to the weekend with a strong ridge of High Pressure building in. I will let you know what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check in with schiano for a look at traffic. Good morning. Getting a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, things moving with no delays, a pretty easy ride out of the east bay into San Francisco. Heads up, we had reports of things being a bit darker than usual between the tunnel and the city. Lights were out at the bay bridge. Not really causing many problems this morning, we are getting reports of an accident on high
If i could have everyones attention, we would like to get started. My name is Brian Anderson on the editor of city journal and i want to welcome you here today on behalf of the Manhattan Institute. It is with great pleasure that i get to introduce and coauthor with the esteemed psychologist roy in the fascinating and useful new book, the power bed. The negativity affects rules as in how we can roll it and it is unsettled by the way outside the room here. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on then intersection of science and Public Policy and make no mistake however calmly reasonably expressed, is a very contrarian voice. It was johns new york time the big city which ran from the mid 90s until 2002 i think, the first may be event of his work. There he took on any number of prevailing myths about cities from the efficacy of rent control, to the roof root causes to homelessness to environmental policy and one remarkable was born from johns irritation and Rosie Odonnells
A shocking 270000 now leading the way is the u. S. With more than 340000 confirmed cases with reported deaths topping 10000 and recovered cases at almost 19000 and a sobering message to all americans breaks for the most difficult and the hardest week ahead as the pandemic deepens meanwhile coronavirus patients around the world are rushing to joint studies and tests for a drug for the virus then kovan 1000 continues to affect world economies and markets and oil prices as well were going to discuss all of these developments in the next 30 minutes with our whole team of reporters there in front that Rachel Blevins and ben swan well start things off with parent over in the newsroom parents some of the it was a heart stopping morning by the u. S. Surgeon general that these 2 weeks will be the most difficult for all americans take a listen. Because this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives quite frankly this is going to be our pro harbor moment our 911 mome