in light of the ellen pao trial, has this is you become trendy or oversaturated? it lessened the impetus for impact? >> i think it is ok. it is becoming cool, let's get in the full and talk about this. i think the leaders in the industry, pagers, google facebook, intel, along with leader venture capital firms are taking advantage of that momentum. it might be over discussed, but now let's decide what to do to make a difference. emily: i understand it is also the president's birthday today. you guys sang him a song? >> we did. it was great. these entrepreneurs, hearing these great ideas, i do get helped that it was his birthday. he is looking for to the day he can have a smartphone, and take pictures of this kind of exciting event. he says he will be looking for a job soon. we are ready to employ him. emily: we will send our wishes as well. happy birthday, president obama. that does it for today's edition of bloomberg west. tomorrow we will be all over tesla and fitbit earnings. ♪ >> from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. al: ben carson is a neuro

emily: have you been following the ellen pao versus kleiner perkins trial? facebook and twitter.t is your take on the sexism issue in silicon valley? mike: it is kind of surprising to me that it took this long for anything like this to happen. i mean, it has been male-dominated for -- i am old. i was in it in the 1980's. i am not surprised. engineers, i making a broad statement, but i think a lot of male engineers have this thing about women that goes back to women treating them badly in high school. or something. and maybe there is a little bit of that. alec: anything that is ripe for satire, we have a duty to the show to go after. if we can figure out an inspired way to hit it, absolutely. emily: would you work for amazon studios? would you work for netflix? ♪ emily: i wonder, how does silicon valley compared to the other things that you have done? "seinfeld," "beavis and butthead," office space." mike: "king of the hill," "beavis and butthead," there was no overall arc. i have never done live-action television. i have done movies. when you have 40 crew people standing behind y

emily: ellen pao versus kleiner perkins trial. what did you see in that? david: let's see.ss i would see a no-win situation for anybody. it was a tragedy all the way around. emily: why? david: it is something that is not good for venture, not good for kleiner, not good for ellen. it turned out to be something where there is a lot of drama and a lot of pain. i am not sure what good came out of it. i am hoping there will be some. there are some good lessons there about how you treat employees. maybe some lessons about document retention. maybe some thoughts about how you build your firm. john: at the meta-level, the pressure it puts on our industry is to make sure we are representative of full diversity is very good. we have a lot of work to do there. david: until a firm votes with their feet and their wallets, they can be judged harshly. emily: part of the reason kleiner found itself in this position is venture capital firms have historically had a problem with succession. how do you make sure greylock is around for 50 years? david: greylock at 50 years could sometimes get t

former banker ellen pao has appealed an order she must pay part of for old firm's legal costs in thefrom a nation case she brought. she lost the case and a judge ordered her to pay $276,000 in costs. awardl give up the cost if she drops her appeal of the verdict. new england quarterback tom brady and nfl commissioner roger goodell are in court today over the deflategate scandal. federal judge wants to talk about settling the case. radio's appealed his four-game suspension in the matter that he ordered the deflation of footballs in order to win the super bowl. those are just some of the top stories we are sharing with you at this hour. a lot going on. there are -- there is a market route going on across the world. officially entered a bear market , lowest level since 2001. stocks being pushed down by locomotive the prices and china's falling yuan, especially immediately be msci emerging markets index down more than 2% over the past two days. covering for bloomberg news joins us now. when you say this is mostly due interventione yuan or have commodity prices just been battering the eme

ellen pao is appealing an order to pay more than a quarter million dollars in attorney fees to her former employer, kleiner perkins. pao has sued the firm claiming it denied her promotions because of her gender. she lost the trial but sparked a diversity debate. pao recently resigned as ceo of reddit. >>> republican presidential hopeful jeb bush is scheduled to return to the bay area. he will attend a fundraiser in san francisco. tickets cost $2,700. this is the former florida governor's second stop here in the bay area in a month. >>> the smart train may lose its funding. a u.s. senate committee drastically cut a program. officials are still hopeful that some deal can be reached. in 2008, voters approved a sales tack with the promise the train would run from clover dale to larksburg, where riders could catch a ferry into san francisco. >>> now back to that search for a woman who may have jumped off the bay bridge into the waters below. abc 7 news reporter janet oh is live near the scene with the very latest for us. janet? >> reporter: you can see the coast guard out there on their boats

ellen pao is appealing the decision. claiming it denied her promotions and ignored her complaints. lost a trial but sparked a diversity debate. she recently resigned as ceo of reddit. >>> jeb bush is scheduled to return to the bay area. he'll be attending a fundraiser in san francisco. tickets cost about $2700. this is the former florida governor's second stop in the bay area in a month. >>> it's 5:06 now. let's turn things over to mike nicco. >> good morning. we're cooler inland especially. lafayette, san ramon, dublin, antioch, 57 degrees. danville at 58. pleasant hill 59. we've got walnut creek and livermore at 60. pittsburgh, you're at 63. blackhawk, 54 degrees right now. we have that same temperature in navarro. coming into san francisco or san carlos, 59. same thing in san jose. heyward about 58. oakland 56. you can see those late arriving clouds on our east bay hills camera. and because they're late arriving, they're going to go away pretty quickly today. a whole lot of sunshine. coast and san francisco about 64 to 70. around the bay, 69 to 79. it won't be quite as breezy as