Safe thasgiving, it was far from the traditionalgathering with family and friends. I hope you had a good thanksgiving. We know times are tough but i wanted to know help is on the way. Last week i announced the nominations of staff for a critical Foreign Policy positions. The first rate team thats going to keep us safe and secure and today i have the pleasure of announcing key nominatis appointed to the critical economic positions that will lead this nation. A first rate team thats going to get us through this ongoing onomic crisis and helps build an economy not just better than it was before. A team thats tested and expeenced that includes groundbrking americans that come from different backgrounds and share my core vision of econic relief here in the United States of america. To give them a fair shot and equal ance, theres nothing beyond the capacity of the American People. Lets not forget who built this country, workingclass and middleclass people built this country and unions built
After they took on the big money of wall street. And get your skates on the new Lockdown Craze sweeping the globe. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Major trials of a new vaccine have shown its effective against some new variants of covid 19, helping to reduce fears that they might prove resistant. Novavax is an american jab but its being produced in the uk. Its also easier to roll out than some previous vaccines, since it doesnt need to be kept at ultra low temperatures. The news came amid a deepening row between another vaccine maker, astrazeneca, and the European Union over shortages. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Once again, science has triumphed in the fight against coronavirus. The Us Firm Novavax has released results of its british trial, showing the first proven efficacy against the new, more contagious uk variant. There were more than 15,000 volunteers on the trail throughout the uk. Over half the cases of covid recorded were the result
We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove
Were turned on and it is a little busier, more traffic heading over there. Some slowing on the span shows up on our maps because there may be a disabled vehicle. A semi truck perhaps getting close to the Treasure Island so we may see more backup as they slow the metering lights down. Well closely track that and the drive. The rest of the bay shows no major problems. The slowdown in concord is not what it may appear to be. Ill explain that coming up. The rest of the bay lighter than you would normally see. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 01 right now. From the bay area to los angeles to san diego millions of californians are waking up after the weekend to a new shelter at home order. Weve got live looks outside. Here is a look at how california is divided into regions in terms of tracking surge cases and hospital rates. All regions are now in some form of that stayathome order. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live for us. I know different counties are rolling out those restrictions
Speaker paul ryan. Lets begin with the election. What do you think is the state of the Republican Party after november 3rd . You know, its surprising, its an election where you had the rare event of an incumbent president getting voted out and yet republicans seemed pretty happy generally with the outcome not because hes lost but because downballot they did so well. I think there was a lot of expectation after this election, if the polls were right and it was going to be a blowout for democrats, that there would be a lot of grappling within the party about what it stands for and what the future is and where to go from here. I havent seen that at all. In a lot of ways republicans feel like what the outcome particularly down ballot is justification of everything that the president has been doing and that trumpism, if you will, has worked. You had a situation where democrats were expected to take another 10, 12, maybe 15 seats and in fact had lost close to 10 in the house. Certainly, demo