his motorcade pulled up about 30 minutes ahead of his talk with mark benioff. now, we were not allowed to shoot inside, but i can tell you mr. obama discussed what he called the top concerns of this generation including climate change, inequality, and the internet and information age. he talked about how hard it is for some people to separate fact from fiction and some attendees told us former president showed key insight into key tech companies and how important it is for a company to publicly declare its values. >> a lot of stuff he said was relevant to finding talent, making sure we're building the right teams. especially when he was talking about, like, not really looking for the talent, palomino bbut sa beacon to attract the talent. >> a message of accepting everybody. so excited. >> reporter: now, one of the lines that seemed to get quite a few applause was when the former president talked about what he called the power that comes when you get a group of people together, leaders, people with different backgrounds. in his words, we all have blind spots whi

sales force mark benioff and keith bloom will welcome the 100,000 people expected to attend the annual convention. there will also be sessions on artificial intelligence. the discussion will focus on how companies can be platforms for change in the world. >>> protesters will also be at the conference right outside today demanding sales force make changes of their own. on howard street between 3rd and 4th. to stop doing business with the federal customs and border protection agency. helps the government detain thousands of immigrants. >>> a news conference in san francisco by a navy veteran demanding that the trump administration allow him to become a u.s. citizen. he was turneded down for u.s. citizenship because he had a felony conviction. two years ago an immigration judge released him from custody but the department of homeland security continued to plan to deport him. also today in san francisco local immigrant women and their supporters hold a noontime rally asking the board of supervisors to support a resolution condemning the federal government's denial. last year the trump admi

lined up outside dreamforce, waiting for hours to sit in on a fireside chat between salesforce ceo mark benioffrmer president barack obama. the former president of what it directly talking about former politics, but indirectly the former president joked about the debunked birther conspiracy theory saying, "these are strange times we live in, aren't they?" he spent more time talking about broad issues that he is coidchange is at the top. "there is such a thing as too late." he also said the widening gap between the rich and poor, and the info age that allows people to avoid challenging ideas. the former president also said inclusivity and empowering women will be the key to problem solving in business going forward saying, "diversity is not charity, not something you do to be nice. if you are running a business, and you have no african- american, latino, or asian americans, you are missing a market." >> it's about compassionate capitalism, where you really have to not just look to make a dollar, but you have to do well by doing good. >> reporter: attendees, saying the former president was inspir

today's opening key notes are center salesforce coast keith and mark benioff, tim cook from apple will also speak today. and former president barack obama on thursday. >> it is such a good lineup. >> i just love it. she has such a good message. empowering young women and men. >> all right. 4:46 this morning. mike is looking at our forecast today. >> hoping to get dion's book in my stocking. spencer has a couple book out there also. all right. let's talk about what's going on. let me get out of the way to show you the winds. 22 to 37 on mt. tam. when the air starts to turnover and the sun comes up and warms the ground, the warmer air rises. that's when the winds will pick up for the rest of us. a dry cold front will bring temperatures back to average. no more records. nomore forever. well, not forever but for the rest of this month. for tonight, breezes and fire dangers increase. calmer and seasonable but dry as we head to the weekend. the cold front is coming through right now. cooler air behind it by the freckled nature of our satellite. 60, half moon bay. low to phreud 60s in the bay

on sunday salesforce ceo mark benioff, quote, a light in the he always did so much for others and the world calling tyson an inspirational leader. bernard tyson was 60 years old. >>> wework is reportedly in talks with t-mobile o john legere about leading that troubled office sharing sttup. according to the reports ledger is among the candidates being considero. so far final decision has been made. ledger has ties to work's newly appointed chairman, the rmer sprintceo who helped drive the recently approved merger with ledger's t-mobile. it closed dn 1.5%n today's trade. >>> a former fda commissioner is calling for all of juul's vaping products to be removed from the market. scott gottleib cited two studies on teen use and says it is clear juul cannot keep their products out of the hands of kids. president trump said he plans to meet with the vaping industry, but as meg tirrell reports, th c situation isomplicated. >> reporter: two months to the day after the trump administration said it planned to ban all flavors of er ecigarettes ohan tobacco, no guidance has arrived. but the presiden

mark benioff is just rapping up his opening address just two hours. this is a live look at howard street. it completely takes over between 3rd and 4th. we're talking more than 177,000 attending dream forces here. >> hi everybody welcome to dreamforce 2019. >> the biggest software conference in the world keeps growing. roughly 170-1000 attendees to this year's con engs -- 171000 attendees. the first day of the conference is focusing on artificial intelligence in the future of work. >> what's great about these is that you get out of the office. you have the opportunity to open up. stop thinking about the day-to- day and how you can look to the future. >> there are 27 keynote speakers throughout the four day event including apple's ceo tim cook and former president barack obama. >> my personal the way i look at it which is to really help you understand. >> dreamforce really is a family reunion. we're bringing tokt all of our customers and partners and really helping our companies do better business with their companies as well. >> sales force spends mill

a lot of people were inside to listen to both mark benioff and former president barack obama. they koongt believe they were in the same room as the former president. >> in a site similar to black friday, crowds rushed in eager to hear from former president barack obama at dream force. >> i actually saw the president when i graduated from u.c. irvin. so it's just cool to be able to see him again in a different context. somewhat who's a little bit more older and wiser. >> people were waiting and a line that snacked around the masconi center. >> i'm looking forward to being elm. >> video recording was not allowing but it was easy to see the auditorium managed an 8,000 seat capacity. for an hour long chat on a variety of topics. and climate change. >> dream force is full of speakers. we even have amelia clark, mother of dragons coming tomorrow. >> he's a great public speaker. obviously the former president is something i've always wanted to do. just the way he is with public speaking and really admires people is what i'm looking to get out of it. >> also to note this afternoon u.s

speaker of the speech today will be speaking for about an hour along with the sales force ceo mark benioffrity is very tight and we understand after he is done he is heading down to silicon valley for a fundraiser for the democratic party. christina rendon ktvu fox 2 news. >>> and christina sorry if i missed that part but is this first come first serve? and how many people are going it will be live streamed. if you have a seat you're basically out of luck we're told the venue holds 8,000 people. so all of these folks are going to have a very good chance of getting inside no just that this line keeps growing and growing it only holds 8,000 people. >> okay. thank you for showing us that line. >> yeah. . >> that's longer than the lines outside an apple store when a new phone comes out, sal. >>> i wouldn't know, pam. >> no you would never do that. >> i order online, pam. >>> let's go out and take a look. i love it when i laugh at my own jokes. someone has to the westbound 24 as you drive through lafayette. it's moderately heavy. if you're hitting the roads today these commutes are about what y

he is going to be joined by co-ceo mark benioff.though we don't know what the topic will be. security is extremely tight as you can see by the lines and the amount of people that are here. we saw group we believed were secret service checking out the hour. we spoke with an employee who talked about having keynotes. ted about barack obama. every year we get unbelievable visitors. his wife did pretty well if you years ago. there's never like this. every year the event gets bigger and bigger and employees are telling me they've never seen the max amount of cards that have showed up. the amount of security that was put in place because of the fact that obama, is going to be here. another speaker to note megan, speaking later this afternoon. speaking about equality. that's a highly anticipated speech. we now after his keynote here obama, heads down to silicon valley for fundraiser raising money for democratic party. >> reporter: coming up. >> i don't think i'm cut out for music. >> you are good you are really good. >> we go back to the f

annual conference got underway with a keynote address from keith block, then self source cofounder mark benioffave traveled the world and as we have spoken to all of you, there is one word that continues to come up over and over again and it is the word that we are all anchored to today and at this conference and it is together. >> reporter: cells first 2019 wasn't without controversy. protesters interrupted his address repeatedly, the self source cofounder giving them time to make their point before having them escorted out. immigrants rights activists rallied saying salesforce provides technology to customs and border protection. >> customs and border patrols using the technology to track people and they're using that to detain people. >> reporter: salesforce leader highlighted inclusivity as a core principle. navy veteran sheldon simmons text of the stage saying his post military job hunt was floundering until he got training on how to use salesforce. now he is a tech consultant. >> veterans are coming out, they might not have those skills to compete in the workforce. but it will accelerate

that was 29% >> tell me about sales force they were mentioned 22 times, you name check marked benioff op-ed. sales force did invest in your ipo last year. is this a case wherefore crm, sales force is your platform of choice versus sap which is playing with a competitor versus adobe, is this a battle of platforms and you picked your horse? >> sales force i think wrote the book and they have hundreds of thousands of consumers i would argue hundreds of thousands need survey software if you have products or services you sell, sales force is committed to delivering right by consumers, that means you need feedback we made a strategic acquisition with get feedback, founded by ex-sales force execs and we wanted to deliver the best software and integration we can for the sales force ecosystem. sales force, microsoft, adobe, biggest efforts are sales force and microsoft now, and to say we're betting on those platforms, you bet we feel like we will pick sales force and microsoft all day, feel like there's a massive consumer base to sell survey monkey into. >> i want to shift gears three years ag

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shareholder capitalism people fully believed it and we needed it back then now you have people like mark benioffaying no, it is more than profit. it is a global marketplace >> can you compete if you aren't earning as much as you can >> you absolutely can. look at the jobs where the pay problem is, in retail stores, restaurants, you can't export those jobs, they're not going away walmart can't afford to pay people $15 an hour they don't want to, but they can afford to. >> the big tell is when we had the giant corporate tax cut, all the money went into stock buy backs, not into investing in the economy. when he started my career, there was a guy peter destructiver, the management guru of the industrial age, talked about five steakeholders, it was employees, communities where they live, customers, suppliers. >> round table stake >> that will be it that will fix everything >> it will actually because your wages are my revenue people get paid more, they spend more, economy grows faster. >> it is sitting there aspirationally, saying we're going for a more fair, balanced deal. >> promote best practices

keith blank and mark benioff and apple ceo tim cook will speak today.hursday, former president barack obama. pretty good lineup. >> i know. it's going to be cool. >> yeah. >>> coming up, a deep dive into the lines of the housing battle. >>> a new lawsuit filed against one fast food chain on how it cooks the meatless impossible burger. oh, no, we love that. we don't want anything wrong with the impossible burger.fic. >> all right. we warned folks about the traffic in san francisco. there's another hot spot this morning. this is in the calistoga. a double fatal head-on collision on highway 29. it happened at around 2:15 this morning. coroner needs to do an investigation. so highway 29 closed in both directions at bale lane. you may want to consider silverado trail as an alternate. give yourself extra time. elsewhere in the north bay, it's looking good. a live shot of the golden gate bridge. no problems southbound into san francisco here. it is crowded on interstate 80 east shore freeway. bay shore plaza backed up to 880 overcrossing. a live shot of 280 in

you've taken note of this as well at dreamforce just yesterday, i believe, he was on stage with mark benioff's vocal with how he disagrees with the administration issues like dreamers, he talked about hundreds of dreamers employed by apple. many in retail who he's personally spoken with and they're pushing hard against the administration there, but they're going to take a nice walk today, eamon. >> reporter: that's right, jon tim cook is caught between two very hard rocks here, right? on the one hand he's got his employees in liberal silicon valley and a lot of the apple fan base, which are on the liberal side of the political spectrum, don't like this president very much. on the other hand, the other rock is this enormous financial interest that apple has in avoiding these tariffs on december 15th. if he can provide a platform for the president that the president is pleased by today, really give the president politically something to crow about, stroke the president's ego a little bit, if that's what it comes to, then tim cook will be putting his company in a better position financially. bu

he will be chairing the spotlight with salesforce chairman mark benioff at 10:30 am he will be in los altos for a fundraiser and tickets for that range from $10,000-$350,000 . >>> there was a night of protest and arrests. demonstrators oppose the appearance of controversial political commentator ann coulter and 1000 people turned out informed the human chain around the hall where she was speaking. we will take you to jesse gary to show you what happened. >> reporter: good morning i apologize to everyone. i had an audio problem but we haven't worked out. we were talking about how animated things were. they voiced their opposition to ann coulter directly while the conservative pundit and was on stage. >> usa, usa. >> that exchange took place directly after coulter started talking about u.s. immigration laws passed by democrats and republicans and what she called a lack of enforcement. the group refused fascism and said the woman who was eventually arrested and removed from inside the event is one of their members. >>> outside wheeler hall, some arrived at 7:00 last night and tried to sh

today is apple ceo tim cook who will take the stage with mark benioff and they will talk about the future of artificial intelligence. and how your business can be a platform for change in the community. it takes place here in downtown san francisco. >>> we know the streets around moscone he center are blocked off. it is very difficult to get around. >> this is one of the weeks when a lot of people will take the ferry in san francisco. because the streets are hard to navigate, even if you had the parking spot that you go to, it is going to be a tough commute. the easiest way of getting better after they cleared the crash from the eastshore freeway in the area, so you can see the traffic is getting better. it was backed up much more than this. so we will definitely keep an eye on this but it's better than it was. let's go to 880 in oakland. we are getting into san francisco will be tough. and we are looking at the san mateo bridge in case you want to do that. and were looking at the south loop. there's a lot of traffic on 280 because of an earlier crash right through here. and it will take

and how this guy neumann who burst on the scene as a major player, a guy feated by jpmorgan and mark benioffm, said he was greatest thing since sliced bread. there this is little different, walk around in his bare feet. grew up in a kibbutz. neil: are those stories totally true. >> yes it is. if you look at things he did, self-dealing issues. leasing out space to wework with properties he may have owned or had a piece in. neil: right. >> massive, bill dollars for leaving a failed company, a company on the verge of bankruptcy if softbank didn't step in, that is attracting this type of interest. we should point out the sec has lots, has a lot of power. new york state attorney jess office is very different. they have something known as the martin act, they can indict people, individuals and companies with a lot lower bar. the bar for intent under the martin act is lower than under the federal securities statute. you have to take this probe, if you're -- neil: impact then be on softbank? >> if the company does get indicted has to pay a massive fine, softbank may have to provide another, another

. >> tyson was on the board of the american heart association and sales force on sunday ceo mark benioffhe world has gone out calling bernard a special inspirational leader someone that a lot of people have really mourned. peter lee, the head of cover california, that's the exchange in california, probably put best he said, you know, bernard really walked the talk >> yeah. >> a good friend here on "squawk box. hard to imagine he was only 60 years old. >> only 60 they didn't talk about the cause. he's survived by his wife and three sons. >> his lovely wife, denise really lovely. >> yeah. lovely family. the board did name the executive vice president greg adams as the interim chairman and ceo but he's got very, very big shoes to fill. >> we'll miss bernard. >>> bertha, thank you for that appreciate it. coming up, jpmorgan's jamie dimon says the american wealth gap needs to be solved we'll bring you the details of what the bank ceo said that's coming up next. >>> still to come, what the story of two former twitter employees accused of spying for a foreign country means for the biggest names

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>>mark and jason thanks dreamforce is happening right now in san francisco, theech and business conferences sted by sales force and address, thousands opeople to the city salesfor ceo marc benioffs keynote address today. there are a 170,000 registered attendees 13illion people watch online. a big announcement made today new voice capabilities for platforms using smart spears. now in its 17th year dreamforce is the world's largest software conference. >>people com because they get inspired about how th can transform their sinesses using the customer 60 pot farm they also come for the spiration from these thought leaders means luminaries for oming to talk about this ia platform for change. >>big keyno speakers this year include former president barack obama apple ceo tim ok actress amelia clarke from game thrones and steph and ayesha curry it should be noted that traffic downtown around mosconi center in the city is very congested because of the crowds, howard street is closed between 3rd and 4th dreamforce will run til friday. >>we are tracking t weather outside tonight, the winds of course the big concern you got mostly clear skies arounthe bay area now but those winds there yo

slight toward ceo mark zuckerberg who is later jumping on a call about an hour later for the news call. >> and jose, we don't see tech executives take each other on like that. benioffr homelessness to some degree but some industries are incredibly, the competitors that go at each other and we don't do that in silicon valley. >> no. this is incredibly unusual. and benioff against dorsey when it came to homelessness but this is something that i feel like dorsey is really getting ahead of the 2020 election. this is going to be a major issue over the next four to five months in terms of how ads are seen by people. jennifer and i were talking before the show, youtube is going to be a big part of this. we hear that there is a lot of ads. we know there are manipulation possibly by certain ads so we'll see what happens now when it comes to the google aspect of things. >> and my guys at "the new york times" i see you nodding. >> oh, man, the facebook -- facebook is the one that is taking this all head on just because i think they're the one ma most people sort of relate to, they have the biggest footprint and everyone is using one of think properties and facebook realized t