Hopefully this is going to help increase our revenue so we can have more employees and pay all the bills. Restaurants reopen and starting this weekend as today in the bay starts right now. Good friday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Well check in with mike in just a moment but what rough weather for the restaurants to reopen. Kari hall. It will be clearing out later today but we have lingering showers for the morning commute. As you get ready to head out we are seeing showers over the south bay, east bay, as well as the north bay up around napa. So were still looking at the possibility of this rain adding up on all of those heavy rainfall totals that we had and seeing a wintry mix as we look at upper elevations. As we head over toward the south county those rainfall totals have been pretty impressive. Well take a look back at those in a few minutes but snow on Mount Hamilton right now as well as some spotty, light rain in parts of the east bay. So im watching all of this
Said that its vaccine was 89 percent effective in u. K. Trials and the e. U. Has now approved astra zeneca as john 4 adults while it tussles with the company over delayed supplies after criticism of a slow rollout. Well mozambiques president is one that hospitals across Southern Africa are under a severe strain 22 percent of all infections in the region were in the 1st 2 weeks of january this is doctors in zimbabwe of hit back at a government spokesman who suggested the deaths of several Ruling Party Officials from coronavirus might have been the work of medical assassins to cabinet ministers in a retired army general have now died of covert 19 with borders closed many of the elite have been forced to use the countrys Public Health system for the 1st time instead of traveling abroad for treatment. Were talking about a group were. Dying. Its about how these people its illegal but you need to take it. Or to get straight about that. You know they think that it is out of. These. Groups. In
A delayed supplies after criticism of a slow rollout so mccain has more on this now from ballin. This is the astra zeneca vaccine in use available to british patients most at risk from covert since late last month and from now on officially so too for many e. U. Citizens most at risk from the pandemic its a real pleasure to be here and to announce the 3rd positive o. Pinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to e. U. And a Member States which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. Except that far fewer e. U. Citizens will be able to receive the vaccine for the next few months after the company cut back what it could deliver to the block astra zeneca a british swedish firm blames production problems at some of its plants and said it can only deliver fewer than half of the 80000000. 00 doses promised the europeans have complained and decided to protect all vaccine stock
Them away we have a special report. And spains former King Juan Carlos is set to a fled the country amid a corruption probe hes accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks from a Saudi Arabian Railway Project. I am. Im so much god im glad you could join us will there be a 2nd wave of covert 19 in germany ahead of the german Doctors Union says it is already here and a newspaper interview susana join us said there was a danger germany would fritter away the success if it changed so far the number of cases has risen steadily in recent weeks with over 870 new infections counted on tuesday said hospitals were prepared but urged people to stick to social distancing and hygiene rules and to wear masks. Lets get some perspective on this story now we have toby escorts with us hes a professor of Public Health in epidemiology and director of the institute of Public Health at the berlin b. S. Good to have you with us do you agree with the head of the Doctors Union are we seeing that 2nd wav
Of the podcast, democracy in color. Thanks, steve, for joining us. Thanks for having me on. And david daley, the upcoming book, unrigged. Thanks for joining us, david. Pleasure to be here. Hi, everybody. My names rebecca nagel, im a journalist and host of a podcast, this land, and im really, really excited to be digging into this conversation over next hour the next hour because i think it is more important now than ever. I think, you know, in this moment of a Global Pandemic, we are seeing the systemic failures of our government right now. You know, sort of all of the cracks in the system that were already existing are more apparent than ever, and i think a lot of us have our eyes on this upcoming election and if that election going to be a solution or make the problem worse. So, steve, ill direct the first question to you, you know, with a lot of democrats [audio difficulty] singular focus on beating donald trump in november, theres a lot of debate about whether or not those efforts