joining us now, with more is stephen levy, now with medium moin com and author of the book "in the plex" how google works and thinks and shapes our lives. stephen, welcome to you. google shares a little higher today from that $85 ipo price. >> yeah. i think it's doing quite a bit better, actually. i looked over the chapter in my book about it. looking at one of the commentator saying that only people dropped on their head as a baby would spend more than $100 for google stock. >> funny you mention that. more google in a second. ap is trading near the $100 mark. this, of course, after doing a seven for one split. shares at $99.71, stephen. what's the impact of that? >> well, you know, look, these big companies are juggernauts and all -- as they get bigger, and they're all trying to step on each other's business. each of them is dominant in their core, but they all want to do what everyone else does. you know, youtube starting a music service. google second service. apple's in the music business. you see also amazon is in the music business, mishgs microsoft, music business. all piv oting

levied a much stronger sa suspension. because week? and a stealth suspension. stephen a. is very lucky to be working and it makes me sad to say this because i wish he had never opened this can of worms, wish he had never said these worsdz to begin with. but yes, really, stephen a. [ from a few years ago, now this? and i think that, you know, a suspension of several months, i think, again, just throwing it out there would have seemed much more appropriate considering the severity of this issue in this country at this time. a week and you're back, that just seems wrong to me. >> slap on the wrist territory. >> absolutely. >> some say these sports pundit res provocative and when they get too provocative, they get walked. is there something to that? >> making people think. i know over the years in our business, you and i, we want to say things. you say it and you know there's going to be a reaction. but there's right and there's wrong, howie. at the end of the day, there's things you can say and things you cannot say. >> what bothered me is he was defending himself on twitter

have to say morning news levi stadium post their first 49 years came will tell you what fans have to say about the team's new home. ♪ ♪ ♪ does the crash west bound at st. stephen'sng is blocked let you move it to back up traffic in the west bound direction into walnut creek. there is a pretty slow commute on southbound 680 coming out concord heading into pleasant hill and walnut creek. so does is off to the shoulder after seven minutes a good ride through the tunnel into oakland. >>: james: the 49ers' debut at the stadium yesterday's. the display on the field was awful. the gridlock and the roads around the stadium the freeways are leading to a it was like a parking lot. the >>: the news conference started moments ago about the strike vote. >>: this is something that we need to do. the numbers overall we had 2251 teachers prepared professionals to vote on thursday. those 2251 the vote of 200,000 that is a 99.2% passage rate. that tells you that the teachers in the prepared professionals of the other school employees of san francisco are say that we had enough. we lost $60 million over four years it's time for us to be recognized. new >>: with us today is eight e