say let's talk about cultural industries in china which are huge what's the impact going to be on baum i mean it's already been quite severe we'll see how long the crisis last of course but i mean mention movies and that's where we're seeing direct impact of the estimates already over a 1000000000 dollars a lost in box office revenue but some studios in china are are thinking old people are staying home they have to stay home only give them something to watch so one big studio is take one of its big blockbusters and it was going to release in theaters theaters are closed now so it's releasing it online for free films and. a comedy it's called lost in russia it's about a middle aged guy who's traveling with his overbearing mother across russia it was expected of those billions of dollars at the in theaters instead they were this that online for free with ads it's looks like it's a success though and a lot of companies are looking to copy it there are several other big studio films that are looking to do the same thing a jackie chan an action film this could be very significant because s

philip baum, thank you so much philip is with the washington post. >>vicki and grant back to you all right, thank you. catherine and philip by the way you can catch more inside area politics this sunday right here on kron 4. it will air starting at 00:30am in the morning when you don't want to talk about taking a live look outside right now add services goes embarcadero we have the right guests to talk the weather lawrence karnow is here and we alluded to it earlier but the ski report is getting more and more difficult by what they were you're up there actually surveying the snow for yourself so you saw the conditions up there so. >>will that are out whack snow on the side of the road. i mean the kids were obsessed with the parking lot, yeah, snow piles that are now little brown piles but they'll begin that if you try to scan your hardcore it's not the best no not the best you want to bring those old skis if you can write they just haven't had a ton of snow of course they're making snow up there. the snow continues to melt we just haven't seen any sn

bonds no one is going to be particularly interested in picking up new kids hastur for your pandemic baum's when we're actually in the middle of a pandemic. now at this point it appears that this record expansion of the u.s. economy that that risk of being seriously halted by the coronavirus market has been selling off for date for 4 days in a row and a number of companies like airlines are having to resort to shareholders about the losses that they're facing so well while the markets find the bottom or does a solid continue for the rest of this week. ok so there the key uncertainties here are the following number one the availability of sufficient reliable test kits number 2 the availability of reliable treatment regimes to reduce the mortality rate and the morbidity rate associated with contract in the virus. item number 3 the number 3 is the availability of a vaccine in sufficient quantities to be able to prevent people contract in the virus all of these 3 are at the moment in the stage of uncertainty which means that the market is very skittish because there's no predictability about wh

. >> you can't replace baum. >> reporter: the giants are coming off their third straight season with at least 85 losses and no playoff appearances. this is a rebuilding year, which means it could be even longer before the giants are contending for the post season, but don'tr. >> reporter: he wants players who know how to win. that's why they're bringing hunter pce b in april but is coming off an all-star season with the texas rangers. kapler says he's eager for pablo sandoval to return when he's healthy. get your programs ready, opening day is less than seven weeks away, anthony flores, nbc bay area. >> pitchers and catchers report for spring training next week. coming up at 11:00, is it politics as usual or a dirty attack ad? a city council woman is saying it it's racist. what she wants done to change a photo of her. >> we're mostly clear, wind eon sunday. >> have a great friday night. >> bye-bye. what'd we decide on the flyers again? uh, "fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance." i think we're gonna swap over to "over seventy-five years of savings and service."

joining me now is philip baum, a political reporter with washington post.advantage of the change in the social media landscape. >> that is right. we saw near times did a great report, looking at how he is paying influencers on instagram peer people have massive phones on instagram. he is paying the money to put out host to make him look cool. you can see this in the example. this is an interesting strategy. it is not focused on appealing to voters, so much as it is trying to demonstrate, hey, get this world of social media. he's trying to convince people, hey, maybe figure something out that the other candidates haven't. maybe he will be better against president trump.:you talked about this in your reporting. you highlight the differences between the fight being waged by michael bloomberg and the one being waged by president trump. >> right, president trump, 2016, and currently has an effective platform that he uses on facebook. he is is it to raise money. he raises a ton of money on phase. he has constant appeal. they put out multiple iterations of the sam

baum h obama has not endorsed anyone yet and our report shows their relationship is more complicated.ma, and obama did not endorse bloomberg bloomberg waited till the very last week of 2012 to endorse obama's reelection over mitt romney. bloomberg was pretty critical of obama's policies, his leadership style. he was initially supportive of obamacare and later came out against it. said dodd-frank was not good for wall street and therefore not good for america. he was critical when the justice department cracked down on stop and frisk and even on signature accomplishments on the second term, the iran nuclear deal, he opposed that and paris climate accords, right after donald trump pulled out of those in 2017 after getting elected, bloomberg said he wasn't too concerned because he said the previous administration did hardly anything on climate change, it was all downstream actors like local governments and private citizens who had the real impact. bloomberg is wanting to you believe he and barack obama were best friends and worked together in partnerships and that's true in some issues b