3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going
Advisory. For the bay bridge that chp issued a really early this morning, it still stands. But the good news is not a lot of traffic in your way though if you are going to be heading into downtown San Francisco. In fact a look at the drive time much improved as we kick off this 9 oclock hour 10 minutes for your westbound 80 drive out of the macarthur maze across the upper deck and into downtown to the fremont street accident. The san mateo bridge improving here as less folks on the roads and that we saw the last hour a 13 minute drive time. No issues on the flat section the high rise looks good and its going to be a a really nice drive off or youre westbound 92 right over to that 1, 1, connector in foster city. Ill check the richmond sandra fell bridge and the golden gate in just a couple minutes back to the news. Thanks a lot 9 oh one the big story most of the bay area is going into big lockdown tonight you can see San Francisco contra costa alameda and santa clara counties. Those all
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look
A man. Who will look at his final year in office and his in crest of career. Blame on the last cultural diplomat. Starts nov 16th on d w. This week the world stories. Starting in spain despite coronavirus. Planting trees to save forests in russia. But we begin in belgium like almost everywhere else in europe the number of coded 1000 infections in seriously ill patients is rising hospitals are struggling to keep up. This used to be the Recovery Room for patients whod had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for cope with benteen patients on life support hospitals in the belgian province of li is are now the epicenter of europes 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not about to admit one new profession any more so if a patient comes in the emergency room with a 3rd we have to transfer him to another or until the flemish both of the engine will be ortho for the devo tells us his team is not only short of beds but also personnel one in 5 nurses in the region have t
Police have detained more than 300. 00 protesters as thousands took to the streets 3 months into a. Police deployed bonds and water cannon in the center of Internet Access was restricted. Passenger flights has taken off from airports the final departure was a special. Paris packed with journalists they had on through the 1st plane when it opened in 1960 the german capitals new airport berlin brandenburg welcomed its 1st pass and just last week. This is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at g. W. News or visit our website dot com. Its the most valuable spice in the world sephora and its also cultivated in europe in a small Mountain Village the set from blossoms thrice in height of the alps. Hello and welcome to your own max who would have thought sephora from switzerland and we have lots more coming up. And he tell you an artist who uses a date with them to create casts an aging picture. Absent the colorful vibrant british grind outre can give. But 1st we have to portug