This virus feeling the Impact Retail giants, macys, gap and kohls announce mass layoffs for tens of thousands of workers while the Federal Reserve issues a dire influence warning, the outbreak could leave nearly 50 million americans out of work. All that plus, to the rescue. Were going to need new people to come in and take care of patients. I can do that, and i will. The brave volunteers leaving home and heading to the white hot center of the u. S. Outbreak to join the fight on the front lines. I just want a make a difference. How they are answering the call to action today tuesday, march 31st, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Studio 1a. This is studio 1a i havent been here in a while. I was going to say, so many things are not normal. And in this moment right now, as im looking at you, something final is its good to see your face, savannah. It feels g
Always there, lloyd smareker. Thank you, lloyd, great job. [applause] gt thompson, we have them all today, huh, gt . We have them all. [applause] the great john joyce. John, thank you. Great job. Thank you, john. [applause] dan muser, thank you, dan, thank you. [applause] that looks like cary grant, doesnt he . Have you ever been told that . That is not a bad compliment, i must say. Today we have tom arnold, those days you had a little different. Those days errol flynn and cary grant. Somebody that fights like you never seen before, fred keller. [applause] great. Doing a great job. Thank you all. These are fantastic people. And david, wheres david . Is he there . Wheres david . What happened to him . We wont mention his name. He is in the back. Pretend that i didnt say it. When i last spoke at this conference in 2016, American American energy under Relentless Assault from the previous administration. You know that as well. More than a third of the coal mining jobs had vanished. A morat
We can get going. We have been looking forward to this and those on twitter, we have had a lively sort of prepublickity. So im ann marie slogger, the ceo of new america and i get to moderate this fabulous discussion today and we are here to launch david kayes book, Speech Police, the global struggle to govern the internet and to celebrate consent of the enemyworks which is 201 which was rebecca mckinnons book and a new america book and i was very struck. Ill start with this. When i was reading through the acknowledgments in Speech Police say david you actually say that rebecca and consent of the network, you say few people have had as much influence on my thinking as that book of thought thats wonderful and you have to have written that before you knew we were doing this event, so were going to have a discussion and then well turn it over to you, but i wanted to begin by framing the debate in terms of these two books because i think it says a lot about how the internet has evolved. And
Oracle challenges of bidding process with the u. S. Defense department. Will it force the process to stop . San francisco is expected to be the first city to ban ecigarettes. They will hold a final vote to ban the distribution and manufacturing of ecigarettes, making them illegal to sell in stores or online. If approved, it will be signed into law. It could pit the city against juul labs. Ands backed by big tobacco brought in more than 500 million in revenue. This with us are our guest. What is the status of this right now . City are waiting for the to vote on whether to take this step. We are expecting it in the next couple of minutes. Become a really controversial company. San francisco doesnt like him. The main reason is kids are using their products. Emily the health risks are largely unknown. You are inhaling heated liquid nicotine. The longterm risks we dont know. Critics argue it is better than traditional cigarettes. The sale of traditional cigarettes and marijuana will still b
Tech companies from amazon to netflix are being targeted in a campaign from a large group of investors calling for transparency in Environmental Impact. Can corporations take the lead on stability . Facebook is launching a cryptocurrency called libra. Social media giant wants you to think of it like the u. S. Dollar but a currency you can use globally, if it is successful. Libra is known as a stable coin, a Digital Currency backed by government supported currencies and securities. It is the culmination of a yearlong effort as facebook seeks to spur growth on various platforms that count more than 2 billion users. Spotify, stripe, uber, visa, mastercard are among almost 30 Companies Supporting the project. Will this make it to the mainstream or will it be another overhyped facebook product that never quite takes off . One lawmaker has an opinion. Senator Sherrod Brown tweeted, facebook is already too big and too powerful and uses data to exploit privacy. We cannot allow facebook to run