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emily: that was etsy ceo, josh silverman. fitbit faces new challenges.res hit a new all-time low this week, so what is the next step? cory johnson spoke with the ceo on tuesday. james: 2017 was a challenging year. it played out a lot differently than we expected. for us, the shift from basic activity trackers to more fully featured smart watches is happening even faster than we anticipated. we did launch our first smart watch, ionic, into the category in q4. it did outsell our prior highest product surge, but it was not the mass appeal unit shipment driver we anticipated. that was reflected in our financials and that is what investors are reacting to. it strikes me as a really interesting problem. when i looked at the apple watch, after fitbit, it was a product in search of a use. i feel like fitbit was the use. monitor steps, help people live healthier lives, and sort of an athletic or at least physical fitness-focused product. as you move from bands, that count steps or whatever, smart watches that can do more, do you start to lose that focus? how do y

david silverman gave this line by line reading. it was a terrific help when i went into doing revisions. in the acknowledgments of the book, the author will thank all the people who helped. in my book, it says, any remaining errors are entirely david silverman's. [laughter] in february 1793, the fourth of february, a monday, george george washington had dinner in philadelphia with a delegation of native americans. february 11, one week later, he had dinner in philadelphia with another delegation of native americans. the last week of november, 1796, he had dinner with native americans, different groups of native american delegates, for days. on one occasion, a delegation of native americans from the ohio country were in town at the same time as a delegation of cherokees, and choctaws. they bumped into each other at a museum. there could have been violence. there could have been all kinds of things. the point is, as this image shows, the streets of philadelphia in the 1790's, you could expect to meet indian people. they were not an u

in my book, it says, any remaining errors aren't -- are entirely david silverman's. in february 1793, the fourth of february, a monday, george washington had dinner in philadelphia with a delegation of native americans. february 11, one week later, he had dinner in philadelphia with another delegation of native americans. the last week of november, 1796, he had dinner with native americans, different groups of native american delegates, for days. on one occasion, a delegation of native americans from the ohio country were in town at the same time as a delegation of cherokees, and choctaws. the bump into each other at a museum -- they bumped into each other at a museum. there could have been violence. you could expect indian people in the 1790's in philadelphia. they were not an uncommon occurrence. george washington was hanging out with indian people. he meant about every native american leader of the time. -- met every american native -- native american leader of the time. when he met with them, he exchanged belts with them, drank with them. these are not images of

joshg up, we hear from silverman about how he crafted the company's best quarter to date.lus, shares of fitbit hit an all-time low on disappointing earnings and a disappointing forecast. what is next for the wearables company? we hear from james park next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: shares rose as much as 25% yesterday as the company were ported earnings -- reported earnings that beat estimates. the online marketplace hit more than $1 billion in gross merchandising sales. i spoke with etsy's ceo and asked what is being done to boost revenue. >> the market opportunity we ofe is enormous and in a sea sameness from the same brands, the world needs at see more than other -- ever. we are proud of the fact that we had a $1 billion quarter, $1 sales onf merchandise at sea and international sales through 2017. we grew faster in the fourth quarter than we have grown in recent quarters. we are doing that by doing the basics. a better scotch -- job of search and discovery, 50 million unique items for sale at at sea. finding the right view is important. we are doing a better job on t

fitness -- josh silverman. fitbit faces new challenges.s, all-time low, what is the next step? cory johnson spoke with the ceo on tuesday. year.7 was a challenging and played out differently than we expected. for us, the shift from basic activity trackers to more fully featured smart watches is happening even faster than we anticipated. we launched our first smart watch, ionic, into the category in q4. prior priorhe product search. there was not the mass appeal driver we anticipated. that was reflected in our financials and that is what investors are reacting to. reporter: it strikes me as an interesting problem. when i looked at the apple watch, after fitbit, it was a product in search of a use. i feel like fitbit was the use. monitor steps, help people live healthy. fitness, physical focused product. thatu move from bands, count steps or else a whatever to watch his that can do more, do you start to lose that focus? how do you make a mass-market product not just for runners or triathletes but for people who want to lose 10 pounds? >> abs

br unsman and the university, i want to thank david silverman from the history department. when you write a book and you get reviews, you normally get something like, this is great, do you really want to say this? but i got a line by line reading. the acknowledgments of the book, the author will thank all the people who helped. says, any, it -- areng errors aren't entirely david silverman's. 1793, the fourth of february, a monday, george washington had dinner in philadelphia with a delegation of native americans. one week later, he had dinner in philadelphia with another delegation of native americans. last week of november, 1796, he had dinner with native americans, different groups of native american delegates, for days. on one occasion, a delegation of oative americans from the ohi9 country were in town at the same time as a delegation of choctaws. and the bump into each other at a bumped into each other at a museum. there could have been violence. expect indian people in the 1790's in philadelphia. they were not an uncommon occurrence. george washington was hanging out

david silverman working with the gaydos on their project. so why do they need to widen their house? their house is only 23 feet wide. the d.r. requester on the other end has a building, a four-unit building that's built lot line to lot line. and as mentioned by the gaydos, she just recently remodelled her building. she had every opportunity to provide light to that room she's talking about. it's a kitchen -- combined kitchen-dining area. she did not do so. the building code, as you know, prohibits lot line windows in the absence of any agreement with the owner to cover street frontage. this is the laguna side, corner building, lots of windows. that's another view of the laguna site. >> president hillis: all right. that's your time. >> that's the rear. >> president hillis: okay. thank you. we'll open it up for public comment in support just a testament to what great people they are. we took on a major construction project which taught us several new phrases, like seismic retrofitting, and everything that goes along with terrific construction. even where we moved in, once where we had

john-c reilly and sarah silverman return to lead the voice cast...breaks into theaters november 21st. (grant) a warning for parents. more kids are accidentally eating marijuana. (vicki) that's according to doctors in northern california who say they are seeing an increase in kids going to the emergency room because of it. angela musallam reports. dr. daniel colby:"we've seen these exposures for years, but now they've really jumped up, and because of that, all of us are on guard and we have all raised our suspicions." doctor daniel colby is a medical toxicologist at u-c davis .. who's treated dozens of children in the e-r.. for accidentally eating marijuana. colby says often times diagnosing the patients can be confusing.dr. daniel colby: "they might just be very sleepy, but they can be confused, they can be upset, they can be vomiting, often times they have a wobbly gait, sometimes they can be sick to the point where end up trying to help them breathe." although some young patients can experience severe symptoms .. colby says ingesting pot isn't dead

. >> no, an ode to fred silverman. take two. let's go. let's start from the beginning again, otto. lot of comedians, when he was off stage, he was full of fear, full of anxiety. about what? who knows? he himself said he was full of dread and he didn't know why. he just was overwhelmed with anxiety. but he definitely used the stage to be free, to be comfortable, to be himself. >> i'm being grotesque but you've got to be. you see what i mean? you got to be crazy. it's too late to be sane. too late. you got to go full tilt bozo. because you're only given a little spark of madness. and if you lose that, you're nothing. fire fighting is a very dangerous profession. we have one to two fires a day and when you respond together and you put your lives on the line, you do have to surround yourself with experts. and for us the expert in gas and electric is pg&e. we run about 2,500/2,800 fire calls a year and on almost every one of those calls pg&e is responding to that call as well. and so when we show up to a fire and pg&e shows up with us it makes a tremendous team during a moment of crisis

reading these tweets from prominent comedians this morning, stand-up comedian, responding to sarah silverman's, the second part of his tweet, i can't watch a person who mocks teens whose friends were murdered who do you support the show and the actress? >> i totally support the show. female friends that are writing on it. they wrote a show that reflected where the connors might be today. and i thought it was brilliant. and whether you agree with roseanne barr's personal politics is -- you don't have to watch it. but just like liberal comedians are often annoyed when conservatives say we don't want to hear your politics, just such up and say your jokes, she has a right to have a different opinion and has a right to tweet it, just like every other american and still be allowed to entertain us. >> i think it's important, too, on the show and in real life she's this trump supporter. but on the show you have dj in this interracial relationship, darlene has a gender fluid kid, jackie's a hillary supporter turned jill stein supporter. >> i think it's great that they have those elements. it also shows

. >> it's sarah silverman. >> james corden, here. >> it's chelsea handler. >> it's andy cohen. >> sethyers. >> it's me, robin thede. >> and i'm billy eichner. i don't have a late-night show, but i'm a three-time emmy award nominee and an american citizen. in that order. >> we late night hosts rarely do stuff together. >> but this time it's different. >> because america, there's something coming up. >> the most glamorous. >> elegant. >> sexy. >> day of our lives. >> the 2018 midterm elections. >> november 6th, 2018. >> this time, election day is the biggest, sexiest -- >> most glamorous day of the year. >> it's time to -- >> glam up -- >> the midterms. >> make your plans. when you're going, what you're wearing, who's your plus one. >> or plus two, make it a voting threesome. >> seth: because the 2018 midterms aren't the world cup or the olympics. >> or that stupid solar eclipse that you've already forgotten about. >> hey, maybe you can wear those dumb glasses you bought to look at the eclipse when you go vote. [ light laughter ] >> seth: please welcome back to the show our very good fri

i'm david silverman. i'm working on the project at e ureka street. we had a hearing on this project on january 18th where the draft eir was presented. at that hearing, the commission directed the staff and the sponsor to utilize the opportunity for a much higher density project. the commission further directed the sponsor to submit a plan to the staff for -- for a higher density. the project sponsor did submit a revised plan for 18 units at the site. the staff has now advised the project sponsor that it will not support any additional density at the site, so the project is in limbo with conflicting directions from the commission and the staff, and we request some direction from the commission as to how they would like to proceed with this project. we're happy to do either our original proposal or the higher density. we simply need to have the dispute resolved. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. >> thank you. >> president hillis: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is deanna torres. i might be speaking out of order. i'm not sure i

reported disappointing quarter the board of directors forced outs old ceo and replaced him with josh silverman, savvy, technology and finance exec with experience at skype and nice pedigree. the company brought in a new chief technology officer and improved systems were very sloppy and can this new team deliver. when they reported its latest quarter they knocked it out of the park the company delivered a three cents earnings beat and higher than expected revenue up 23.6% year over year and higher gross merchandise sales and now 1.93 million active sellers. 33.4 million active buyers and rapidly growing mobile business even better four-year guidance and retail partner saw fabulous sales acceleration thanks to the company's recent initiatives seeing strong growth and 2018 is looking like it will be a great year and conversion rates and percentage of people who click on the site and buy something increased for the first time in a while. despite the fact that mobile conversion rates tend to be much lower than what you get. that's why the stock jumped more than 20% on news and since then they tacke

. >> sarah silverman was on conan o'brien and she told a joke, it offended certain members of the asian take long for his tweets to be condemned. >> everybody thinks you have to be burned at the stake if you've said something that is deemed to be offensive by however many thousand people on twitter decided it's offensive. >> i really think that we're at a point in this country where people really need to take the thumb out of their mouth and grow up a little bit and realize there's a lot bigger problems out there than what a comedian did a joke about. >> i mean, you have to feel the same way about comedy. >> yeah, i do this joke about the way people need to justify their cell phone. i need to have it with me because people are so important. >> right. >> you know, they don't seem very important the way you scroll through them like a gay french king. there's a creepy pc thing out there that really bothers me. >> the rise of this new politically correct trend is the cover story in the new issue of "the atlantic" magazine. the protective atmosphere on many campuses has become so charged tha

. >> you go to the democratic convention and you've got silverman up there being really funny and thenk it was chachi. >> the transition from comedian to senator made sense to me. not so much right away to voters in minnesota. i won the first vote by 320 votes, which that's funny. [ laughter ] >>> is there a difference between parody and satire? obviously, parody is, man, i don't know. >> well, you know, jerry, my brother, and jim abrams always have an answer for that. >> and i think of -- i don't know. i got to look it up in the dictionary. i'm sure they have wonderful, better descriptions of what the word is. >> parody is essentially a takeoff. >> parody is like what weird al yankovic does. >> i think we're done he.

time is our theme, time has come today, requested by lj silverman, thank you.be changing the clocks. i will play your requests on friday.>> and you do a good job of that, too. a new study by mit finds that false information on twitter travels six times faster than the truth. it reaches a lot more people. the researchers, as well as tech experts say, humans, not robots are closing -- spreading those stories. >> it only takes about 10 hours for a false tweet to reach over 1500 users, whereas a true tweet takes 60 hours to reach.>> that information comes from mit, they looked at more than 126,000 stories, tweeted millions of times between 2006 and 2016. we invite you to join us tomorrow evening for a special, it is called the coding the future of tech, it is one hour, and they will try to decode crypto currency and examine the future of artificial intelligence. that is tomorrow evening, 6:30.>>> there are stores that are closing, and blue jeans that are causing injuries to the people who are wearing them. >> there are reports that toys "r" us will close all of its

this is abby silverman from walt whitman high school in bethesda, maryland.hy was it important to be here, what do you want this white house to hear? >> we just want you guys to listen to us. we're here for everyone to have a voice. >> you have a couple of friends here, have you guys had a strong feeling about guns before, was it parkland, tell me why you came. >> no, it really started with sandy hook and we just felt we don't feel safe in school anymore and this is a problem. schools should be a place where we should be able to go and feel safe and not fear something might happen. >> president is not here in the white house today, do you think your message will still be heard? >> yes. >> what's your name? >> patricia. >> patricia, thank you very much. lot of the students from bethesda, maryland and virginia areas as you mentioned. afterwards, they plan to stay here for a little bit. i think we're going to send it -- kevin butler agreed to break your silence. why did you agree to come today in. >> to make suhuure there are stricter gun laws. there are plenty

. >> sarah silverman. >> follow this guy.o mainstream success, penning books, starring in movies and even scoring her own tv show, "i heart food," bringing her favorite food finds from across the country to a new audience. check it out. we're thrilled to have hannah here in studio 1a. >> good morning. i'm happy to speak. >> your life -- carson said you should win a teasey. no one teases better than you. >> thank you. >> you don't cook. you're not a chef. but you love food. >> yeah. i consider myself a food enthusia enthusiast, not an expert. >> you travel around the country, and you eat. >> yes. >> i love your job. you found some things you like. what do we have here? >> this is something i super enjoyed. the show is about highlighting specialties of the region. this is korean style mac and cheese. it's kimchee and spice. it's great. >> has a nice kick to it. >> can you believe your life for one second? >> i can't. >> i'm watching that video of you, and you did that video for a friend when you were having some booze. now, a m

john-c reilly and sarah silverman return to lead the voice cast...l breaks into theaters november 21st."i think we had too much fun on this film."chris hemsworth may go from playing an alien to looking for them. according to the hollywood reporter, the aussie actor is in talks to star in a spin-off of the "men in black" franchise. the idea is to feature new characters, the way "jurassic world" revived the "jurassic park" series. sony is aiming to launch the film in june of 20-19."i love georgia, but y'all gotta do something about the bugs."will smith is shooting "gemini man" in swampy savannah, georgia, and the local wildlife seems to be "bugging" him! the actor hit instagram to show off the latest fashions in mosquito netting, and clouds of swarming co-stars. hey, the "fresh prince" is filming -- bug off! in hollywood, i'm david daniel. (robin) and here's a live look outside... at the bay bridge toll plaza. we'll be back with more of your kron 4 morning news after the break. welcome back. checking in on your morning forecast. (mabrisa rodriguez) a p