okay, danielle venton with kqed and gerry diaz with the san francisco chronicle.hank you both for being here. >> thank you. >>> let's turn to the financial outlook. we ended last year with a series of layoffs at several big technology companies and this week showed us the pain is not over yet. another 18,000 tech workers lost her job at places like amazon and salesforce in the first few weeks of january. more layoffs on the way according to industry analyst. there will be cuts to government services as well as the pullback hits the state budget. joining me now is the san francisco bureau chief from marketwatch, danielle venton and marketwatch senior reporter, levi sumagaysay. thank you both for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> tellus about these layoffs. how is it being felt in california? >> the layoffs are happening at big global companies to focus on text companies. amazon has a presence here so hundreds of people so far have lost their jobs in california that work for amazon, but also salesforce which is the biggest employer in san francisco. they ar