Today low to mid 60s. 61 to 66. Some upper 50s at the coast. Kumasi, reggie. Mike, thank you. Happening today, president elect joe biden talking about his plans for health care. Hes already at work tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile President Trump and his team defiant claiming that the election was stolen but providing no evidence to back that up. Abc News Reporter alex presha live in washington. Goodern moi morning, reggie kumasi. No evidence right now to back up those claims of Election Fraud. Meanwhi meanwhile, we know president elect joe biden is set to address health care. Supreme court looking at the Affordable Care act today. But on the coronavirus front, some good news. Drugmaker pfizer announcing that its vaccine has a 90 or more than 90 effectiveness rate in some lateround clinical trials. As the u. S. Passes 10 million covid cases president elect joe biden is welcoming pfizers vaccine breakthrough but warning more work is still to be done. The challenge before us
Be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing th
Recent National Book festival on covert operations. Hi, everybody. Im david ignatius, columnist with the washington post. Welcome to the National Book festival. In this difficult time in the pandemic, one thing we can do is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which is about a cia officer whos struggling with one of the central problems of our time which is knowing whats true and what isnt. And its my great pleasure to have with me today two people who wrote two two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First, i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the washington post, who wrote an extraordinary memoir of husband dealings with Edward Snowden that led to the rflations about nsa technology and surveillance, and the subtitle of barts book says the american surveillance state. I also want to introduce another outstanding author the, thomas rid, who teaches at
Even though the winds are backing off shortly after 11 00 a. M. Its dry out there and its hot. So the combination of those elements can still bring elevated fire danger and we just got to play it safe because the humidity could fall at less than 10 throughout the afternoon. I want to show you the current temperature right now in San Francisco. 84 degrees. Mostly sunny conditions. But it certainly doesnt feel like october around here. San jose 81 degrees. Overall, our day time highs in the upper 80s even around the coastline and mid and upper 90s for the interior valleys. It could be a possibility that we will be seeing some new daily record highs set throughout some portions of the interior valley. So i am going to go into more detail on that and what you can expect this weekend and ive had a couple of viewers ask me is there rain in sight . Full forecast is coming up. Thank you. Power shutoffs per sift a. D the utility says all power is back on in oakland. Businesses in oaklands mt. C
It is impossible to say where he was infected but admiral ray attended the event at the white house a week ago on sunday. Even though the military leadership must work from home, there is no change to the operational readiness. Thats one of the people who carried the socalled football, president ial valet and two more staffers in the press office and now Senior Adviser Stephen Miller whos married to the Vice President S Communications director. All told of 24 people who have been at the white house tested positive. As for President Trump, hes recoopera recor recuperating in the white houses residence. His doctor released a statement saying the president quote reports no symptoms but even now the President Trump is suggesting covid19 is no worse than the flu. More people have died from coronavirus than the flu over the past five years combined. You dont get a pandemic that kills a Million People and it is not even over yet with influenza. It is not correct to say it is the same as the f