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we are reopening salesforce tower in a week.ting off with a small group of vaccinating people who are raising their hand to volunteer, but i'm hopeful we will open this up more gradually looking forward. without question, it will change the way we think about real estate and higher. we are hiring from around the world because i think we can. but i think our creative teams are in the same place. there is the casual conversation you get in the hallway that is hard to reproduce. i think when i look forward, the people in the offices feel it's probably too simple. you say, how do you re-create a culture that is simple? i joke that flexible work is in big. individual decision is a team decision. i think there will be a lot of software that helps companies go back to the office and flexible ways. and i also think we have to see where people's expectations are in the other side of the pandemic. i think it's hard to predict. emily: even my children are familiar with the salesforce tower. it is san francisco's largest, private employer.

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our london and salesforce power san francisco.nd i were in the tower this week. we are seeing an exhilaration. that is reflected in the demand environment in our customer base. as the vaccines become more effective, as places like the united states and the u.k. and europe you're really seeing caseloads going down, the economy is reopening. industries impacted by the pandemic are investing in growth again and you are seeing it in the numbers. the more interesting question is, talking to executives and our customer base, a lot of companies have found a new way to operate their business. businesses started selling over zoom rather than getting on flights. the really interesting question is, what is this new way to work, and for us, how do we position salesforce customer 360, and once it closes, slack, to be the operating system for growth around the world? sheri: has the growth come from new customers? bret: all the above. there was no weaknesses in the recorder. we saw a higher growth rate in hq1, over 20% year-over-year. those seve

beginning with salesforce, yes, salesforce i want to start with what i call a blank slate, or maybe a blank face, devoid of blush to find out what is really going on. not in a hurry but with some thought. here's the stock that's been stuck in a rut ever since it announced it's buying slack, but when they reported, they shot the lights out delivering a strong top and bottom line beat excellent guidance for this quarter and for the full year. you know what, for once, the market actually likes it wonder of wonders, the first blush actually feels right let's dig deeper with marc benioff, the cofounder, chairman and ceo of salesforce.com to hear more about the quarter and where his company is headed. mr. benny off, welcome back to "mad money." >> thanks for having me. >> look, there's so manyimaterics you have given me that are great i look at operating cash flow, i look at accelerating growth, but i look at european is up, asia pac, but i also look at the fact that dream force is back and what will that mean? >> jim, this was the best first quarter we have ever had i think maybe it's the

the different approach salesforce is taking to welcome back employees. it's beauty, - [macaw vo] pretty boy. - or the beast. - the beauty, - [macaw vo] pretty boy. has failed. the beast, john cox, will shake up sacramento, cut taxes. learn about california's nicest, smartest beast at johncox.com it's beauty, - [macaw vo] pretty boy. - or the beast. - the beauty, - [macaw vo] pretty boy. has failed. the beast, john cox, will open schools, get our economy roaring. learn about california's nicest, smartest beast at johncox.com >>> it was back to work in the office today for about 100 salesforce employees who have been fully vaccinated. the tech company is taking a different approach by requiring employee whose are returning to the office to be fully vaccinated. salesforce is the first major bay area company to have that requirement. companies like facebook and google have also reopened offices this month but are only encouraging vaccinations. >> i'm fully vaccinated. i want to get back to normal. interact face-to-face. i love my family, but i love the city

to the salesforce tower starting today. the company will be one of the biggest to formally adopt a majority work-at-home. >>> a lot of talk around the bay area about what offices will open and when. many companies like salesforce say that they will never return to a full stay at the office staff, but the plan is to bring back employees late summer or early fall. now seems to be really late for some people. companies are saying that if the public can gather in large groups without masks or a church or parties, well, offices are different. >>> the biden administration says 39 million families will begin receiving monthly child tax credit payments for the first time. now the first payments will start july 15th. families will get monthly payments of up to $300 for each child under 6 years old and 250 for each child 6 to 15 years old. those payments are part of a extended child tax credit program in the american rescue plan. around 80% of the families that qualify have direct deposit already set up and do not need to take any ad

sech, you sold salesforce, you trimmed amazon i'm looking at the bank of america flow show. have had the largest out-flo from tech funds since december of '18 that doesn't tell me that people are looking for a lot of traction in the tech space, your moves included >> yeah, some of our moves though were dealing with what we thought to be high-price stocks and we had a ton of success in those names. so for amazon it was right sizing for salesforce it was more we saw better opportunities in the market that we wanted to play cash to. i think what is interesting on tech right now is that you have a week where tech kind of felt like it was bottoming. as steve said, you had interest rates kind of moving around and tech not really acting in a coordinated way. so it looked like investors were starting to try to find a bottom, and we think we are building a bottom in quality tech we like quality tech so we're focusing our energy there where there is a little less high prices and a little more opportunity i think we expected volatility we have been writing about this. we still like equ

let's talk about salesforce, for instance the chassis you can built an engagement strategy with yourlients, not just your clients, but co-workers, customers, suppliers, it really does create an opportunity to have the next several years to expand. so in the interim, i think there is this pressure salesforce also had a little acquisition tucked in there that never goes well, but i think it's important to look in terms of what does the new world look like we're talking about reopening and everybody is going back to travel i think many of us will be in -- and the cloud that supports that, is going to be necessary and will continue to grow. >> pete, you sold snowflake schools and oracle calls. >> the snowflake is a great example of a stock that opened at ridiculous levels, and where it fell all the way back to. we were talking about this last tuesday on the show. the previous week we had call buys on there. so trade it, you have to treat them as a trade. the worst thing you do is turn a trade into an investment, for all the reasons we talk about. i'm looking at some of these other names,

. >> didn't salesforce go bye-bye? >> hold on. >> didn't salesforce go bye-bye, if i'm remembering correctly >> and it should and it should. salesforce should go bye-bye, because on a price performance basis salesforce has underperformed let me finish, okay. >> what? >> as relates to the faangs. >> never mind, you're right. i didn't mean to interrupt you with the main idea you had sorry. >> please. to jimmy's comments, you have alphabet, 50 billion in buy backs. you have apple, 90 billion in buy backs. okay i'm fine there i agree with steph let's be market weight but let's understand what is going on. you have a cyclically oriented rotation that is gearing investors towards cleveland cliffs how about freeport mcma ran. >> love. >> i was late to buy it but i'm so happy that i did. how about can we talk about bank of america we added kkr we added charles schwab. we added blackstone. i see nothing wrong in the quality of adding financials, which we did, because we understand there's economic optimism we understand that th

moore taking a live look at the salesforce tower, and just hours from now employees will begin returning to work. two thirds of the step will likely work remote indefinitely. >>> a live look at oakland where tonight police are investigating a double homicide that happened at about 6:00 in the ndis video to social media near highland avenue and east 26th street. one victim died at the scene and the other was able to get to a hospital but did not survive. there is no information about a suspect or motive. it marks oakland's 50th and 51st homicides of the year. >>> now onto our fire watch. mandatory evacuations have been ordered tonight. hundreds of others are ready to go after an explosive fire is burning through pacific palisades. as lori perez reports, investigators are now looking into if it was intentionally set. >> we are under warning but we have not been forced to evacuate. >> reporter: he is among the 100 papers watching and waiting to see if this stubborn fire that has grown to more than 1325 acres, will get close enough to change their evacuation warning into an order as it did f

salesforce is the first major company to have that requirement.nies like facebook and google have also reopened offices this month, but are only encouraging vaccinations. >> fully vaccinated, want to get back to normal, interact face-to-face. i love my family but i love this city as well. i want to be out and about. >> salesforce is san francisco's largest private employer. employees who volunteered to come back today also agreed to twice a week covid testing. >>> the pandemic has shaken up the bottlerock festival. guns n roses and the foo fighters are in. that's pretty cool. the event normally happens in may. this year organizers have moved it to labor day weekend. meghan thee stallion, miley cyrus and stevie nicks are among the 80 acts taking the stage. preregistration starts today. three-day passes go on sale thursday morning. that is really good. guns n roses, foo fighters, megan thee stallion, miley cyrus. september, we can do this. >> let's preregister. >> they're all on your play list, too, right, raj? >> many of them are. eclectic. >> it's

one san francisco entered the yellow tier of reopening, salesforce ceo announced employees could startir return. this morning some willing volunteers were happy to get back into the office. >> fully vaccinated, want to get back to normal, interact face-to-face. i love my family, but i love this city as well, so i want to be out and about. >> for those back in the building, they will be met with atypical covid the protocol. in february salesforce announced two thirds of its workforce would remain at home indefinitely. >>> coming up at 5:30, an army contain a brushfire, threatening multimillion dollar homes in southern california. a live report on the evacuations and and arrest. >>> and a shop owner tries to stop eight the from getting away. the violent attack in chinatown. wahing kpix5 news at 5:30. > right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, more local news at 5:30. a shop owner attacked in san francisco's chinatown. what happened when she tried to stop a thief. >>> the new dmv probe into tesla. is it breaking the law with its claims about its autopilot feature? >> evacuations

with market caps of $100 billion or more, these are the ones that some traders are focusing on salesforcewn roughly 25% from its highs that we saw over the course of the past 52 weeks. then you have qualcomm, also down about 25% from its highs as women. and then paypal, a big run higher there but it is down to about 22% there overall. so as you take a look at some of the names that traders are focusing on, are there values that are coming in some of these mega cap tech names? they're specifically looking at places like apple, microsoft, amazon, tesla and others but still some of the other names like salesforce, paypal and qualcomm a key focus for sure, deirdre. >> thanks for that >>> coming up next, we have some funding news for master class this morning meantime, take a look at match group, down more than 3% this morning, the second biggest laggard on the ndx, down almost 10% on the year. we are back in just two minutes. y to meet the world's needs while creating a cleaner future for all. at chevron, we're lowering the carbon emissions intensity of our operations, investing in lower-carb

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. >>> another promising sign when it comes to the bay area's recovery from covid-19, salesforce's marc benioff says salesforce's largest convention will return to an in-person format this year, with a catch or two. pretty big once, actually. dreamforce is returning to the moscone center this september. right now, attendance will be capped at 5,000, with vaccinations mandatory. in the past, dreamforce has drawn crowd surpassing 150,000. the limits still could be eased, allowing more people in, if health restrictions are loosened. >>> coming up, who would shoot a 6-year-old boy? police in southern california have a new clue to answer that question. we'll show you. >>> and another hack. a russian group accused of a new cyber attack. we'll explain the target. check out my new mini munchies with mac & cheese bites. ♪ one more bite- ♪ ♪ just ♪ ♪ gimme one ♪ ♪ more bite. ♪ woah. ♪ cuz i can't wait forever. ♪ my $4 mini munchies. only at jack in the box. my name is douglas. i'm a writer/director my $4 mini munchies. and i'm still working. in the kind of work that i do, you are surrounded by pe

there's the view from the top of the salesforce tower camera. a -- drop of any marine layer left over. that stuff melted away by about 9:00 in the morning right off the coast. real pretty view over the city from the top of sutro looking back to the salesforce. just checking out the view from there looking over that way. and one more view looking over towards golden gate bridge. look how clear it is here. so what happens to the numbers now? morning lows go back down into the mid 50s. upper 50s in some places. it's going to be a very nice morning tomorrow. won't be all that windy. it's going to be warm to step outside. those numbers almost you know, look perfect. and color shades on the map look weird for the time of day. because they're shaded into the greens and yellows and here are today's daytime highs and since tomorrow is the peak of the heat, let's get everybody in. we're going to get specific on what the temperature is going to be like for your corner of the bay area. like sunnyvale, 92. redwoodcity is going to 94. fremont goes to 94. milp

. >>> salesforce tower welcomed san francisco police back to the office today.the 100 fully vaccinated employees volunteered to be the first to return. salesforce has a three-part reopening strategy following groups of volunteers, and other employees will return as offices rent up ramp up to 22 40% capacity before getting up to full capacity. employees have the option of working at home. >> i want to get back to normal. i'm fully vaccinated. i want to interact face-to- face. i love my family but i love the city as well so i want to be out and about. >>> salesforce has on-site covid testing and employees have to be tested twice a week. there are health officers making sure safety measures are followed. >>> some businesses have a clear path to reopening. wedding and event planners are confused, limiting living in limbo. a plea for advice. >> to be honest there is not an understanding. >> reporter: alicia has been in a holding pattern, her business, weddings, big and small and large social and corporate events in the bay area and beyond. her warehouses full of hear

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>> microsoft, salesforce, a number of companies have come out in favor of the jobs package. others have said, yes there ought to be in, began increase. -- hey no increase -- pay no increase. people maybe feel a 28 is a bit too high. i have made dozens and dozens of phone calls to ceos across industries that agree we need a big investment infrastructure. they applaud the president for not just looking for additional infrastructure. they know that higher corporate taxes are a way to pay for it. >> who are a governor of rhode island, you get a call returned? what about secretary of commerce? >> pretty quick so far. because of my career in business and public policy, i already have strong relationships with many people in corporate america. they know we returned my call. -- j note meet and return my call. there is a general desire to help this administration be successful. the business leaders i am talking to, they know we need to make these investments. they want to help us be successful. calls are returned speedily. >> let's talk about the individual tax increases. the preside

there was, salesforce was a huge number he showed you huge operating cash flow which i know is a number that you care tremendously about and hewlett packard, hp, a lot of people feel is controversial because a lot of people feel it is the peak and enrique says it's not the peak, and gap is making a comeback, led by old navy, athleta, banana republic, not yet, but getting there. >> one of the three company, at least three companies, jim, that have raised guidance, gap, ulta and salesforce. >> ulta. >> some of these two-year stats jim, i mean revenue up 89 is a number we're starting to get used to out of gap but up 8% on a two-year stack is, we're doing even better than we were pre-covid. >> single is, the ceo is doing a remarkable job david, denim. >> denim. >> denim, as themes, it's denim super cycle. and they're there. >> it's the american fabric. >> denim is? >> yes, i think so i heard that somewhere. >> that's levi's. >> overall, denim. >> mickey drexler said that. denim. >> he came on the earlier show - >> he did, the earlier show. >> "squawk box." >> broke my heart. >> broke my hea

. ♪ haidi: -- shery: salesforce reported earnings that topped estimates, driving shares up about 5% inith the salesforce president and coo ride taylor about the report. >> i think we are executing as well as we ever have if you look at the numbers. haidi: do you think it is indicative of a lack of organic growth of the company? where you -- where are you seeing the strengths and weaknesses across the business? >> our organic business has never been stronger. were up 23% year-over-year. we raised our fiscal 22 guidance $26 billion, which is 22%, all on the strength of our organic business. new look across our portfolio you see incredible demand from companies like honeywell and others. we are excited about not only the strength of our organic business but also the opportunity to bring together a stock which is really the digital hq for this all digital world and we think the opportunity is just incredible. shery: what impact will the reopening from the pandemic lockdown have on your business? >> just over the past couple of weeks we announced the reopening of salesforce in london and sa

salesforce dominates the entire customer suite, so even though evaluation sometimes, it can look extensiverom a near-term point of view, we think it is a good buying opportunity. and even cheaper, a company like anaplan, which is in the back office, but this is an area that can come back, because businesses need their software in order to plan for unforeseen events, like covid. we think they are a company that looks cheap right now, and they have a lot of upside as reopening continues on. guy: james gorman at morgan stanley thinks it is a possibility we get a rate hike early next year. we got similar comments from one of that member's of the bank of england. how out of position is the market if that is the case? saira: when you look at what the fed has been saying, they say we are nowhere near where we should be, i do not think the market expects rate that early. for us, the key is watching wage inflation, if that really became a driver of that, we think the fed may pull forward, but we think the fed starts tapering,. kailey: and for that time being, liquidity is still abundant, many peopl

. >>> here is a live look from marin from the salesforce camera chief meteorologist paul heggen is here. there's no rain on the way but relief from the fire conditions. thanks to some the humidity that is being pushed in by that onshore breeze ? >> it's going be a slow process as it makes its way farther inland. the sea breeze is starting to. up and that's going to help humidity levels improve. we will see low numbers with a very dry air. the situation just takes a little while. we have all that dry air locked in place. there is the influence of that onshore wind. 56 degrees downtown, made it up to a high of low 80s. we will see the fog spreading as we go into early tomorrow morning. not to far into the inland valley. quickly hanging on along the coast. the clearing trend if it kicks in at all. it was a tenuous thing and it's going to be a little slow to occur. plenty of sunshine by mid-to- late morning. temperatures will start off around 50 degrees. and that's a normal for the middle of may. high temperatures are below average. near normal temperatures around the bay. farther inland st

salesforce, vmware, all reporting.esforce projecting profit that would top estimates, suggesting customers are optimistic about emerging from the pandemic. another falling after the projection for cash flow fell short of estimates. vmware beat the street in the first quarter with revenue. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: best buy thinks it can succeed where walmart has failed , by asking employees to deliver online orders to customers homes, helping the retailer cope with a surge in orders. how will this work? >> yes. what best buy is doing is asking employees if they would like to instead of working the sales floor or restocking products, if they would like to grab a couple of online orders and take them to an employee's house on their own shift, so they would not have to do it off the clock, so to speak. they do it in a best buy vehicle , so the employee would not have to use his or her own car. this is one of many things best buy is experimenting with. all retailers are seeing a surge in e-commerce. best buy is up 144%,

i think of the salesforce tower, they probably do own that one, which is the tallest building in sanl what are the owners doing and how are they working with these tenants and then the subtenants? >> yeah, the owners are in reasonably good shape because the leases are very long leases so it's really on -- dropbox is responsible for filling that building the buildings still have tremendous value the burden is on the companies themselves if they want to avoid future writedowns. that's where the pain point is in the market. >> ari, thank you so much, we appreciate your time today and your insights. melissa, great to be with you. thanks, everybody, for watching "power lunch." we'll toss it over to "closing bell." the dow is up 407. have a good weekend, everyone. >> tyler, melissa, have a great weekend. welcome to "the closing bell." i'm wilfred frost along with sara eisen stocks looking to finish off a roller coaster week in the green. modest declineses o on the week reopening names are winning on the back of the cdc's new mask guidance airlines and cruises are higher. the tsa said yeste

salesforce has said they expect most employees will never retur bit confusing. restaurant workers are getting back to work. analyzing paychecks by adp shows big growth in hospitality and leisure. president biden got some tacos for cinco de mayo. he says if he leaves the food in the car somebody will take it. later spoke about the $28 billion restaurant revitalization found. >> the message is clear, help is here. the bottom line is this, the american rescue plan is working. >>> the dow up another 97 points. pharmaceuticals lower. talk of opening the patents to save more lives. an interesting article in "the washington post" this morning. the new apple air tags that help you find your car keys and other easy to lose items, a reporter experimented with whether you could track a person without his or her knowledge, and, yeah, you can. it will beep every few days and there are some safety mechanisms. some groups are warning this could be used by abusive partners and people would have no idea they're carrying them around. >> never thought about that. >> yikes. i just

that is the scene from on top of the salesforce tower by the way. but looking at the temperatures, we are all 50 or more, many are mid to upper 50s. in other words this is one of the most warm mornings we have had yet so far this year. in the offshore wind has a lot to do with that. if you get dry, offshore wind or warm it up and if you do the comparison where we were yesterday, 9 degrees warmer than we were yesterday and if you're in early morning riser, it could feel different. you'll probably not complain a lot. it isn't wendy on the ground where we all live. it might be breezy. if you look at current when there might be 10 or 15 mile- per-hour gusts and some of the communities and around the bay area. but it is windy in the mountains. 36 mile-per-hour gusts right now in the north bay and dirty mile-per-hour gusts or the diablo range, it will get stronger over the next hour. and when the sun has time to balance out, the warmth of the sun and energy, it will start to level the playing field. we will get a bit windy into the afternoon. but for a lo

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one of them is salesforce. >> salesforce, like i said before, has a cloud hanging over its head becauseso it's now at a major discount to where it was pre-pandemic it's still dominating brand in the tech world it's the most mature of all the cloud companies. but it's still a fundamental go-to, must-have product for most businesses. still growing extremely well they did get an upgrade from morgan stanley a couple of days ago and i think people are going to start to focus on it and saying, hey, you know, yes, it's a big acquisition of slack but it's a great product as well i think people will say this deserves to be re-rated higher. >> yeah, the price was what caused the most questions on that eric, two other picks while we have you upstart and sonos. upstart you recommended and it has done particularly well why stick with it and why sonos? >> upstart was not well known back when i mentioned it in january. i don't think it's still well known. it's an ai fin tech company that matches consumers looking for personal loans they are expanding into auto loans. they do it in a much better way th

acquired the way that firefield and slack did with salesforce. >> i don't know. think it comes down to the importance of having founders present if you're making a pivot. how importance is that how flexible does aaron and the rest of the team feel to different plans and pivots pivoted from a focus on storage, raw storage to begin with. to being a platform for the enterprise, but they've had to continually compete with these larger players in some sense making what box what dropbox, what these others are doing a little bit more commoditized or at least tougher to compete with those big salesforces. d? >> yep absolutely >>> speaking of courtrooms, elizabeth holms make her first public appearance in 15 months today. live in san jose later this hour. >>> next, breaking down the twitter trade. why the stock has just fallen off a cliff this last week. >>> we're back in two. >>> welcome back to "techcheck." i'm carl quintanilla with deirdre bosa, jon fortt and julia boorstin joining us this morning. tech stocks under serious pressure nasdaq worst day since middle of mar

here is a live look at our salesforce camera this unplugged device is protecting our beautiful coastlines and more. put off chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm to help keep our state golden. >>> terror for people in both t of israel and gaza . palestinian militants continued to fire hundreds of rockets, one slamming into an apartment building, killing a 5-year-old israeli boy. the air war has killed at least 83 palestinians and 7 israelis. the fighting has spread to cities were arabs them jews live side by side. south of tel aviv , jewish writers attacked an arab driver. businesses and places of fantry units and armored unit has been sent to the gaza border and are on y.at the big board now this afternoon. the dow is up quite a bit come more than 500 points right now . new figures from the labor department reflect 473,000 people filed for unemployment benefits last week. this is the lowest level for initial claims since last march. new unemployment claims were at 70,472 in california. >>> hey, mary. >> still looking at those gray skies along the around the bay. you can see that on o

salesforce ceo the company is la plane with critical medical supplies, including devices that can supplydical grade oxygen. it will be taking off in a few days, set to arrive next week. >>> following a developing story out of wisconsin. a shooting at a casino sparks panic. it happened in a suburb of green bay. someone started shooting at a radisson inn connected to the oneida casino. the gunman went to the hotel and casino looking for a specific man who was not there. the gunman shot three of that man's friends. two were killed, a third rushed to the hospital. police ultimately shot and killed the gunman. nbcbayarea.com has the latest information. >>> when we come back, battling the climate crisis with medical tools. the new research at stanford that's using cat scans to study wildfires. >> elon musk is set to appear on "saturday night live" next week. >>> a long time stage and screen actress has died. lympia dukakis died in her home in new york city this morning. dukakis won the oscar for best supporting actress the same near her cousin, michael dukakis was the democrat party's presiden

microsoft, salesforce, they have come out for it, in favor. others have said, yes, there ought to be an increase in the corporate tax rate. everybody seems to agree that it is wrong that we have so many companies who paid no taxes last year. we have to close loopholes that enabled that, and a lot of people, maybe they feel 28% is a bit too high, maybe 26% or 27% might be a better number. but i have made dozens and dozens of phone calls to ceos across industries and they agree we need big investments and infrastructure. they applaud the president for calling not just for traditional infrastructure, they like investments in broadband, semiconductors, and they know that higher corporate taxes are a way to pay for. david: people in washington often measure one's power with how quickly you can get your call returned to. if you are secretary of commerce, how long does it take to get your call returned? gina: it is pretty quick so far. it depends on who you are calling. because of my career in business and my career in public service, i already have

a beautiful view with the salesforce tower camera out of the east bay and the bridge and the east bay. let's check our temperatures. 71 for you in concord with that sunshine. looking at 60 in oakland and 67 in livermore and 59 downtown san francisco and mid 60s? san jose and low 70s for santa rosa. we are still tracking those westerly winds. sot sea breeze effect. 17-mile-per-hour winds out of the west at sfo. 15 at half-moon baybuwe are goi northerly winds kick in for our weekend. so again that typical may weather for today. but watch as we look to our weekend. warmer temperatures that ridge of high pressure building in. and with those offshore winds, we have that high fire concern. so a red flag warning in effect for the north bay, hills, the east bay hills and the east bay interior valleys. that's from 11:00 tonight until 6:00 a.m. monday. that also includes solano county and the central valley all in red under that red flag warning. we're going to see gusts up to about 40 to 50 miles per hour and relative humidity values down to about 10% to 20%. so critical fire weather condition

and salesforce tower has a policy where up to 100 fully-vaccinated employees can volunteer to work on designated floors. >> i think it's going to be case by case. general solutions are to be, again, fair, evenhanded. >> our thanks to deirdre. >>> coming up, shining up the '60s. >> we're checking out that twa hotel that promises to take us back to a classier time in air travel. you're watching "world news now." >>> it was ♪ oh, big old jet airliner ♪ ♪ don't carry me too far away ♪ ♪ oh, big old jet airliner ♪ because it's here that i've got to stay ♪ >>> after a year of pandemic shutdowns, we've all been dreaming of getting on a big old jet airliner to carry us far, far away. >> time to travel. that jetliner may just end up transporting you back to a more magical time for air travel. will ganss took a trip back in time. >> it's finally time to talk travel once again. i'm so happy to see you. while we're at it, it's time to time travel, too. expedia travel expert courtney scott meeting us at the shiny new twa hotel where the '60s are back in style. ♪ ♪ from original flight attendant fa

microsoft, salesforce, a number of companies. they have come out for it. in favor of the package.thers have said yes, there ought to be an increase in a corporate tax rate. everyone seems to agree. that is wrong that we have so many companies who pay no taxes last year. we have to close loopholes that enable that. a lot of people, maybe they feel 28 is a bit too high. 26, 27, might be of better number. but i have made dozens and dozens a phone call to ceo's. across industries. they agreed that we need big investments in infrastructure. they apply the president for not calling just traditional infrastructure. like research and development, broadband, technology, semiconductors. and, they know that higher corporate taxes are way to pay for it. david: people in washington often measure one's power by how long it takes to get there call returned. when you are the governor of rhode island, calling a ceo, did you get your call returned right away? what about when you are secretary of commerce? sec. raimondo: pretty quick so far. because of my career in business and my career in public s

salesforce announced its dreamforce conference will return in september.he chronicle reports it'll be at the mascony center. attendance will be capped and all attendees must be vaccinated. for the first time some events will be held concurrently in new york city, london and paris, as well as online. >>> in the east bay, the grand lake theater in oakland welcomed back guests tonight. it's been closed since last march of course because of the pandemic. during that time the theater made some major upgrades including repainting the 45-foot tall ceiling in the lobby which is really nice. >> looks good. >>> we have all been there. stalking traffic on the bay bridge that. had a direct impact on the a's game tonight. and the once in a lifetime base-runnin >>> the a's opened the series with the angels tonight. ohtani was supposed to start. got stuck in traffic. didn't arrive until late in the game. the a's in the 6th, sean murphy, a little flare here. matt chapman is sprinting all the way. and almost catches lowry. a relay team. a's score five in the inning. chris

. >>> let's get you a live look at the famous salesforce tower. the company reporting it's a best first-quarter earnings ever. that income hitting $469 million. that compares to 99 million a year ago. the stock price is up 5% in after-hours trading. talk about striking gold, the 49ers making history. >> the nfl's first-ever gender neutral gear. the new line of team branded prior themed clothing went on sale today. it is the league's first and only genderless collection. all the proceeds will go towards lbgtq centers around the bay area. the 49ers pride club will also host events all month long in june. >>> it is important to acknowledge part of the struggle that is going on is the struggle around gender identity. and making sure our fans whether they identified as this gender or not or or straight or whatever they feel like, whether you feel like a man or a woman today, whatever you want to where we have close that are for you. >> if you order now you will have something to wear to the niners preseason. kpix is your home for 40 niners preseason fo

ceo salesforce mark benioff says that workers can be in returning to the salesforce tower in san francisco 17th daniel made the announcement in a tweet celebrating san francisco's transition to the yellow tear. it's not clear how many sales force employees will return on may 17th last month's sales force said it's reopening plan was to have fully vaccinated employees return to the office first. and that all employees would have the option to continue working from home through the end of the year. now to google, which is relaxing its remote working plan for employees, google says it will allow 20% of its workforce to continue to work remotely even after the pandemic is over. 60% will work a hybrid schedule. this means three days in the office two days really, wherever the employee feels they work best. most of google's 135,000 employwork from home through september. there was a celebration today to mark the 20th anniversary of the revitalization of the presidio's crissy field. this morning, speaker 1000 see pelosi and other federal state and local leaders joined the national park service he

twitter, airbnb and salesforce all downsizing their offices or canceling plans to expand up next tonighthat downtown san francisco could look like post pandemic? also, why many transit agencies air cutting service? one is actually adding service. why one ferry service will offer 30% more rides than they did before the pandemic. and for the second straight night, we have a no hitter in baseball sports director market. banias is up later to tell us all about it also. so what happened when a woman walked on a school campus in the north bay and allegedly started assaulting it's time for sleep number's memorial day sale on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it's the most comfortable, body-sensing, automatically-responding, energy-building, dually-adjustable, dad-powering, wellness-boosting, foot-warming, temperature-balancing, recovery-assisting, effortlessly life-changing... proven quality night sleep we've ever made. during our memorial day sale, save $1,000 on the new sleep number 360 special edition smart bed, now $1,799. only for a limited time. this academic year has been, um, challeng

salesforce and facebook returned this month. >>> president biden is trying to calm drivers were panicked buying gas after the cyber attack on colonial pipeline. the pipeline is operating at full capacity, but it is going to be at least a couple of days before gas stations are back up to speed on the southeast pick of the president claims russian criminals behind the attack that led to that shot down. he says any price gouging will be punished and he urged drivers not to panic. >> i no seam lines at the pumps or gas stations with no gas can be extremely stressful. but this is a temporary situation. do not get more gas than you need the next few days. >> the national average price for a gallon of gas topping three dollars, highest in the summer of 2014. president biden says the u.s. is working with moscow to track down those responsible for the attack. >> reporter: stocks rebounding after yesterday's selloff pick of the dow gained more than almost 434 points. the nasdaq was up 93, snp, that went up almost 50 points. the major averages on track for big losses this week because of fears over

in the meantime salesforce plans to open its san francisco tower one week from today. that's according to "business insider." vaccinated employees will be grouped into separate cohorts of 100 or fewer people as the reopening process begins. >>> the 49ers are teaming one santa clara county in an effort to get more teenagers vaccinated. the team will hold a news conference at noon to announce the plan. tomorrow through thursday in addition to getting the shot, some teens will have the chance to visit the team's locker room at levi's. the first 100 teens in line receive gift cards to starbucks and chipotle. a dj will be there to liven up things up, no appointment is necessary but teens must live in santa clara county. >>> with more and more people getting the vaccine, we are seeing an increase in travel plans for summer getaways. joining me is dr. supriya narasimhan. she is chief of infectious diseases at santa clara valley medical center. good morning, how are you? >> good morning, it's a great day. how are you? >> i'll doing well, let's get right to it. right now a lot

the ceo of salesforce has announced an official date for when employees can return to the tower. can return to the office beginning may 17th. he visited the company announced that nearly 2/3 of its staff will likely work remotely indefinitely. >>> at the same time, mountain view-based google is relaxing its return to work plan. the tech giant asked x 20% of its staff to continue to work from home, after its office has reopened in the fall. and 60% of its workforce will work a hybrid schedule. >>> a cool, breezy day across the bay area, still 50 to 20 mile an hour sustained wind out there, gusting over 30 miles an hour tomorrow the wind will behave a bit differently. we show the >>> the ceo of allegiant airlines is partnering with his alma mater, uc davis, and a new covid screening tool for travelers. ryan hill on the tech behind the rapid test. >> this may look like a run-of- the-mill covid testing lab but it is actually where a new rapid testing system is underway at uc davis. >> 48 samples and 20 minutes. >> reporter: they partnered up with allegiant airlines ceo maurice gallag

salesforce sending money and a planeful of supplies. google contributing $18 million to the effort. bay area venture capital list funding the import of oxygen and other needed medical supplies. >> there is not a family in the bay area that doesn't know someone in india right now who is being affected. >> reporter: all part of what this congressman who is also the vice chair of the congressional india caucus calls a good start. >> and then let's all push and advocate for making sure pfizer and moderna do the right thing, at least temporarily get the vaccine recipe into india so they can start manufacturing vaccines. >> reporter: if you, too, would like to help india fight covid, the bay area group home of hope is accepting donations of all sizes. i put a link on my twitter page, which is my full name. scott budman, nbc bay area news. >>> thank you, scott. the state health department reports 66% of latinos in santa clara county have not gotten a single dose of the covid-19 vaccine. for a while the worry was a lack of supply. but now many concerned that people in the community are acti