eric newcomer joins us with uber's chief product officer, jeff holden.ric: we are here at this amazing flying cars -- the phrase i'm going to use -- conference. do we have a flying car right now? >> we definitely do not. this is the very beginning. this started as a deep investigation -- can we actually take the business model of ridesharing into the sky? no matter what you do on the ground, you are always limited by the fact that it is a two-dimensional road network, and there is so much more mobility bandwidth in the sky. we did a deep dive on this a year and a half or two years kicked thist whole thing off. this is the second annual summit. eric: uber is the convener here, bringing the software to it. you have five vehicle partners now. what are those vehicles? what do they look like? >> the vehicles are different from what you might think of as an urban aviation aircraft, which would be a helicopter. these are all electric, battery powered aircraft, and that enables us to design a different kind of aircraft that is much more efficient and quieter, ha

. >> jeff holden is uber's chief product officer. >> using stacked rotors. to create vertical lift.t lifts up like a helicopter. but then when it gets to the right altitude, this rotor kicks on. creates, forward thrust. uses the wings for lift. >> holden says they're still in the design phase. unlook a helicopter. this aircraft will have clusters of small propellers and run on electricity making it quieter, efficient. affordable. although piloted at first, the goal is for the flying taxis to become autonomous. questions remain about how they will guarantee safety. uber also says, for the program to become profitable it will need to move beyond a niche market. >> one of the key tenants of the technology is for to us have, four riders in each vehicle. so that essentially the cost per ride goes down. the combination of mass market. sharing which is really what uber is about. can bring this to the masses. can make it affordable. for, for normal people. >> and he took over a company in crisis when he replaced the ceo in august. >> an eight-year-old company still not profitable. lost $4.5

is the latest of more than a dozen senior executives to exit uber in the past year his name was jeff holden, he oversaw the flying car project, uber elevate >>> let's get a check on some other big stock movers to watch this friday morning. kate rogers has those. >>> your big individual stock stories include serner they won a $10 billion government contract to overall the electronic medical records of millions of veterans. the contract with cerner is one of the largest in the va's history. >>> paypal is buying european payment service izettle for 2$22 billion, its largest acquisition ever izettle builds devices and technology used by about half a million businesses in europe, brazil and mexico. and paypal's coo will join "squawk box" live at 6:40 eastern. >>> carl icahn disclosed a 9% stake in amtrust financial >>> applied material's second quarter results topped forecast on higher demand from memory from smartphonemakers and cloud services providers >>> nordstrom's first quarter earnings beat forecasts but same-store sales missed estimates. the department store says shoe sales were challeng

jeff holden is the latest of more than a dozen top executives to leave the ridesharing company in thear. pull -- he oversaw uber elevate . the ceo has been shaking up the company since he took over at left august. he tried to improve uber's reputation. >>> you can now have happy hour at the happiest place on earth. all of the restaurant at disney's magic kingdom will sell alcohol. the park was alcohol free until six years ago. since then, the park has slowly added beer and wine to the menu at the restaurant. >>> 6:25. san francisco is getting ready for big crowds for the annual bay to breakers race this sunday. more than 40,000 runners are expected. to take park -- part. online registration is closed. you can still register if you're a runner. at pier 35 in san francisco. the streets are going to be closed along the route to getting early sunday until sunday afternoon. except along the embarcadero and crossover drive through golden gate park. the race starts at maine and howard. it will go through san francisco before finally ending at the great highway. >>> it's it looks like the 26.

officer is leading after four years at the company despite his title a source telling cnbc that jeff holdenve day-to-day responsibilities for the company's products like uber eats but he was an important exec at the company, no doubt, hired by travis cal nichlt ck and overseeing its flying tax ts he spoke about his vision for uber take a listen. >> uber does what it does based on going after a very ambitious mission. we're trying to build the operating system for the future city, the way that people and things will move around cities much more efficiently, much more safely, et cetera. >> uber telling cnbc as demonstrated by last week's uber elevate summit, we're incredibly bullish on the future of aerial ride sharing under the leadership of eric allison the team is set up for success and will continue to chart the course for this growing industry uber has had a hard time keeping top talent many of the officers have left, including saile yoo. making his mark, filling out ranks at the company, hiring new coo and general counsel but still struggling to find a cfo, key role to help take his com

. >> reporter: jeff holden is uber's chief product officer. >> using these what they call stack eed rotorsertical lift. it lifts up kind of like a helicopter. when gets to the right aldue to, this creates -- altitude, this creates lift. >> reporter: they're still in the design phase. unlike a helicopter, this aircraft will have clusters of small propellers and run on electricity making it quieter, more efficient, and more affordable. although piloted at first, the goal is for the flying taxis to become autonomous. questions remain about how they will guarantee safety. uber also says for the program to become profitable, it will need to move beyond a niche market. >> one of the key tenets of this technology is for us to have four riders in each vehicle so that essentially the cost per ride goes down, the combination of mass market and sharing, really what uber is all about, can bring this to the masses, can make it affordable for normal people. >> reporter: the ceo took over a company in crisis when he replaced travis ckalanick as ce in august. you're an eight-year-old company, still not pr

coming up as one, jeff weaver, campaign manager for bernie sanders 2016 presidential campaign discusses his book. mark holdenl be on to talk about efforts to reform the criminal justice system. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. >> coming up live on tuesday, the korea economic institute looks at u.s. military forces in south korea and what role they play as north and south korean leaders agreed to a peace deal. d.c., arom washington, discussion about politics, race, and civil discourse at 6:30 eastern. a group of warmer national security council members discussed the trump administration's counterterrorism strategy at new america at 12:15 eastern. >> watch our live coverage of the utah senate republican primary debate with mitt romney from brigham young university. listen on the free c-span radio app. make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. >> all this week, c-span is featuring commencement speeches from around the country. oprah winfrey spoke earlier this month at unsc. she is followed by house majority whip steve scalise, deputy attorney general robbers

jeff weaver, the bernie sanders' presidential campaign manager. he will be joining tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. and joined by mark holden to talk about criminal justice reform. mark holden works with freedom partners. we'll have that discussion tomorrow morning. hope you join us for that starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 a.m. pacific. in the meantime hope you have a great memorial day. thanks for watching.. >>> throughout this memorial day c-span's cameras will visit the memorials around washington, d.c. here a look at iwo jima memorial dedicated to the u.s. marine corps depicting one of the most famous incident's of world war ii which took place on the island of iwo jima but the memorial dedicated to all marines. 2018 is the centennial year of u.s. participation in world war i. american history tv is marking the anniversary with many programs that seek to better understand and commemorate the great war. next on real america, two world war i scholars help explain what's happening in silent u.s. army films recorded in france in 1918 titled "occupation of chateau-thierry sector" the films shot in northeast france 60 mil

coming up tuesday morning, jeff weaver, campaign manager for 2016or bernie sanders presidential campaign discusses his book. mark holden will be on to talk about his efforts to reform the criminal justice system. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the discussion. >> coming up live on tuesday, the korea institute looks at u.s. military forces in south korea and what role they play as leaders agreed to a peace deal. heather wilson talks about the importance of u.s. military alliances. nader from arena stage and washington dc, and discussion about the politics, race and civil discourse, that begins at 6:30 eastern. a group of national security council members discuss the trump administration's counterterrorism strategy. posted by america at 12:15 p.m. eastern. >> watch our live coverage of the utah senate republican primary race with mitt romney and mike kennedy from regular young university, tuesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. >> president trump was at arlington national cemetery e

coming up tuesday morning, jeff weaver, campaign manager for senator bernie sanders 2016 presidential campaign discusses his new book, how bernie one. to mark holden will be on talk about his group's efforts to reform the criminal justice system. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. all this we, c-span's featuring commencement speeches from around the country. oprah winfrey spoke earlier this month to graduates at the amber school for communication journalism. she's followed by house majority lsu, ande scalise at attorney joe koch it at uc hastings. [applause] oprah: thank you. it!did thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. annenberg, ands a special thank you to the dean for inviting me here today. i say,the parents, again and faculty, family, friends, graduates. [applause] oprah: good morning. i want to give a special shout out, because i was happy that the dean invited me, but i was going to be here anyway. lovely one of my daughter girls attends the annenberg school of journalism and is getting her masters today. [applause] coming whether i was speaking or not. so a special shout out

coming up tuesday morning, jeff weaver, campaign manager for senator bernie sanders 2016 presidential campaign discusses his new book, how bernie one. to mark holden efforts to reform the criminal justice system. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. all this we, c-span's featuring commencement speeches from around the country. oprah winfrey spoke earlier this month to graduates at the amber school for communication journalism. she's followed by house majority lsu, ande scalise at attorney joe koch it at uc hastings. [applause]

jeff weaver is the author. thank 2018. >> "washington journal" continues. for discussion on criminal justice reform, we're joined by mark holden, chair of the group

in one hour, talking to jeff weaver, his new book "how bernie won," and freedom partners chairman mark holden discusses his group's efforts to reform the criminal justice system. ♪ host: good morning. it is tuesday, may 20 9, 2018. a foggy morning on capitol hill. members of the house and senate are home for the memorial day break. although the house is expected to hold a brief session today at 1:30 p.m. meanwhile, we're with you for the next three hours. we begin today asking for your view on the state of race relations in america. we're having this conversation as a starbucks prepares to close stores nationwide to conduct antibias training in the wake of an incident last month that one of its cafes in philadelphia. and mike of the conversations that incident sparked, we want to know how much you worry about race relations. give us a call, we split the phone lines up regionally this morning. eastern and central time zones 202-748-8000. ,mountain and pacific time zones 202-748-8001. ,you can catch up with us also on social media. twitter at c-span wj, and on facebook and facebook.com/cspan. a

wasn't internal, tomorrow morning we will be joined by jeff weaver, the bernie sanders presidential campaign manager. we will also be joined by mark holdeno talk about criminal justice reform. mark holden works with freedom partners. we will have that discussion tomorrow morning. i hope you join us starting at 7:00 a.m. i hope you have a great memorial day. thank you for watching. >> throughout this memorial day, c-span's cameras will be visiting the memorials around washington, d.c. here is a look at the iwo jima memorial. the statue depicting one of the most famous incidents of world war ii, which took place on the small island of iwo jima. the memorial is dedicated to all marines who have given their lives. president eisenhower dedicated this memorial in 1954 on the --ine corps's 107th we're looking at the grounds on this memorial day. >> taking a look at that you are jima memorial. -- iwo jima memorial. dayflag flying 24 hours a 365 days a