we did not know jeff bezos will be making his visit. what do we know?some pictures yesterday on social media where some warehouse workers were surprised that jeff bezos was in town. this is a fulfillment center in dallas. he was wearing jeans and a mask and rallying the troops. there have been a lot of news -- there has been a lot of concern about the workers in this warehouse. later did put out a tweet featuring some video footage of him walking around the facility. emily: talk to us about where they are. they just instituted some new guidelines telling workers to wait 24 hours before touching a package? a messagehere was from a warehouse in eastern pennsylvania that went out to some workers that ringing alarm because workers were told that any shipments from this one particular facility in hazleton, pennsylvania, to let those packages sit for 24 hours. that facility is one that takes in shipments from all over the place, even overseas, bricks them down and send them out to other -- breaks them down and sends them out to other fulfillment centers. some

they went to jeff bezos.hey said we have unsafe conditions here, and he responded by firing the people who pointed out the unsafe conditions rather than working with them to try to correct them. that's just outrageous. that's why all of us are standing up to make sure that these workers have a safe place to work, and quite frankly, that all front line workers have the equipment and the standards necessary for them to protect themselves so they don't have to choose between their health and well-being and a paycheck. >> richard, here in new york city every night at 7:00 p.m. and even it's happening at other places around the world people open up their windows and doors and they clap and they thank those workers who are out there who keep on working so that people can stay home. so our thanks to your workers whom you represent. richard trumka is the president of the afl-cio, the largest federation of unions in the united states. >>> up next, as the united states sees soaring unemployment numbers, other countries

emily: the biggest labor groups have sent a letter to jeff bezos about these issues.e know about where he stands on all this? we know he has been inside some of these meetings where these terminations have been discussed , so where does jeff bezos stand? that they are a typical modern u.s. company, anti-organized labor, and they have fended off potential organizing drives in their warehouses. amazon from talking to executives that they are worried long-term about the perception that warehouses are not a good place to work, and also the long-term threat of having to bargain across the table, so they take this seriously. we have to leave it there. thank you for that update. i am sure we will be back with you soon. coming up, easing the burden on parents desperate for resources. we will talk about that after this break. this is bloomberg. ♪ as the coronavirus hit, new zealand put one scientist front and center to explain the disease to adults and children with the daily science show for homebound kids all over the world. here is this edition of hello world. >>, and ashle

jeff bezos seeing in a note that these are not normal circumstances.ever, the company did say they did higher 175,000 additional workers they had planned to hire to meet demand over the last few weeks. rohitt to bring in a o of mkm partners. what is your headline take away? rohit: everything is good at amazon. are think these unprecedented times and unprecedented times is when they do best. all these they would have other wise made in normal circumstances, they will throw that into investment for it. a positive long-term sign for investors. near-term, it will be depressed. emily: let's talk a little bit about profit. always had slim margins. but with a profit getting even tighter, does that concern you? rohit: not in the near term. i think the bigger question here iss amazon think there something that is going on? behavior change, or permanent change in their cost structure because of what the world is going through right now. i think that is the big question mark in my opinion. i think what amazon is doing is right for consumers, and what's right for

here's a quote from jeff bezos if you're a shareholder in amazon, you may want to take a seat because thinking small. under normal circumstance in this coming q2 we'd expect to make some 4 billion r or more. we're going to spend the entirety of that 4 billion basically talking about making the investments they need to get their business up to speed and they say when it comes to aws, groceries, retail on amazon, they're being tested when it comes to just delivering in so much demand because of the current crisis so there you go. they're back in spending mode. >> no doubt about it and you know, i think you'd be surprised if it were other wooids, but the way it's articulated there brings it home >> i just mentioned the aws numbers. 10.2 billion the forecast was 10.3 billion. there's still the big lead er i this area in terms of year over year growth. that's 33% growth for that number so you can't really argue with it i guess. microsoft's beat relative to expectation was a bit stronger on that line in terms of cloud but none the less, stephanie, 10.2 billion growing 30% plus fper year, pr

jeff bezos was already the world's richest man before the pandemic yet but with everyone staying at home he is now roughly $24000000000.00 richer his wife has seen her net worth vastly increase as well and at this point amazon has reached an all time high and it stocks on tuesday valued at market over $1.00 trillion $1.01 thing we've learned from the kovac $900.00 crisis is how important amazon has become to customize we want you to know we take this responsibility seriously and we're proud of the work our teams are doing to help customers through this difficult time business is booming 75000 new employees and amazon warehouses are being hired in addition to the 100000 that were hired over the past month they are called heroes by amazon as they take a great risk of exposure in order to bring in bay's owes billions. right now the laboring the things people need has never been more important. to all of our hamazon retail heroes will continue to do everything ok and. healthy safe and protected many say that amazon has not been working to protect its heroes the company has been slow in worki

for striking in protest of the company's handling of the pandemic this after me to the people jeff bezos so generously gave whole foods employees an extra $2.00 an hour encourage them to donate sick leave to one another and granted unlimited time off unpaid but on limited the time you can spend making no money whatsoever is endless workers at whole foods twisted sister company amazon are unhappy eve on monday employee chris smalls was abruptly fired after leaving a protest at the oxymoronic amazon fulfillment center in staten island he demanded that the facility be closed unsanitized after a coworker tested positive for covert 19 smalls called the firing retaliatory but amazon claims that he was violating social distancing guidelines now was worried his employers are about the coronavirus there's another scores on the american economy that they're even more determined to stomp out that's the spread of the labor union ization over a trader joe's in the past few months whispers about unionizing i've been walking through the air one with a sense of their fresh moose jerky granola clusters s

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are realizing that they are the ones who keep the grocery store stop the utilities running and jeff bezos is washed and ready it's them not the ruling class who keeps the economy running and if they wanted to could shut things down once the workers build a movement strong enough to stage a general strike it will be too late for their bosses. because solidarity is contagious we're together on this. reporting from a barren bunker alone with no one else for miles and originally redacted tonight. here are your headlines from the future in 3 days you'll read a nation 600000 homeless blatantly refusing stay at home orders and in one week you'll learn. quarantined to world leaders and news anchors clearly already on mars that's our show but if you want to bring something for you to do at home check out my standup comedy special it's at least camp american dot com again it's free and my new book is that lee cam book dot com there won't be a new redacted tonight next week but there will be a new redacted v.i.p. until next time goodnight and keep fighting. this is a story of women women with troubl

that's jeff bezos at amazon speaking.zon hat about 750,000 employees, more than a lot of small certifieities. he is says he wants to be test every one of his workers. and he's taking matters into his own hands. amazon, because they have the manpower, are going to come up with labs of their own and equipment of their own to start testing small numbers of their own employees. the hope there is perhaps states could use what jeff bezos is doing with amazon as a blueprint as to how to roll this out in a larger scale for themselves. >> and without that widespread testing, still some governors are making plans to reopen. in texas, governor abbott has a plan to reopen the economy. when we're talking about small businesses, could some of them hurt even more if things are open too soon before the general public feels comfortable. for example, restaurants, you're paying your waiters, back staff and nobody is coming in to eat. >> exactly. and if some of those businesses are back up and running, they may not qualify for the loans out

interesting about bezos, because trump is often known to criticize bezos. fact that he's including him in this list shows just how much input the white house needs on how to reopen the economy. rosemary? >> yeah, we'll watch to see how that progresses. alison kosik, thank you so much, joining us live from new york. appreciate it. >>> well, a bishop in the u.s. has died from the coronavirus after defiantly leading church services, despite warnings from the centers for disease control. and as cnn's tom foreman reports, religious groups around the country are trying to find the balance between gathering for worship and following public health guidelines. ♪ >> god is bigger than the virus! god is bigger than our struggles! >> reporter: bishop gerald glen in the pulpit, defying cdc guidelines against public gatherings and vowing to keep preaching "unless i'm in jail or the hospital." >> nonessential personnel. i am essential. >> reporter: that was less than a month ago. now news of his death after contracting covid-19 is rocking members of the new deliverance ev

the chairman will stay socially distant from jeff bezos will not buy amazon shares. banks to the rescue. meet packers are leaving the virus we know there -- virus. we know they are buying cuts they have never bought before. in these three months of vietnam war, the number of dead good morning, -- dead. good morning, everyone, bloomberg "surveillance" from new york and london. the emotional swings from this landmark of 58,000 dead and harkening back to the vietnam war, to the

gets and jeff bezos should get $7.00 an hour. let's goes to space with $7.00. and i got to get some mars on this toilet paper roll but anyways. yeah that is interesting i wanted to point out that during right after the influenza pandemic there was a general a general strike in $119.00 so the mutual aid society is that that kind of developed during the 1918 pandemic because the government again was on rely on. for certain like quarantining measures and safety measures those mutual aid societies and workers unions came out stronger rather right after the pandemic so i think we're seeing that actually again and that's why we have a history teacher. thank you. but i wanted to talk about like what is the american perspective on the coronavirus because it is a global phenomenon and i think this video really captures what the american point of view is this is the lieutenant governor dan patrick of texas talking about how how he would contribute to the economy in this time of crisis let's take a look no one reached out to me and said as

can't fire them for having the virus that's where it gets a little bit tricky we know amazon jeff bezos told shareholders last year they that the company was starting to gather the equipment that it needs to build a coven 1000 test thing labs for its employees and the company has deployed a redeployed a team of scientists procurement specialists and some software engineers to work on a lab for testing these out front line workers could we see other employees follow through and really create their own testing facilities i don't think it's very likely that most employers will do this 1st of all the cost of this would be enormous of course amazon just you know has so much money doesn't know what to do with it so they can pretty much do whatever they want and jeff bezos is just a strange man who likes to do these kinds of things right he loves the idea i'm going to test every employee and we're going to monitor our for your standing from someone else what's more likely to happen in the short term is that there might be in office buildings you know kind of a temporary testing site set up was

the safety of their working conditions we need a job base those who take action and i know by jeff bezos a visit his disability to do something about the people coughing and sneezing as you're walking and it's just something needs to be done i stand for everybody here beside me and i want these you don't you want to be shut down immediately professional cleaning all we want for them lewis said the good enough for 2 weeks with pay while it's what it could be play in the bill and despite amazon's general counsel claiming there brainstorming ideas on how to beat the chrono virus according to protesters the facilities are not abiding by the center for disease control interventions guidelines for coping 1000 safety standards you're not really doing social distancing there's about part as exhort of people in a building on a daily basis sometimes and some areas we are shoulder to shoulder. it could be 6 feet away although staten island facility remains open despite an employee testing positive for the corona virus small says he's writing governor andrew cuomo hoping he'll shut it down for an ex

i worked for joe jeff bezos for three years. terrific guy. >> hopefully he paid you in stock? >> he did. the smartest thing i ever did. it's helped the internet archives grow and grow. thank you to jeff bezos and steve case who bought my company before that. he ran america online. so i built a company that -- america online and steve case bought. i've been very fortunate. it's all toward this goal of building the library. i've only had one idea, trying to stay at it. i wanted by october of 2020, let's be able to say welcome to the library, that the internet is not a library. can we make the library enough to raise educated citizens? if we don't, they'll learn from whatever they have in front of them. if it's foreign points of view, just trolling people making stuff up, we'll end up with a mess. i say we're sort of seeing that play out. so why don't we go and stand up and help out the facebooks, the twitters, that are trying to make referencible material. sometimes not as much as they should be. how do we make it possible? yes, it can be made up, but at least you know it's made

jeff bezos himself along with others who make up corporate revealed specifics about a worker named christian smalls in a leaked memo and amazon general counsel reportedly called him quote not smart or to kill it and reportedly wanted to use him as part of a p.r. strategy to make him the face of the entire union organizing movement it's no secret that amazon has resisted efforts of organized labor for years smalls was let go last week after leading colleagues in a lunch hour protest in staten island new york over the company's response to the pandemic we don't have don't buy the deputy sheriff. it's dark crystal yeah you don't look like you're born you're down like we started this and walked it is strong but we're told by senior he sees their deeds but we call the c.d.c. to get downstairs but amazon says small's was fired for violating a company policy of a 14 day quarantine period after coming into contact with an employee who tested positive for the virus when specifically asked about the memo david's billow ski amazon's general counsel said that his comments were quote personal and emotion

to some of the other business stories making news around the world the world's richest man jeff bezos has become even richer shares in his retail giant amazon have shot up in value according to bloomberg basis of office have increased by $24000000000.00 to over $138000000000.00 since the beginning of this year. delivery services have been in high demand us people stay home during a big corona virus outbreak. french carmaker ran nose says it is getting rid of its loss making pos and your car business in china the tie up with the dongfeng motor group has been in place since 2013 but has struggled to make money the coronavirus crisis has made things substantially worse with car sales plummeting in china. like much of the rest of the world argentina is in lockdown with the economy effectively shut down entrepreneurs have time on their hands time that they've been investing in helping their country pull through the crisis from 3 d. printed protective gear to ventilators made in car factories under news the flexibility are on full display. here in moreno aside one is ari's the dero architec

thank you to jeff bezos and steve case, who bought my company before that. he ran america online. americaa company that online bought. five been very fortunate but it was all toward the goal of building the library. since 1980, i've only had one idea and so i'm just trying to stay at it. by 2020, october 20 20 -- i set the school years ago, let's be able to say -- gold years ago, let's be able to say the internet is a library. the internet is a library and it will have all the features that we grew up with, whether it is the old periodicals, it has reliable access that is card catalog that you can find things. can we actually make the library of the digital age come to be, that has enough to raise educated citizens? if we don't, we are going to end up with a generation that learns from whatever they have in front forhem, and if it is paid stuff from political points of view for foreign points of view or just strolling people that are making stuff up, we are going to end up with a mess. we are sort of seeing my plan out, so why don't we go and stand up and help out the facebook's,

point to the high gdp and nobody needs to change anything, on average it's going well but if jeff bezos walks into a room of 100 people on average everybody will have a higher level of wealth -- >> it does not make any difference who are not jeff bezos. that's a problem, recognizing that there is a need to lift up all americans and i think also it's important -- maybe it helps policymakers to recognize if the u.s. wants to compete against the rest of the world, other countries like china and india with a billion plus people power, we don't have the people power especially failed must enter much less if we don't lift up americans and have as many americans as possible and have full potential to be productive and innovative and bring america back to number one. >> i know my parents really talked about the sense of unity coming out of world war ii and they relayed how in their lifetime they experienced this, my mother came from an extraordinary level of poverty, her mother with her first three children, lost the three children to the county in the middle the great depression and lived in a

thank you to jeff bezos and steve case bought my company before that. he ran american online. seibold the company that america online and steve case but. i have been very fortunate but it was all towards this goal of building the library. i've only had one idea, and so just trying to stay at it. i wanted by 2020, october of 2020, let's be able to say welcome to the library, that the internet is now a library. the internet is library and it will have all of the features that frankly we grew up with, whether it's the old periodicals. it has reliable access and card catalog you can find things. can we actually make the library of the digital age come to be, that has enough to raise educated citizens? if we don't wig work on end uph a generation of deserters. he will learn from whatever they have in front of them. and if it's paid for stuff from political point of view or foreign points of view or just trolling people that are just making stuff up, we are going to up with a mess. and i say where sort of seeing that play out. so why do we go and stand up and help out the facebook's

jeff bezos told amazon shareholders that those who test positive can be quarantined and cared for. everyone who tests negative could reenter the economy with confidence. this is how some state and local leaders are talking, too. gavin newsom said california will need the widespread ability to test, contact trace and isolate. i would like to talk to dr. fauci. his advice is hugely consequential. although we have been asking for a while, he won't talk to us. i will ask the questions anyway and see if we get a reply. one, dr. fauci you keep telling us you are led by the signs and data. why was your data so wrong for so long. why didn't you commission testing like the stanford team. will you carry out nationwide survey testing immediately? two, based on this new data do you accept that it's unnecessary and impractical to identify, contact trace o and identifier e who has this virus. will you tell the governors and the media and boggss like bezos that widespread testing is not necessary for reopening. four, do you agree that all deaths matter. not just coronavirus deaths. will you commi