about silicon valley.t's role in society. how do you square all of that being the face of silicon valley in many ways? >> that is a great question. when i came here, washington just seemed it could not have been further away from silicon valley, it was irrelevant. we are loading things and trying to make the world a better place, and it doesn't feel that way right now. it feels like washington and silicon valley has come much closer together. there's more talk about regulation and there's going to be more regulation. the impact of silicon valley on government and democracy is enormous, and we are right in the middle of that. it is an important responsibility for stanford to be in the middle of that discussion, and we are trying to do that. jason: one of the interesting things about a business education is for a long time, it was a fairly straightforward investment, you paid tens of thousands of dollars and then you got out on the other end and got paid very well. it seems more complicated now, and maybe ev

. >>> silicon valley's cost of living is soaring. that's no surprise. sky-high rent and home prices are pushing hard-working people out. so where is all that money going? we investigate who owns silicon valley. >>> and we are seeing the welcomed return of fog. it's been 168 days since the last day we had a half-inch of rain. will this pattern change in the next seven days? a closer look when we come right back. >>> tonight two owns silicon valley? we investigate why stanford is buying up so many homes, then leaving them vacant for months even years. tonight at 11:00 on nbc bay area news. we investigate. >>> decision 2019. we'll get you ready before you head to the polls for this tuesday's special election. what you need to know before you go. >>> plus, watching washington ahead of impeachment proceedings. analysis on the sunday morning talk shows. >> that's monday morning 4:30 to 7:00. announcer: 5 million kids use e-cigarettes. it's an epidemic fueled by juul with their kid-friendly flavors. san francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored e-cigarette

. >>> bay area news outlets team up in silicon valley. the impa ey're having on the region's housing crisis. good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom i'm scott shafer. we begin tonight with a look at the reanlts from san frcisco's election earlier this week. on tuesday voters in san francisco headed to the polls. they decided the fate of several ballot measures including proposition c, which would overturn the baon selling or distributing e- cigarettes. two housing measures includin a $600 million affordable housing bond that mayor london breed suppord appears be headed for victory. still no winner in the close contest to elect san francisco's . xt district attorn thousands of ballots are left to be counted. for most of the week interim d.a. has climbed to a slim lead over chase houboudine. >>> and editor, columnist joe esconozzi, lcome to both of you. let's start with the top of the topic,breezing to the easy reelection, getting almost 70% of the vote. did she get a mandate, joe? >> i don't know if d i couse the term mandate, but i thin

other news, last night silicon valley hosted the 8th annual breakthrough awards. mark zuckerberg there to help present those awards. there are breakthrough prizes in the fields of life sciences, fundamental physics and math. it's always exciting because, okay, there are the nobel prizes but when it comes to science there's not the black tie sort of raz ma taz sort of things that you see at the oscars and that kind of stuff and it's kind of fun to see scientists getting up there, winning an award in their black tie. >> that's right. >> cool to see that. >> for kids to see too. >> a little science in this story as well. as santa and his elves start to pick up the pace, a new study showing how people are racking up new debt during the holiday season. turns out about 60% of the current debtholders already accepting their card balances may go higher come the end of the holidays and when it comes to generations, more than half of all millennials are open to higher debt. it's 40% when it comes to the gen xers and just below that for baby boomers. >> anybody start holiday

saudi arabia and billionaire uber founder accepting a $400 million investment from the saudis has silicon valley become the valley of sin? great to have you with us. do you think silicon valley has enough self awareness to see what's going on and realize there's a problem here >> i think when a lot of these platforms started getting off the ground, 10, 15 years ago, it was easy to preach this idea we're working towards a higher aim and pushing off profits in pursuit of whether it's organized the world's information or connecting the world or whatever. it's easy to say that in the beginning. now they have to make some serious ethical decisions and moral decisions around how they will operate i think we're starting to approach -- you saw reid hastings say we're in the entertainment business we're not trying to make some moral stance the biggest risk is alienating the employees who signed up for this idea that they are trying to make the world a better place. >> they want to sign up for the company that has a mission and some clear goal. i mean that can't go over well >> it's not just that. you hav

of silicon valley, in many ways? : when i came to stanford 20 years ago in washington just could not have been further away from silicon valley.it was irrelevant . we were out here making companies and trying to make the world a better place. it doesn't feel that way right now. it feels like washington and silicon valley have become much closer together. there is more talk about regulation. there is going to be where regulation. the impact of silicon valley on government and democracy is enormous. we are right in the middle of that. i think that is a really important responsibility for stanford to be in the middle of that discussion, to try to facilitate connections. >> we have heard from various stanford grads or alums. what happens is, it is not uncommon for a lot of executives to just drop in and have conversations with students here. tell us how important that is as part of what they learn and experience? jonathan: i think it is a huge part of what students experience. it opens their aperture to what are the oppor

so how much money are we talking about for silicon valley? >> reporter: well, $2.5 billion is the biggest corporate contribution toward affordable housing to this point and about a fifth of that is earmarked specifically for silicon valley and san jose. here is how apple is divvying up the $2.5 billion pie. $1 billion into an affordable house investment fund available to the state of california and other developers to build low to moderate income housing. $1 billion will fund a down payment assistance loan program for first-time buyers, especially service personnel and school employees and veterans. the bay area will benefit from $300 million in apple-owned property in the city of san jose made available for the construction of affordable housing and the $150 million which apple will put toward the existing bay area housing trust silicon valley which has a decades old housing fund and $50 million to support vulnerable populations through destination homes. the reaction is far is mixed with skeptics saying this is not an affordable housing pro

star of "silicon valley," actor and comedian thomas middleditch.al from doja cat and tyga featuring the 8g band with chris johnson. ♪ [ cheers and appuse ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. it's "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause that is -- wonderful to hear in that case, let's get to the news president trump tweeted this morning that he plans to meet with medical experts and members of the e-cigarette industry to develop safer vaping policies. and you may think trump isn't an expert on vaping but remember, he sucks and he blows. [ laughter ] president trump attended a football game at the university of alabama over the weekend where he was immediately placed into the concussion protocol [ laughter ] that's right president trump attended a football game and received loud cheers when he was shown on the jumbotron, or to put in it sports terms, trump is now 1 and 2 on the season. [ laughter ] according to a new book, queen elizabeth's stylist uses gin to clean her jewelry while bo

forget silicon valley, this is silicon roundabout.e to more unicorns, that is billion—dollar tech start—ups, than anywhere else in europe. pay—as—you—go insurance company zego chose the city as its base. it has changed a lot in five years from 2009—2014, where there were only a few couple of start—ups and only a few investments. they were kind of big stories but very, very few things were happening. now, in the last five years, it has really boomed. you can see that fintech has a massively grown just generally, there is a lot more investments, a lot more money has been invested. start—ups are becoming a real popular thing. less than a mile away, broadgate circle was once home to the city's big banks. now it is the home of financial technology. 20 years ago, i was working on one of those big buildings up there. i was working for a big bank. and i was looking down on an ice—skating rink, full of people sitting around, quite formally, sitting in restaurants, contemplating big financial deals. nowadays, it is a very different atmosphere h

food needs in various ways and various communities, including alameda county, san ramon, and silicon valleytalking to those trying to do something about hunger. and when we examine the situation in alameda county, we find that one in five residents experience or are at risk of hunger. in fact, about 119,000 are considered food insecure, and an addition 130,000 are marginally food secure. addressing the need is a daunting task, and that is taken on by the alameda county community food bank. joining us to talk about what's being done and what needs to be done are director michael altfest and outreach associate roy chim. welcome to the show. michael altfest: thank you for having us. robert: you know, you hear that kind of term, "food insecure," and things like that. give us an idea in terms of what that means. michael: it's quite simple. so, when we're talking about somebody that's food insecure, they're literally answering questions like, "i do not have enough food to feed my children today." so, these are people who are struggling to put a healthy meal on the table. robert: and that is scary

it is what really drove silicon valley today. but at best the sides of the triangle are no longer equal distance maybe they are distorted or a little frayed to be different links the reasons are complex. and with the different business model with government and industry so the task is made much more difficult today that industry is so much more than department of defense with the adoption integration of ai. and those of the tech industry with the department of defense. and is far more than portrayed. we don't make it easy for them. so of those themes in the security commission's repor report, that is the idea of a shared sense of responsibility upon the ai future of the importance of trust and transparency. so the national security depends on that. for various reasons viewed with suspicion are reluctant to have that strategic competition with china and ai is a critical component of nation's prosperity and vitality and sufficiency. so no matter where you stand with respect to the government with ai technology i submit we can never

. >>> who owns silicon valley?hat's the question asked by a team of rtres from kqed, the mercury news, and several other bay area ws outlets. the year-long collaboration investigated top landowners of the gion. a role in a housing crisis that led to sky high rents and hours long commutes. among the findings, stanford university's property holdings are worth nearly $20 billion. that's more than google, apple, and intel combined. and also this week apple pledged $2.5 billion to combat the housing crisis, ying it is, "committed to being a part joining me now is rachel myro, senior editor of the silicon valley news desk. hi, rachel. >> hi, scott. >> what were yotting out to do in this year-long project? >> we wanted to find out who were the big players. how do you find that out from a data perspective? you start asth the ssor's office. one of the wonderful things about hang a multi-newsroom collaboration was we were able to have a team of data reporterfrom the mercury news, nbc bay area. going into this data, which is

how do you avoid some of the problems we have seen in places like silicon valley?e experience that now. the 80,000 people coming to toronto every year. we have a big push on using city land to increase the supply of rental housing and we will just have to increase the supply. we have more cranes than anywhere else in north america is evidence that we are building a lot of things to accommodate the people that are coming, both investors and residents and we will keep doing that. vonnie: thank you for joining us. coming up, a conversation with .vs ceo larry barlow this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg markets. are taking you to the year ahead summit well underway in new york today. terminal subscribers can run the function on your terminal. lou armstrong is speaking with cvs health president larry mer lo. let's listen in. tomatoes feel better for our country, i think it would be my first response. recognizing that as a company we are doing a lot of things in that area as well as other things to help people on the path to better health. there are so much more that ne

apple is certainly not the first silicon valley company to make a financial commitment toward helping to solve the affordability and housing crisis here in the bay area but it's $2.5 billion commitment is certainly bigger than the ones we've seen yet. we've seen apple's slick product announcements like this one. this news actually came out quietly overnight in a written statement quoting ceo tim cook as saying that he and apple feel a civic responsibility towards housing affordability in the name of civility and opportunity. so you might be thinking what does this mean for me, i'm struggling to find affordable housing. here's how apple's $2.5 billion commitment breaks down. it's $1 billion towards an affordable housing investment fund for california to borrow money and other developers to build new to moderate low income housing. $1 billion is a first-time buyer assistance fund, especially for service personnel, school employees and veterans. apple is offering up $300 million in land that it already owns in san jose for the construction of affordable housing and is putting $150 millio

that's what it is the go to for silicon valley today. they are distorted or a little frayed in addition to being different links edward snowden and agility and general mistrust within the government and industry. the task is made much more difficult the industry is moving so much faster when it comes to adoption and integration. and the tech industry he sees no - - sees no reason and even far more than it is portrayed we don't make it easy for them so i would reinforce the theme of the security commission report with the idea of a shared sense of responsibility and a shared vision of trust and transparency our national security depends on even those for various reasons view dod was suspicion are reluctant to accept we are in a strategic competition with china i would hope you would agree it is a critical component of our nation's prosperity and self-sufficiency. in other words where you stand with ai technology i submit we can never attain the vision outlined with industry and academia with equal partnership. there's too much at stake to

>>in silicon valley, noel bellow kron 4 news.ol around parts of the bay area now nice and clear in spots with some fog building along the coastline. how picture weather tomorrow, we'll talk about that coming up next. >>and police are investigating an acid attack on a man who was severely burned on his face and his neck by police. i say this is a possible hate crime. >>and the football was pretty bad at times but nothing could beat the black. they interrupted monday night football. >>and a little bit tonight with the nfl raider nation has been waiting for more than a month to converge on the coliseum once again in the silver black put together a nice home com the muck and he described his career a complete win against the lions oakland snapped a two-game losing streak. >>the defense. gave up a lot of matt stafford passing yards we came up big when it mattered most intercepted stafford in the end zone on the finalnplay the game a breakup on for that one. derek carr outstanding 2 scores, no turnovers. josh jacobs set the tone on the

that's what it is the go to for silicon valley today. they are distorted or a little frayed in addition to being different links edward snowden and agility and general mistrust within the government and industry. the task is made much more difficult the industry is moving so much faster when it comes to adoption and integration. and the tech industry he sees no - - sees no reason and even far more than it is portrayed we don't make it easy for them so i would reinforce the theme of the security commission report with the idea of a shared sense of responsibility and a shared vision of trust and transparency our national security depends on even those for various reasons view dod was suspicion are reluctant to accept we are in a strategic competition with china i would hope you would agree it is a critical component of our nation's prosperity and self-sufficiency. in other words where you stand with ai technology i submit we can never attain the vision outlined with industry and academia with equal partnership. there's too much at stake to

the need and the hunger need just here in silicon valley. means every dollar that was given.how sorry i am very out of breath. but every llar that was given. but you have. back to the community here and feed local families also t 17 time. and food is >>this me a lot of the especially corn absolutely actually >>and nobody's going anywhere there's no well actually it a little is it a little this is heavy on biker group heading to thanksgiving there motorcycle today's the day to just take a stand take it yeah enjoy a nice drive across the golden gate bridge or not blue skies, but at least. >>the traffic's move in yeah can y write about that so if you've got somewhere to go just know that the police are out i forget they call it holiday enforcement for cnn hero via college or they're out there. i saw i saw some police patrolling looking for speeders looking for impaired drivers and stuff like that which is good we want everybody to make it home safe yeah actually this is quite this is the busiestawe've seen it all morning because people are just starting to now get up to and get

. >> the high cost of living and working in silicon valley is the focus of our efforts to building abetter bay area. maybe the solution is just moving. a san jose start-up is working with tech companies to offer $10,000 bonuses to remote workers. >> reporter: living in the bay area can be challenging. that's why a new silicon valley start up is hoping to connect more companies with people who want to live in more affordable communities. >> we'll set you up in a community with other like-minded remote workers. we'll give you support tools to help connect you with your home company. >> reporter: main street co-founder douglas ludlow says the companies they work with are willing to pay them to successfully recruit and retain remote talent. as part of the launch, main street will pay a $10,000 bonus to anyone who goes through the program and works a minimum of a year. >> silicon valley has become extraordinarily expensive for many families. you're competing with billionaires and millionaires. >> reporter: research shows that many many cases working remotely can boost productivity and per

>>as are all taking part in the 15th annual silicon valley, turkey. trot you got a live picture here at the start line from first christine a teacher is there for us this morning. we'll have a live report from her coming up in the so what they do is they run off the meal >>earned that you see you can eat like it, i would take that have you seen the macy's thanksgiving day parade is going on here. here's the problem so got it got underway about an hour ago. and it's so windy there that's the issue they've been talking about that for a couple days now and they were saying actually they were it was on hold they were not we don't know if we can do it and we've been monitoring and hey they have been flying the load for the bush get a load son the band's that's fine but it was balloons and the question what they did is, but here's the thing like you know you get killed radioman or whatever you know i don't like the right to be but they they make of solo and sometimes parallel, so they're laying. they don't want to see how coming across other like a hover. y

armed forces from afghanistan to silicon valley. former navy technician finding jobs for veterans. one of the most innovative companies according to fast company. they join us on the new startup in a moment. >>> when captain election law returned home serving as a bomb technician for the navy he wanted a job in silicon valley he couldn't get his job in the door he's helping veterans with his start-up shift, a linkedin of sorts for veterans backed by structure capital and recently named one of 2019 innovative startups by fast company captain mike the founder and ceo joins us on veterans day welcome. >> thanks so much, carl. first off, i would just like to wish a happy veterans day to all those who came before me, those still serving. as a veteran myself it's always been a special holiday to me god bless all you out there right now. >> a special day for all of us, thank you for that, captain. talk about the model we said linkedin for veterans, is that too simple >> i would say it's a little different than that. we call ourselves a car

that it does has permeated silicon valley. we are the beneficiaries of it in that, i was not know a line of code if you wrapped it around my neck but we all get a chance to recognize we can be casual. we will ultimately be judged on the quality of our work which is a tremendously refreshing thing. 1990 seven netflix went online. at what point did you feel financially secure? [laughter] one of the essential ingredients of being an entrepreneur is you never feel secure financially or otherwise. certainly in terms of the otherwise peace, it is inherent in a startup that you struggle and claw and climbed her way to the top of the first hill and you collapse and a heap when you have finally made it only to catch your breath and look up and see a bigger hill in front of you. when they started netflix, our goal was to be as big as a single blockbuster. and we hitr year that in the first two or three months. there's look up and say 9000 blockbusters. once we pass blockbuster, there is hbo and comcast and amazon. it is never ending. re

leave from the typical media narratives of when you look at india is the sort of democracy of silicon valley and you know china which is authoritarian or villian regime no we need a difference cribbage the 2 of them are actually becoming much more similar than different they both are having similar kinds of approaches and getting inspired by each other because they would like to come up with these hyper ecosystems to capitalize on the natural asset which is the billions of users can you give me an example in terms of how they're starting to look more like each other is it through an app or through the way they socialize online for instance right the west across we're talking about breaking up the platforms right because we look at them as hyper monopolies so we need to do. create a divergence decentralization was india and china is looking at hyper convergence like hyper ecosystem this like amazon google and you know what they've said all rolled into one and that's that's just the beginning because the way they look at it is they have extraordinary scarce resources and they have to compete w

it is what drove to silicon valley today. they are a little afraid in addition to being different lengths. the reason for that is multi-fold. a general mistrust between the government and industry. we started talking past each other instead of with each other. it's made more difficult today by the fact that industry is moving so much faster than the department of defense they see no compelling reason to work with the department of defense and even those who want to work with the dod which is far more than it is in that category we don't make it easy for them. so i would just reinforce the themes in the commissions report or interim report and that is the idea of a shared responsibility. it is the trust and transparen transparency. our national security depends on it. and even for those who for various reasons still view the dod for suspicion who are reluctant to accept we are in a strategic competition with china i hope would still agree that ai is a critical component of the nation's prosperity, vitality, and self-sufficienc

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>>and in this year's th annual silicon valley, turkey trot how much money was raised today for local charities that ahead plus state leaders are working to help small businesses recoup some of that money they lost during last month's. >>preemptive power shutdowns the action. oee man is taking that can help get some back on their feet members of the community are coming together to host a thanksgiving feast for those who are less he could've just been the middle cls kid who made good. but mike bloomberg became the guy who did good. after building a biness that created thousands of jobs he took charge of a city still reeling from 9/11 a three-term mayor who helped bring it back from the ashes bringing jobs and thousands of affordable housing units with it. after witnesng the terrible toll of gun violence... he helped create a movement to protect families across america. and stood up to the coal lobby and this administration to protect this planet from climate change. and now, he's taking on... him. to rebuild a country and restore faith in the dream that defines us. wherthe wealthy wil

in silicon valley, michelle kingston kron 4 news.>these union says its power lines have not sparked any wildfires his company start to repeatedlshut off power however, the utility compa did knowledge in a court ruling today that ms transmission equipment may have started the kincade fire last montthat fire stroyed more than 400 structures, many of them homes. authorities have not determined what sparked the sonoma county wildfire bought. the utility says it did have a problem at a transssion tower near where the fire nited. it had lines to prevent its equipment from igniting wildfires but left electricity flowing rough what it believed were le vulnerable transmission lines. pg e says it is not aware of similar vuerable equipment elsewhere. in southn californiasome 300 firefighters spent thanksgiving btling the cave fire. >>despite the rain there the cave fire, it's stilburning inanta clanty santa rather barbara county. some good news though a containment figures are significantly. it's now about 70% contained the latest figuresrom ca

. >> and you have to introduce everyone in silicon valley still remembers and working on other stuffmbers his time at u uber to the average person not familiar with the back story you have to establish who he is and why he created so much controversy. >> travis had done two different start-ups before and probably in his later 30s by the time uber came around. and i think the point i wanted to get to in the very beginning is he's done two start-ups and had been -- betrayed by those that backed him initially and that went to the mentality, this is my company and no one could take it away from me and i'll secure it for the long haul and initially the vc, the venture capitalized were okay until things started going wrong later and it was hart to rest that control from him. >> what is the response from the company. the ceo dara tweeted -- i'll have a good time proving this wrong. >> there is a new ceo. >> yes. so what is the response? >> it has been interesting. there is a number of employees who don't like the book just because probably because i didn't depict them in the best light and

you can register, though, as i mentioned, for the silicon valley turkey trot.egister until 9:22 this morning. the main event where you have a mass amount of people is 8:30. they have a wheelchair race. there's also a kids fun run. again, this is the 15th year of this event. think about it, back in '05 only 1,300 and now over 25,000. >> my producer said i have to repeat the joke i made an hour ago for people not watching, but i shudder to do that because i don't want to sound mean. >> bob had said -- >> reporter: i teed it up for youintentionally. >> i cackled in response to you saying you're in perfect shape and don't need to run the race. >> we call them dad bods. >> it's okay. i have a mom bod. i'm right there with you. look at bob in all his gorgeous glory. >> that is a statue he sque perfection. >> you're more beautiful than a thanksgiving turkey, bob. we love you. >> happy thanksgiving. >> look at that guy. and now they're like, and moving along. >>> i will throw something in here. if i can help one person, and i do this every thanksgiving. if you have not

silicon valley workers are now working to manage the chaos.ning to a new craze dopamine fasting. >> i find myself decompressing away from those from time to time just to find a healthier outlet instead of sitting around on a computer and finding everybody's good news and bad news. >> sometimes we're not fully aware how demanding compulsive behaviors affects or compresses our mood. >> he says it's practical to take one to four hours at the end of every day to >>> all right, get ready for a big change to your instagram feed. starting next week the facebook owned company will start hiding like accounts in the united states. >> users will see liked by a user name and others behind their posts instead of the number of likes. on the subject of instagram this little pooch is one of the most famous dogs on the photo platform. dougie has amassed more than 520,000 followers. his owner says she started the attack daily dougie so as as ass inundate -- >> i think that comes through in the account where people feel like they really know him and wish that th

>>silicon valley is known for fostering businesses in ideas that can start inside a garage, but as more people begin to use their cars as their homes. big tech companies are now stepping up to try to help fix the bay area's housing crisis. good evening. i'm can wait. >>and i'm catherine heenan in for pam moore, one person oil bello has more on apple's billion commitment to try to help fix the housing problem. >>let's not blame. hardworking californians for having a child for a housing crisis. it's a common theory thrown around, but the tech boom in silicon valley is what's come caused the bay area housing crisis but car gordie know with the silicon valley leadership group doesn't agree it's been 30 years 1989 since california consistently met its annual targets for the amount of homes we need to build just to keep up with our population, it is not fault of an employer, large or small. >>that act or not act he says it's a collective fault. >>and apple announcing it would be pledging 2 and a half billion dollars to help fix it is the right move. this is the type. >>of investments that we

there's a lot of people in silicon valley who will say about this is sometimes you have to push through even at the cost of whatever ticket to a better hplace. i don't know if i agree with all that. one of the questions for all of us anytime you have a major business innovation that could be in a gray zone that's the financial service crisis. they turned out to be harmful so there is another level and another layer that's how women were treated and it wasn't just the employees, it was actually the entire company culture. a lot of the parties that you write about in the book feature when then brought in as actually in one party as auction items. can you talk a little bit and then the interesting thing is the turning point when things start going down is an open letter written by a former female engineer about her experience. can you talk a little bit aboutl the role of the letter and the tipping point when they started to freefall. >> they were on the bleeding edge of the movements that are going toto materialize. they raised $3.5 billion from the saudi public investment fund and continu

will be apple owned property for construction of housing. 150 million will help housing trust silicon valley. and 50 million will support the homeless. >> the homeless problem is a big deal around here. >> we have programs in place. >> reporter: he plays apple money will go to work. >> we're funding service providers to offer homelessness prevention services but we're not doing it to scale. we have almost 10,000 people on the streets in santa clara county. >> this impacts so many of us. scott joins us now near an development being built for low and middle income. apple and google, facebook also getting involved in this. is this a proactive move to avoid government regulation or pressure here. >> reporter: i think a proactive movement and i think there's been pressure from the government and the public. if you think about other countries, it's likely 2019 will go down as the year this kind of giving became in vogue. facebook pledging a billion dollars, microsoft 500 million. you add in apple's money, it's a cool $5 billion to fight the housing crisis. apple tells us it will take two years to

>>in silicon valley know al bello kron 4 news.nth facebook announced its commitment to improve housing in the bay area the social media company donated $25 million to build housing for teachers in palo alto turning now to the weather with our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow we're stretching it out looking ahead. >>yeah we are we've got the 1010 and boy he would like to see some rain showing up right about now of course to little fog out there in the bay just some patchy stuff out there as well little dance along the coastline. lauren forecast here we go, here's the long-range model here this year a paean mile pretty good model in the long range we'll see what happens here though this big dome of high pressure that sits near since a lot of half of october and guess what it's going to sit here for quite some time is that ridge settles in overhead i think by thursday going to start to see a little bit of an offshore flow developing again. that clear out your skies near the coastline. that ridge mare going to be kind of a semi per

where did that come from and is that a common corporate culture in silicon valley? >> guest: it's a very common culture for early-stage companies, and that's for obvious reasons. because as i mentioned before, and early-stage company you have no resources. you have, let's say seven people doing the job of 100 people. everyone is stretched thin, so there is no time for command and control. there's no time for me to say here's your job, here's what you have to do, here is how to do it. and then check in with me every few hours and let me know how it's going. all you can say is you see that hill over there? meet you at the top in a week. and they have to figure it out on their own. they have to have the freedom to decide, the ultimate best way to solve the problem, but the responsibility to see that it is solved. it's a fairly easy thing to do when you have seven employees because you can handpick people with the responsibility to handle that. it's a little bit harder when you have 70, and even harder when you have 700. but what truly remarkable about netflix is they s

happening today the express lanes in silicon valley open to drivers. the express lanes will be open at 5:00 in the morning and will stay open through 8:00 at night. every driver using the express lanes will now have to have a fast track transresponder. car poolers and motorcycles can use the lane for free but only with the adjustable fast track flex tool tag. got it. >> i do. >>> 4:51 is the time. speaking of all that let's check in with sal on the traffic. >> we're hoping we're going to have a better commute than we normally do. we're going to go to these better commutes that are just beginning like the bay bridge and also look at the tracy commute and you can see there's already a little bit of slowing. i think people count on it now. it's going to be a little better out there. getting out to hayward and some of these commutes look pretty good. right now i'm here to tell you it's just a little bit better than it normally is. you can see there's only one area that's crowded. those are the people that pay cash. the people using the transponders are mov

do go back to this ragtag startup in silicon valley.s the quintessential university dropout company that changes the world. but as it has grown, it has had to wrestle with its own image and values. fore of those came to the in the project, but this has not died down much. these discussions are still fierce. >> google has always been the most extreme case of silicon valley idealism. a lot of the work the company does is actually academic research. its original mission was to organize the world's information. , it was concerned about going into advertising. that andy, it got over advertising is the business. businessesg into new and challenging its own whenptions at a time silicon valley culture is generally being challenged. technology,ng with amazon is spending more than ever on lobbying at locally. -- and locally. jason: but there are some things amazon can't buy. here is amazon's political wipeout. >> they spent a ton of money on lobbying. i think they lobbied on more issues than any tech company last year. they spent about 1.5 millio

>> it's the first thing anybody flying into the silicon valley sees. dozens of tents and rvs.e all been told they have to get out. >> that's scary because they don't have anywhere to go. >> bay area firefighters use a lasso to save a wayward sea lion pup from a peninsula parking garage. the question tonight, how did it get there? good evening. i'm juliette goodrich. >> and i'm brian hackney. we begin tonight in san jose where the city's homeless problem is becoming a pr problem. the ever growing encampment along the guadalupe river is the first thing many silicon valley visitors see when they land at the nearby airports. >> kpix 5's kit do was there today and spoke with people on all sides of the issue. >> it's been a while since we checked in on the homeless encampments. it's supposed to be a scenic ride from downtown san jose to the bay waters. but these days the guadalupe river trail is a stretch of suffering. you'll find a huge stash of bikes. yes, bikes. a little further into the downtown core, you'll see a high concentration of tents underneath the 280/87 interchange, us

here in silicon valley chip companies and the other electronics production companies used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once they're used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. but what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didn't quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good at dissolving things and so when you put them into a tank eventually they're going to eat their way through the tank. solvent that the electronics industry used in production in silicon valley in the seventy's and eighty's are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. that spreads really quickly and it's really hard to get that dropping back that's what we're dealing with except we're dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. in the late 1981 there were over 100 families in one little neighborhood who had serious problems and the state health departme

, can walk was a federal prosecutor law an order federal prosecutor who then chose to come to silicon valley, worked at ebay and then we snacked and maybe 15 years ago, every day together and during that time not only did he sell out our legal function but he is now in charge of all of the global policy, so very significant players, but i thought we should do since you all have heard from me plenty is simply start perhaps can't we should have you make some comments on the world as you see it today. >> sure thank you very much, it's a pleasure to be with you and with all of, you at the top of today's panel and private public partnerships is extremely important to, me i grew up in this community my father was in the service for 24 years i spent the first years of my life and military bases my father finished his career, and i felt a profound commitment to make sure that the defense secretary and university settings can work together, before we talk about how we can accomplish that i want to take on to issues up front, it's been frustrating to hear concerns around our commitment to national sec

. >>> also today one of silicones tech early valley leaders just joined forces. hewlett-packard said it received a proposal but do not provide any details. both companies have been trying to cut costs in order to boost results as the demand for printed documents and inc. has dropped off. hp says it will do what is in the best interest of its shareholders, no comment from xerox. >>> right now we are merging the fog along the coast and warmer temperatures in length. >> basically summed it right up. >> you are done. >> [ laughter ] >> thankfully for job security there is a little more to this. >> thank goodness. it is kind of a unique story, if you're near the coast and bay things have really changed. first of all, let me show you the view, this is from the top of the sales force tower looking west and you'll see not only the beautiful color from sunset, which happened just about 15 minutes ago. hope you're enjoying the time change. and, you can see the tower on here. >>> friends to the bay, that was about it. as far as current number 65 in concord, 62 in santa rosa

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