All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
Committee meets today to consider general Charles Brown to be chief of staff of the air force, the undersecretary of defense. Thank you for being here. All of you have brilliant careers. Some of these things are necessary. I have to ask you the required question. I want to have inaudible yes or no. You have conflicts of interest, will you ensure your staff establishes requested communications including questions for the record in hearings . Yes, sir. Yes. Will you cooperate in providing witnesses and briefs in response to congressional requests . Yes, sir. Will those witnesses have to do with testimony and debriefings . Do you agree in the affirmative you testify for this committee . Yes, sir. Do you provide documents for forms of communication in a timely manner when requested by duly constituted committee with the committee in the basis of the delay or denial in providing the occupants . Yes, sir. Have you assumed any duties or undertaken any actions which appear to be presumed outco
Brad wenthrup. Your reaction to this seemingly good news. We are not out of the woods, but it seems like its good news. You want to see the numbers go down. The goal all along was to beat the models. You saw the models happen in other countries where it went right up, very high. We were trying to stay under that and keep our Healthcare System in check and not overrun. This is good news because thats what we have been after all along. Starting to see the trend go down. Liz will be do you think the United States has answered the wakeup call . You saw the warnings about pandemic. Now the president is saying one of the toughest decisions of his life is reopening the country possibly on may. Americans may wake up to a brandnew world of having to wear masks, and maybe tests for coronavirus. New apps on their iphones and phones to track them if they are near somebody who has coronavirus. Do you think congress has answered the wakeup call that has been ringing for years. We are in an able of a
Of its army to enforce coronavirus lockdown measures. And the special precautions that this already isolated community is taking to protect itself from the pandemic. Now the u. S. Has called for iran to be held accountable after the iran successfully launched its 1st military satellite runs revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space washington has accused iran in the past of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development reports. On wednesday morning the world a will to news of a secret operation carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. The newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives irans military new strategic advantages or that. It is a necessity for such powerful Defense Forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capa
Brad wenthrup. Your reaction to this seemingly good news. We are not out of the woods, but it seems like its good news. You want to see the numbers go down. The goal all along was to beat the models. You saw the models happen in other countries where it went right up, very high. We were trying to stay under that and keep our Healthcare System in check and not overrun. This is good news because thats what we have been after all along. Starting to see the trend go down. Liz will be do you think the United States has answered the wakeup call . You saw the warnings about pandemic. Now the president is saying one of the toughest decisions of his life is reopening the country possibly on may. Americans may wake up to a brandnew world of having to wear masks, and maybe tests for coronavirus. New apps on their iphones and phones to track them if they are near somebody who has coronavirus. Do you think congress has answered the wakeup call that has been ringing for years. We are in an able of a