. >> the bill and melinda gates foundation has pledged more than $300 milli to fight covid-19 worldwide. ve years ago, her husband bill gave this warning. >> if anything killsmi over 1ion people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus. we need to get going because time is not on our side. >> now it's a race against time. >> we haven't had leadership at the national level. and so you're seeing what's happening and it's chaos. >> melinda gates is also raising awareness about the virus' particular impact on women.'r >> if going to build back society, the way to do that is to put women straight at the center, because guess what. they're already at the center.ic >> with a pandtill raging and concerns it will get worse before it gets better, what does philanthropisty melinda gates w?ri >> "fing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... corporate fundg is provided by... >> welcome to "firing line," melinda gates. >> thanks for havinge, margaret. >> you co-foundethe bill two decades ago, ace thenion your foundation has worked to fight global pov

corporate funding is provided by... >> welcome to "firing line," melinda gates. >>hanks for having me, margaret. >> you co-foundethe bill and melinda gates foundationo cades ago, and since then your foundation has worked to fight global poverty and to combat infectious disease, including hiv, tuberculosis, malaria, ebola. and noyou have committed more than $300 million to fight the covid-19 pandemic. my question just to start is, your work is so often focused on global health.co d you have imagined that you would be battling a pandemic so close to home? >> no, there's no chancewe that we thoughould have a pandemic, you know, and that part of the start of it was here in seate. so, no, this has been quite a surprise to us. we knew eventually there would be some pandemic, but we certainly didn't think it was going to be of this magnitude and scale at this time. nobody could have predicted that. >> well, we're at the six-month anniversary of the first known case of covid-19 in the united states from january 20th. and right at this moment, covid-19 cases are spiking d

emily: the world has changed so much since you and melinda put out your annual letter.ther issues are that you worry are being sidelined because we are focused on covid? bill: i was sending out a letter today to people who donated for polio eradication, and talked about the distraction, which is understandable, that has been a huge setback. there will beca, a lot more deaths just from the impact on the health system, and how that raises death rates for other diseases, way more than the direct effect of covid itself. emily: how extreme could inequality get? ill: inequality between countries is quite extreme. africa,hest places in you have a hard time surviving and getting enough to eat and kids in many locations, their prey never develops that they grow up stunted. so the human potential there is caught in a trap of instability and malnutrition. we are down from 10% to 5% of children dying before the age of five. now, that will go back up to maybe 7%, but give us three or four years and we will get back on track, if it hasn't ended the kind of generosity and funding of i

melinda, you're muted. >> good morning, commissioners, melinda sullivan, rec and park department project manager. pardon the headphones, i have been hiding from the 1-year-old since march in our second bedroom. the item before you today is the discussion and the possible action to amend the construction contract with roebuck construction incorporated for the geneva car barn and powerhouse phase one 1, to bring the total to $9,179,030, which is greater than 10% over the original approved contract amount of $8,267,300. the goals of this are to inspire play and to inspire investment. this project, the powerhouse phase 1, is an old muni railway barn. it's an historic site both locally and nationally. a group of community members came together to save the building and this group became the friends of the car barn and powerhouse. rec and park acquired the building in 2004 at which point a stabilization project for the building was completed. in 2010 it was listed on the national register. and also in 2010, an architecture firm called adman darling design was chosen to be the architect to desig

briefly about the big scientific reason why the answer to this question is no 1st a fact bill and melinda gates with their foundation have undisputedly contributed billions to advancing health care programs around the world they've arguably done more to improve human health than anyone else in history to be behind this mess as you put it the only thing i can assume is that you mean they would in some way be behind having sars cove 2 created by evil scientists and a lab but source code too wasn't bio engineered expert community widely agrees on that because for a number of science based reasons the evidence that it wasn't bio engineered is compelling so regardless of what you might think bill gates is capable of and though i don't understand it i know there are a lot of people who think for some reason he's a super villain he can't be behind this mess because he couldn't have done what he's accused of and if he had done it we'd be able to tell. and that's all for this edition of coffee 900 special before we let you go however we want to end this week with a look at the latest global develo

co-founder a deeper hole pool is one of the big investors in a cure a victim also of the bill and melinda gates foundation are in vested and if you look at other companies that already listed before the pandemic started they actually sold. says it is seeing if successful for billions of dollars and they're also getting hundreds of millions of dollars from some government to speed up the development of the v.c. and so clearly this i.p.o. money wise is helpful but more money will be needed. megan 1st search for a vaccine is turning into something of a modern day face right if where would you place cure back analysts. well i mean right now there are really in the early stages they got just got to sums up for phase one trial that will then soon start was so clinical trials and other companies if you look at nova thanks so much. that was the german partner company on tech most of them already started face trial so it is early in the game but even the more every dollar is needed to speed up the process for finding the scene as soon as possible. to in new york thank the ever. 950 other business

melinda aiello, chief district attorney in california where the release of a convicted murderer has many in that community outraged. thanks for being with us. i want to start with you. you and your family have committed to this issue of nonviolence, getting things under control, your living-year-old grandson was just coming from one of those events when he was allegedly caught in a crossfire, a number of suspects brought in. i want to read something local media reports, police say the suspect was under high-intensity supervision with curfew and gps monitoring at the time, he cut off his gps unit at some point, released on an emergency position related to the pandemic. your response? >> not just happening in dc. it is happening all over the country in chicago, la, florida and dc. when this pandemic happened we decided to let them out of prison to stop them from getting covid-19. if you are involved in violent crime, committed violent crime, hurting people and placed under arrest you don't get a pass. you don't come back out because of covid-19. i can understand people that have been in th

i will be interviewing bill gates, cochair of the bill and melinda gates foundation and cofounder offt. so much to talk to him about -- where he is on vaccines, how long are we going to be in this, one will become out of it. don't miss my exclusive interview with bill gates coming up later today on bloomberg television. we will have more of that for you on "bloomberg technology" tomorrow. i'm emily chang. this is bloomberg. ♪ hike! simon pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500! coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. they're off... in the kentucky derby. rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. he scores! stanley cup champions! touchdown! only mahomes. the big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. you say the customer's maklet's talk data.s. only xfinity mobile lets you switch up your wireless data whenever. i accept. 5g, everybody is talking about it. how do i get it? everyone gets 5g with our new data options at no extra cost. that's good. next item, corner offices for everyone. we just have to make more corners in this building. chad

chief political correspondent linda crane joins us now for more on this melinda we just saw these scenes of some of the women from saturday let's put this into perspective are these images symbolic of a real threat to democracy in germany. the images absolutely are symbolic but they do not represent a real threat to democracy so let me explain that a bit they are politically symbolic because germany is a parliamentary democracy and that parliament building the heist is the very heart of the country's political system as we in fact have heard from germany's president they're also historically and emotionally symbolic images because in fact the nazi era began with the burning of the price tag it's thought that nazis probably set that fire so pictures like this right wing extremists on the steps of the rice to building are absolutely very disturbing to many germans but they did not represent a real physical attack on the german political system this was a fairly small group amongst the protesters a couple of 100 right wing extremists who clambered those steps and who appeared once they got

when her mother, melinda, began to raise questions, she lost her job. the family's house in maryville, missouri, the seriously burned to the ground. daisy coleman says she was suspended from the cheerleading squad and incessantly bullied. she was hounded on social media, called a skanky and a liar, and urged to kill herself, wish she tried to do multiple times. daisy coleman would go on to become an advocate for sexual assault victims. in 2016, i interviewed her and her mother at the sundance film festival. >> i almost believe that this wholole s situation did strip mf being h human, and what i used o be, but i believe as it stripped me of everything i used to be, i was able to start from a new buililding block and build onto someone else, and that is what shaped who i am today, and i feel like, you know, i think i am a force to be reckoned with with maryville now. i don't think they will be getting away with everything that they do now. motherdnesday, daisy's melinda wrote, "she never recovered from what those boys did to her, and it's just not fair. m

matt: that was bill gates, the cochair of the bill and melinda gates foundation.rosoft cofounder, one of the most famous rich people in the entire world basically, so i assume you know him. we have plenty more from that interview through the morning. stay tuned to bloomberg for bill gates on the virus. he is obviously very big on vaccines. he said he wants a vaccine for every single one of the 8 billion people in the world. minutes away from the market open. 20 minutes to be exact. dani burger, what do you see out there? a lot of earnings from germany area dani: really a lot. commerzbank now cutting their a worse picture for 2020. this cut was driven by one single case. that one single case being wirecard, losing money there. now they see bad loans, which impacts the -2020 result, being as high as 1.5 billion euros this year. we have wirecard and souring loans. allianz, a bit better of a story here thanks to pimco. the giant bond fund manager seeing more new clients this past quarter, which helps them some of the losses they had in the beginning of the year. does

my name is melinda and i am 33 years old. i live in london and my partner lives overseas.m 38—weeks pregnant with my first baby. he lives in barbados. my dad's bajan, so i go there quite often, so that is how we met. it is a long—distance relationship but we are doing 0k. we just thought we'd throw a baby into the mixjust to spice it up a bit! this is an exact side—profile of daddy. i was like, "yes, this baby looks like his dad, ioo%." my partner was due to fly out in a couple of weeks to be here for the birth. due to the virus, we have had to postpone his flight indefinitely. we speak every day and that helps to keep in contact, but it is difficult. the first week of working from home was really, really difficult. i literally just had the news on constantly. that was when they were making announcements to change the excel centre near me into a hospital and building these morgues and everything. i just felt like it was something out of horror movie, the world is going to end. i am going to have start stockpiling food or running in other people's abandoned houses and findi

. >> shannon: yeah, and melinda, very quickly, are the families fearful, is that a legitimate worry?> absolutely. two releases of violent criminals and these victims are fearful and they feel like they're just as has been completely thwarted by this process and they feel re-victimized by it. >> shannon: well, it is a very difficult situation for everybody involved. melinda and john, thank you for sharing your side of the story, good to have you both. >> thank you for speaking up on behalf of victims. >> shannon: well, they should at least know what is happening in these cases. thank you guys. threatened with a hefty fine and possible arrest when it comes to holding indoor church services, this california pastor says he's going to obey god and not man. he's alive, next. ♪ (announcer) now more than ever, it's important to lose weight, improve your health, and strengthen your immunity. starvation dieting, processed foods, shakes, and diet gimmicks have made us heavier and sicker. the solution for losing weight the right way is golo. we help transform your body and change your lifestyle,

reporter: global intervention by unicef and the bill and melinda gates foundation was critical in achieving success. when immunization was restarted. what the challenge is, when all of humanity comes ,ogether with one dedicated putting all our resources to whatever challenge we face, we can be triumphant. triumphan example of against a disease that is ancient. reporter: some parents still resist immunizing their children. there is a danger of a false sense of security. officials want to take their experience further by using similar resources in defeating the ebola virus. >> the same lessons, the same resources, the same technology, as what we are using to address covid-19 in nigeria. reporter: the world health organization prays to nigeria's success as a victory for africa. but one that regular vaccinations are required to defeat polio once and for all. >> the mother of an unarmed black man who was shot by police in wisconsin has urged protesters against further violence, saying it does not reflect her son or her family. riot police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in kenosha while a

you know, melinda is the one who deserves any, certainly almost all, the credit for the kids so far doingy well. you know, our kids, we have said to them that the money is going to the foundation, so they do not think of themselves as, sort of, aristocratic. david: what do they say when you tell them that? do they say, can't you give me a little bit or something? [laughter] they don't ask for some? bill: they will get a little bit. david: how much money has your foundation given away today? bill: about $40 billion. david: $40 billion? bill: yeah. we are now up to giving $6 billion a year. david: so, finally, if people are watching now and say, alright, i want to do something about climate change, but i am just one person, i don't have the resources that bill gates does, what can any average person do that will have some impact on climate change, in your view? bill: well, certainly, they can take things like these new meat products or how they buy electricity, and they can help drive up the scale of the green solutions. the most important thing, at this stage, is their political voice. the

well that was chief political correspondent linda crane joins us now for more on this melinda we just saw these scenes of some of the women from saturday let's put this into perspective all these images symbolic of a real threat to democracy in germany. the images absolutely are symbolic but they do not represent a real threat to democracy so let me explain that a bit they are politically symbolic because germany is a parliamentary democracy and that parliament building the high stack is the very heart of the country's political system as we in fact have heard from germany's president there also historically and emotionally symbolic images because in fact the nazi era began with the burning of the price tag it's thought that nazis probably set that fire so pictures like this right wing extremists on the steps of the rights to have building are absolutely very disturbing to many germans but they did not represent a real physical attack. on the german political system this was a fairly small group amongst the protesters a couple of 100 right wing extremists who clambered those steps and

nejra: that was bill gates, cochair of the bill and melinda gates foundation and microsoft cofounder.nty more from that interview coming up through the morning. tourism has been one of the hardest hit industries during the pandemic. while lockdowns have begun to ease, the uncertainty has left many summer holidays canceled. accor's earnings took a major hit. it is in the hope they can come back from. joining us now is sebastien bazin, ceo of accor. delighted to have you with us. the last time that we spoke, you were quite optimistic in terms of being able to reopen hotels and also hire back anybody you have laid off. of had a first half net loss 1.51 billion euros and you plan to cut 1000 jobs. is this as bad as it is going to get or is there worse to come? sebastien: if i knew, i would be a king. i simply don't know. do i believe the worst is behind us? absolutely. it has been gradually recovering. i hoped it would be faster. i don't see things worsening for me. the occupancy is back. domestic leisure is back. hotels.yees are back at there is a spirit of positivity. we have been resis

with funding from the department of defense and supported by other agencies and also by the bill and melinda company lead, which is how the programme is set up, which is in pennsylvania, the california company inovio, and we have collaborations across the globe, such as public health england. i'll ask you to explain, very much in layman's terms, what kind of vaccine you are working on. i'm sure our audience know there are different types depending on whether you're injecting live material or not. so, our vaccine approach is an approach we have worked on for several decades now, which is the idea of delivering nucleic acids. dna, and you have also heard of rna vaccines, both nucleic acid type approaches. these are nonlive pieces are basically encoded information, and this is a new concept in vaccine development, and these are nonlive. they don't grow, they can't spread. they're delivered locally in the case of the dnas in the case of covid—i9, into the skin, and that local site where the skin then tells our bodies cells to produce a single virus protein that has been designed on a computer, a

funding from the department of defence and supported by other us agencies and also by the bill & melindaation. and of course there is a company lead, pennsylvania— california company inovio. as well as collaborations with public health england. could you explain inlay man's terms what kind of vaccine you are working on? are you essentially injecting live material or not? 0ur vaccine approach is an approach we have worked on for several decades now, which is the idea of delivering nucleic acids, dna, you have also heard of rna vaccines, they are nucleic acid type approaches. these are non— live pieces of coded information, and this is a new concept in vaccine development. these are non— live, they cannot grow, they cannot spread, they are delivered locally in the case of the dna in sars— delivered locally in the case of the dna in sars- covid delivered locally in the case of the dna in sars— covid two, and they tell the cells of our body to produce a single virus proteins that has been designed ina lab proteins that has been designed in a lab on computer, then the viral protein is a copy

funding from the department of defense and supported by other us agencies and also by the bill & melinda which is how cepi has set up the programme, which is a pennsylvania—california company, inovio. and of course we have collaborations across the globe, for example, public health england. i'm going to ask you to explain very much in layman's terms what kind of vaccine you're working on. because i'm sure many of our audience know there are different kinds, depending on whether you're essentially injecting live material or not. so, our vaccine approach is an approach we have worked on for several decades now, which is the idea of delivering nucleic acids, dna, dna and you've also heard of rna vaccines, are both nucleic acid—type approaches. these are non—live pieces of basically, encoded information, and this is a new concept in vaccine development. and these are non—live, they don't grow, they can't spread, they are delivered locally — in the case of the dnas into, — in this, in sars—cov—2 — the skin. and at the local site, is where the instructions that tell our ? the cells of our body

global intervention especially by unicef and the bill and melinda gates foundation was critical in achieving success with even a session was restarted. a clear indication that no matter what the challenge is when all of humanity comes together with one dedicated propers for cause in all our resources to really confront whatever challenges we fade we face there we can be triumphant this is an example of triumph against a disease that is asia and have experts wonder the threat of an outbreak remains some parents still resist immunizing their children and there is the danger of a false sense of security. officials want to take their experience in fighting poorly or further by using similar resources in defeating the fall of either 6 years ago. to same lessons the same resources the same technology is what we're using to address could be $1000.00 in nigeria world health organization praised nigeria success as a victory for africa but one that regular vaccinations and increased vigilance are required to defeat puerto rico once and for all coming to greece i'll just object. this is al jazeera thes

end and gibson canyon kaua'i evacuated in this morning and he went back we spoke to amber reed and melinda fits as they look for their grandpa we've already sent sheriff's out there twice and he's refusing to leave. >>so. >>another last-ditch effort fortunately, the sisters were able to find their grandfather and as many other families head toward safety. many are filled with worry what happens now. and again just and see what's left but find comfort in knowing that they are at least together out of harm's way the family. now the time to come together. >>we are noticing that this parking lot is beginning to fill up, however there are many evacuation sites throughout solano county if you'd like to check out a list visit our website kron 4 dot com live in vacaville kron 4 news. he received. >>thank you so much. stay safe, ok. and our coverage will also continue here online if you go to our website kron 4 dot com you will find this interactive map showing where all the fires are burning right now across the bay area, including the latest containment numbers and we're all the evacuation center

being violated counter protests are also planned germany has recorded of 824-2000 infections from melinda mccain explains now why these protests are happening now. they say that their freedoms are infringed by being forced to wear a mask in public and public transport and enclosed spaces they say that having to observe social distancing goes directly against their fundamental freedoms the or thorough cities here say no that's not the case your storage fees believe that by these people not observing social distancing and not wearing masks they increase the threat to the public health not just for the people themselves but for the wider community what the your thora these here have done is where they have seen protesters not observing the rules they have moved in to stop them as they did earlier in the morning where they've seen protesters observe the rules they've not really stepped in to prevent them the police estimate that around 20000 people are on the streets the demonstrations have been coming in going in intensity but clearly the police are monitoring the situation very closely and

and that was bill gates, microsoft founder and cochair of the bill and melinda gates foundation. biggest fast food chain in the philippines has reported a $200 million loss in the second quarter. lockdown into a strict and restaurants were closed. bad,eo calls the loss very but says he expects a return to profit by the fourth quarter as the covid-19 restrictions ease. virginal strata has outlined restructuring plans under new ownership, as it looks to survive the coronavirus downturn. they will cut 3000 jobs from the workforce of around 9000. brand will be discontinued and international flights will be suspended until the global market recovers. virginal study collapsed under $5 billion of debt in april. sony is offering of gorgeous forecast for the rest of the year, despite porting earnings that beat estimates. operating profits came in at 2.1 billion dollars, compared with the average forecast of 1.3 billion dollars. sony is preparing to launch the latest version of the playstation console, anticipating strong demand and asking suppliers to double production. an electric truck

leanne melinda, nbc 7 news. >>> the governor announced new evictions, tenants will be protected until january as long as they pay 25% of their rent and suffering with their landlord that they are suffering financial hardshipthnd. allf this has to happen before monday night when this legislation ends. >>> under the state's new guidelines, san francisco is in the red tier. that will means hair and nail salons can offer in-door services with modifications. that subjects to local public health officials. before governor newsom gave us the update, the mayor announced hair and as a whosalons can reo. >> public health will provide guidelines that'll make sure you know what to do. ultimately, what we don't want to do is open up these places and all of a sudden see a spike and have to go backwards. >> according to the state's website, even if you are purple, the most serious lefrl, in-door operations can be held with modifications for nails and hair as a who salons. it will be interesting to hear what the city says. the city is reviewing the tier system and how it impacts future reopening. >>>

you have seen the bill and melinda gates foundation and the mark zuckerberg and priscilla chan foundationas organizations i think the tech industry is catching on to how significant it is and is not taking on the responsibility to wider society as deeply. enough, immature organizations are like teenagers and still growing up to try to figure out where their place is in the world. when they get more prominent there is more responsibility. where is their place in the world if they don't want to repeat the mistakes they fear of industrial america? like christiansen where they get stagnant and soggy. how do they avoid those trends? hussein: that's a good question. there are enough critics within the industry -- marc benioff is the early investors mcnamee hasroger written a scathing critique of the value. this is the big question that the valley needs to grapple with as these companies become so important to the world, what is the responsibility of them and their founders, executives, and a balanceers to keep with their responsibility to society. mcnamee's go to roger whose ability to play a g

i have been talking to melinda about the impact this has had on families.rious how you navigating this time -- how you are navigating this time. there is this feeling in the home over whose job is more important, moms or dads. how do you answer that question? bill: i am very good at doing the dishes. i am not as good at preparing the food. hopefully some specialization sticks. our kids are older. we are lucky that we have gotten more time with them than we would under normal circumstances. we have a lot of room in our house and a great internet connection. our case is atypically nice. i think it is great she is speaking out. if you are a single parent, if , thise in a small space is a hugely difficult thing, and it is even hard to measure how tough it has been for those -- what we are lucky to have. emily: more of my conversation with bill gates at bloomberg.com. coming up, we are going to bring you back that tiktok story. is microsoft considering buying all of tiktok's operations, not just the operations in the united states? we will have kurt wagner with