more surprises as we celebrate our very own kelly ripa's 30th anniversary with the walt disney companyapplause] and now, here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest! [cheers and applause] >> ryan: kelly ripa on this 30th thursday, the 30th celebratio

about new york, walt whitman said these words, an island. 60 miles long, numberless streets, vehicles, broadway, the women, the shops and shows, city of spires and masts, my city. niagara, 2 million visitors a year. the earth trembles beneath them at the brink. not all are honeymooners. most come to view the work of nature and then go on to see the sights that western new york state can offer. the great lakes wash the feet of many cities, milwaukee, detroit. this one is cleveland on ohio's rim. it has a thumbprint, as all cities leave their thumbprints across the nation. ringed by parks, it has a lakeside stadium, museums and a famous symphony. at water's edge, huge boats unload their hulls. these cargos were forged of steel. there's steel in pittsburgh, too. and where the allegheny forms the ohio river, there lies a golden triangle. and just beyond a skyscraper of learning, the university of pittsburgh. the state of pennsylvania is not all steel and gold. you can discover quiet amish country. here, history still writes with a quill pen. there's also philadelphia, where william penn l

and i think it shapes the kind of subject about walt whitman and the democratic american democracy, or harriet beecher stone but also enormously popular book and finally for similar reasons he quotes around page 17 i think that all of those virtues show up in this book that he's given us. the kind of biographies what they do generally is follow his life, sometimes his political context there's no biography of but they are kind of standard one volume. they do such a wonderful job, but there's the kind of classic single volume biography. and donald says in the preface this is a biography from the point of view because he didn't have much connection in the society and culture and he was self educated. he was the ultimate self-made man and he entered the presidency the least prepared of any president that we have ever had. in a sense i guess i am taking the opposite point of view on. from the realm of experience from, and you mentioned this just now, from the very highest to the lowest until the very dogs believe in him. emerson had a certain way of writing that was like that. and he felt

it comes on top of the 20,000 employees who were laid off in september at disneyland and florida's walt disney world. >>> a black woman has made history at the u.s. naval academy, and there are accusations of election failures in georgia. those are some of the headlines on the morning newstand. the atlanta journal constitution reports georgia's two republican senators are calling for the resignation of the state's top election official. senators kelly loeffler and david perdue accused republican secretary of state brad raffensperger of unspecified failures in last week's elections. they provided no evidence to back up their claims. joe biden holds a small lead of 12,000 votes in the state. loeffler and purdue face runoff elections in january that will determine which party controls the u.s. senate. raffensperger says he's not stepping down. >>> the miami herald said tropical storm eta caused heavy flooding in the city and throughout south florida. the storm made landfall sunday night in the florida keys. entire neighborhoods were hit with fast-rising water that did not drain for hours.

mark: did you include walt disney and his mouse? mr. baker: i don't have walt disney. i figured he was famous enough already. he is another case. what i do have is mr. thompson, coney island.f the three first real amusement parks that are out there. are one of the things you learn from and took from in a lot of ways. mark: this goes to the flying car. i see the future of innovation developing technology to the form that humans will become redundant. mr. baker: it is a problem. there are various ways we could .o it that would be disastrous people talk about the great plague. these tiny robots that would get away from us and run amok, that would be awful. we probably hand will become, if we don't manage to blow ourselves up, to become much more robotic. there are things you could do the things you already have. it's amazing to see what these new mechanical legs are, how well they work. think about the things to put in your brain that would deal with brain injuries and all. we can become tremendously if we useds people this right. i don't think we really have to the robot

clara barton and walt wittman cared for patients in the building where the 16th president consoled his wounded. we joined mr. obama's peers in the gallery of the presidents to talk about his book. >> i'm curious about the title. i think a lot of people feel that we are farther from a promised land. >> well, i titled it "the promised land" because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes, even if we experience disappointments along the way, i at least, still have faith we can create a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a more perfect union. >> you write in the book our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of a crisis. what do you mean? >> we have gone through a presidency that disregarded a whole host of basic institutional norms, expectations we have for a president that had been observed by republicans and democrats previously. and maybe most importantly and most disconcertingly, what we've seen is what some people called truth decay, something that's been accelerated by outgoing president trump, the sense that not only do we not have to tell the truth but t

. >> this is about karl rove and i want to read what he wrote in the walt walt journal. he says there are only three statewide contests in the past half century in which recounts change the outcome. 1974 new hampshire senate race, 2004 washington governor's contest and 2008 michigan senate election. the candidates were respected by 215, 261, and 355 votes after election day. these margins aren't much like today's mr. biden leading wednesday in wisconsin by 20,540 votes, pennsylvania by 49,060 votes, michigan by 146,123, arizona, 12,614, nevada, 36,870, georgia, 14,108. to win, mr. trump must prove systemic fraud with the legal votes in the tens of thousands. there is no evidence of that so far. so, he's right. >> yeah. yes, he's right. >> no law or recount will change the outcome with the margins this large. you heard john say courts may start throwing them out, you know, faster. go on. what do you think of that? >> as they have been. the courts sbrn throwing them out kind of as fast as they've been filed. whether you like karl or don't like karl, he knows his politics.

walt whitman is to me describing not just the american countryside. he's describing america's best polits. abraham lincoln when he writes the second inaugural, that is a work of literature and he's imagining th sides to this great colict and what it means. and ultimately ends with malice d charity towards all. so that i think informed everything i did. yosaw this during my presidency and you see it in some of the responses to the book, to a promised land. in our current political environment we have a lot of implications with that kind of be able to see the other side. and i think there have been a couple of reviewers and commentators who say look, obama is one side on theother hand the things . and location i think that you can see either side somehow you are paralyzed. at the sensibility means that you can't make decisions that you are because you don't knowway to turn . and the irony is that in fact for me it was the opposite. and i tried to explain his in the book, maybe some folksare impatient with it . it's precisely because i had people i had a

. >>> the walt disney company says it's furloughing more workers at its california theme parks including disneyland. the company didn't say how many workers will be furloughed but says some executive salary and hourly workers will be affected. this is on top of the 28,000 disney employees laid off in september. >>> in marin county, thousands of diapers were distributed to families in need. in all, more than 100 families were able to receive free diapers and baby wipes in sausalito today. it's all made possible by the "help a motor out" organization. about 30,000 diapers and wipes were donated. >> during the pandemic, we realized that diapers were in demand. >> as were those wipes. each family was able to walk out with three cases of diapers. >>> coyotes caught roaming the grounds of the california state capital. their mother gave birth to them last summer in the middle of a den in midtown. they are committed to making it a nature preserve for the coyote. >> we tried to push her from the greenbelt to the river, she found her way to the capital because it's been barricaded so there's no pe

first, i want to see the filthy walt, what we really are. it's what you get. so thank you very much and enjoy it. more than a year after her release. it's clear their hard work is paying off. carlin, the team have seen 5 a one off successfully feeding corn slew. and perhaps best of all, she's rearing her 1st healthy otter 501 is wild again. my last and most of my time now is only 18. it's more about selling people why the films that i want to make you can be highly entertaining. that money's getting harder and harder to get so easy to get cynical i don't want to do any more meetings in closed offices. he did the almost a month of anyone who isn't looking away. no species are going extinct at a breakneck speed. when i meet people who shrug that off, who think that it doesn't matter, that oceans are being polluted. rainforests, chopped down, and deserts are expanding. i sometimes don't know what to do with them for possible . it's just this is my home, the ease in river drowning time, nor, i'm honestly nantz. i think for both our sakes i'll move my camera back a

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on the other hand, if you ask bruce, would you take all your money in your walt and bet that he's going to do it, i'd say no. and neither would you. so the reason he might not be completely problematic on this is that he may want to worry about his legacy a little bit or he may be worried that intag nicing things, which could make his situation, which is already dire, 400 million dollars of debt, potential lawsuits all over the place and maybe if he wants people to go easy on him he'll try to be a little gracious and concede and pass the stimulus package. but again, i would not bet all the money in my wallet and i bet most of your viewers wouldn't, either, that he's going to do that because that's not just his genetic code. >> i'm losing better, anyway, so i better stay away from that. i want to look at the bigger pictures. what does a close race suggest about the two political parties right now and how americans see them? >> well, i think the best thing we could say is oi there's some serious divisions in it. along gender, race, geographic,, occupational lines, etc., and some of these

. >>> "the orlando sentinel" reports that walt disney company said it is laying off 4,000 more employeesits theme parks. that brings the number of announced layoffs at disney to 32,000. the company partially attributed the cutbacks to fewer visitors because of the pandemic. the layoffs will take place in the first half of next year. disney's theme parks in florida have reopened, the ones in california remain closed. >>> and cbs los angeles says southern california edison started shutting off power to thousands on thanksgiving due to the risk of wildfires. california has seen a disastrous year of wildfires like this one that has left at least 31 dead and more than 10,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. the utility turned off power to more than 7,000 customers and is considering shutting it off for more than 100,000 others. >>> all right, still ahead, a secret in the walls. homeowners in new york uncover a huge surprise during a renovation. e always done things our own way. charted our own paths. i wasn't going to just back down from moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. psoriatic arthr

walt walter cronkite. david brinkley. huntley. if you didn't like one, you go to the other. you don't like any of us, you can go to tens, thousands. i can't tell you -- no one's like walter but i can't tell you how many people are delivering what they say is the news and, in fact, it's usually their opinion based on almost nothing. or it's fake news. if you go to alex jones' site, and he tells you those kids were not killed. those were government plants. those were people put there. and you believe that? well, you never heard that from any of us, that kind of conspiratorial theory. or the pizza thing and there's, you know, the pedophile about hillary clinton down in the basement. people are believing that. so, who do you go to for information, chris? cnn? fox? msnbc? i mean, and then, i'll go down a whole list. news max is getting the audience, now, from fox because donald j. trump has flipped fox. he had the temerity to say he was not going to win arizona, which he didn't win. his network, his propaganda machine that he has now diverted a lot of viewers to news max. to one

in all, walt disney company will cut 32,000 employees by the end of next march.then, a year into the pandemic. >>> no surprise, but new sobering numbers prove the pandemic is making it much more difficult for people working in the hospitality and leisure industry to make it in the bay. the report from the state's tourism bureau says nearly 40% of jobs lost in the state since march are in those two industries alone. the report also says california's travel revenue will plummet by 54% by the end of the year from $145 billion in 2019 to $66 billion. >>> and a popular san francisco holiday tradition has been canceled over coronavirus concerns. we're talking about the annual santa-con event. organizers announced they're calling off the santas only pub crawl. each year the flash mob style event brings together hundreds of people dressed in santa costumes. the event was supposed to help on december 12th but looks like it will be on hold for another year. the san francisco ballet is re-imagining the nutcracker this year. it's launching a virtual experience on its website

walt whitman wrote a poem saying lincoln will alway be the western star in the landscape. that's the way i vie them, kind of distanced and doing his own thing. i was surprised and thrilled by the fact he was so incredibly involv in his culture here what i try to do is leave it like a tapestry. i try not to get too lost i the cultural digressions. i like to always bring it back to linco because he's at the center of my book and so that was a wonderful surprise for me, but he was. >> had a similar sense when i first started thinking about lincoln. i had this like you said he was out there, but i couldn't place him. my interest was in his relations -- [inaudible] and the more i studied him the more it seemed to me he was embedded it returned to be a much deeper, richer, richer culture, anti-slavery. >> if i can give people a hint in your forthcoming book, you anchor him very, very deeply in the antislavery point of view in a wonderful way. >> let me ask one last question before we go to the questions. about lincoln's private life. you have what i think is a very sensible,ensi

and it's, it's not surprising to me that china should say, when walt is you, we are going to leverage our markets, our strings to achieve that. so in that sense, i totally agree that is absolutely no reason why china would want to accommodate a scrape. on the other hand, in terms of strategy and relationship, there's something to be said for compromising and trying to get to be to give something to the other party. so that could be a discussion, but polling what i'm hearing from lots of australians and i, and during my research for the show, i spoke to a number of people who told me very bluntly, that there were very proud of australia's position when it came to china because they said china was acting like a believe that it wasn't listening to the concerns of the australian people. particular when it came to home, human rights within china itself. is it then? just the question i asked on a very beginning in the show is just the cost of doing business. surely if you're going to get criticize, you are going to get criticised, but there's no reason to react like this. well, i think the

show for you today remember in this world we're not really not told little of the not so i tell you walt i love you i robot and i don't need to crop keep on watching those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. they are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to you the person who falsely fast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led some. way. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. he has gotten quite sure. the impossible soup will flow which sleeps sure but. wu clubbable was. sure the movie idea on board it doesn't actua

entertainment giant walt disney has been suffering the toughest time in its near 100—year history.ovie releases shelved and its sports network espn starved of major events, it has taken a battering from the pandemic. but there has been one plus, literally. disney's video on demand streaming service disney plus has been a huge beneficiary of lockdowns around the world, signing up almost 73 million subscribers in its first year. that's meant losses have come in far less than expected in the past three months, raising hope the worst could be over for disney. guy bisson is research director at ampere analysis in london. great to see you and thank you for coming on. tell us a bit about what these disney numbers tell us about its new position asa tell us about its new position as a streaming giant? the streaming platform disney plus has grown much much quicker than the company predicted and they have hit 7a million subscribers for that service in a very short period of time, just to put it in perspective, netflix has about 195 million and across all of their streaming properties, includi

'd clear at this stage, walt, who was behind this well 1st of all, let me just go through the nature of this attack and the 1st place we are getting all indications that it was a well coordinated, complicated attack because it involved the attackers using some explosives there are also reports that this could have been a suicide attempt. then this was followed by gunfire which left the car with the scientists bullet marked. so this explains perhaps why the defense ministry instantly called it an outright terrorist attack. but even all. 'd that wasn't able to kill the man who was the target on the spot, even though this wasn't no where near. it was nowhere near a situation. when you know the assailant just picks up a gun, shoots, and kills a was much more complicated. even that didn't lead to a situation in which the victim was killed on the spot because he was taken to hospital for treatment and that was where the men died. but in any case, what's very important to look at here is what this is going to lead to. because any kind of assassination of such figures of such scientists in i

so mister walt claimed that he had to ban the residents of new york state from the program. while at the same time dhs continued to process applications for residents from those are other jurisdictions. why? >> i may madame chairwoman. very specific difference that still remains respect to what was occurring even then with new york. new york band and stopped transmitting any and every bit of information that they were prior and still capable of transmitting area that is still unique. was having with the other states and territories, we were still receiving these returns. again, there was nothing we were aware of readily by virtue of what we were receiving from those returns with respect to the trusted traveler program that would have alerted us to the fact that there was one of a several aspects of the data that was being provided to us that was in fact not being returned. but we were receiving information from every single one of those jurisdictions, something from them from the ones who were in. >> but it was not enoughand this is my question. shouldn't agency charged with

i think of him as a descendent, creative descendent of emily dickinson and walt whitman.seen the body electric. clearly he was influenced by those american writers who wanted to set language and loose and to use poetry and prose, not to make it flowery but instead to surprise and disarm the readers of these great new worlds would be open bore them. >> that's grt. we can almost see all three together like that. carl once pointed out somef the finer points in raise poetry. i d't know if this but we had not yet seen the stars. they have not yet seen the stars, the animals of our planet will look a the start of the way we do. carl pointed o to you once that the bird to do. ray actually wrote -- >> i'm so glad he did. >> reaoad another -- some say the birds they see, and he went on with the poem that way. a wonderful -- >> i think also that there's a general awakening inside of us to how much more attuned to the world, the stars and each other, the other living things with whom we share this planet really are your but yeah, i think there's a lot of creatures a actually, ev adm

i love what eddie van der walt said. bitcoin is just the comeback kid of the market. the pattern we typically see. i am not the biggest fan of technical analysis, but it perhaps makes more sense to view bitcoin that way because it is driven by hopes and dreams more than fundamentals. followed byelloffs rallies that each time it happens, they get longer and longer. the volatility might make bitcoin less attractive as a store of value. we would have to see the asset calm down if it is going to rival things like gold, but we have seen more institutional investors, more hedge get interested. it is not just a retail game. to take theady place of something like gold. we have had a stellar run for risk assets in november. a key question, a lot of that around vaccines, there is nervousness right now. --t do flows show about rick risk appetites? >> we are seeing unabated risk appetite despite the wobble we saw. bank of america has looked at the latest data and they see weeks,er the past three when pfizer came out with that rate for their vaccine, we have seen record inflows in

walt ehmer is the ceo and he is with us now. what exactly do you want?ooms open but what do you want? do you want all dining rooms in your company to be open 100%? is that what you want? >> stuart, i think what we really want we want there to be a distinguishing between bars and restaurants and coffee shops and not all of these facilities are created equal. we don't have all of our dining rooms open 24 hours a day right now. in a couple of places it has been mandated but we have voluntarily shut down our dining rooms at night because we recognize it in some circumstances the alcohol does play a role in terms of people socializing a little too much and crowds gathering. so we're not looking for 100%. what we're looking for judge every situation the way it should be judged and let us do what we do and what we've been trained to do. stuart: what happens in a state which enforces the closure of restaurants and you've goat a restaurant, you've got a waffle house in that state? will you defy the authorities? >> we have not defied any authorities yet. we have.

at $1.00 point up 22 percent walt disney company 14 percent mariya the international hotel chain up 21 percent these are just remarkable numbers come all and it should be point out is anything going down well actually it is there are a couple couple companies that are going down and these are called the stay at home companies that have done very well during this pandemic zoom who doesn't know whom we all using now right they actually fell at one point fell 17 percent same with netflix and amazon they're also in the red bottom line though kemal is there over 2800 companies on the new york stock exchange and there are about 300 of them right now that are seeing record highs as one trader said in his words we now see a light at the end of the tunnel and everyone's going after just a slight pivot if we could gabriel about the market's reaction to everything else that being the u.s. president elect joe biden what was the sentiment about the idea of a biden presidency. well you got to look at this short term and long term long term the market quite frankly was mixed on a biden presidency the

start with the fact is a brief incursion of walts from further south. the forecast to toronto shows as they would change the dip down to 0 degrees and back up to 6 again. and if you imagine that in new york, similar story, a dip in the rising, but the temperatures are always going to be on the high side at this time of the year. the next good tranche of snow is on its way here on chooses the midwest. the great lakes, the sudden bit the rain a bit could be some pretty big showers in this. it is quieter not at the caribbean gulf of mexico in particular, but the still persistent rain in the forecast for honduras. this is the bit that got so for the brothers asked to hurricanes and that weakness in the atmosphere means rain. showers could be substantially in jamaica. his spaniel or, and this here looks like it could turn into a proper circulation. it'll stay out in the open ocean. we have yet to see the end of hurricane season. but it will be there to november and outspoken right child killed in a car bomb outside his parents' home in 2005, accusations, spe

our show for you today remember in those world we are definitely not told love the not so i tell you walt i love you i robot and i don't need such props keep on watching those hawks out there never great day and night everybody. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. as much with the we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judged as commentary classes it is the sentence. we can do better we should be doing better. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. there are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference

just mission with the rest of the walt but discussions are reportedly underway with the european space agency. the chunk of 5 spacecraft is scheduled to return to earth and land in china's northwest in the middle of december, al-jazeera, beijing. it is good to have you with us. hello, a very unforgiving. here in doha, the headlines on al-jazeera 3 weeks after the election president elect joe biden is beginning. his transition to the white house. donald trump is refusing to concede, but as all the rise of the general services agencies of the club by the apparent went up. kimberly how could reports now from the white house? he does have some avenues still and there are some outstanding cases that are still being pursued in the courts because as we've seen for weeks, they are quickly being tossed out. because what the consensus is been is that many of these cases were poorly crafted in terms of their legal arguments. and in many cases the legal team was ill prepared. now, even as the president continues to say that he will prevail, that he is working to reverse the election results. what

at 1.39 percent southwest airlines a low cost carrier here in the u.s. 22 percent at one point the walt disney company 14 percent and marriott to the international hotel chain over 20 percent jump in their stock price these are all companies that have suffered badly over the last 6 to 7 months because of coronavirus and now you see just this this euphoria if you will with investors trading to get in on this market seeing that with this vaccine perhaps people will start traveling again and that's why these stocks are going so high but there's another flip side to it as well the companies that are being hurt by this today are this stay at home companies the ones that have benefited over the last 6 to 7 months because of coronavirus and that's something such as zoom of course we all use zoom now right zoom stock went down by as much as 17 percent amazon 5 percent and netflix one point down 8 percent but overall the big message from wall street today is that there is a lot of excitement about this potential vaccine and you're really seeing that in the markets as one trader he said suddenly

i can teach walt whitman and there is a way that i can teach to open my students eyes. we have been working off of constraints for a long time i can teach notes on the state of virginia by thomas jefferson and i can give you a whole lecture on racial havoc just by reading the notes so we have to do is to be subversive within the constraints and as we continue to bring pressure to bear politically on the way in which we teach our children. but you can do that work in the classroom you just have to be creative spirit that's a great answer because he is not on the curriculum everywhere although coming out more and more in this is our moment with the new interest with a library of america coming up with a new anthology why is this a moment for baldwin? >> i think it has to do with black lives matter with this movement in front it is clea clear, men and women so there's a way it clears that policy so it makes sense i also think baldwin is the most critic that we have ever produced i'm surprised about my book with that extraordinary documentary was important as well but becau

walt whitman to me is describing not just to the american countryside.s describing america's best politics. abraham lincoln whene writes the second inaugal and that is a work of literatures he is imagining both sides to this great conflict and what it means and it ultimately ends with malice towards none, so that i think infoed everything i did. wh's been interesting and use all this during my presidency and you see it in some of the responses to the book, to the promised land in the current political environment we have a lot of inpatients and i think there've been a couple of reviewers and commentators who say look at obama he's overthinking things and the implication i think is if you can see the other side then somehow you are paralyzed, that the writers sensibility means you cannot make decisions because you d't know whichay to turn. the argument is for me it was the opposite and i try to explain this in the book may be some folks are just inpatient with it. it'secause i can precisely see both sides or all and i would feel as if i were making a deci

david reynolds is a professor at the graduate center and the author of walt whitman america a cultural biography, winner of the bancroft prize. his other books include beneath the american renaissance john brown abolitionist and mightier than the sword, uncle tom's cabin and the battle. he's the regular book reviewer for the "new york times" book review and "the wall street journal." david will be in conversation with one of the leading historians since 19th century america. the pioneering works include the ruling race 1982, slavery and freedom and interpretation of the old south, the radical and the republican frederick douglas, abraham lincoln and triumph of antislavery politics. and his latest book freedom national the destruction of slavery in the united states 1861 to 1865. they will have a conversation for about 45 minutes and then take questions for ten or 15 minutes. please click on the question box below to type in your questions and jim will be sure to get to as many of you as he can and he will try to end the program after about one hour eastern time. thanks to the foundatio

partly caused the increase in the unemployment claims, but we also had some big corporations, like walt disney exxon for example, who also announced a mass layoffs. and i'm standing again in front of a school here in new york's and said today is schools will be closed at least until thanksgiving. so that's a big problem for working parents, the mayor of new york and was also talking about today that maybe we might see some shut downs off of restaurants and to fitness centers center, we hear stories like that, them all over the country. and there was also a report all jim that maybe by the end of the year of college at 12000000 americans might lose their unemployment assistance. so clearly this situation has a, worsened a bit in the pos couple of days. they insist is the spite, all these job losses we've been hearing about throughout the months. the consumer spending has always seemed to be relatively ok in the u.s. . why is that? now that is a fascinating and it is surprising. and even if the job market has recovered a bit in the past the couple of months we shouldn't forget, as usually

the company also reports that they are reassured by booking trends at walt disney world and urging california to allow its disneyland resorts to reopen saying people are showing a willingness to visit the parks and they are able to operate them safely. >> julia, thank you. we mentioned after hours high. >> the dividend was due january 1. what did you make of this move is it weiss? what did you make of this quarter? >> what was the number you wanted to hear out of disney we wanted to hear about disney plus they grew about 22%. >> around content versus distribution and better aligning entertainment, studio and sports with the distribution channels to let the consumer determine where these things were going to live this is what the market was wanting to see and something that wasn't born out of covid and the fact that studios were not open, so they had to send mulan through their own channels i think this may be where they are going. the most important dynamic is disney plus. i don't care they suspended the dividend i thought these numbers were solid. the fact that the parks experience was less

i often read poetry from some of the classical people and one of them is walt whitman. you are reading "leaves of grass." this says something amazing about the human spirit. you are reminded that he referred to black people as monkeys and baboons. he was not alone in that. if that everyday object and this everyday contemporary object, we have those ideas morphing to the present. i will give you another example of a modern object. there is such an interesting story about this. years ago, i will not name the store and i will not tell you what it rhymes with, ok? i went into a store and there were eight cookie jars. they were all animals. when you opened the mouth of the dog, it barked. when you opened the mouth of the pig, it made pig sounds. when you opened the mouth of the alligator, it made this sound. obviously, it taps into the long history in jokes and movies that black people are not really people. they are food for other people. this is an everyday object sitting on the store shelf. we do a lot -- over the years we have done a lot of trainings or conversations wit

both in walt and gut. >> you can't stop when you see the love you receive. >> no matter what season iscalendar. he plans to be here. preparing for ice. >> we'll all survive. >> what a great story. >> the cool nights. it's the perfect. >> with hot cocoa. all right. it will be cold outside. like we were ice skating. >> exactly. we can still drink the hot cocoa. heading into the over night hour it's so cold at night and cold early morning and that's what we'll see tonight. clear skies in walnut creek. we'll get another chilly start to the day. let's lock at temperatures trends. san jose 54 degrees. notice over night lows 1:00 a.m. an increase in cloud cover. forecasts for liver more into the low 40s by 1:00 a.m. a system to the north but we'll are main try in the bay area for the weekend. how cold will it be tomorrow morning? take a look. 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. napa 34. likely frosty conditions especially for some of the sheltered valleys and by the afternoon, we'll warm up a bit. let's look at your daytime highs. mid-60s tomorrow. mostly sunny. over the next seven days. towards sunday and m

bob iger, the executive chairman of the walt disney company, tweeted about the surprise this afternoonto watch the film on disney plus, late tonight, for a special tribute to someone who was near and dear to our hearts. black panther star chadwick boseman died earlier this year and his birthday would be tomorrow. now, we don't want to ruin the surprise, so be sure to check it out. disney is the parent company of abc 7. >>> boy scouts and their supporters renewed a holiday tradition in the east bay but with new practices in place because of covid-19. for more than 50 years, the boy scouts have raised money by selling christmas trees in piedmont. >> and we are exclusively online, to ensure the -- the safety of our staff and our volunteers and our customers. you, literally, pull in. and within five to ten minutes, we have a tree tied on your car. and you are a off -- off to the races. >> the scouts typically sell about 1,500 trees a year. earlier this week, we told you about tyler gordon. a san jose teen, who painted an extraordinary portrait of vice president-elect, kamala harris. now, h

walt disney is cutting another 4,000 jobs after lockdowns forced the closing of its theme parks.takes a total number of layoffs in the first half of the fiscal year to 32,000, thorn 10% of its work force. the entertainment giant is switching focus to streaming service disney plus which is seeing surging growth. bit coin is steadying after its biggest slump since march's meltdown and been on our roller coaster rides climbing within reach of an all time high before falling to $16,000. bit coin is up 140% this year and there are questions about he durability of this rally. a family office will be opened in singapore to run the philanthropy in the region, and bridgewater associates long had ties and is opening an office there and is excited by the region's prospects and is your bloomberg first. caroline? aerial ine: the futures market is bit more steadying after the record high fell from wednesday. same with the russell 2000 and the dow that sunk off that heady, some call to the sacred level but we're pairing back .10% as our nerves steady past the thanksgiving holiday and a shortene

yesterday we are in a rough winter earnings from cisco, the networking type and applied materials and walt disney which needs no introduction. it is looking like we'll have a smooth transition from the trump administration to the biden administration that's a huge strange and even last week at this time, a notion of trump refusing to make plans to vacate the white house. i am sure you are sick of hearing it could the good earnings continue if you are worried of the virus and encouraged by the vaccine, next week will be pivotal for you. we'll hear from major national retailers. monday starts off something a little different, the results from palo alto network the kate snow put together a terrific set of assets millions of people are staying or stuck at home working i expect very strong numbers then we hear from one of the most controversial names, we'll hear in tyson foods. they had major covid problems that tends to be behind them now i feel nothing will help tyson aside from sharp bleak better than expected earnings. could this time be different if they do, i got to tell you the $62 stock

the stock of the hour is the walt disney company. fourth quarter results took a big dive on the covid-19 shut down. at the same time they beat expectations. scarlet fu is here with the full report. scarlet: on an adjusted earnings per share basis it means disney closed out fiscal 2020 with a plunge in earnings, 65% drop. analysts see recovery this year and a pickup in growth the following year. the problem is disneyland in california is still closed. it will stay that way until the end of the year. attendance is capped at other locations. there is not much of a u.s. box office to speak of. , whichior is streaming has helped in the direct -- which is housed in the direct to consumer division. their revenue jumping 41%. it is still unprofitable but the losses are narrowing. within streaming disney plus is the star. it ended the quarter with almost 74 million paid supplies -- paid subscribers. by contrast, netflix expected to end the year with 200 million subscribers. india is leading disney plus's growth and that makes up a quarter of

looking forward to that, on the walt disney company.is bloomberg. ♪ karina: with the first word news, i'm karina mitchell. federal and state election officials couldn't disagree more with president trump. the president has made baseless claims widespread voting fraud, but officials with supervise the vote call it the most secure election in history. they say there is no evidence the election was compromised. some congressional republicans are splitting with president trump over his refusal to acknowledge the outcome of the election. they say joe biden should receive presidential intelligence briefings. president trump started getting briefed week after his election in 2016. so far, he has refused to allow biden to get the information. a grim milestone in california. the state has had more than one million coronavirus infections. the cdc says almost no part of the country has been spared in the latest surge. a new study says the fatality rate of infected people in the u.s. has fallen 30% since april. still, researchers forecast deaths co

that said, while disney world -- walt disney world only operating at 35% of capacity. disneyland in california is closed. disney world in florida is open at 35% capacity when it is normally full. do you think the parks business will ever recover in a new world? tuna: it's going to take a long time for the parks to get back to normalcy. what we were encouraged is the idea they are getting positive net contribution in the parks operated -- operating at a very limited capacity. they are able to generate revenue sufficiently to recoup some of their cost. to the extent they can do that, that will help them absorb some of the costs inherent in the business. i think it is going to take probably a couple of years at least to get back to anywhere close to the peak attendance levels we have seen the last few years. a lot of it depends on the speed of the vaccine development. one encouraging takeaway, for the current quarter, parks are booked at 77% booking levels. especially for thanksgiving weekend. that's an indication of the potential pent-up demand to go back to the parks. e

but we also had some big corporations, like walt disney exxon for example, who also announced a mass layoffs. and i'm standing again in front of a school here in new york's and said today is schools will be closed at least till thanksgiving. so that's a big problem for working parents and the mayor of new york. that was also talking about today that maybe we might see some shut downs off of restaurants and to fitness centers center, we hear stories like that, them all over the country. and there was also a report all jim that maybe by the end of the year of college at $12000000.00 americans might lose their unemployment assistance. so clearly the situation has a, worsened a bit in the pos couple of days. the is the spite, all these job losses we've been hearing about throughout the months. the consumer spending has always seemed to be relatively ok in the u.s. . why is that? now that is a fascinating and it is surprising. and even if the job market has recovered a bit in the past the couple of months we shouldn't forget, as usually before the pundits make, we had maybe about 200000 u

walt whitman is to me describing not just the american countryside but america's best politics, the secondnaugural, that is a work of literature, he is imagining both sides of the conflict, what it means and ultimately ends with malice towards none and cherry towards all. so that, i think, informed everything i did. you see this in my presidency and some of the responses to the book, to a promised land. in the current political environment, a lot of impatiens being able to see the other side. a couple reviewers and commentators on one side or the other, the implication, somehow you are paralyzed, the writer's sensibility means you can't make decisions, you're stuck because you don't know which way to turn? and the irony is in fact, i tried to explain that to people, and and i would feel as if i was making a good decision. and overthinking problems was or is it was a weakness in politics. it is indicative of a culture in which we simplify and eliminate all gray areas and be the other team. and how we come together. and seeing donald trump eliminate all complexity and just do whatever he wan

wath ter walt junior. as you mentioned we have seen so much across america. primarily black men killed. and at the hands of police. there are so many very good men and women that risk their lives every day to make sure that americans are safe. we have to bet to the heart and show of why does this continue to happen. why are plaque men dieing or severely injureden, and how do we deal with mental health challenges to keep people safe. are we asking police, public service offices, to do so much or to do things by themselves? clearly he informs a mental health crisis and needed a mental health worker, a person traenedded trained in that area to work with him initially. hopefully this not just philadelphia but across the united states of america. we are ready to vote, and nothing will turn us around. not the tactics and antics of trump. trump clearly doesn't care about people in general and certainly not about black and brown people. the super spreader events are ignore raant ignorant, trooifling, and they show a lack of care for people in general. vice president

during the progressive era and he had many friends that were progressive reformers, including lillian walt who was the head of the nurse's settlement, also known as the henry street settlement in the lower east side. he became a particular patron of another house, it was the king's daughter settlement. we have in this section about his legacy something that he saved from -- that actually his second wife mary saved. it's from the jacob riss papers. he was a patron of the king's daughters group. a group of episcopal women following police inspect earnings. they had eventually purchased this property and he helped them doing that by giving lanternside r lectures. he continued to raise funds for its operation and they had a kindergarten. they offered nursing services. they had a playground in the backyard for the kids. it was a church based settlement house as he was a pious protestant. he was comfortable with the kmurch-ba kmurch-based house. florence kelly had lived previously at whole house in chicago that was joined in 1889 and she had become a factor inspector for the state of illinois. s