toyota saw that opportunity.his allows us to work with multiple partners to bring the best technologies to the platform for our customers. rishaad: let's go to our japan transport reporter in tokyo. why does this deal work for tokyo? >> it makes a lot of sense for toyota because it has really been working to accelerate its development of autonomous driving systems. it put out a couple of models earlier this month that are global to capable which means they are able to drive under certain circumstances on their own. it is limited in terms of functionality. toyota is not ahead of the pack in terms of driving technologies. that's why it's looking at this self-driving division to accelerate its push into that realm. i think that toyota has strength in terms of manufacturing but is weaker in the realm of self-driving cars because they are so reliant on software development. toyota got 300 employees and engineers from life to who have been working on -- from lyft who have been working on this. they have been gathering

why toyota?at was most important to us was that it was the right transaction long-term for us and our shareholders and that the people and technology were going to a place where there would be fully appreciated. all of the team members are going over to the toyota subsidiary. they believed in our approach on data-driven autonomy and how it of -- how it ties into a rideshare network. there is a long-term opportunity for us to work with what last year on a sales volume was the largest oem for vehicles. >> one of the largest in the world, of course. some would argue toyota is lagging behind when it comes to autonomous technology. once you see in their ability to catch up? >> they now have a phenomenal team, a world-class team we built over the last four years. with a unique approach. that is why the steel made a lot of sense. it allows them to leapfrog further into the space and we built that team that was ready for them to do so. and it applies to their broad platform of vehicles. >> you and i are

bob: short-term, toyota and lexus is ok.inished a record force quarter -- record first quarter and april is very much the same. demand is very robust and at near record, but supply chains across the industry are very fragile and the number one supply chain issue is microchips. we have looked good today to and april and may are fine. it gets a little cloudier when we moved to july and the summer months, but our research and development, purchasing folks are in development and we think we are going to be ok. i am confident that toyota and lexus brands will get through the supply chain phenomenon a little better than other brands. haidi: that was bob carter, vice president of sales at toyota at the shanghai auto show. sophie: this company halting u.s. factory operations on the chip shortage. keeping toshiba on the radar, oasis calling on the company to maintain high corporate standards. they have asked banks not to lend to cbc capital. a big revenue exposure to ibm. you are watching -- it's exploring options. rio tinto, it's pr

toyota unveils its latest concept car. we will go live to the shanghai motor show and speak about the first of a global series of battery electric vehicles. then we will bring you the latest on cryptocurrency, the crypto stocks with the founder of the chamber of digital commerce, the world's leading trade association for digital assets and blockchain. plus we will have the latest on the vaccine rollout with a doctor from the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. first a quick check with what's going on in the markets. we have gone steadily lower throughout the day. the s&p down about .7%. the bloomberg dollar index continues to trend lower even after its worst week of the year last week. we have been seeing an inverse relationship in those two assets. but today, it's not showing up that way. it is working out that way at the pound. the gain in the pound is three standard deviations away from the average move over the last 30 days, just under $1.40. the ftse is down as well as a result. bitcoin down 12%. this num

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. >>> on the cbs "money watch" now, there's a new safety warning about a peloton machine, and toyotaing out full electric vehicles. diane king hall is in new york with those stories and more. good morning, diane. >> reporter: good morning. ibm on deck, along with sever -- with self -- with several closely watched tech companies including netflix. meantime, all three major indices ended in positive territory on friday. the dow industrials rallied 164 points. the nasdaq added 13. the s&p 500 gained 15 points. >>> federal regulators are urging people with kids and pets to immediately stop using peloton's tread-plus treadmill. the warning comes after this hard-to-watch video surfaced of a a boy playing with a ball when he gets pulled and trapped under the equipment. fortunately he is okay. the consumer product safety commission says it's aware of 39 similar incidents with this treadmill including one death. peloton is calling the warning, quote, inaccurate and misleading. >>> bit coin is suffering the steepest slide since february ether and dutch coin also saw prices fall. the drop is li

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he's the vp for sales for toyota north america.uto show is going on, bob, you guys are essentially worldwide saying here we come when it comes to electric vehicles let's talk about the concept you unveiled overnight this is the bz-4x, what is the idea here and when we might we see this in the united states? >> phil, thank you for having me here and it's griet see auto shows back after the pandemic. bz means beyond zero, we're entering the full bz market with both brands. we also announced the product for the lexus division we'll have two pull electric vehicles here in 2020. >> one of the first things, out on the market, the phyfirst question is why doesn't toyota have an electric vehicle why did toyota wait so long to say, okay, shhere comes our pus of fewer electric vehicles >> phil, when you look at our alternative vehicles, hybrids, pure cells, we sell more vehicles around the globe onner oemrs combined we introduced rav4 back in 2007. and they entered the market prematurely. we think the market at this time is at the tipping po

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they say they found three children ejected from the silver toyota corolla. a seven year old girl and two boys, ages four and one. upon arrival, they found an absolutely devastating scene. two vehicles had collided. one of that vehicles had five occupants, two adults and three children. the one year old was ejected along with his car seat over the fence of a nearby golf course. that child and the four year old suffered serious injuries. they were airlifted to hospitals. police say they are expected to survive. ah, woman in the same car is in stable. condition but the seven year old girl and the adult male driver died, police say the driver of the black camaro has been arrested for driving drunk. investigators say they found a bottle of tequila in the car and that the driver was speeding, possibly going 85 mph the speed limit here on west, leland wrote, is 45 mph. police say the driver rear ended the toyota there were three passengers in the camaro, including a 10 year old boy. police say no one in that car suffered serious injuries. i have been with the depar

toyota best march ever for both toyota and lexus you saw that the overall q1 sales up 21.9% for toyotay talking to the ceo of north america and had the best monthly sales ever in march. with sales jumping in q1 by 28%. the number to focus on later today, guys, what will be the sales rate for the first quarter? most believe it's going to be 16.5 and 16.7 million vehicles we haven't had a quarterly sales rate that high going back into 2019 somewhere in that time range and not 2020 maybe fourth or third quarter of 2019 the last time with 16.5 million vehicles as a sales pace. >> thank you very much business is good there. >>> for more on auto sales and how big an issue the chip shortage is for the industry let's bring in earl hestenberg with group 1 automotive. earl, it is always great to have you here how's business >> couldn't be much better as phil just said, demand is very, very strong. >> strong across -- you have a whole portfolio from ultra luxury rides down to the more basic standard transportation. is one segment of the market stronger than any other? >> not really, not really, t

the deal expands toyota's mission to move beyond pure carmaking into other "mobility services".100 million dollars. we're nowjoined by sharanjit leyl from singapore. it certainly appears to be. it it certainly appears to be. tt marks the japanese car making giant's latest move at a time of growing consolidation in the very capital intensive self—driving industry and what this purchase really does, to the right hurling firm's more than 300 employees, and a direct presence in silicon valley and london. the lift field interest in a number of autonomous carfirms. it's really an extension of toyota's to advance self—driving car technology and for lyft, the deal will allowed become profitable sooner and takes away the burden of developing such a costly technology that really has yet to enter the mainstream. it's really expensive to come up with the self—driving automation. the sale also comes as demand for the ride hailing is finally rebounding after the pandemic took a big chunk out of revenue. lyft operates only in north america and unlike its larger rival, it doesn't have businesse

toyota says it expect to have sufficient chip supplies, despite an industrywide shortage. executive tells us it gets cloudy in the northern hemisphere. the japanese carmaker says consumer demand remains strong and production of toyota and lexus models will be less affected than rival brands. rishaad: more on tech. emily chang thousand to the issues. tiktok is facing [indiscernible] [indiscernible] global regulation. the impact on e-commerce. racial and gender equality on the app itself. 5:00 a.m. on hong kong, you can also listen to season to up the podcast foundering on apple or spotify. ♪ (announcer) back pain hurts. you can spend thousands and still not get relief. now there's aerotrainer by golo. you can stretch and strengthen your core, relieve back pain, and tone your entire body. (man) and you're stretching your lower back on there. there is no better feeling. (announcer) do planks for maximum core and total body conditioning. (woman) aerotrainer makes me want to work out. look at me. it works, 100%. (announcer) find out more at aerotrainer.com. that's aerotrainer.c

the man who was driving the toyota also died.and a one year old and a four year old all are in serious condition right now, police tell us the two passengers in the camaro. we're not seriously hurt, and the driver was arrested for drunk driving. police are not releasing the names of the. people involved until their families have been notified. now there was a push here in california to marge, bart, and counts range and challenged. count train. excuse me into a single regional rail system, according to bury news group of merger with bart is something that count trains board is considering the proposal cause for aligning barred, encountering schedules of the passengers could transfer from one to the other without a long wait. ah group called seamless bay area has issued a report calling for even more coordination between bay area transit systems it recommends combining bart culturing and other transit operators such as fairies and busses into a single system stretching from santa rosa to gilroy. san francisco's recreation and parks

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the driver was speeding when he reended the toyota corolla. that toyota crashed in a tree. all three kids in the car thrown from the car. the driver of the car died at the scene. one of the children died at the hospital. the three other patients have serious injuries. the suspected drunk driver, he was not hurt. >>> in less than three days, the covid vaccine will be available to everyone 16 and older. is confusion tonight. in santa clara, vaccine appointments rurnd fire. abc bay area easterry mcsweeney works it out for us. >> reporter: san francisco's mayor and fired up about the roll out. they will only administer vaccines to county residents 50 or older or those with health problems. now, others from bay area counties are coming here to san francisco and rolling up their leaves. >> it's currently available to contra costas. but if you say you live and work in san francisco, you're not eligible. it makes no sense. >> reporter: there's more. >> if you check that you work in alameda, you can get iowa pointment. if you check if work in the city, you can't. >> reporter: tonigh

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tesla said it will sell its autonomous unit to toyota. a 550 million dollar deal means lyft is to turn in adjusted profit in the third quarter of this year, following uber and stepping back from the driverless vehicle research, once thought to be on the verge of revolutionizing ride-hailing. coming up, it's also related to tesla in some way, bitcoin rallying once again, back to nearly $54,000 after hitting the lowest level since march. how sustainable is the price at these levels? how much higher and how much lower? we will have to debate. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: bitcoin rallying back a little bit as investors are taking advantage of the lowest levels in seven weeks to pile back in. additional currencies climbing past $54,000. currently trading 3% higher in the last couple days. we got interesting news. jp morgan preparing to offer a bitcoin fund to wealthy clients. the latest sign that that wall street is coming into the largest crypto currency recent months. for more, let's get the inside track, the chief commercial officer at bi

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ah cousin to the children in the toyota. cellasene singing on the far right is described as a smart, responsible and loving child. her family devastated. i want him to go to prison for life. because i'm never gonna be able to ever ever see my first born again and i'm never gonna be able to see romero again. the family tells me they're now faced with struggling to pay medical bills and funeral expenses. the suspect is scheduled to be arraigned in court friday afternoon in walnut creek, amberleigh ktvu, fox two news. also it wanna creek work crews spent many hours today scrubbing away and i police graffiti neiman marcus have broadway plaza was hit as we're banks, sitting hall and the police department. it all began about nine o'clock last night when 20 to 25 people dressed in all black with face coverings came into the downtown area. police asked for help from contra costa county sheriff's deputies and a sheriff's helicopter but a walnut creek police lieutenant said officers weren't able to catch any of the vandal. in the act.

they have -- they use the toyota production system. they have a thing called the conbond, it is the space in the manufacturing floor with a yellow line around it. the conbond needs to be kept full by you all the time exactly the same way -- it is copied from america. exactly the same way the grocer says to the bread guy i want bread on my shelves all the time it's your job to deliver it. when the car company says my god, pandemic, we are shutting down the chip industry follows that because also what's true you don't get to put that inventory on the car companies if they shut down and that model that you were talking about becomes obsolete, the chip company will eat a bunch of industry -- inventory. so everybody slowed down and it takes 120 days or more to rev the wheel back up. have a little invenn store in stores which toyota did. they had five weeks of inventory and you will make it through it is that simple. run your company better don't ask the government to help. >> i was going to ask you if you could boil it down you just said it

. >>> plus a look at toyota's new suv.iane king hall joins us with those stories and much more. >> reporter: good morning. earning season picks up steam today. a third of the 30 blue chip companies will report results. coca-cola reported better than expected earnings of two and a quarter billion dollars. a number of airlines will be reporting including united, southwest, american. families eligible for child tax credit are on track to get the check this summer. the tax credit is part of president biden's coronavirus relief plan aiming to boost children out of poverty. irs says pay outs will start to go out in july. >>> toyota out with a new all electric concept vehicle. suv will make the debut at the shanghai auto show which kicks off today. the vehicle is part of full electric vehicles under toyota's beyond zero brand. >>> apparently denim is making a come back. tell me all about this. >> don't call it a come back. as more americans emerge from their stay at home sweat pants sales of denim are on the rise. levi projects u

it is at the side of a shuttered toyota factory.autonomous vehicles. the city got a boost this week when toyotas announced plans to buy the lift self driving operations. the city will also feature smart homes and everything will be hydrogen powered. >> okay! it looks beautiful. >>ou know what? this idea the cars will be autonomous. i think where i get a little nervous is where you are the autonomous cars amongst many of the people driving their car and you are not in control. maybe if they are all on the same grade maybe you are a little bit safe? i would definitely try this town out. >> why not? i would love it if they built one similarly in hawaii or some place warm. >> for the amount of ug view though. about that? >> no question. >> those cars and that rendering reminds me of minority report. >> we could maybe predict crimes ahead of of of of of of >> the warriors getting in on the nonrefundable token or nft craze. they become the first sports team to launch their own collection. you can build on on on on on fts including digital

toyota. let's go places. >> it does not work. julie. today i am truly an american citizen.ie mart. he quit after a documentary blasted the stereotype. now he's joining the hollywood apology tour. >> i apologize for my part in creating that and participating that. i feel like i need to go to every single indian person in this country and personally apologize. jesse: he's apologizing for portraying a cartoon indian on a show written by liberals. the creators of simpson, he's a liberal guy, they secured conservatives for decades. they have an irish custodian, a sleazy political guy. a rich and evil corporate overlorpd and mr. burns. is hollywood not allowed to portray anyone who is different any more *. >> i had this conversation last night. a friends of mine said acting may be dead. i think we should definitely -- we have to grow and have much more inclusion within our business. obviously and all stories need to be told. but he's an amazing actor. 30 years. i don't know why he quit. but he had to quit because he feels it's insensitive. it's just a car toonl character. but thi

toyota said about 1% of its 2009 through 2015 vehicles are affected, toyota will refund car owners inmay, they don't have to do anything. this is helping give rise to patients needing healthcare, lift pass helps healthcare provider set a budget and approved pickup and drop-off locations for appointments. patients will receive notifiction that their provider has sent them a ride pass, lift says the program could help prevent no-shows to appointment. >>> the latest round of stimulus checks is giving retailers zippers, a huge boost. retail sales rose almost 10% in march. after dropping 3% in february. the biggest monthly increase since last may, and it points to the stimulus check. you get people a lot of money, and they are hurting, they will spend the money. >> it makes perfect sense, thank you michael. >>> if you are counting, today is april 15th, of course traditionally texting. but, not this year. the irs and state of california actually moved the filing date back to may 17th, it is important to note that this postponement only applies to individual taxpayers, not to estimated tax p

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the 300 people working for lyft level v project will be integrated into the toyota group.tinue to operate out of palo alto. the sale will allow lyft to work with other companies that want to deploy their technology on the lyft platform. >>> let's take a live look at the new york stock exchange as trading gets underway this morning, you can see we are still down by about it he points. >> i don't understand this. my mind is still wrapping around this concept, but there's a new addition to a sweet and savory snack food. sam's club is now selling krispy kreme original glazed donut smart food popcorn. the trt is part ofa long list of new popcorn products that the members only chain is now offering, other flavors include pickle and ranch, and even an ice cream inspired version of the snack. what? >> now you know i love my krispy kreme. >> but do you want that flavor on popcorn? >> i sure don't. >> i have to say, i did try a pickle chip the other day. >> you like it? >> have you had that? that is actually delicious. >> i love salt and vinegar chips. is a kind of like. >> it is ki

police say that driver rear ended the toyota. there were three passengers in the camaro, including a 10 year old. police say no one in that car suffered serious injuries. i have been with the department for about 16 years now, and this is absolutely one of the most devastating collisions that i've ever personally witnessed. police have not yet identified the driver of the camaro. investigators say they found alcohol in the car. the driver faces charges of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter. again. a man and a seven year old girl died in this crash. julie, heartbreaking story, amber. thank you. coming up after the break why the state attorney general's office is now taking over the investigation into sexual assault allegations against the mayor of windsor. this as the calls for him to resign. grow louder. another warm day today and look just like yesterday. temperatures are going to start to cool down a little bit. as we move through this weekend. we'll look for the rain. i'll see you back here in a little bit.

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they sell the toyota deal. these stories in a moment. u.s. stocks rising once again to all-time highs amidst following corporate performance and anticipation of the fed later in the week. more on those with katie grayfield and prettied group to -- kriti gupta. reporter: there was plenty of green on the screen today, the s&p held onto gains up about 12.2%. the nasdaq 100 stronger, up .6%. treasury yields were basically slack today, up less than one basis point. the big winner is the chip with that semiconductor index ending 1.7% higher. overall, pretty quiet day in markets. the next chart helps explain why. it is the biggest week of earnings season. $18 trillion in s&p 500 market cap reports this week with tech rated the top of the pack. it has been a pretty good quarter for tech so far. companies that have reported have been up about 18% on average, but we are just getting started. tesla kicked us off after the bell. we still have to hear from apple, amazon, microsoft, all the big tech heavyweights. if you look at the options countries -- com

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lyft selling it self unit two toyota per $550 million.er from stepping back from the costly autonomous car research. ed ludlow caught up with the lyft president john zimmer to hear what pushed him. johnl] we have had -- john: we have had an autonomous platform, and we are the leader in commercializing autonomous vehicles. we have done over 100,000 paid av rides, and this is doubling down on that part of our strategy so that we are focused on the piece that we do. the level five, which is the name of our program, it has been successful. toilet up -- toyota saw that opportunity and this allows us to work with multiple partners to bring the best and safest technology to the platform for our customers and to focus on the customer experience in the marketplace technology along with the fleet management that is critical to the success of autonomous vehicles. ed: what was the biggest impetus for lyft? was it the technology itself and what it would take to bring it to market, what pushed you to do the deal? jo -- john: it was a long-term strategy

right hailing service lyft has agreed to sell its autonomous driving division to units of japan's toyota $550000000.00 the move follows a similar divestment from last year with ride sharing firms focusing on corporations as they struggle with drawing the coronavirus pandemic. first quarter profits for h.s.b.c. have more than doubled as the bank makes a pivot to focusing on asia for the 1st rose 109 percent to $6400000000.00 although revenues slipped 5 percent in pots because of low interest rates. now before last summer most companies avoided commenting on social issues that will change so after the killing of george floyd in the black lives matter of protests that followed some multinationals have now taken a clear stand on racial justice. protests against the new voting bill in texas demonstrators say it will suppress minority voters such movements are now even getting the support of corporate america since the black lives matter protests in the summer of 2020 corporate america has been increasingly vocal on the issue of racism and the demand in society as acquiring companies to step u

toyota. let's go places. >>> democrats are standing in a way of a background check bill.ongress. arizona passed a law that would pass federal gun laws from being enforced in the state and in arkansas, a similar bill made it to the republican governor's desk but he vetoed it. nice to see you, thank you for being on the show. >> it is great to be with you. >> explain your veto decision knowing your state is going toover ride it and they're going to do it tomorrow. walk us through it. >> first of all, i identify completely with the concerns expressed by the legislature that they're worried the biden administration and washington is going to come along and pass more restrictions on gun ownership that they believe and i believe would violate the second amendment. that's the reason whether it is arizona orm montana or other states considering these laws ch the reason i vetoed it because the bill before me went too far. it would criminalize a law enforcement officer, a state and local officer who rcooperated with federal authorities and it would remove their immunity as well. so

toyota expects to have sufficient chip supply through may. despite an industrywide shortage.a top executive tells us the outlook it's cloudier moving into the northern hemisphere summer months. the japanese carmakers says consumer demands remain strong in production of toyota models will be less affected than rival brands. bmw reported a first-order profit jump driven by rebounding sales in all regions, but especially china. earnings rose to $2.7 billion, exceeding estimates. global delivery was boosted by demands for hybrid and electric vehicles. the results were in line with the bottom recovery for the global auto sector. victims reporting a rising profit last week. ibm delivered its first revenue gain in 11 quarters, beating estimates on demand for its cloud services. sales increased 1% to $17.7 billion in the quarter as the ceo focused on ai in the cloud to revive growth since taking the helm a year ago. ibm says revenue that it acquired from $34 billion in 2019 gained 17% in the first quarter. this is what markets are looking at tonight. we are seeing qe stocks under a l

i think about toyota when i was a kid.ink that means a lot you are talking earlier in the show about the travel and actually just the car travel and the way it picked up compared back to 2019 there's a ton of opportunity in the market and home market, if you will i think this bodes well for the company. in addition, they are doing work as it relates to power generation and getting vehicles charged up quickly i think that bodes well for the company long term. >> yeah. really, an interesting pick there and the stock has done well obviously, if you bought it a any time before now, you made money on it. you will not take a profit on it, but ride it out. >> absolutely. the pull back that occurred presents a buying opportunity. >> okay. pull back. buy the stock. you see it going back to last year quickly, on a macro level, what is most important? earnings or fed? >> the standing. if we were to get a surprise from the fed and i do not think that would happen, i think that would not be good for the market we are looking forward to

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>> meantime, carl, lyft shelling its self-driving division to toyota for $550 million.ke to lyft co-founder jon zimmer about that decision as well as his outlook for the business postpandemic. take a listen. >> it's kind of like kids ask, are we there yet you say 20 minutes and 20 minutes later say 20 minutes happening a little slower, but we're still extremely confident that it's going to happen. and we're excited about the news today. it allows us to focus on the transition and working with partners that are excited to leverage the power of lyft's network. we have marketplace technology to drive massive efficiency. hybrid of human drivers and autonomous vehicles to manage peaks and valleys of demand and fleet management services that lower the cost per mile of an autonomous vehicle we have been building out quietly fleet management, tech-enabled fleet management services part of our business for multiple years the only in the industry that do it our competition doesn't do it allowing you to manage down cost per mile of moving an autonomous vehicle. >> part of your ann

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the day it burns water, what you're seeing water vapor at the end but a company like toyota will notars in research if government already picked the winner being electronic vehicles. we shouldn't be in the job of picking winners and losers. elizabeth: we hear you. is the ghost in the job of telling any private company you're allowed to test drive your car, you know, in beta mode and test mode? you're allowed to drive the car on u.s. roads, maybe thousands of these cars are out there? the ntsb says this is going on with limited oversight or reporting requirements. do we do that with airplanes? do we allow beta tests of airplanes to fly over the sky of u.s. neighborhoods that have not been approved by the government? >> again it is a fair question. i wish more of our energy was looking making ways of having safer transportation, instead of looking at with i'm calling the green new deal phase one programs. yes, we absolutely need to focus on safety. when you think about the new transportation bill coming out, $2.3 trillion. it is only focused on updating making 10 bridges safer, we are