sure that this variant, my future variant, that it does not take us back to where we never want to go again. it s about moving forward. infrastructure investment and keeping the people safe. mayor darryl steinberg, mayor daniella levine cava, thank you very muching if for being with me. sacramento and miami, just like the best places. still ahead, how the omnicron variant is wreaking havoc with travel around the globe. plus, an event more than 400 years in the making. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. limu emu. & doug superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance so they only pay for what they need. (gasps)
40 past the hour. any moment now, president biden will be signing three bills into law at the white house before traveling to rosemont, minnesota, where he will tout the bipartisan infrastructure law. there are hundreds of billions of dollars up for grabs under the new law and mcclatchy reports that mayors are fighting for time to pitch transportation secretary pete buttigieg on why their city deserves some of that money. joining me now are two of the mayors fighting for their city s projects. miami-dade mayor daniella lavigne cava and sacramento mayor darryl steinberg. thank you very much for being with me. mayor lavigne cava, talk to us about what money you re looking for in your city. thank you so much. great to be with you. well, we re definitely interested in all the different pots of money. we ve got transportation
definitely, we re we have the highest vaccination rate in the state and very low positivity, so we ve done a very good job up until this point and we re going to continue those efforts to get everybody vaccinated, who possibly can, and to make sure that people are safe. and mayor steinberg, what s your reaction to this new variant? how are you handling it? we re obviously concerned, but really, it just is a reminder of what we ve known all along. that the way to deal with omnicron, with any variant is to make sure that people get vaccinated and that we take the right precautions, that people mask up when they re indoors. so we re just not letting our guard down and continuing to remind the public that we have some power within ourselves to make sure that our people remain healthy. we ve been through so much. and we re at the tail end of it, really, when you think about it. but it s up to us really now to do the right things, to make
would proceed according to hong kong law and hong kong procedures. the first stage in that would be the receipt of a request from the u.s. at the justice department, which would also have to be looked at by hong kong s leader, the chief executive. then the police would be authorized if they determined there is a case, for snowden to be arrested. then of course they have to find out where he is. he s in hiding. but we don t know where. we assume he s in hong kong. then the legal process begins. he can claim asylum. throughout the process, there are multiple opportunities to challenge to appeal. and this could take a very long time. initially, of course, he will be looking closely at the charges made against him in the u.s. two of them under the espionage act would not have an equivalent crime here, which means they would not qualify under the extradition agreement between hong kong and the u.s., although the third, stealing state property, theft of state property, probably wou
good evening. i m scott shafer. welcome to this week in northern california. joining me now for the panel are jaxon van derbeken, aaron glantz and josh richman. well, tax revenues have been higher than expected, but the revised state budget that governor brown released this week has left many still grumbling. education got a big boost of nearly $ $3 billion, but other programs got left behind. everybody wants to see this as a spending machine. come here and see if you can get it. when i m the backstop and i ll keep the budget balanced as long as i m around. josh richman, the legislation analyst came out with projections that were $3 billion higher. why the difference and what difference will it make as the budget talks begin? the $3 billion is spread out over three years. the difference in estimates deals with how much economic growth their forecasting over the next couple of years. jerry brown thinks things might slow down a little bit and also that the fact we are n