We will get feedback on the time of day. Ok. I have several announcements for you today. To begin, i know many of you and the American People are interested from the news coming from Johnson Johnsons trial data. The president is encouraged about the data about a potential new vaccine. He knows this is just new data and now is the time for the fda to do its job to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. He continues to urge all americans to mask up and follow Public Health guidelines until it is their turn to get vaccinated. I know there might be a lot of questions about the trial data or Johnson Johnson. I will not get ahead of the experts, who you all get to hear from in the next hour in our Public Health briefing from the Covid Response team. They will discuss this and what this means then. At wednesdays briefing, i shared some of the engagement and outreach the white house is doing to move forward the American Rescue plan from the president , Vice President on down. That wo
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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
Of a former ceo of online retailer zappos. What the medical examiner is saying. Felicity huffmans comeback. The new acting gig shes landed after the College Admissions scandal. And for the first time we hear from this man rescued after clinging onto the top of his boat in the open atlantic for hours. What he did to survive. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Today is a crucial day in the coronavirus emergency. Cdc advisers will vote on who should get the vaccine first. Today could also be the first day we see more than 100,000 people in the hospital with this virus. More states are setting up field hospitals to handle patients and more cities are considering wider lockdowns. A new study finds a onemonth shutdown in england helped reduce the number of covid cases by 30 which doctors say is encouraging as we wait for a vaccine. This morning a major step forward in getting americans vaccinated. A panel advising the cdc will give its recommendation today on who should get the vaccine first, l
I am telling you, if we ever clean up plastics in the ocean, it will be because of these two folks and senator lee, and i wi be willing coconspirators. I have been told about this a lot, and im astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation. We are going to have a hearing today about some solutions, and we are going to find a way to create some kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know they are doing it for the world bank, but i like the global fund idea where you come together under American Leadership to solve the problem. To our two colleagues, to live for your leadership. Senator leahy . Thank you, mr. Chairman. With all the jokinthat goes back and forth, it isafe to say that the chairman d i feel very strongly about this. We do want to help. Were inwhitehouse and vietm last year, and we met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic pollution and had a great meeting, and we talked about a