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General Assembly World leaders convene for a special session is there a multilevel. Pandemic and the number of deaths in russia suggests that the virus is taking a far greater told them to government is admitting well meet an undertaker who tells us he is overwhelmed. And a key architect of the European Union and the g. 7 dawns from code big seen former french president to scott to lead france during the 19 seventies and laid the foundations for europes single currents. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to our viewers all around the world welcome we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is. Not good the head of the countrys Public Health institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the 2nd wave of corona virus infections under control a partial lockdown in place since early november has stabilized the numbers but those numbers remain to haul. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet letting up in germany. The head of the
Dip. Today in the bay starts right now. A very good monday morning. Thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on the roads we have around the bay area. First, lets get a look at the weather today with meteorologist kari hall. It is cold outside. Yeah. Were going to see more of these cold mornings over the next several days. It does warm up and shapes up to be a nice day with all of that sunshine. Were still looking at some dry weather and some gusty winds. I dont have to change this bottom line. Still no rain in the forecast through the rest of the week. As we start out the door this morning, were seeing some spots dipping below freezing. Well be watching those numbers go down even further. Well talk more about that in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking getting out the door for the Early Morning commute . Kari, im trying not to play favorites but all of the roadways look good except for a couple incidents. One was major closing down
What would your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Its been very involved in this pandemic and how the frontline response so the organization i work for works closely with them supporting response and on researching issues for them and also on communicating to other stakeholders like the centers for Disease Control in congress and the administration. What are your thoughts on rent headlines about the spike . In covid cases . Wall street journal describ it as everywhere. It is very concerning and it is something that we knew there would be the likelihood can happen as we move into the fall months but you kw, as everyone knows we are seen levels of infecon weve not seen before in this country and when you look at whatappened on the east coast back in t spring and how quickly we got to the situations where we almost went over t capacity of the hospitals and now is across the nation and its concerning. For that reason, we cant let ourselves get to a poi where you dont h
Covid19. The Deputy Health officer in San Francisco and Infectious Disease specialist speaking amida rise in coronavirus case. Helping people isolate, quarantine and test. Thats how we slow the spread. San francisco has one of the most robust and competent investigation teams. At most times the department of Public Health is reaching more than 80 of people who test positive for covid19 and close contact. This tool is part of states platform. San francisco has just recently moved over the investigation and Contact Tracing system. To the state system called cal connect. This tool is now available to us. It began with a text to the number provided at the time of the test. It leads to an Online Survey on your smart phone. Its a tool used in conjunction with the 200 team members. And the Virtual Assistant is confidential. Just like a phone call is from the health department. We spoke with a few people. Who sounded hopeful. Other countries have used Contact Tracing successfully. If we can do