Now this is about a half hour ago, but it gives an idea some of those city lights going on just as the sun starts to join us upstream we do have some scattered clouds to make note of they will come to pass throughout the Late Afternoon early evening member the sun setting early so to actually be probably close to sunset might have some nice sunsets out there. 30s right now across a good piece of real estate not just up in the north bay, but in the far east bay livermore 33 conquer jumbo checking in at 38 as well as san jose and 32 from a bottle in santa rosa, this is cooler for us across a good portion of the bay up north there were also chilly like this. Yesterday morning if you recall as well look toward a ahead 58 by 11 00am by 2 were talking 6 to 3 against them. Afternoon clouds and well see that again for tonight, but another chilly night a forecast in just a bit marty. All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get back to our top story this morning. People who live 6 bay area counties in
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Journalists peter baker and Susan Glasser on the brandnew book on james baker, the life and times of james baker. Iner baker, no relation come Susan Glasser, welcome to washington journal. Let me start with a question about the idea of doing this book on james baker. This obviously predates the 2020 election, but this is earlier than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off bal
Dr. Coal fox expects San Francisco could move to purple by then. A curfew would have to be implemented within 48 hours of that announcement. By the look of the citys latest case counts, we technically already qualify to be in that category. The third surge, there is no question. Its not a matter of if it will happen. It is happening. A stern warning from dr. Coal f colfax as covid is surging. What is really important is that curve, that steep slope of increasing cases. The 14day average of cases increased 152 since november 1st. Thats one of the highest spikes in the bay area. To put it in perspective, 217 new covid cases were reported in mid october. Nearly a month later, that number is 768. This rate of increase is higher than we experienced during our summer surge. On monday, San Francisco was safely in the red zone but todays data indicates the citys cases per capita is far past the threshold to be in purple. A surge that could overwhelm hospitals across the city that are already r
Hospitalizations over the last couple of weeks and it is an indicator. Of what may come thankfully, though because at the beginning of this pandemic they so heavily prepared for a surge that never fully came to fruition here in california that they really do feel prepared going into what looks like this 3rd surge in cases now all that work really has allowed them to feel more prepared at john muir, they have plans to upscale the number of icu beds dramatically so that theyll be able to convert regular units and isolation units pretty rapidly. Over at ucsf the Hospital System is said to be stockpiling remdesevir as they anticipate a shortage of that treatment. Theyre also banking up on masks and pp e as well doctors say because of how prepared they are this time around they dont want this threat of another surge to deter people with other Health Issues from coming into the hospital and seeking the help they need. You initially when everything started many months ago. We emptied out the