Emergency now . Reporter good morning. It comes down to the fire danger and the emergency shutoffs and that is why they voted for this local emergency that is in Sonoma County board of supervisors happening on the second anniversary of the sonoma complex fires that happened back in 2017. In fact, were standing here in coffey park, one of the hardest hit areas during the fires and they are still in rebuild mode two years later. Here is video from the Board Meeting and the board held a moment of silence to remember the 45 lives lost in these fires. And then shortly after they voted on that local emergency, which is in response to the pg e power shutoff that are due to the fire danger that were seeing around the bay area. Now this move does allow Sonoma County to open the Emergency Operation center if needed. Now i did get a chance to speak to the chair of the board aut th at this time about 10 to 15 are back in their homes and another twothirds still in the rebuilding process. The commun
Something i know its something we didnt see as an ideal tool in our institutional context. And i think, you know, different Central Banks around the world did Different Things and we can observe how those things work, but i dont think we regard that as a firstorder tool or something we would be likely to use. There are other things that we need to look at. And i would say yield curve control, sort of shortterm yield curve control is something thats worth looking at. Not at all something that we havent looked at it, but it will be something that we look at when the time comes and the last thing ill say is, you know, i think our tool kit, well use it aggressively to the extent we need to. Yeah. To achieve our mandate. So one of the questions i got from someone today, who knew i was going to be asking you questions, was, is there an unintended consequence of in a reasonable growth, low employment near the target rate inflation rate, is there an unintended consequence of easing into that e
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Evier restaurant in downtown l palo alto. This is for a luncheon here. They are setting up for a buffet, were told, a variety of seafood, meats and salads. The restaurant seats about 100 or so people. We dont know how many are expected to attend. It is a fundraiser, after all. And at least 1,500 to attend, we are being told. Now a new poll out with a Public Policy institute of california shows a tight threeway race in california with Elizabeth Warren at 23 , mr. Biden at 22 , Bernie Sanders at 21 and they are far out ahead of kamala harris, who is polling at 8 in this poll in her own home state. As for mr. Biden, once he wraps up the luncheon here, he is headed to San Francisco for an afternoon reception, dinner later on tonight, both of which are hosted by senator dianne feinstein. Were live in palo alto. Im roz plater, bay area nbc news. Bay area nbc news, you can get updates on nbcbayarea. Com. President trump is suggesting china investigate the former Vice President and his son, hu
To the billing. One of 18 sites around the county where picketers are operating this morning. A total of 1000 people walking the picket line. They say they know how to heal the sick and care for people and they do it with her own hands. Lets take a look at the video. [ crowd chanting ] reporter the picketers say this is not a money driven strike. Its about work conditions and housing and filling vacancies. They say about one in six positions remain vacant and that does have an impact. With one in six positions being vacant come if we care about the community we will have to do something about it. Its been a problem for many years but nothings changed. We are using this contract to highlight that into something about it. Reporter on the other side of the Divide County executive jeff smith the says money is the driving force during closed doors. The agency said the county remains committed to a fair and equitable contract. On the table from the county is a 3 raise each of the next five y