Well, two important aspects of the ongoing pandemic, preventing the spread of the virus and limiting the economic damage continue nobody conflict this afternoon across much of the country, including right here in the bay area. Tom vacar joins us live this afternoon, and this new wave of restrictions threatens the very survivability of the restaurant industry. Well, the whole fact is this cannot go on forever. Some accommodations will have to be made. Covid carnage to patients mirror s the carnage to small businesses, restaurants and their employees. It is a tail of two realities. According to the National Restaurant association, this is their sobering reality. 100,000 restaurants, 1 in 6, closed forever or long term. 40 of the remaining restaurant ours saying theyll be gone in three months without any help. 240 billion in lost sales this year. One Business Owner we spoke with has been able to survive so far. There has to be assistance for businesses and also for individuals. Reporter b
A situation like this. It is very hard because we do not have any other choice. And a surprising twist to the American Election results, donald trump gained more minority votes than 4 years ago, while joe biden seems to have won back more white males. We discuss the issue with our guests. Identity politics, really. Donald trump is great, but show me that you are not great. Well, weve got to move forward into the future in it when we see each other, beyond the color of anybody. Skin plus israel is in talks with russia over the purchase of the sputnik, the corona virus vaccine. We spoke to the c. E. O. Of israels top hospital, which has ordered over a 1000000 doses of rush, so the shot currently in final testing. We are pretty sure the russian books, even the bees see if you lose a book she may have to do action because she knows their world. They would have news headlines. My colleague, nicky aaron will be taking over more in just about 60 minutes on behalf of the R T International team
Vaccine and other covid headlines is Infectious Disease doctor. Thanks for joining us, doctor. Thanks for having me on, again. Yes. Its extra exciting for you because three of your colleagues were name to the just Advisory Board from the biden home run harris team. First congratulations to the entire uscf. Tell us about the three distinguished doctors and why you think they were chosen. So they were all chosen for really i think broad overview and understanding and deep understanding of the Public Health system and they can see what it takes to have a national strategy, so to speak. So David Kessler was head of the fda for many years before becoming the dean of medicine, has been a strong advocate of hes a pediatrician, health in general for americans of all walks of life. He has an a understanding of rules and regulations, as well as Public Health and medical health care, so to speak. Eric guzby, who can say much more beautiful words than and words of praise for somebody as wonderful
Mr. Axelrod admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. Dad flew that for about two years during the war. But my grandfather also served in world war i and i
3,295,304 over President Trump with 3,289,717. This is the first time in a while joe biden goes into the lead many its votes out of philadelphia. We are getting reports from philadelphia right now, a heavily democratic area. Theyve taken a while to count their votes but theyre doing it. As that comes in, that propels biden to the lead. It is still not projected but right now the trend lines definitely favoring joe biden. Still a lot of votes to come. Where are they coming from . What is the expectation . There are more from philadelphia and more from pittsburgh which is also heavily democratic county and a few more here and there throughout the state. Thats the bulk, the democratic places. What are you making for before you make call into the apparent winner category . This is still very close. Like i said, trend lines have been headed towards joe biden. This is still close with just a few thousand votes. We are going to look for more votes, see what we get, and as always start looking