vice and ceo peter kern join us. this is bloomberg -- peter kern will join us. bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> we are very pleased with what is happening there, but as you point out, it is very important that it is not just the u.s. domestic. it is very important that there is international travel. that can only happen when vaccines are rolled out throughout the world, so that people feel safe and governments feel safe to let people enter their country. alix: that was the booking holdings ceo talking about travel recovery. expedia reporting significant improvement in first quarter growth bookings. joining us now are peter kern, expedia vice chair and ceo, as well as bloomberg's emily chang. i want to dive into what you talk about on your call, which is vrbo. it is going to try to get more vacation rentals. airbnb also looking to increase the number of hosts. what do you do to woo those? peter: right now, thanks for the question. we are just leaning into that. our hosts make more than they do on any other platform, and since the pandemic started, on average, new hosts have mad

designed for the golden days ahead. ( ♪♪ ) >>> i'd like to introduce you to anthony kern.tate lawmaker nominated by the republican party to be a presidential elector in the 2020 election. his name appeared alongside president trump and 12 others in november. he's running for arizona's house of representatives and he lost. according to the as republic, he was still in office when he traveled to the capitol on january 6th when a rally became a bloody siege that left five people dead. unfortunately, being an actual elected official and getting caught up in that unsur rex messes with your career and integrity. you stop getting invited to things. apparently not all things. mr. kern is now helping to recount and inspect 2.1 million ballots from the 2020 election in arizona as the behest of cyber ninja. this was taken by an arizona republic reporter who was kicked out and had his press credentials revoked after tweeting these photos. cyber ninjas said the counter would be screened to make sure they didn't take any strang stand one way or another. kern tweeted@president trump, as

sent a letter listing involved. >> you've outlined several security shortf in a letter, anthony kernsem. what does it say someone counting ballots was present at the capitol attack on january 6th? >> that's very concerning, and it speaks to the fact that they're not checking people's biases. we already know that the company running this show, the ceo has come out stating that trump won arizona by 200,000 votes, which we know is baseless, but they have not screened people for their biases that are on this floor counting ballots, and not only was anthony kern on the ballot for a race that's not being counted but he's a presidential elector. he is counting a race where his name is on the ballot. >> your office has observers who have watched the audit. what's their sense of its credibility? >> well, they don't have a lot of confidence in the credibility of what's going on. one of the main concerns is that they're seeing procedures being changed midstream, and so that's causing confusion among some of the folks that are could nting really speaks to the unreliability of the results if you'r

i, andrew kern donica kerr. _ edinburgh west. i, andrew kern donica kerr, declare _ edinburgh west.r. alex hamilton, scottish liberal democrats, 25,578. daniel fraser, scottish libertarian party, 201. scottish labour— libertarian party, 201. scottish labour party, 2550. scottish national— labour party, 2550. scottish national party, 15,693. scottish conservative and unionist party, 2798~ _ conservative and unionist party, 2798. therefore i give public notice that alex— 2798. therefore i give public notice that alex cole hamilton is duly elected — that alex cole hamilton is duly elected as a member for the scottish parliament— elected as a member for the scottish parliament for the edinburgh west constituency. parliament for the edinburgh west constituency-— parliament for the edinburgh west constituen . ., ., constituency. there we have got the result in edinburgh _ constituency. there we have got the result in edinburgh west, _ constituency. there we have got the result in edinburgh west, and i constituency. there we have got the | result in edinburgh west, and indeed it is a victo

kern is not trustworthy to fulfill his role. and was present at the attempted insurrection in washington, d.c. on january 6. joining us now is arizona secretary of state katie hobbs. thank you very much for joining us again tonight. i hesitate to use the word comical, but there are comical elements to this. but this is a very serious situation that could cross the lines legally and become illegal. >> well, certainly we raised a lot of concerns about the security in that six-page letter. and then we saw yes the department of justice weighed in with their concerns about the potential for violation of federal laws in this process. >> yes. and the federal laws cited by the justice department sending a letter again to the arizona republican senators, they state that federal law creates a duty to safeguard and preserve federal election records. that's a pretty serious duty. it's a pretty serious law. that could very well be being violated at this moment. and then there is also this plan to go door to door and question some voters and

his name is anthony kern.ed at this ballot-counting site at least a couple of days. and the reason why his presence is raising eyebrows is because those ballots he is touching. those very ballots. his name is on those ballots. he ran for office, in 2020. he is a former-republican state senator. he lost in 2020. but still, his name is on those ballots. now, that's not the most problematic thing that people are talking about. this is the other, big problem. he was pictured, on january 6th, on the steps of the u.s. capitol. that is the day of the insurrection. he even placed himself there, with a tweet. he also placed himself at the ballot-counting site with a tweet. so, he has been an active stop-the-steal advocate. he has supported donald trump's efforts to undermine arizona's election results. now, when we brought this, when reporters brought this to the spokesperson for the arizona senate who is running this entire, so-called audit. here's what that spokesperson had to say. >> we're not counting his race so h

anthony kern, a former state lawmaker who was at the state capitol on january 6th when rioters disruptedallots. wow. kern's name appeared on all of the november ballots that he was counting friday and saturday at veterans memorial coliseum as part of an audit ordered by the state senate. he was nominated by the republican party as a presidential elector and his name appeared on the ballot alongside then president donald trump's name along with the party's ten other electors. he also lost his re-election bid for the arizona house. tell us more. is he under any scrutiny for his conduct at the capitol on january 6th as far as you know? >> well, democrats in arizona had requested that he be investigated for that -- participating in that event, just to see if he did commit any crimes. we don't know of any. i mean, but he clearly was there. there are photographs of him at the capitol on the 6th. nothing ever came of that. there's no investigation, to my knowledge, but you had asked me, did i recognize him? i certainly did. there was about 100 people on the floor, but mr. kern is well-known to

emily: expedia vice chair and ceo peter kern. you can catch the full interview at bloomberg.com.nese tech firm pulled off at u.s. ipo this year amid industry crackdown, we hear from the cofounder of water drop, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: waterdrop, a tencent backed firm, opened 15% in its debut -- 50% above its anticipated up -- 15% above its estimate of any. >> we are leading a chinese issue platform. we are so far the second largest online distribution platform in china following [indiscernible] an insurance. the prospect of a company and strategy and gross perspectives. so we believe the stock price will reflect the potential of the company. we are confident in the [indiscernible] of the company. >> you are betting on the potential. how far down the road until you reach that potential? right now there is a lot of regulatory uncertainty in china in this space you do business. and, let's face it, you have not been profitable yet. >> i, i think the recent regulatory remediation in china is related and clear to [indiscernible] but we all right [indiscernible] type company.

you might remember anthony kern, this guy.s a former arizona state legislator whose name was on the 2020 ballots. he was also reportedly in washington, d.c., during the january 6th insurrection. well, according to the "arizona republic" kern has been stripped of his counting and inspecting duties because of, quote, optics. imagine that. >>> coming up next, you're going to hear my conversation with six asian-americans and pacific islanders in san francisco about their lived experiences with hate in america. for one pastor it was the civil rights movement galvanized around another marginalized community that forced him to take action. >> what really broke my heart last summer and what really sparked me to begin to try to plead and be active was when i saw the asian-american police officers stand by as george floyd was being killed. that broke my heart. basically i saw myself in that passivity and i realized this is not the way of christ, this is not the way of humanity we ought to be. i think we should begin to take action to ad

change and rising sea levels threatening coastal areas and islands around the world that's architect kern althouse thinks he has a solution to help cope with flooding making new cities that float. the future will be wet says altos pioneer of aqua architecture he designs front and climate change proof buildings we caught up with him at his water studio in the hague via video link. and i think this is what life's all about you have to be flexible and you have to be. and what it is exactly what it is almost everything for me it's i think it's my of my life were. similar things in everything you do for almost 2 decades he's been developing projects on water all over the world houses on pontoons the rise and fall with the tines pillars that moves like boats. floating in lead on as a native of holland knows about floods after my studies not understanding the living is completely crazy fighting against water only pumping water out and how can there be no living on the water. live with the water the use the water . at the beginning of his career he designed for looting houses for wealthy clients

80 to 250 people expected estimates give up to 2 and a half 1000 people that have come here tonight kern which is in central in one of the most populated districts of girl and i've been speaking to a few people and they're telling me that they here in solidarity we've got people in gaza many of them themselves are callous to me and what has relatives in gaza and i started to worry for them as we can see people here are marching by they're on their way to one of the other places nearby here in north in central but. only a have a bed half a minute but in germany the situation has been very tense due to the problems of anti semitism in recent days is your any sense of that in. fact it's hard for me to hear you but i think you know you asked me about the tension there are tensions are why. but it is relatively across germany in the last year. and see. protests like this one and also. many people worried the german government says it's about you have no place in modern germany as far as this protest here guys will have to see. to see exactly how it plays out through the rest of the day much t

that's chick kern. >> where do you find this? >> they're going full court and they're taking it real seriously there. >> they are, game on. >> who needs lebron when you've got those guys, right? >> i needed a story like that to end this newscast. that's good stuff. >> i felt we needed to lighten the mood a little bit, you know. >> needed to smile. >> needed to smile. thank (snoring) jay. (snoring continues) jay? what? what's wrong? you're snoring. me? oh, i'm sorry. i... (snoring) (laughs) look at her! come on. we said no stella in the bed. oh, but she's just a little puppy. she probably got scared and snuck in. oh, really? how come when manny has nightmares you don't let him snuck in the bed? gloria, it's 6:00 in the morning. can we talk about this later? (sighs) answer the question, jay. (birds chirp) you know, i'm gonna check the lease, but i'm pretty sure we're not allowed to have a meth lab. you are a delight. so what are you doing? i think you're gonna like this. i'm going on a juice fast. mmm. love it. hate it. let's face

change and rising sea levels threatening coastal areas and islands around the world that's architects kern all to house thinks he has a solution to help cope with flooding making new cities that float. the future will be wet says altos pioneer of aqua architecture he designed frantic and climate change proof buildings we caught up with him at his studio in the hague via video link. and i think this is what. you have to be flexible. and what is exactly what it is almost everything for me it's i think it's my own my life were. similar things in everything you do for almost 2 decades he's been developing projects on water all over the world houses on pontoons the rise and fall with the tines pillars that moved like boats. in leo on as a native of holland all to see knows about floods after my studies not understanding the living is completely crazy fighting against water only pumping water out. how can there be no living on the water don't live with the water. at the beginning of his career he designed floating houses for wealthy clients his water boarding and found all over the netherlands.

we have a lot of our stores outside of the county also had a semi truck groundwater storage tank in kern county. we'll also be taking water from their looming large in a prolonged drought is the fact that anderson reservoir in morgan hill. >> larger than all other reservoirs. combine is virtually empty of just 3% of capacity. it was drained and will stay that way for 10 years. well, the dam built on an earthquake fault. undergoes a seismic retrofit on top of locations of state and federal water have also been cut back, which means valley water will soon be shopping for more. >> and so as we plan out for the rest of the year, though we need to take action. we need to go out and buy emergency water to make sure that we can meet demand here in santa clara county and keep those ground water levels and normal levels valley waters board has thus far decided against mandatory rationing this summer. well calling instead for a goal of 25%. voluntary conservation while doubling incentives for replacing lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping. >> bottom line, a lot is riding on what happens if and

the groundwater storage tank in kern county.lso be taking water from their looming large in a prolonged drought is the fact that anderson reservoir in morgan hill. >> larger than all other reservoirs. combine is virtually empty of just 3% of capacity. it was drained and will stay that way for 10 years. well, the dam built on an earthquake fault. undergoes a seismic retrofit on top of locations of state and federal water have also been cut back, which means valley water will soon be shopping for more. >> and so as we plan out for the rest of the year, though we need to take action. we need to go out and buy emergency water to make sure that we can meet demand here in santa clara county and keep those ground water levels and normal levels valley waters board has thus far decided against mandatory rationing. this summer while calling instead for a goal of 25% voluntary conservation while doubling incentives for replacing lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping. bottom line, a lot is riding on what happens if and when winter rains r

kern, what does that mean and tell me about the, the influence that he has? well, jimmy lives in the sugar who actually made his name and his fortune in the clothing tray, but after the crackdown protested in channels. in 1989, he turned his attention much more to politics forming 1st of all, by the popular news magazine who next he then went on to say, which is one of the, or possibly the biggest selling newspapers in hong kong. so we need such a crucial figure both in the democracy movement and as far as the 3rd is in beijing. number one of the media group that is actively supporting the democracy movement. number 2, he has very good relation with political forces as they are running a targeted campaign, just a phone call and of course, the parent, china. and thirdly, he's a very carried so sort of stuck with me just because i really don't like that. okay, so that's where i was kind of going with my next question is that how much is all of this? actually? i mean, clearly it's affecting him because he gets put in jail. but his influence and his meteor empire

hi michael i am in kern which is one of the districts in sensual berlin there are between 2 to 3000 people that are marching along the streets here and one of 3 planned protests for guards solidarity and it's a little bit rowdy but i was at another position earlier. sorry. can see that your greed is now being moved to a different position be heard really or before we actually took this live shot from him that that he might have to leave that position because things were getting ready and in fact now we're seeing it happening in real time marcos or can you still hear me are just yeah go ahead yeah michael are just sorry i've just been i've got some security guys here they've moved me to the side we've. basically it's a little bit our rowdy here the crowd i've been marching along this street it's called so on and i leave it in marching in this direction about 10 minutes ago the police stopped them and force them to to come back in the direction in which they in which they had originally and just at the moment we can see police it's as good lighting behind me there are. i've just been told th

anthony kern, a former state lawmaker who was at the u.s.capitol on january 6, is among the people helping to count and inspect maricopa county ballots. >> overseeing the exercise, a florida cybersecurity firm called cyber ninjas. it's run by someone who aplified election conspiracy theories. >> trevor: hell, yeah! the arizona votes are being recounted by cyber ninjas! hiyah! hiyah! modem punch! server chop! hiyah! aaah! i mean, i thought regular ninjas were cool, but cyber ninjas! wooo! they're the kind of ninjas who will steal your wifi password, and when you turn around to look for them, your head falls off. guys, i really love ninjas, ever since i was a little kid. my tenth birthday party was me and a big group of invisible ninjas-- and now that i'm saying it out loud, i realize my mom just told me that because no one showed up.o3 mooom! now, you might think it's crazy to have election conspiracy theorists in charge of an election audit, but to me, this makes perfect sense. because don't forget, this is the third audit they've done in ar

rights in america and we just want to two years ago redistricting on a per-district large and at-large, kern county in bakerfield, california, north of los angeles county because they were not a reflecting the ethnic and racial minorities the city. in san antonio now, eight out of ten city council members are ethnic or racial minorities and six out of the ten are women. so, we're obviously very proud for that but it is precisely learning and understanding our history we can actually create some progress. as we begin to edge towards this very interesting and thank you for your time -- i'd like to first begin this time with an opportunity to -- for some final comments, some final statements, intended to really wrap up this discussion and this session. so, with that. why don't we start with you first, thomas, with some final words. >> sure. yeah. i'd be glad to do that. i'm going to take the opportunity to just read like a short little passage, because i want to make clear what the vision was behind soul city, and i talked about the tradition that soul city emerged out of. this utopian traditio

valley water also has an underwater storage facility in kern county.se have been suspended. >> it is really muddy so it is a dangerous area. we have the signs and we encourage people to stay away for their own safety. >> valley water has held a number of events to keep the public safety.>>> we need an update now on how long these winds are hanging around. >> awfully gusty. >> that is true. in fact we have aravind advisory in effect until 5:00 tomorrow. the weather service says it may be extended. it ranges from 42 nearly 60 miles per hour. that there is a possibility of downed trees. be cautious if you are out and about. meanwhile overnight lows under these windy conditions and clear skies and they will be mainly in the low to mid 40s. highs tomorrow under sunday and when conditions. it will be from mid-50s to mainly low and mid 60s around the bay shoreline. and then areas will warm up to the upper 60s although there are a couple of places topping out at 70-72 degrees. the wins is up a bit on friday. temperatures rise a few degrees but a more significa

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have a lot of our stores outside of the county also have a semi truck groundwater storage tank in kern county. we'll also be taking water from there. >> officials have not yet called for mandatory rationing instead calling for a 25% voluntary cut in water use and they have doubled incentives for replacing lawns with drought tolerant landscaping. in the north bay more water restrictions could be coming to marion county. >> the water declared a water shortage emergency last weekend has already put some restrictions in place. those include banning washing cars at home using power washers and flooding. daughters street gutters see additional restrictions being considered include limiting spray irrigation to just twice a week. drip haringey shun limits of 3 days a week and requiring covers for swimming pools and spas restrictions will be discussed at tuesday's board meeting. >> east bay mud has some advice on how to conserve including waiting to do laundry or to run your dishwasher until you've got a full load, not running water fall. you're shaving. we're brushing your teeth. taking shorte

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call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ >>> former arizona state representative one names anthony kernary 6th insurrection. you see him right in that picture. he was also spotted this weekend counting blots during the republican-controlled audit they're calling. jen, thank you so much for waking up for us and talking about this. this former state representative at the capitol during the insurrection, inside the room counting blots, what's going on here? >> yeah. there's many things about this audit that are a little unique to normal election audits. so this all started when the senate republicans, the state senate republicans got ahold of the blots and vote machines through a s&p through maricopa county. once they got control, they gave control to the private contractors which immediately decreased the transparency of what's going on. it's made it hard for us to figure out who's involved and who's paying for it. one of the things we're trying to figure out is how they recruited the actual people counting the ballots. we did notice the former state ropive has been on the floor and since

betsey: jason furman and melissa kerning was another co-author -- they took a look at the data and saidot look like five tears holding back the economy. mothers are only 12% of the labor force. even if mothers were really struggling they are still small share. it is a different answer than i think you are hearing from a lot of people, which is there is a lot of openings but nobody is sure what kind of job they want to go into now. what we saw is a great reshuffling and it will take people a while to figure out what they're going to. things have changed. you used to work in retail and you never thought about it as a dangerous job. you did not think you are going into the coal mine. retail ends up being kind of dangerous. the same is true with working in hospitality. i think a lot of people are trying to figure out what their next step will be. a lot of businesses are trying to figure out what the next step will be. when you're only seeing 256,000 new jobs added, you cannot blame that all on workers. they are not 8 million people sitting at home saying i do not feel like working. lisa: it

we spoke to peter kern, expedia's ceo, on the return of business travel. >> i think business travel willck. as soon as the first salesman gets on a plane and sells something that the one who stayed home didn't, we will see everybody zooming around the world, and i think that is basically true. alix: joining us now is tony capuano, marriott international ceo. what do you think you are looking at one's business travel recovers? >> thanks for having me this morning. i thing we start to see that evidence in china. you talked earlier about our recovery trends in china, and while the occupancy levels overall back to pre-pandemic levels, the thing that is most exciting for us, in march we saw business travel across greater china actually 5% higher than we saw in march of 2019. i think that in many ways creates a roadmap for the shape of the recovery will see of business travel around the world. guy: what are you seeing right now in the united states? tony: the united states had our second highest occupancy levels, just a shade under 50% in the quarter. in the u.s. it is disproportionately drive

i want to read a tweet from walter kern coming off of what ms. maddow said. masks go a lot americans are going to miss the ability to classify, shame and despise one another at first sight. what do you make of it? >> one thing i will say, i do find the pseudo-religious significant that the nonn95 mask took on to be a little bit bizarre. that was originally proposed as one of many, many mpi's we should engage in to reduce the risk of covid. originally the cdc suggested nonhealth care working surveillance network masks at all. at any rate, i don't think this new decree is going to end the covid culture war. i think we are going to move now to what individual states will do, what employers will do, vaccinations for kids et cetera. a lot of large blue cities, i would bet no one takes off their masks for several weeks. >> shannon: that may be the case. the meme yesterday that had people saying press a button, either i'm not wearing a mask because i'm fully vaccinated and they want to brag about it or ii don't want to wear mass because i am a cobra denier. where do

secretary hobbs writes, former state representative anthony kern. -- and joining us now is arizona secretary, but there are comical elements to this. this is a very serious situation that could cross the line legally and become illegal. >> well certainly we talk a lot about the security and that six-page letter. we saw yesterday the department of justice weighed in with their concerns about the potential for a violation of federal lies in this process. >> -- what lies laws. >> sending -- republican senators, they say federal law creates a duty to safeguard and preserve federal election labels. that's a very serious and can be violated at this moment. there is also this plan to go door to door and question some voters. the federal justice department is saying that could implicate anti-intimidation prohibitions of the borough -- voting rights act. there's multiple legal lines they can cross at the federal level. >> yeah, absolutely. i think with the concerns outlined in our letter make clear, why they were so intent on keeping the procedure secret, keeping the press, and keeping expert observe

who was allowed in briefly that one of the people counting votes is this guy, former representative kern from arizona. now, just take a look at this to show you how crazy it is. this guy has been totally wacky on every crazy election theory possible. he was there on january 6th. he's an insurrectionist. he was at the rally. there is footage of him at the capitol. he was also on the ballot and he lost. there was a photo, there he was yesterday, he's one of the ones counting ballots. he had a pen in hand. so this is an unbiased count, he's making sure everything is fair, and you have one of the insurrectionists looking at his own name on the ballot? the whole thing is a sham. all i can tell you -- by the way, the arizona republic reporter after they reported that was ushered out. kicked out of the arena. so this thing is about as -- >> it goes against all of these -- this goes against all the things we think. you can be as much of a small government person as you want, as much of a libertarian as you want. you got some of those in arizona. that's fine. i think we generally agree elections

valley water also has an underground storage facility in kern county. safety picnic grounds and recreational use have been suspended. >> it is really muddy so kind of a dangerous area. we have folks and we encourage people to stay up-to-date in the process and stay away for their own safety. >> valley water has held a number of events to keep the public updated. >>> california's recycling program is broken. everyone agrees with that. how to fix that? michael finney is here with one option under consideration . >>> maxon say what you should do is tweak the current program to make it work better. south bay's state sen. says the current bottle bill is 35 years old and it offers 17 different subsidies and despite that our recycling rate for containers is under 60%. he says scrap the whole system. his senate bill with beverage industry and the hotseat. how? the statements into the position of oversight while the industry is charged with collecting. >> how many times have we and government heard private sector can do a better job? sb 38 is an indication for p

we have a lot of our stores outside of the county also had a semi truck groundwater storage tank in kern county. we'll also be taking water from there. >> well, for now, the valley water board is calling for a 25% voluntary conservation and recommending that homeowners replace lawns with drought tolerant landscaping. all right. talking weather that such a key component to this. so drought business as we take a live look outside right now. >> what you don't think there's a drought in san francisco, at least in terms of the temperature, it was cool foggy by the coast it is a little breezy out there on this friday night. our meteorologist lawrence karnow is joining us now with a look at what we can expect. and there is some concern about the winds this weekend. yeah, we want to see those clouds in there. that's for sure. all that fog, that higher moisture content. but the winds not so much. and that's going to be where the concern is going to come from this weekend as we're talking about some very gusty northerly winds kicking in as we get toward latter. part of the weekend sunday into mond

change and rising sea levels threatening coastal areas and islands around the world that's architect kern althouse thinks he has a solution to help cope with flooding making new cities that float. the future will be wet says all tourists pioneer of aqua architecture he designs for and climate change proof buildings we caught up with him at his water studio and elf in the hague via video link. i think this is what. you have to be flexible or you have to be. and. there is almost everything for me it's i think it's my my life we're. it's in my veins it's in everything we do for almost 2 decades we've been developing projects on water all over the world houses on pontoons the rise and fall with the times fillers that moved like boats. in leo on as a native of holland all to see knows about floods after my studies not understanding the living is completely crazy fighting against water only pumping water out and i thought how can there be no living on the water i don't live with what they can use the water. at the beginning of his career he designed for launching houses for wealthy clients his

part of that was possible because we noticed that a former state lawmaker, anthony kern, who was on thee counting the ballots. so we started to look into with robert england, a former -- current investigative reporter with the republic, started to look into who was involved counting the ballots, who was involved recruiting. we found recruiting pitches targeting right-wing ties. >> i saw an exchange about bamboo ballots. i read concerns in your article about marxists influencing the outcome of the election and the islamic movement. what's going on here? >> right. well, from the start nonpartisan election consultants from across the country have been concerned about this audit, the lack of bipartisan oversight, the lack of transparency. but as more details have emerged, it's increasingly clear that some of the auditors are doing are focused at dispelling conspiracy theories with no basis. one of those is inspecting the ballots for bamboo fibers. i'm not sure if that's what they're doing, it's just one of those rumors going around about what they're looking at when they look at the ballots

it is a scathing letter addressed to the senate president kern fan, a fellow republican and you accuse her of renting out the good name of arizona senate to drifters and con artists. sthad who has america's ballots in hand now, con artists, and do you think this is an attempt to swindle voters and change the results of the 20 election? >> well, thanks for haing me. lo, the way this worked out was the arizona senate went to court to get the authority to get these ballots and machines from maricopa county, were holding them after the votes were all counted, and they indicated ey wanted to review all these materials to come up with potentially new election laws. instead of doing what, what they've done is they've turned over all these ballots, they've turned over these election machines to companies, one, that don't have expertise in dealing with elections audits, and, two, companies that pedal in copiracy theories and, unrtunately, their the ones that now have their hands on the ballots of maricopa county's 2.1 million voters who voted in the november 2020 election. >> reporter: senator

have a lot of our stores outside of the county also have a semi truck groundwater storage tank in kernunty. we'll also be taking water from their looming large in a prolonged drought is the fact that anderson reservoir in morgan hill. >> larger than all other reservoirs. combine is virtually empty of just 3% of capacity. it was drained and will stay that way for 10 years. well, the dam built on an earthquake fault undergoes a seismic retrofit on top of loions of state and federal water have also been cut back, which means valley water will soon be shopping for more. >> and so as we plan out for the rest of the year, though we need to take action. we need to go out and buy emergency water to make sure that we can meet demand here in santa clara county and keep those ground water levels and normal levels valley waters borders. that's far decided against mandatory rationing. this summer while calling instead for a goal of 25% voluntary conservation while doubling incentives for replacing lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping. bottom line, a lot is riding on what happens if and when wint

dark red indicates quote, exceptional drought, the federal drought monitor says parts of tulare and kerncounty's are also in exceptional drought. that means, napa and solano counties are under a drought emergency, a california power grid operator, said today that the state's energy grid will be better prepared to handle extreme heat this summer. compared with last year. cal i so released its summer outlook, saying that the state expects to have roughly 2000 additional megawatts available to serve peak demand. power officials say that extra capacity, which includes battery storage is a critical element. for averting rotating outages. but officials say if extreme heat returns to western states will california may still be at risk of supply shortages and potential outages. we're tracking a cool down around the bay area right now looking for temperatures a little cooler into tomorrow and saturday, the five day forecast will be coming up. i'm angry. i'm hurt and i want justice vigil for a man shot and killed by police in daly city after he held up a replica gun y family members think he was r

we have a lot of our stores outside of the county also had a semi truck groundwater storage tank in kern county. we'll also be taking water from their looming large in a prolonged drought is the fact that anderson reservoir in morgan hill. >> larger than all other reservoirs. combine is virtually empty of just 3% of capacity. it was drained and will stay that way for 10 years. well, the dam built on an earthquake fault. undergoes a seismic retrofit on top of locations of state and federal water have also been cut back, which means valley water will soon be shopping for more. >> and so as we plan out for the rest of the year, though we need to take action. we need to go out and buy emergency water to make sure that we can meet demand here in santa clara county and keep those groundwater levels and normal levels valley waters board has thus far decided against mandatory rationing this summer. well calling instead for a goal of 25%. voluntary conservation while doubling incentives for replacing lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping. >> bottom line, a lot is riding on what happens if and w

it was not just a symbolic move as a city at the time owned 800 acres of kern county that we for drillingtem. so, today, i would like to take another step to get san francisco ahead, out of the fossil fuel business permanently by requesting the city attorney to draft legislation to strike article 12 from our planning code. for land use activities associated with oil and gas exploration. it also creates overlay districts for oil and gas support and processing facilities. while the general public may not have realized in the planning code and that this section may have set collecting dust for decades. i think it is important in the face of catastrophic impact of climate change, we make this long needed commitment to affirmatively prohibit any gas and oil business activities in the city and county of san francisco and on our publicly owned land. so, the rest i would submit. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor chan. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, madam clerk. i have a few hearings and a resolution. first, i'm introducing a hearing on our city's wild fire preparedness

four-star general, i'm a simple kern will. so my job as strategic air command is to locate. found 31 of the 32. the 32nd one was a -- was living in a fog at the time and he was an alcoholic. the only thing i could do was send a letter through the irs and it had to be unsealed and send it to the irs with the request that it be sent to him and they may or may not have sent it and that was up to them, if that was something they could forward on. we didn't hear from him. later he did, he got sober and has been a leader in the american ex-p.o.w.s and has been there all of the time. so 18 of us came to the stand down. presented the sack muse up with artifacts and the commander came and it was a nice deal. the chairman of the ocs was there, colin powell, and there was a -- they had a flyover of b-52s and we couldn't see them, but we heard them at night. >> you heard the sound. >> oh, yeah. you know that sound, for the standdown, and so after sack closed and i was transferred as the senior protestant chaplain to air mobility command and i was there for two years and got a chance to

that news more on expedia and its growth and vacation rentals tomorrow when we speak with ceo peter kerns higher by 4%. >> seema, thank you. >>> shares of twilio falling today following its earnings last night the company beating on earnings and revenue but gave mixed guidance for the second quarter. the stock is up nearly 150% from the last year though it is off 30% from the highs as cloud stocks get hit across the board. joining us now is twilio's ceo jeff lawson. jeff, weeklcome back. >> thank you great to be back. >> your company has been a beneficiary of the pandemic and a shift of going online. is that still happening as the economy opens up >> of course don't think of twilio as a company that was only relevant for covid. we are the beneficiary of a decade if not more long trend for businesses to enter the digital economy and to engage their customers using digital channels yes, covid forced some of that migration faster than it might have happened otherwise, but that is the secular trend that has been fueling our growth for a decade and why we put up numbers like we have, growing

it was not just a symbolic move as a city at the time owned 800 acres of kern county that we for drilling. the entire system. so, today, i would like to take another step to get san francisco ahead, out of the fossil fuel business permanently by requesting the city attorney to draft legislation to strike article 12 from our planning code. for land use activities associated with oil and gas exploration. it also creates overlay districts for oil and gas support and processing facilities. while the general public may not have realized in the planning code and that this section may have set collecting dust for decades. i think it is important in the face of catastrophic impact of climate change, we make this long needed commitment to affirmatively prohibit any gas and oil business activities in the city and county of san francisco and on our publicly owned land. so, the rest i would submit. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor chan. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, madam clerk. i have a few hearings and a resolution. first, i'm introducing a hearing on our city's wild f

expedia ceo peter kern joins us tomorrow on "squawk on the street." >> still to come, an exclusive with of kellogg, those shares are, they're up 7% right now. that's a notable move. we'll be right back. stay with us ♪ ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome pback, i'm rahel solomon. india reaching another grim milestone as covid spreads into remote areas a record 412,000 cases and 3,980 deaths were reported as oxygen demand increases seven fold compared to last month, and in some cases, covid patients are dying after running out of oxygen world leaders are reacting to president biden's support for waiving vaccine patent protection the u.s. proposal has been endorsed by french presidents macron, and indian health experts. germany has also said it's open to the idea. indonesia is prohibits domestic travel during a popular holiday marking the end of ramadan the muslim country is hoping that the restrictions will prevent an up tick in covid infections and deaths. there was a sharp increase in the mortality rate last year following the holiday. and pfizer and biontech want to help athle

. >> you'll be interviewing peter kern, the ceo. >> yes, he is coming on. >> 10:00. >> very thoughtful does he look at bookings, say out six months, where people are going to talk about travel and entertainment, and i'm starting to see some people mention it as a line, but i'm seeing most people just saying huh huh, we're just not going to make people come back if they don't want to. >> eventually, they will i mean i had those conversations, i have those conversations every day, but not yet. >> and i still don't hear people saying, i'm going to go travel and hit the chicago and try to line up five different clients >> no. >> it's just not that's not happening >> and that may come back if your competitors do it but i still argue as well, the internal business travel will probably forever not be at the levels it was. >> because it is more meetings >> we can all just zoom. >> the board meeting, three out of four meetings, people will say let's just zoom. as opposed to the great boondoggles of going to new york city, to see a show. >> see a show. in the fall. >> that's right. >> to be able

cdc investigating whether or not teens and young adults are at risk of heart inflammation from kern vacciness in coming up. we arert back in two minutes. platform and expertise of ibm. good work little buddy. ♪ ♪ ♪ (vo) ideas exist inside you, electrify you. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back. they want to be set free. to make the world more responsible, and even more incredible. ideas start the future, just like that. lately, it's been hard to think about the future. but thinking about the future, is human nature. at edward jones, our 19,000 financial advisors create personalized investment strategies to help you get back to your future. edward jones. maria: welcome back, the center for disease control investigating a possible link from the mrn vaccine and heart problems in teenagers and adults. the number of cases appear to be relatively few and mild. joining me fox news analyst nicole saphier, always a pleasure to see you. what do you know about the links? doctor: good morning, maria. yes, the cdc is looking for a handful of cases of inflammation of the heart in t

alex kerns who took his own life because he traded barely covered his strategies and discovered he created amp liability for himself. my question is there a law around leverage or complexity where we have to not let the market teach tough lessons? >> i will ancer verse i'm sure robert want to add. for a long time we have all opened in options account to more discussion between a broker in that customer. suitability is the word and if i have the words wrong i apologize. basically they are taking more risk. i would also add in terms of the application that it made it easier to open and making it easier with the human in the middle thing is this appropriate and is this risk appropriate? it is like those buildings in las vegas and the granite city that true game of vacation they are using behavioral prompts to get investors to trade more and trading more economic study show doesn't necessarily mean getting better returns. i wanted to add that if they could but -- i know robert wants to answer that. >> thank you for that question. i do think it's a matter of striking the right balance because a