the apa community has been faced a tough year.about issues of cultural identities and sharing how they seek to advance social justice through art. and now, i would like to introduce san francisco mayor london breed to give opening remarks and share her thought about the impact of art on bringing diverse communities together. let's welcome mayor breed. >> hi, i'm mayor london breed. i want to thank the apa heritage month committee and nonprofit and community partners joining us here today. while many of us think of apa heritage month we think of the incredible celebrations, performances and events that happen throughout the month of may. but this year, in light of the challenges we face, from a global pandemic, to fighting systemic bias and racism, to violent and hateful attacks, we are here, united, committed to working together to build bridges between our cultures and build a brighter future for all people. we stand up to the hatred and discrimination and say that not only will we not tolerate it, we'll actively work to dismantl

the apa community has been faced a tough year.eed to stop racism priorities that are widely recognized. to address racism also requires a diverse, multicultural approach. this is what the program is about. in the next hour, you will hear a number of conversations between artists of diverse ethnic backgrounds talking about issues of cultural identities and sharing how they seek to advance social justice through art. and now, i would like to introduce san francisco mayor london breed to give opening remarks and share her thought about the impact of art on bringing diverse communities together. let's welcome mayor breed. >> hi, i'm mayor london breed. i want to thank the apa heritage month committee and nonprofit and community partners joining us here today. while many of us think of apa heritage month we think of the incredible celebrations, performances and events that happen throughout the month of may. but this year, in light of the challenges we face, from a global pandemic, to fighting systemic bias and racism, to violent and h

the apa community has been faced a tough year.ll people. we stand up to the hatred and discrimination and say that not only will we not tolerate it, we'll actively work to dismantle it by coming together, supporting one another, celebrating and embracing our differences. thank you to the apa heritage month committee for recognizing the importance of hosting this event because celebrating our diverse cultures and practicing love and compassion for each other is how we build stronger, more resilient communities. take care and stay healthy and safe. >> thank you mayor breed and thank you for inviting me. i'm the executive director of sf films and san francisco international film festival, the longest running in the americas. i'm honored to introduce the program for intersection and activism in the arts. for the first time, apa heritage month is showcasing artists from diverse, ethnic and racial and cultural backgrounds which is very exciting. with the conversations you're going to hear, certain things bubble up in the most intriguing

we learned alameda and n apa are entering the least restrictive level and are eligible to loosen the rules. they join marin, san mateo, and santa cruz counties in the yellow. this morning oakland mayor introduced the first part of the city's guaranteed income program. applications are open for those who live with in one square mile of east oakland. >> this intervention to interrupt the regional wealth gap, to interrupt what have been below living wages for our families and to interrupt the devastation thatat coronavirus has had on the well being of oaklanders and especially families. >> east oakland families must apply by june 30th. applications will open city wide this summer. >>> to the drought emergency as conditions get worse around the bay area and around the state. east bay mud is about to hold a public hearing on its proposed water rate hikes. >> two years ago when we had shown our projections we are proposed 5% rate increases for fiscal year 22 and 23. we made cuts where we had to and essentially proposed water rate that are 20% lower than we had projected. >> the agency is p

i've got a president apa said we're ready to work positively with this government on the basis that we're looking at action and not it's unfortunately, its actions are still escalate and aggressive. they're just an extension of the previous israel government. as it seems, some militants in gaza are already getting equipped for another potential flare up with israel. an exclusive video, we're going to show you next, filled by r t fighters from the national resistance brigades as a ramping up their rocket supplies the focus being on long range and remotely controlled missiles. talking to this channel, the battalion commanders say the launches ready for immediate action and that they're well prepared. any confrontation when we're talking about rockets, one 0725 because some 7 see. we mean the replenishment of missiles that were released and used in the last conflict, as fullness south of the range of more than 70 kilometer c is the last class. this is more widely. i'll plan for the future all in order to have something to respond to the surprise design and in a, in the little want all the, a

why take the traditional apa route and why no? jay: it is pretty simple.re going after a $50 billion market and we wanted to raise capital, we wanted the opportunity to do that. it made a ton of sense for us and we are happy with the outcome. emily: confluent has developed streaming technology that helps process massive amounts of data online. this was critical during the pandemic, but now that the world is coming out of lockdown and people going back to work, will we need that kind of technology as much? jay: absolutely. no company in the world is looking at the digital side of the business and thinking, hey, this isn't so important. even with people going into in-person experiences, if you look at retail and many other businesses, digital and in-person is really blinding. there's a whole software side of businesses that demand real-time access to data, real-time processing and that's what this . is all about. that is what we enable. emily: speaking of this whole era of data immersion, we have seen a rise in cyberattacks. increasing severity of the se cyb

apa corporation, occidental, diamond back up this morning in terms of underperforming, abbott labs downonthly decline on record in may dropping 35.5% continued moving lower from the april highs of over 63,000 joining us to discuss the prospects for long-term growth is tom jess sup. welcome back it's good to see you i wond whaer you made of the decline in may and whether or not you think we're in an area in the mid 30s that can be sustained for a while. >> that's a great question i think the cycles are part of the maturization as an asset class. we've had significant drawdowns, north of 30% over the life of the asset. i think we had some leveraged-driven excess build up in in the market if you look at the open market future exchanges going into the mid month correction, in some cases we touched close to 30 billion worth of leverage, driving prices higher. in many cases the investors could trade on 50 to 100 times leverage the leverage has come down significantly, in some cases by two-thirds this is typically a cleansing process we've seen in the asset. hopefully with basing and positive

i think that i probably feel similarly to many apas around the country in saying that this past year, past year and a half has been a really tough year and our community has just been living in fear for such a long time and, you know, we knew that using language -- i know a.g. tong mentioned earlier, using language like chinese virus, we knew that it would lead to the many incidents that we've seen happen around the country and the tragedies in atlanta. and, you know, it's interesting because this bill that was recently signed into law, we actually proposed it a year ago. last may, actually, and there wasn't that much attention -- you know, people didn't really seem that interested and i think it wasn't only until recent months where we started seeing very violent attacks on video of our elderly and our most vulnerable and then the murders that happened in atlanta where after that it seemed like our mainstream society kind of really woke up and, you know, just really saw the need to take action. and so senator hirono and i had introduced legislation again in this new term of congress

. >> sandra: the apa writing that the diplomatic spotlight with the putin spotlight.over the years, and there are now sometimes diplomacy is a is successful and sometimes not. i remember being here with bill clinton, he was either '99 or 2000, here for some other reason which escapes me now because memory is fuzzy after that long. but they said that they wanted to meet with president clinton, and he thought, oh, is this a breakthrough? could we have a peace agreement with israel? when the two set down for not very long, as al-assad started a lecture bill clinton and tell him everything was wrong with the administration policy and israel, and without even saying goodbye, bill clinton got on air force one and headed back home. so hopefully tomorrow summit will be a little bit more successful than that one was. >> sandra: i love the ambient noise they are, to your point it goes back to how the world has changed throughout all of these years, especially with technology, but how important it is still when you look at this moment for global leaders to sit down at the summit

>> we made an assessment within our government about when it was an apa brett time for her to -- an appropriateder. maria: markets are pointing up, futures indicating a gain in the triple digits for the dow industrials this morning. we are looking for the final read of first quarter gdp. dow industrials up 173 points going into those numbers, s&p up 20 and nasdaq higher by 78 and three quarters many the nasdaq continuing to move in record territory after yesterday's record high. stocks were mixed yesterday at 4:00 on wall street but the nasdaq closed in unchartered territory once again with a gain of 18 and-a-half points even as the dow industrials were lower by 71 and the s&p gave up 4 and-a-half. global markets this morning are also mostly higher this morning, european stocks waiting on the bank of england decision due any minute now. the ft 100 is up 33 points. no change is expected in policy from the bank of england during the meeting this morning but investors are awaiting the central bank's commentary on inflation and growth. right now, the cac is up 65, the dax index up 102. we'll bring