Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Compared to counties like los angeles were even Outdoor Dining has been shutdown. For example, Santa Clara County has 53 covid19 patient in the intensive care unit occupying about 10 of the county icu beds. It should not be a concern a. Reporter across california, more than 1500 Covid Patients are hospitalized and the icu accounting for more than 41 of covid beds. The total number of beds designated for Covid Patients can change. It sounds more alarming that it is. I am not saying we do not have a problem, obviously we have this type of denominator. The numbers we are looking at are bigger, compared to what the actual crisis is. We do know that we can bring on additional heads. Not infinitely but many more than we have today because of our efforts to plan around the surge. We have spaces identified in certain facilities to be brought on. Right now i think the Health System is doing very well. They may have Hospitals Trust more than others. Reporter we saw the spike in hospitalizations
If anything, i think it helps slow the spread, i support it. Reporter the governor issued the order thursday by statement instead of the usual video News Conference. Part of issuing this decree by statement was having to avoid the media and answering questions. About why he has been a hypocrite and why he has had such a difficult time managing through this crisis. All of those questions are things that he frankly did not want to deal with. You cant tell somebody dont do this and governess like that and they go out and do it. Reporter 41 of the 58 counties are in the purple tear, and the counties, and lest restrictive tiers. How the curfew will be enforced is still unclear, the state is reporting a weekly average of 9900 cases per day, or than double the average two weeks ago. Kenny, the governor has put himself in a tough spot, how has he responded since issuing the order . We reached out to the governors office, at times, soon after he issued the order via statement, but we have not h
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Welcome to all it is going to be a very nice weekend i think weatherwise. Lets go right to steve who is going to give us what it is going to be like steve . Spot on theyre going to be cooler from us some of the fog is retreating already at least it made today onshore breeze is in place. I can sometimes ukiah, clearlake brentwood, areas takes another day or so. Trend is to take temperatures down not up, cool off a good 5 to 10 degrees yesterday. Cooler from us, coast and bay fog retreating back to the coast easy to wendy getting in onshore wind, at the airport, travis mackinac, davis north northeast. The difference there, still 77 once it will still be in the mid90s. Lakeport, brentwood as well locations down already. Cooling off santa rosa, 14 compared to gets at this time, a huge deal oakland 7, hayward 6 even concorde 5, temperatures on the way down just a heckuva system this time of year going into the Seattle Portland area. Flatten the ridge of High Pressure for us reload, not unti