Square today empty space that would usually be packed with visitors. San franciscos lack of tourists could mean cuts to programs that residents rely on. A brks krrbc 7 News Reporter me woodro has the story. Reporter suns around San Francisco say welcome, were open and visitors are few and far between. One of the campaigns is our gate is open. While that gate just got closed two days ago. Reporter steve rizzo is general manager at hotel g. The hotel has been closed for eight months. Rizzo estimates theyve lost 8 to 12 million in that time. I imagine that a lot of places are in the same boat as we are. Your cash flow runs out when you have no Revenue Source coming in. Reporter according to the quarterly status report released this month by the controllers office, the hotel tax is expected to drop 43. 4 million below the expected 126. 2 million. One of the things that visitors really do is help to pay the cost of living in San Francisco and without them, its going to be noticeable for all
Disease expert says covid19 will not be a pandemic a lot longer. , dr. Ing at an event today Anthony Fauci pointed to rapid progress in vaccine development. He did say the coronavirus could remain endemic for a long time. Generally, a pandemic is defined as an infection that puts the global population at risk, while an endemic disease is one that spreads in some areas and not others. There is a power struggle inside Prime Minister Boris Johnsons office that threatens to destabilize the british government. His communication director quit last night, raising concerns about the future of johnsons most powerful and controversial advisor, dominic cummings. All of this comes at a time when the Prime Minister is dealing with a new lockdown and brexit talks. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 in london, and 2 00
Closer. Than was 4 i think were part of the 1st for. Greetings then sal you taishan well right while the race to the white house continues its 3 ring circus act featuring the flailing tantrums of u. S. President donald trump and the. Yawning energy of joe biden elsewhere in the world citizens are putting their energy and votes towards a more progressive. Dare i say socialist future in new Zealand Labor Party leader and current president just in the ardor. Rushed her right wing political competition with a resoundingly reelection win anchored on her mature science based Public Health 1st corporate greed last response to the code 19 pandemic meanwhile down in south america and one of the United States favorite playgrounds for political manipulation the people bolivia appear to be saying corporate greed u. S. Backed coup detat is no more as the Washington Post reports that exit polls issued early monday showed bolivias socialists taking a seemingly insurmountable lead in the countrys bitt
And possibilities of things that could happen if theres uncertainty about the outcome. They are bob bauer a distinguished scholar at nyu school of law now on leave as a Senior Adviser to the biden president ial campaign and Benjamin Ginsberg an election attorney in the cnn commentator. I like to recognize some of our special guest today the ambassadors of singapore sweden new zealand and the european union. Id also like to recognize our sponsors our Title Sponsor bank of america of the Greater Washington d. C. Area larry, thank you very and are sponsors terry women senior partner and also its like to recognize siemens usa ceo. Thank you for your leader sponsorship. Sponsors onrporate the screen and the like to thank them as well for their support we have a few Upcoming Events as some of you know about already but let me just remind you on november the 18th at 10 00 a. M. We will have that bandwidth alex of course he who is the chairman and ceo of Johnson Johnson. As you probably know J
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