john chen is there now in indonesia, jakarta., great to see you all the way across the world. >> nice to see you. >> i am sure a lot of viewers have the lesson, why are you in here likew? >> i am you pointed out to make sure that the partnership we have struck a year ago on the messaging side and the hardware side is going well, and whatever i can do to help out. to see how we can expand our business and footprint here. we have a business that we are quite focused on. i'm trying to see what is the best way to enter the market in indonesia. >> what about the market itself? is the market expanding? or are parts of it shrinking? >> it is expanding. i split -- i was with one of the other major telecoms discussing the software business. institutions, the government users, hospitals. many different enterprises. talking about iot. in this particular case they are looking at growing double digits year-over-year. the business is quite robust. on mobile, like your earlier guess talked about, mobile is taking over everything. when hundred 7

so there will be a lot on the agenda with chen. a software company and not a hardware company. they also do a lot with cars? >> 60% of connected cars globally use blackberry software. it is interesting. you would not think they would be the leader in that but they are the leader in terms of connected cars. john chenanother area wants to accelerate that growth, so to speak. but we've had sales numbers come out of the u.s. and it looks like that market is stagnating here in the united states. there are concerns about the challenges of trying to connect those cars. the all about ecosystem, so that is incredibly fascinating. betty, thank you. you can catch the interview today on bloomberg daybreak: asia. in the meantime, let's to the bloomberg business flash. cvs and walgreens sued for overcharging on copayments. medicinethe fact that was cheaper. they clawback the payments for the managers which pocketed the difference. walgreens had no immediate comment. goldman sachs talking about bitcoin. dollarsyst said real are not worth the cryp

two of the favourites progressed in the singles to the next round, chen long defeating the indonesian, who beat emil holst/ lijunhui/ teammate, lin dan, who beat emil holst/ li junhui/ liu teammate, lin dan, who beat emil holst/ lijunhui/ liu yuchen. lin dan, looking for a sixth career world title this week recovered to win in three. —— lin dan. thursday's action will see all of those who made it through to the round of 16 can pick and friday will be the quarter—finals with the medal matches over the weekend. chris froome has extended his lead in the vuelta a espana, following wednesday's fifth stage. the stage was won by alexey lutsenko from kazakstan. the astana rider sprinted clear to win by more than a0 seconds from eritrea's merhawi kudus. meanwhile, froome finished safely in the pack, and he's extended his overall lead to ten seconds from the american tejay van garderen. finally, to tennis, and zhang shuai is through to the quarter—finals of the connecticut open in new haven. the world number 29 from china beat the polish qualifier magda linette in three sets. zhang won 63, 6—7,

at the "live desk," nancy chen, abc7 news. larry: thank you for that. new developments tonight following violence in charlottesville after a man showed up at emanpation park today with a confederate flag and rifle. they made it clear the man said he came to protect the statue of robert e. lee was not welcome. jeff goldberg is live with the situation that is still tense this evening. jeff? jeff: well, larry, the city council plan to take down the statue of robert e. lee at emancipation park. it's what drew the white nationalists protesters here to town last weekend. this morning the statue attracted a man from north carolina and his presence resulted in anger and emancipation park he was alone. quietly holding a confederate battle flag. >> this represents freedom from tyranny. >> with an a.r.-15 rifle around his shoulder. he drove seven hours from north carolina to honor the statue of robert e. lee. >> robert e. lee is probably the greatest american that ever lived. jeff: after a civil debate with local resident peter norton. >> i disagree with you. jeff

nancy chen at the "live desk" with a story developing now.esident's decision coming hours after two additional c.e.o.'s said they would be leaving the manufacturing council. the heads of campbell soup and 3m would have made eight people to leave the group since the president's initial remarks on the violence in charlottesville saturday. so the president sent this tweet saying that rather than put pressure on business people, he would end the council and if strategy policy forum. he thanked the executives who had taken part for their work. at the "live desk," nancy chen, abc7 news. alison: thank you. meanwhile, this comes as more cities memoriams dedicated to the confederacy before the controversy turns to violence. the plaque here honoring robert e. lee was removed in new york today. in the middle of the night, four statues came down in baltimore. maryland bureau chief, brad bell, live with that side of the story. >> this is something an artist made as a proest to to the statue. it was taken away but then put up top. this is what is going on

at the "live desk," nancy chen, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. increased police presence is expected at the college park city council meeting. michelle: that is because the council is scheduled to take a vote on controversial bill to allow noncitizens to vote in city elections. jonathan: tom roussey is live in college park where tensions are so high the vote may not happen. explain that, tom. tom: college park is known as the home of the university of maryland but it's also home to more than 32,000 people. not all are u.s. citizens. >> i'm an immigrant. tom: she was born in ecuador. she wanted to vote but for years she cou became a citizen. >> if you work here and pay your taxes i don't see why you shouldn't vote. >> if you pay taxes and live here it gives you a vote. i disagree. if you take a path to citizenship and become citizen of the country. >> the measure would allow noncitizens illegally and the immigrants to vote. there would be a separate voter list since they would vote in the state and the national election. >> if i went to another co

at the "live desk," nancy chen, newsom. larry: thank you. the trump administration says baltimore is at risk of losing out of a new program designed to help cities struggling with gun violence. u.s. attorney general jeff sessions says it is one of four cities that will be ineligible for the program unless they give up the sanction ware city status. the new program specifically helps fight drug trafficking and the gang crime. letter from the justice department says the cities have until august 18 to give federal authorities access to jails and start giving the notice before anyone wanted on immigration violations is released fro alison: 7 is on storm watch with another chance of showers around the area tonight. the chief meteorologist doug hill in the weather center with what we need to know tonight. doug? doug: between 4:45 and 5:20 that was the active time of the new storm building up, warning issued. now it's settling down. the only area we have heavy weather is northeast of washington metro. we will zoom in to this severe thunderstorm war

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from the "live desk," nancy chen, abc7 news. alison: thank you. now we turn to the escalating threats from north korea tonight. a new threat from both sides. jonathan: the latest warning coming from the secretary of state of defense james mattis telling north korea the actions actions will be grossly overmatched by ours. he continued that the nation should cease actions that would lead to the end of the regime. late last night the nuclear armed nation threat and to target the united states territory of guam. that is after president trump promised fire and fury to counter north korea threats. >> what the president is doing is sending a strong message to north korea. in language that kim jong un would understand. jonathan: some believes its could fuel propaganda. they are warned that the comments were not discussed to the national security team prior to making them. alison: also tonight, secretary tillerson stopped to refuel at military installation in guam. 7,000 american troops are stationed there. with the air force bombers and the fighter jets.

julie chen gives us an update on the co-hosts search. >> we're a few weeks away from the chemistry testere's a big list of names. you don't just have to good chemistry with one person. you need good chemistry with everybody. i wouldn't be surprised if we ended up entering season eight with a variety of guest hosts. >> we love you aisha and wish you good luck. >> julie said replacing aisha is like finding a new mate. >> you get to see us four gals on many dates. it's like speed dating. >> tonight, a special edition of "big brother" on cbs. julie thinks there's a definite favorite to this year's winner. >> it's paul. even though he's manipulating you you're under his spell. it's paul's game to lose. >>> up next, amy schumer on her latest roll on judge judy. we'll tell you how she landed that gig. ♪ >>> then, carly rae jepsen takes us behind the scenes of her new video. >>> and we go on the road with guy fieri and his family.♪ having a baby. caring for your parents. learning you have a condition. these are moments when people realize that where you get your medicine matters. and they look

alison: nancy chen has been following the story. news: the country's state agency says that north korea is considering striking areas around guam with medium to long range strategic listed missiles. that threat has the attention of leaders around the world as u.s. intelligence in the list believe that north korea can put a miniaturized nuclear warhead inside of a missile, a dangerous milestone. president trump saying there should be no further threats. not make anya best more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening, beyond normal statements. and as i said, they will be met with fire,fury, and power, the likes of which the world has never seen before. nancy: north korea slamming the un security council unanimously approval of sanctions. the threat on guam refers to the flight of u.s. bombers over the korean peninsula yesterday, those flights originating from andersen air force base in guam. those bombers were joined by japanese and south korean airc

julie chen giv the co-host search. >> we are a couple of weeks away from doing some chemistry tests,there's like a big list of names. you don't have to just have good chemistry with one person. you need to have good chemistry with all. i wouldn't be surprised if we ended up entering season eight and having a variety of guest co-hosts. >> we love you, aisha. we'll miss you. good luck. [ applause ] >> group hug. >> julie says it's hard filling aisha's shoes. >> you get to see us four gals have many dates. it's like speed dating. >> tonight there's a special episode of big brother on cbs. julie thinks there's a definite favorite to be the season's winner. >> even while he's manipulating you, he does it so well that somehow you're just under his spell. it's paul's game to lose. >> up next, amy schumer on her latest role. >> i'm going to be like in the background actor in a lot of >> what? we'll tell you how she landed that gig. then -- ♪ lye queen of catchy songs, car rae jepsen takes us behind the scenes of her new music video. and we're road tripping with guy fieri, his family, and a w

alison: nancy chen, walk us through the lawsuit and what the white house is saying. centershe lawsuit around a report by fox news saying that it had proof the conspiracy theories were real. turns out they were false. fox ultimately retracted the story. the fox news story was largely based on quotes by a former homicide detective investigating the case. fox, saying the story was fabricated. he was involved after being contacted by well-connected republican to the white house in april to discuss the story that fox news was working on with the press secretary sean spicer. >> he did not say a whole lot. he said if i wanted to come he could put me in touch with the white house. nancy: not long after, spicer denied any knowledge of the fox news story. >> i'm not aware. updates on don't get former dnc staffers. nancy: today spicer admitted he did have the meeting at the white house with the investigator, calling the donor a longtime supporter of the president's agenda. the investigator claims there was more from the white house. days after the story aired, the donor left a

kpix 5 reporter sharon chen is on this developing story she is at police ridiculous now. >>> a weekend picnic came to a sudden when a big tree branch came crashing down on a two year old girl. the little girl dad has an important question he'd like answered here. >> reporter: that tree is still here on campus pretty much where it fell yesterday. it's cordoned off now and school doesn't start for another two weeks. the family who was injured in this shared their story with us today. they said the whole thing was a miracle. on that fateful saturday afternoon, there was no wind, no warning, nothing. >> right before it happened, i heard a loud cracking sound, almost like a house collapsing. >> like a -- like something like crunching. >> reporter: a large oak tree branch 50 feet long and 4 feet in diameter broke off and fell on a small group of people attending a company party. >> when it hit the ground, it was kind of just like -- and you can feel -- you can feel the ground kind of move a little bit. >> reporter: chris garcia saw the branch knock down his wife jasmine and two year old daug

nancy chen has the developments. a a north korean general in charge of rocket command said the plan should be finalized by mid-august. the regime wants to fire four mid range missiles towards guam and they expects them to land about 20 miles from the creating a massive fire come all of this is president trump continues to warn north korea of dire consequences. >> the president is sending a strong message to north korea in light which that kim jong will understand. he does not seem to understand diplomatic sanctions. nancy: the president is meeting with top officials to assess the readiness of the military and first responders. video ofeanwhile, new a russian air force jet flying right over major d.c. landmarks. it is an unarmed plane flying over the pentagon, the capital, and the white house. this is allowed by a treaty in place that involves u.s. air force personnel on board. jonathan: new information about the fbi raid of a former campaign chairman. this happened at paul manafort's condo in old town. sources say th

i want to bring back lanhee chen .e have been talking about what congress might be able to achieve. you said it is necessary that they were together. a bloomberg editorial today called on congress to constrain trump. to investigate any violations of the emoluments clause for example. do you think that is a good way to perhaps restrain some of the president's worst impulses? >> i think congress has an oversight rule. to besue is are you going able to track this. on the one hand is there going to be a congressional track investigating whether it's the emoluments issue, the russia issue, all sorts of different potential issues that members of congress can dream up and can there be another track on which they are moving infrastructure tax reform the need to avoid a shutdown raising the debt ceiling. i am skeptical there can be that division of labor. verynk it's going to be difficult for the administration and congress to work together if there is any aggressive investigations track on the one hand. democrats are going to

president chen begin it clear that technology industries a central focus in this economy.s like apple and amazon's jeff bezos. we are back with our panel. great to see everybody and that's my question for you ryan because he were a small start up relative to what we are talking about in terms of the impact on tax reform and some of these policies. what's the most important policies like to see coming out of this administration to help your business get to the next level? >> the way we think about policies we leave that to the experts. at a high level the thing that is important is actually pervasive right now and innovation. innovation is good for a group of economies and good for our domestic economy because it adds transformation change and opportunity. from our perspective at cadre we are innovating in real estate. we want more people to have access. the only way that was available in successful was because we innovated. we said this existing real estate investing model does not work and we want to change it for the better. the most important theme that needs to be perv

. >> tonight kpix5 sharon chen is here with a look at the practice of naming and shaming on twitter. >> the twitter account that outed cole white is called yes you're racist. it asks people for help to quote name the nazis and it will make them famous. >> on its twitter post yes you're racist boastsole whe t fir pernt identified from the t chhaarlottesville march no longr has a job. the account indicates it was set up to call out racism. a technology analyst says it's acceptable on social networks like twitter. >> if you're out in public you have no expectation to privacy. you can be photographed, you can be on television and you can be tweeted about. you're not supposed to take somebody who might otherwise be a private citizen and start exposing personal information, especially where they live or their phone number. >> still there are risks. amateur detectives concluded the protesterstesters on the left was at the rally, but they were wrong. he wasn't even in virginia. this student said he was a participant and said he got death threats because people associated him with the man who

. >> nancy chen is tracking the storm. about 30ey're talking inches of rain? >> they are. millions of people will likely affected by harvey, which is expected to hit texas late friday or early saturday, a category 3 storm, the likes of which have not been seen 20 years.lmost a mass exodus now under way in several towns along the coast, including corpus christi, new orleans and houston. >> everybody just went to code red. and we basically just to prepare ourselves. >> i'm 65 and i don't want to 65.at >> another thing to keep an eye on here, some 20 refineries producing four million barrels of oil could be impacted. that could result in higher gas in some parts of the country. meantime, airlines are waiving certain fees for those affected hurricane. the national weather service just issuing its 11 p.m. update storm.he chief meteorologist steve rudin with what we just found out. steve? right. looking outside right now, at hurricane harvey, winds at 85 miles per hour. latest update is that it intensified quickly, earlier beginning tow it's weaken just a tiny bit. but don't be

our dave kin can chen was there joins us live from langhorne. dave? >> reporter: and lucy, those words of hate appeared on a school sign and also school windows and tonight residents got together to get information but to also take a stand. >> he doesn't see black or white. he just cease people. >> reporter: adrian collins had the difficult task of explaining to her grandson the words of hate graffitid on the marquis at herbert hoover elementary where he goes to school. parents made the disturbing find last weekend. >> i had to put it in terms that he would understand. >> reporter: town hall meeting hosted by the grass roots activist group the piece center bringing together concerned residents with public officials to address the matter. >> in order to fix this we'll have to show up. we'll have to speak up. >> reporter: middletown township police chief shared what he could about the on-going investigation and the search for the racist vandal. >> we've gotten some good, credible tips and information from the public that we're following up on, and, um,

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detailed blog posts saying in part, quote, we were quite surprised when the o s fcc p accused us of now chen say thing women fairly. we -- of not compensating women fairly. we were taken aback when it came without supporting data or methodology. our annual analysis shows no gender pay gap at google. they haven't taken steps to learn our systems and don't understand them. the fired engineer is defending every word he wrote. kpix 5's maria medina shows us the debate he is sparking over the company's work culture. >> i decided to create the document just to clarify my thoughts. >> reporter: before the world knew who he was, james damore was just a google engineer who decided to write a ten-page memo about the gender gap at his company. >> you know, i heard things that i definitely disagreed with. >> reporter: in an interview with a youtube channel he explains for the first time he wrote the memo after attending a diversity program at google. >> there's a lot of just shaming and, you know, no, you can't say that. that's sexist. you can't do this. and i -- there's just so much hypocracy. >> repor

lonnie chen, carla, with politico, thank you both. >>> as we have just discussed the events in charlottesvilleave ignited debate about race, free speech and our nation's history. joining me now for a congressional perspective on the week's events is congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. welcome to the show. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> what is your reaction to the events following charlottesville? >> i think like most people i was appalled. i was at the time in normandy with my son who is a teenager and we were looking at the bitter cost that was paid to defeat these ideas of racial supremacy and to turn on the tv and see back home these ugly actions by these neo-nazis and white supremacists and the violence and the attack on that woman who came to protest that pernicious ideology. that was just horrible. >> what are your thoughts on the way that president trump responded, congressman jackie speer this week said he should be removed under the 25th amendment. do you think he should be removed from office? >> i think his reaction was just appalli

tatiana chen of was given gold but was stripped after a doping offence —— tatya na stripped after a doping, are you? i said no, but i had forgotten the feeling of stepping out in an arena and hearing the crowd cheering for you is such an emotional thing. it kind of takes you over and it was really special to be on the podium for one last time and said that the atmosphere of the crowd. it was really great. it really was great. we are hoping for a great women's 100 metres final which is the last event on the track this evening. there will be no british woman in it. desiree henry was probably the best chance of going through to the final. she was ina going through to the final. she was in a blistering league quick semifinal. elaine thompson, the 0lympic semifinal. elaine thompson, the olympic champion, just cruising into the final. desiree henry finished fifth. no asha philip either. we have also had the semifinals. let's hear from desiree have also had the semifinals. let's hearfrom desiree henry. she used to bea hearfrom desiree henry. she used to be a torch bearer here at the 0lympic be a

>> director of domestic policy studies, lahne chen. let's look at the quinnipiac poll. it has president trump's approval rating at 33%, down 7% since the end of june. 61% disapprove. among voters who made up his coalition, he has a 76% among republicans, 47% among white men and 43% among white voters with no college grew, this as the gallup poll puts the president's approval at 36%, ranking it among the three lowest days of his presidency. >> so you're starting to see some order brought to the white house since general kelly. and he's now saying the bad news, the fake news from the president makes our jobs harder. >> look, there is a downward curve that is very steady from january 20th until now in, say, the very low, high 40s and he's now down in that average around 38 and every month it's like this. it's a very plain chart. i'm not sure what we're seeing here is the chaos over scaramucci or whatever. this is the posthealth care meltdown. it's now beginning to dawn on people that he's getting nothing done legislatively and he's got a republican congress and that can't

chen you look at how ht it's share has been, of the smart phone market has fallen below 2%.ing it hardng for htc two maintain its top position. a fourthe gaining for straight session and up over 32% year to date, so teflon kospi and samsung shares. rishaad: that verdict later today. thank you for that. as the dojbut not would like it. that is our first word news headline. >> japanese inflation inching higher in july, core consumer prices raising .5% compared with a .4% gain in june. inflation lags as the boj struggles to spur price increases. the boj has pushed back the projected date of reaching its 2% objective six times. prime minister faces a verdict in her trial for negligence and corruption, accused of failing to curb 20 $6 in a controversial billion subsidy program designed to support rural communities. people who benefited were her cronies, it is accused. she faces 10 years in jail, if convicted. the trial of jay y. lee reaches .ts conclusion friday jay y. lee denies corruption, accused of funneling millions of dollars in return for government favors here it his defe

clearly these are the people and then to ben chen mitch mcconnell by a very compliant congress so with that gerrymandering and suppression that is going space blind in of wondering if you can talk about the wisconsin supreme court case or those other institutions? >> you have a lot of the table. >>. >> just follow what is happening on the issue of gerrymandering to find the address that core democracy issues one person that they do right in the book is crests the guide the president has empowered to give advice to counsel on voting rights and election issues and a host of matters all these things you're raising. i have covered this character for years when he was with the american legislative exchange council and he is the worst possible person to have been charged i genuinely say we should be on top of what he's doing everyday and ready to resist because the answer is if if he could get reelected is about his policies or those economic issues but the quality of all our democracy how healthy is our democracy? i fear of how we organize elections are the worst players of the most disresp

deportation too few migrants are being deported the european states have to do more his change of chen really boils down to the ease relocation policy for the refugees and migrants is apparently falling apart i mean in the beginning it was mostly the eastern european states like hungary and poland in the baltic states being against that used welcoming policy for the migrants and refusing to take in more and more refugees but now we're hearing more voices of this content from other countries as well particularly italy which really has been bearing the brunt of the migrants are the refugees arriving from africa as well as the middle east in search of a better life in europe since the beginning of this year we're talking about new the one hundred thousand migrants who have arrived in italy and we can really see that things are reaching boiling point in situation is particularly worsening in this small italian town of. were locals have been protesting against building a new refugee shelter for under age migrants. ok what did you get out of we are the police a minute approached a friend of

wanted to add some sort of amendment spending reforms to it and then treasury secretary stephen knew chen put his foot down he said no i want to clean bill nothing at all attached let's make this as easy as possible to push that through so what does that do that that direct approach will i mean i think it's going to be tough because look i mean we know for a fact that there are going to be republicans hard line republicans who are not going to vote for a clean bill that's that's just a fact they didn't do it back when president obama was in the white house and speaker boehner was in charge they're not going to do it now the president trumps in the white house so i think the clean bill itself is probably not ever going to happen i think that's for much off the table so i think now republicans have to figure out like i just said what angle they're going to take and i think the bigger question is what is president trump going to do and what are his priorities on the campaign trail where does he want to cut. i mean there are probably won't be any new revenue increases so it's going to be a ba