and shift business it's a constant one stuff bezos has collected all this data about what we've been looking at on the market he starts to evaluate. the house he wants to use it to learn what preferences influence our surfing behavior said himself. in from at she wants. to. get the chip business. so what's he doing with all this information. he looks at which products are often bought with which other products from their range and then offers them to us he says i think people who bought this product also bought that product gain if many consumers think this is something really great. it's just part of this. but i have a son surprisingly 30 percent of amazon's turnover allegedly comes from these recommendations that he now has on realizes that we humans are much more predictable than we think we are seen as be. using is pregnant now how could just base all know that. defeat this week to get with the ability to find the right product is not only based on the comparison of a lot of factors but also on identifying patterns machines that increasingly learn from data over time can do this

they love jeff bezos.at msnbc, the morning anchor called him -- >> basals told me last night, do not poke this basals bear. >> tucker: he's a bear. basals bear. basals bear has a lot but he ony wants more. he's a greedy little bear. so this week, whole foods, which which bezos owns, announced a change to its employee benefit policy. previously of whole foods workers could receive health benefits if they were to least 0 hours a week. now, the cutoff is 30 hours a week. as a result, this is not an accent, it's the whole point, almost 2,000 whole foods employees will lose health care coverage. who is going to take up the slack?" , you will as a taxpayer. in a statement, whole foods noted the move would make the company more efficient and better meet the needs of the business. those needs of course are making jeff bezos another few dollars. money doesn't need. meanwhile, earlier this month, chick-fil-a, a mob of progressives there to process because of its social policies or the opinions of its owners. you won

they love jeff bezos.or called him basals mary. >> as a source close to him told me last night, do not poke this basals bear. >> tucker: is a bare! you know how it is. he has a lot, but he only wants more. he's a greedy little bear. so this week, whole foods, which he owns, just like "the washington post," announced a change to its employee benefit policy. previously whole foods workers could receive health benefits if they worked at least 20 hours a week. now the cutoff is 30 hours a week. as a result, and this is not an accident, if the whole point, almost 2,000 whole foods employees will lose health care coverage. was going to take up the slack? of course you will as a taxpayer. in a statement, whole foods noted the move would make a company "more efficient," better meet the needs of our business. those needs, of course, are making jeff bezos another few dollars, money he doesn't need. meanwhile, earlier this month aaa opened its first outlet in canada. a mob of progressive activists were there to prote

jeff bezos is more of the just working away. he's got three rockets assigned, the first one is the armstrong which is the suborbital, the second is the glenn that we put people in orbit and the third is armstrong which will be something to carry interplanetary to the moon or elsewhere. this is very exciting. how many of you guys know robert bigelow? he is right up here in las vegas, north las vegas and i think it was 2001, he invited a group of about 15 or 20 space geeks, me included by the way to las vegas and he said he made $1 billion in his hotels and he said i want spend half of that putting up private space stations and i want to make sure that i don't run afoul of regulators and so forth who screwed things up. so we had to three days talking about how to do that what he came up with and again, it's right up the road here in las vegas is the inflatable modules which he hopes to use as orbiting hotels, honeymoon suites, laboratories and moon bases and what's interesting is the sense of an orbit to one third size of these mo

. >> jeff bezos will no longer be the middle of f the herd onon climate policies. amazon will go carbon neutral ahead of schedule. it comes as somome 1500 amazon employees s e sett to wawalk out over the compapany's environmenl record. >> a pledge from one of the world's largest corporations. jeff bezos follow -- promises the firm will go carbon neutral 10 years before the goal set out in the paris accord. --as people get series serious about changes to their business activities, that is going to be a gigantic signal to the market place to start inventing, developing these technologies these global companies will need. >> they say the pleledge does nt go far enough. >> the pledge is a huge win for amazon employees. we know it is not enough. the paris agreement will not get off to a deliverable -- a livable world. >> a motion cut emissions, which topped 44 million metric tons of carbon monoxide last year. amazon has come under fire for not sharing data about emissions, something jeff bezos says he aims to improve. he will not stop doing business with oil and gas com

and of course you have elon musk and jeff bezos with blue origin and elon musk with spacex.building rockets. more of the celebrity type, jeff bezos is kind of working away. he's got three rocket designs. the first one is armstrong which is a suborbital. second one is the glenn to put people in orbit and the third is the armstrong which can carry interplanetary to them one or elsewhere. this is very exciting. how many of you know robert bigelow? yeah, he is right up here in las vegas. he invited a group of 15-20 of space geeks. he made $1 billion i guess in his hotels. is that i want to spend half of that putting a private space stations. so we had to three days talking about how to do that. of course what he came up with, are these inflatable modules. which he hopes to use as orbiting hotels, laboratories and moon bases. what's interesting is he sets up in orbit, there is now test module on the international space station. we wanted to talk about mars so let me get back to mars. elon musk famously said i want to die on mars but not on landing there. and very understandable.

bezos today could have taken the ground.romised action, conceded severity of the challenges facing the planet and says amazon wants to be a leader. there has been a sense the company was not doing enough, but i think today was a significant turning point. taylor: you mentioned packaging and it is interesting. you order 10 different items and they come in 10 different boxes. do we not get any specifics about types of packaging or the way in which they package? >> no, they have always tried to consolidate orders in a single box and it is difficult. those products could be coming from different fulfillment centers. they have tried things over the years. i remember an experiment called amazon total where you would get something in a reusable bag. it is just difficult and expensive. they said their move to prime next day delivery is going to be good for the environment. they are moving fulfillment centers closer in the communities. travel.l bypass air as amazon scales, its products come closer to neighborhoods and they will do a

we have a clip from jeff bezos addressing the criticism.ake a listen. >> we have been in the middle of the herd on this issue and we want to move to the forefront. we want to be leaders. we want to say if a company of amazon's complexity, scale, scope, infrastructure delivering 10 billion items can do this, so can you. taylor: what are people upset about? >> amazon has experimented a little bit with alternative packaging, moved to renewable energy and fulfillment centers and data centers, but they have not made the specific commitments of an apple or a google. bezos today could have taken the -- put a stake in the ground. he promised action, conceded the severity of the challenges facing the planet and says amazon wants to be a leader. there has been a sense the company was not doing enough, but i think today was a significant turning point. taylor: you mentioned packaging and it is interesting. you order 10 different items and they come in 10 different boxes. do we not get any specifics about types of packaging or the way in which they pac

looking at blue 0rigin‘s idea, jeff bezos is suggesting that it might be autonomous., they'd look out the windows and see the earth, and then it will land back on the earth, without a pilot. now, i've got an amazon echo, and alexa can barely understand me. so whether the company behind the technology — whether i would trust them to send me to space or not autonomously, i don't know. to be fair, though, spacex are launching rockets and landing them autonomously. yes, they are, in fairness. that's it for the short cut of click this week. 20 more in the full version which is waiting for you now when i player. you will find us on youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter, and give watching and we will see you soon. —— thank you for watching. hello, and welcome to newswatch. presenters outside parliament are now wearing the type of headset more often seen on pop stars. has this satisfied those complaining of noisy protesters disrupting outside broadcasts? and will the andrew neil show, just launched on bbc two, get the big political hitters on? and offer any clarity on brex

amazon boss and the world's richest man, jeff bezos, is also planning to take passengers to the edgee by the end of 2019, with his company blue origin, and has ambitions to land humans on the moon by 202a. but there is one company that is further along the space tourism journey than any other, and now virgin galactic has opened the doors to its new hq and given marc cieslak exclusive access. fire, fire. it is a little after 7:00am, and i'm heading into the desert in new mexico, about 20 miles past a place called truth or consequences. the reason for that really early start is that we are going to get a very rare glimpse inside that. it bills itself as the world's very first commercial spaceport. thank you very much. welcome to spaceport. thank you. the only way that you can get to space today is with the russians, and they're currently charging nasa about $80 million a ticket. spaceport america is the new home of virgin galactic, the company founded by billionaire sir richard branson to take paying customers on 90—minute flights to the edge of space. the spaceport‘s exterior is the p

and amazon chiefjeff bezos announces measures to make his company carbon neutral.ada's prime ministerjustin trudeau is facing a political crisis after images have emerged of him wearing blackface. he's spoken to the press. i want to begin by saying a few words directly to racialized canadians who face discrimination every single day in their lives, even in a country like canada. what i did hurt them, hurt people who shouldn't have to face intolerance and discrimination because of their identity. this is something that i deeply, deeply regret. darkening yourface, regardless of the context or the circumstances, is always unacceptable because of the racist history of blackface. i should've understood that then. and i never should've done it. here's the latest footage to emerge. it was reported by the global news organisation. the clip isn't dated, but it shows mr trudeau with makeup on his face, arms and legs. the prime minister's liberal party has confirmed the video was authentic. it's the third instance of mr trudeau wearing blackface to be made public. this was th

this is a real blackeye for basis. -- bezos.e is really sticking it to these workers who i'm sure having a hard time making ends meet. amy: we're going to go to break and then come back. steven greenhouse, longtime journalist, author of the new book "beaten down, worked up: the past, prpresent, and futuref americ tiersan labor." ay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: full musician john coehn who died at the age of 87. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. our guest is steven greenhouse, former new york times journalist. he is no author of the new book "beaten down, worked up: the past, present, and future of american labor." among other things, we have been talking about this uaw strike, first major uaw strike in 12 years at gm. interestingly, the sunrise movement, well known for pushing the green new deal, sitting down at nancy pelosi's office right before she was named house speaker again. the executive director of the sunrise movement through her support behind the s

taylor: do you agree jeff bezos -- do you agree this is in jeff bezos' interest?t is why companies like amazon have decided to speak up about this a little more, just the pressure something is going to be done, they might as well have a seat at the table. i think that is why you have seen from amazon in the last year a position of know, we don't really want to talk about this because the technology is fine and i'm not really interested in further conversations to a blog post outlining where they would stand and these potential discussions about potential regulation and being a party to those talks. taylor: why are critics and aclu -- what are critics and aclu, in particular, saying in response? matt: a lot of critics want a broader pause and reevaluation of this. they say we should slow down. the stuff should not be available in such wide circulation when we are not pinking through the impact. they bring up the case of surveillance being used to hurt marginalized groups, and i think they push more for a total pause on this in the way that purveyors of this tech wo

and super-cool penis, jeff bezos. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >>on: whoa! >> stephen: hey, ladies.ut don't touch. at a recent event in new hampshire, bernie went after bezos again. >> you know, if you look at "the washington post"-- which is owned by the wealthiest guy in this country, a guy named jeff bezos-- amazon made $10 billion in profit last year. you know how much they paid in taxes? you got it! zero! any wonder why "the washington post" is not one of my great supporters? i wonder why. >> stephen: wait, is that-- he's stealing trump's thing. ( as bernie ) "yes, the jeff bezos 'the washington post' is-- i think, and i am coining this phrase-- fake news! sad! it's a witch hunt! a witch... hunt! god bless the united stush." ( cheers and applause ) bernie went on to explain why he's worried about corporate media, saying "large corporations own the media in america, by and large, and i think there is a framework, about how the corporate media focuses on politics." okay, bernie, that's ridiculous. i, stephen colbert, work for a major corporate media. but i'm free from corporate i

bezos was not specific. he was rushed away by aides.tuff to do right after he made his comments last evening. we do know amazon came out with a set of principles it was going -- he was going to recommend in case of potential regulation, things like government should be transparent if they are using facial recognition technologies in spaces where that technology is active. people should know that it is happening. but amazon, of course, stopped short of endorsing any sort of ban on the sale of certain recognition tools. they want to keep the market going on its own. taylor: do you assume or agree this is in jeff bezos' interest? oris the one writing proposing legislation, he controls the narrative. matt: i think that is why companies like amazon have decided to speak up about this a little more, just the pressure that if something is going to be done, they might as well have a seat at the table. i think that is what you have seen from amazon in the last positionhange from a of, we don't really want to talk about this because the technolog

. >>> amazon founder and ceo jeff bezos as a plan to tackle change.said he is committing his company to meeting the goals of the paris climate agreement ten ars ahead of schedule. >> it's a difficult charenge sis because we have deep, large pl infrastructure. we are not oem movin information around. we'rekaoving ps around. we diver 10 billion items, re than 10 billion items a year. this is real physical scale.ructure at real and so we can make the argument and we plan to do so passionately that if d we ca this anyone can do this. >> bezos expectsod 80% of a energy use to come from renewable sources by 2024 up t fr current levels of 40%. the goal eventually is to transition to zero emissions by 2030. >>> and now to ale and its push to gaming. the company today launched the new video game subscription service called it's all part of the company's move to expand business beyond the fgshipphone. osh lipton i san francisco for ustonight. >> reporter: more than 2 billion people will play video games around the world in year. apple now hopes some of them try

jeff bezos got to be stranger than just reading your eyes.ng us back to parody two pointer and last multiple choice and it's this. a mad maid of honor showed up at sister's wedding wearing unusual costume after the bride told her she could wear whatever she wanted. what did the maid of honor wear a space suit, b a taco shell or c a t-rex costume? >> judge: t rex. >> tucker: t-rex? was it a t-rex costume? >> a bride to be in nebraska told her brides maid you know what? wear whatever you want for the big day she thought she was nice and flexible. her sister christina decided to take her up on her offer and showed up in this. the maid of honor writing look if i'm spending more than $50 i want it to be a dinosaur cos tomb they are fantastic. i have always wanted one and my sister did say we can wear anything. >> jesse: all right. >> tucker: holly smokes it looks like the reign of jesse watters has come to an end at least temporarily you can't keep that man down. >> jesse: thank you. >> tucker: judge jeanine pirro. >> jesse: good job. >> tucker: w

looking at blue 0rigin's idea, jeff bezos is suggesting that it might be autonomous.de, they'd look out the windows and see the earth, and then it will land back on the earth, without a pilot. now, i've got an amazon echo, and alexa can barely understand me. so whether the company behind the technology — whether i would trust them to send me to space or not autonomously, i don't know. to be fair, though, spacex are launching rockets and landing them autonomously. yes, they are, in all fairness. there is talk that they may be building one or even more spaceports here in the uk. yes, there is. is that a realistic goal? yes, there is a lot of chatter about spaceports being built in the uk. the most serious one is probably the cornwall project, so a runway project. it would be very similar to what we saw out in new mexico, so aircraft—launched space vehicles. so something like launching from virgin 0rbit, a big 7117 with a rocket, underneath the wind, or a mothership, looks as if it is a goer. looks as if it could happen, but not for quite a long time yet. the second proj

amazon boss and the world's richest man, jeff bezos, is also planning to take passengers to the edge end of 2019 with his company blue origin, and has ambitions to land humans on the moon by 202a. but there is one company that is further along the space tourism journey than any other, and now virgin galactic has opened the doors to its new hq and given marc cieslak exclusive access. fire, fire! it is a little after 7am, and i'm heading into the desert in new mexico, about 20 miles past a place called truth or consequences. the reason for that really early start is that we are going to get a very rare glimpse inside that. it bills itself as the world's very first commercial spaceport. hi there! thank you very much. welcome to spaceport! thank you. the only way that you can get to space today is with the russians, and they're currently charging nasa about $80 million a ticket. spaceport america is the new home of virgin galactic, the company founded by billionaire sir richard branson to take paying customers on 90—minute flights to the edge of space. the spaceport‘s exterior is the pro

looking at blue 0rigin's idea, jeff bezos is suggesting that their capsule might be autonomous.ws and see the earth, and then it will land back on the earth, but without a pilot. now, i've got an amazon echo, and alexa can barely understand me. so whether the company behind that technology whether i would trust them to send me to space or not autonomously, i don't know. i really, really don't know. to be fair, though, spacex are launching rockets and landing them autonomously. yes, they are, in all fairness. 0k, marc, cheers. that's it for the short cut of click this week. there's plenty more in the full version which is waiting for you now on iplayer. you'll find us on social media, too, on youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter. thank you for watching and we will see you soon. hello there, it has been warm in the sunshine today, chilly when the cloud comes over and more cloud arriving overnight from the north—west. that will bring some rain as well, initially it was scotla nd rain as well, initially it was scotland and northern ireland, and moving into western england and wa

why does bill gates or jeff bezos or mark zuckerberg need $1,000 a month? >> one of the reasons jeff bezos $1,000 a month givi is that, if we pay for it by having tax on amazon, which is my plan, then jeff's going toen up paying hundreds of millions or billions into the system. and then, if we try and give him ,000 a month to remind him he's an american, that'sn probably a win. it's immaterial to us whether jeff takes or doesn't take the $1,000 a month. >> you've proposed paying for it by a vat. >> yes. >> a value added tax, which is very comn in europe and other countries, but it's a consumption tax.ue and one of theions you get is that it's people at the lower end of theconomic spectrum who end up paying more. i mean, the hit against it is thatt's a regressive tax. so, how do you account for that? >> tre are a few things. there's a saying, like, "why did you rob the bank?" "'cause that's where the money was.wh soe is the money today? the money is all in the amazons and googles and facebooks and ubers of the world, like, these billion- and trillion-dollar

not like we're in a situation where jeff bezos, big daddy bezos needs to cut benefits for employees or cutting down on suppliers, things like that. this isn't a fire-sale by any means. he wants more money in his pockets. that is how it looks especially to folks looking to regulate amazon, a la bernie sanders and folks on the democratic side of the aisle. really feels like he is revving up, giving more ammo. i'm on board with that conspiritorial idea maybe he is trying to bring on regulation. melissa: we'll see. thank you. connell: more to come in the varsity blues aftermath. saw actress felicity huffman coming out of the courthouse being sentenced to time behind bars in the college admissions scram. what does it mean for the so-called rest of cheating elites? we'll talk to remi spencer and the fallout and advice for universities going forward. melissa: challenging white house policies. democratic candidates taking aim at president trump's trade war on the 2020 stage but their counterplan on china remains undefined. where do we go from here? connell: rescue efforts underway in the baham

our cameras are there as amazon jeff bezos rolls out part of his plan and part of it involves that car in the middle to cut carbon emissions with a stunning announcement. he's purchased 100,000 electric vehicles from a company you may never have heard of, until today. this on the same day the trump administration revokes california's authority to set its own auto emissions standards. former environmental protection agency gina mccarthy is here in a fox business exclusive to react to the bezos climate plan and we will get her response to the federal hdcuffs slapped on the golden state. plus apple's new arcade gaming service is now live, right this minute. we've got the ceo of gaming company who kind of has a bone to pick with apple over this. she tells us why her company's gains are not part of the package yet and how she plans to win big-time in the business dominated by the big boys. it is a fox business exclusive. the stunning new numbers on just how many people e-cigarettes have really put in the hospital and the stock that's getting slammed on the news. plus why microsoft sharehold

jeff bezos says his company is writing laws to regulate facial recognition. software has served a lot of contra versy and all bezos is doing is saying something that every other industry is fwlt of. they know a lot more about their own business operations than congress does. >> i mean the only difference this time is that the ceo is publicly admitting they're doing that >> which is surprising >> so many companies do try and write their own regular lations hand it off. that's called lobbying >> facebook said let us help you regulate facebook. >> classic the right way meaning hurt us where it's not going to hurt us. help us where you might not realize you're helping us. whether it's the oil and gas industry, health care, you name it these companies are so complex that these are the people writing so much of the laws. >> you know they have to and they don't and just leave it in washington's hands, they could be even worse and have a lot of negative implications. >> and this could backfire on amazon because you know when other companies quietly write the regular

not like bezos would be out there begging for money. that tells you the effect.effect of that kind of thing in terms of jobs, as you say where money moves? >> two things i think are important. first of all, left-wing economists like larry summers who was obama's treasury secretary, he says those revenue estimates are a total fantasy because what do rich people have? lots of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants. they figure out how to avoid the tax. secondly what those economists berkeley have done they have done the opposition research for trump. because they're saying look at all this money that will be transferred from the private economy to the government. now, i don't know bill gates. i don't know jeff bezos. i don't know whether they're good people or bad people. i know one thing, they will spend their money much better for the economy than if we turn it over to nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell and donald trump all the rest of the clowns on capitol hill. connell: you think the financial transaction tax at a minimal, is being like that is something seriously feare

jeff bezos has pledged to make his country -- his company carbon neutral.rence, acknowledged criticisms about his approach to climate. bloomberg is part of the covering climate now project which includes more than 100 news outlets. interesting that corporate leadership seems to be picking up the mantle when it comes to climate change rather than politicians. talk about what amazon is promising. what targets, how are they able to meet these grand gestures? >> we are not sure yet how they will achieve it. quite a tech company or a logistics company. they are going to have to offset a large carbon footprint. they said they will achieve full carbon neutrality 10 years ahead of the paris climate accord. aiming to power their own operations with 100% renewable energy. goals for aious company that contributes to a lot of carbon in the atmosphere. romaine: jeff bezos comments about how climate change is dire and the need to act quickly. we should point out that there were quite a few amazon employees scheduled to walk out on strike to protest what they called amazo

green energy plans to coincide with a day of global climate protests that's today amazon founder jeff bezos has unveiled a committed by the company to be carbon neutral by 24 meanwhile google claims it will make the biggest corporate purchase of a new energy in history. and that is your business update here on t w for me in the team member len thanks for watching. i'm secure in the blame or that's hard and in the end it's a me you're not allowed to stay here anymore who was injured that. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers we're alliance and the what's your story. 'd on what numbers of women especially in victims of violence. take part and send us your story you are trying in all with understand this new culture . are not a visitor in other years want to become citizens. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. below and welcome to our culture we have more on the international literature festival here in berlin and my guest is andre assume an author of call me by your name also coming up. we take a look at a new exhibition by british sculptor antony gormley who say

jeff bezos and that the player on thursday saying the largest us in chorus company plan to buy a around 100000 electric delivery vans is part of the push industry and our sis and analysts say amazon is the 1st major company to make the commit. hope sharing air b.n. b. has announced plans to go public next year the industry leader in online apartment rental is the last of last leading tech companies to announce its plans for an i.p.o. the company is yet to set a date but it claims to have generated around $80000000000.00 in revenue analysts expected to raise billions when its stock hits the market in 2020. and speaking of popular applications many of the app based services you know like ruber and lift revolutionized to their respective businesses but overall it's a system that opens the door to exploiting workers without any benefits california is now addressing the issue by signing new labor legislation that increases social protection for right share workers. just ordered by app and the drivers are on their way they're mostly contractors and often receive no social benefits whatsoever

. —— jeff bezos.will drive the economy to build products and services that these large companies need to make those commitments. the bbc has more on amazon's announcement. amazon is calling this the climate pledge and it is making three really big goals. first they want to decarbonise and they will be issuing a lot of strategies in order to do that. they will be tracking their emissions and reporting them on a regular basis. they will also do things like offset. for the instances they can't fully do that, they will do other things to combat climate change. for example, one thing the company is aiming to do by 2040, they only want to be using renewable energies. they even bought a new fleet of delivery, 100,000 in total, and they are all electric vehicles. this is a big company taking a big step forward in trying to do their part to combat climate change. samir hussein reporting. this comes as more than 15,000 of the company's workers have pledged to take protest against amazon's environmental record w

on thursday, founder and ceo jeff bezos promised to make the internet giant carbon neutral by 2040.s ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, the first of which will enter service in 2021, and he promised 100% of its energy would come from renewable sources by 2030, up from 40% at the moment. but some of the company's staff believe amazon is not doing enough to reduce its carbon footprint, and hundreds are planning to walk out of the firm's seattle headquarters in protest later today. the bbc‘s dave lee has more. if amazon had hoped that thursday's announcement would dampen the energy of the walkout, that doesn't seem to have been the case. 0rganisers have told me that the firm's pledge to meet the spirit of the paris agreement is proof that their concerns are being listened to, and they feel invigorated. but in others' view, it doesn't go far enough. one of the organisers of the walkout is emily cunningham, a user experience designer from amazon in seattle and says amazon's impact on climate change goes well beyond its own goals and sustainability. if amazon truly wants to be a clim

companies have announced they will also do their bit to help limit global warming amazon founder jeff bezos has unveiled a commitment by the company to be carbon neutral by 2040 meanwhile google claims that bull make the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history. probably because everyone points out the aviation sector and others also put other polluting the environment but the those include uses of social media because the internet isn't emission free for example a search query query on google causes about 0.2 grams of c o 2 an e-mail about one gram and an hour of video streaming or downloading pollutes the environment with 200 grams of c o 2 it doesn't really sound like very much at 1st but it really adds up because billions of people use the internet each day. and that's it from me of the business african team here in berlin told all business news outlets background story. check out our website that's dot com slash. small school in superior be changing the people making it possible eco africa. fantastic. as they send out to safe environments. that i've learned from one an

b bezos expects to be emission free. >>> we want to look at the issues right now, issues that impact every one of us. tonight we look at one of the most obvious impacts of climate change. it's right there in the pacific ocean and it's a phenomenon known as the blob. here's nbc bay area video journalist jonathan bloom. >> the oceans are showing signs of these extreme temperature events all around the world. >> we're talking about a huge area of much warmer than normal surface temperatures about three times the size of the state of alaska. the ocean is a critical part of the climate system, and it's changing. we all know about heat waves on land. sometimes they last for a couple ofime this happened in the pacific ocean, it lasted for three years. scientists called it the blob. and now it's threatening to happen again. over the last century, the average ocean temperature has slowly risen about a degree and a half. but now there's a part of the pacific that at least 7 degrees warmer than normal. scientists say nature's air conditioning seems to be broken. >> the arctic is especially warm

we have 500,000 people sleeping out on the streets tonight, while a guy like jeff bezos at amazon is70 billion, and what i have proposed is a very strong tax on wealth that will have mr. bezos ant all the multi-billionaires start paying their fair share of taxes so we can deal with the affordable housing crisis in america, that we deal with and create universal affordable childcare for working families and a health fund, medicare for all proposal. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: where does this wealth tax start? >> getting nervous, are you? >> stephen: i'm asking for a friend who has a tv show. just curious. ( laughter ) >> if you have more than $32 million in wealth -- >> stephen: personal wealth, something like that? >> yes. >> stephen: how do you go get it? because those people already have that money, how do you go get that cash. >> well, that's a good question. >> stephen: thank you. ( laughter ) >> you're welcome. and we put into our proposal the mechanism to do that. but i want to be clear, this would apply to the top one-tenth of one percent. 99.9% of the american people

lauren: buffet, bezos, gates, they will all pay higher taxes. they started their businesses, a new report says their income would have been cut in half. >> the wealth tax is unconstitutional and hasn't worked anywhere else that it's put in place. you see the exodus of millionaires and billionaires from france. with it, they lose job creation. when financial incentives are taken away, from someone like a jeff bezos who is responsible for employing tens of thousands of workers indirectly, then what is the incentive for them to stay in the country when they know they could off-shore all their cash. lauren: cheryl, over to you. cheryl: we have breaking news. the wall street journal is reporting that the hong kong exchange is offering to buy the london stock exchange, $36.6 billion. the hong kong exchange calling the merger, quote, a highly compelling strategic opportunity to create a global market infrastructure leader. again, that is crossing from our partners, the wall street journal. back at home, actress alyssa silver ston dissstone souring on s

are goingt, many after amazon with answers from jeff bezos. that story, next. bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "balance of power " on bloomberg television. i am david westin. amazon started with the ftc may be possible antitrust violations in its dealings with small merchants. now, elizabeth warren, richard blumenthal, and sharon brown are calling in jeff bezos to stop doing business with contractors who violate labor laws. naomi makes is with us now, bloomberg's tech policy reporter, in washington. is this out of the blue or a long time coming? naomi: some of these democratic lawmakers have been longtime critics of amazon over how it its workforce, how much it pays its workers, the fact that it does not pay a lot in taxes, and now this. this really came out of some investigative reporting that looked at how amazon uses third-party contractors for its delivery business and how that allows it to escape some labor and safety regulations. and negate responsibility for it. david: as you describe it, this is a major step forward or backwards. to date, it has been how muc

billionaires like jeff bezos, bill gates, and warren buffett could have lost hundreds of billions oflars in net worth over decades if president candidate elizabeth's wealth tax plan had been in effect. joining us to discuss is laura davidson, who covers corporate tax for bloomberg news. the person aren is lot of folks on wall street love to hate. we had this story out that seemed to break it down that a log of the richest people would have their wealth caught by a significant amount. lauren: depending on how long they have been wealthy, so for someone like the gates, he is about a third of where he was. someone more recently wealthy, mark zuckerberg, it is about half. 2% on assets, about $50 million when you get over $1 billion, over the years it accumulates to a large number. the amount of these billionaires would have seen their fortune grow by is diminished with the tax. >> jeff bezos would still be worth $87 billion. you can make the argument that we could do something pretty radical on taxation and even that would not stop anyone from becoming fabulously wealthy in elizabeth war

. >> tim cook and jeff bezos have donated to many of these deep-pocketed non-profit organizations that are crusading for illegal alien right. you wonder how it is they have instant representation in court to sue over every last trump initiative to enforce the law, and so, you know, big business and the u.s. chamber of commerce are a huge reason for that. >> watch "booktv" every weekend on c-span2. >>> this weekend on "american history tv," saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on "the civil war," scott mingas, co-author of "targeted tracks" talks about the importance of the cumberland valley railroad during the civil war. and at 8:00 on "lectures in history," a discussion on playwright august wilson. >> so the things that are motivating august wilson are his desire to move black people from the margins to the center. and say, what's true about us? what matters to us? what's happening in our lives. >>> and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on "reel america," the 1919 silent army film, "motor convoy" about a trans-continental trek from washington, d.c., to san francisco. a . >>> and at 8:00 on "the pr

jeff bezos announced yesterday the company will follow the paris climate agreement but some say it's not enough and they are calling for create an aggressive plan to reduce carbon emissions. other businesses will close today to encourage employees and customers to participate in the rallies. uc berkeley students will also rally against climate change, demonstrating at crown plaza 9:00 a.m. to noon, demanding governments and businesses try to reduce pollution and save natural resources. >>> the police at san josi state university are investigating shots fired at the library at san josi state while students were inside studying. it happened about 6:20 p.m. last night. when police arrived, they found two shattered windows, on the 7th and 8th floors, that had been hit by gunfire. the library was open at the time filled with students but no one was hurt. >> i got a phone call from a friend out here saying shots fired, sirens. looked out here, san josi pd all around, and said shots fired into the seventh floor window. >> i'm going to do my research from home from now on. i'm used to shooti

bezos asking other companies to sign the pledge as well. cheryl.rowing more concerned about the u.s. economy. a new fox news poll shows that 48% l feel nervous and that is up from 43% in march. as for the impact of tariffs, 45% of those polled say they hurt the u.s. economy and 47% say the condition of the economy is excellent or good, that's down from 51% in july. dominic lavest ll joins us now. good morning. we've been talking about it's not about how the economy looks from a day a take perspective, it's how the consumer feels. >> we had a tor torid pace of gh in 2018. we had an economy that was growing 3 to 4%. that's slowed down significantly. the consumer is starting to feel that. things are slowing down a little bit. but that's a long way from a recession. and i think the consumer's a big part of that. cheryl: they also talk about the president and their view of him since he took office and if you're a republican, 50% say things have gotten better. and the market has certainly gotten better. maybe the trade war is weighing on markets this yea

i like to have a crack at jeff bezos. >> jeff bezos. >> that's interesting.e almost never talks. >> certainly not in the last four or five years. there are lots of people in the technology field that i would love to talk to and they don't really talk to either. >> some of the most powerful people in the world are the ones that only post little tweets. >> yes. >> steve, thank you very much for being here. great to see you, congratulations on your retirement from "60 minutes." >> thank you very much, brian. >>> quick break here on "reliable sources." when we come back, the first tv interview with james poniewozik, the tv critic of the "new york times" who's out with a brand-new book about our tv junkie president. mytill he signed up for atunitedhealthcareealth medicare complete. ♪ now, it's like he has his own health entourage. he gets medicare's largest healthcare network, a free gym membership, vision, dental and more. there's so much to take advantage of. can't wait till i'm 65. a few more chairs, please. unitedhealthcare medicare complete plans, the only pl

. >>> jeff bezos, speaking at the national press club in d.c., making an announcement on amazon's carbonnt. ylan mui has more. >> amazon will embark on a new campaign to meet goals of the paris climate accord ten years early, calling this climate pledge amazon is the first company to sign on, and for amazon, it means moving from 40% renewable energy sources to 80% by 2024. and 100% by 2030 they're buying 100,000 electric delivery vehicles that they expect will be ready around 2024, spending $100 million on a reforestation effort with nature conservancy. amazon under growing pressure from employees to reduce its carbon footprint we expect some 1500 employees to protest on the issue tomorrow, and i asked bezos how much the company is willing to spend to meet the goals he said this is not about a dollar figure, more about encouraging ingenuity. >> you can invent your way out of any box that's what we really want to do we want to be leaders, role models we have been in the middle of the herd on this, and we want to move to the forefront. >> i asked if he was trying to sent a message to the w

jeff bezos, elon musk, mark zuckerberg. this focuses on who was excluded almost entirely. women. >> it is disappointing. that there is a list that comes out and only one woman out of 100. so it is a reflection of the fact that we do not have as many women in this as we should. >> reporter: the forbes list features 99 men and one woman. the ross ceo is included. she has a faceless silhouette and biographical information. >> there is something wrong to suggest that women are not innovative. that they are not achieving in the workforce. and in the halls of corporations. that would be factually incorrect. and it would be hurtful and damaging. >> reporter: forbes editor conceded an online post saying that the methodology was flawed. saying that they should use this moment to delve into the problem of women ascending to see you. >> women are discouraged not to go into the science field because it is really hard. >> reporter: the forbes list does point to a larger problem in corporate problem. currently there are 27 former female ceos. just 5.4%. critics say that this is disappoi

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bezos taking questions today at the national press club in d.c.criticism that amazon's same-day delivery may negatively impact the environment. >> it actually turns out that as you increase the speed of delivery you have less carbon that is counterintuitive but the reason is that once you get to sort of one-day and same-day you can't really do it by air transportation anymore you have to inventory and warehouse the products very close to the customer. and the result of building those fulfillment centers very close to the customer, you're actually transporting the products in a very efficient way, a very short distance >> bezos was also asked whether aws, ams ons cloud computing service, would stop working with oil and gas companies as a result of this new pledge. >> no. we're going to work hard for energy companies and in our view we're going to work very hard to make sure that as they transition that they have the best tools possible to ask oil and energy companies to do this transition with bad tools is not a good idea and we won't do that. >> i

jeff bezos loses a lot of money, but still has $86.2 billion left. alix: no, but still.ave to wonder, you are going to find a workaround. david: probably so, but i think the largest point is to look at the debates coming up on thursday. this puts it front and center, wealth and income inequality in the country. even though i don't think anything like this is ever going to happen, it puts this front and center. just on the not french, but how scared are they? david: the people i've talked to are concerned, particularly is thethat think if she alternative to joe biden, that will not bode well against president trump. alix: coming up, automakers under pressure. global concerns weighing on automakers and their outlook. this is bloomberg. ♪ devices are like doorways that could allow hackers into your home. and like all doors, they're safer when locked. that's why you need xfinity xfi. with the xfi gateway, devices connected to your homes wifi are protected. which helps keep people outside from accessing your passwords, credit cards and cameras. and people inside from accident