Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Covid curfew now in effect, affecting nearly every corner of california and the bay area as San Francisco may be right behind. Questions still linger over whether these silent streets do enough to stop the spread of covid19. Good morning, everyone, its sunday, november 22. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Well get right to those curfews taking effect overnight and new Holiday Travel concerns this morning. But first, as always, lets start with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Liz, good morning to you. If you were with us early this morning, temperatures dropped below freezing. Were beginning to recover. If youre just weiaking up, it might be hard to believe. Its a chilly sky out there. Its 47 downtown, balmy 53 in oakland. As we look at the north bay, mt. Tam. Inland valleys, upper 30s from santa rosa to novato. The fog has cleared. Low 40s, youre below freezing in danville thi
Thanksgiving week. Founder and executive chair of share our strength to end childhood hunger. We have all seen the images of the food lines. Help us understand the scope of the problem. How many more children are food insecure this thanksgiving week then compared to last year at this time . Guest thanks. We are in a position we really have never seen before. It is shaping up to be possibly the hungriest Holiday Season in memory. There are lots of different ways we measure hunger. It looks like we have gone from one in seven kids being at risk to one in four. As many as 17 million American Kids at risk of hunger. Not just during the Holiday Season but especially poignant during the season but since the pandemic began. Bureausure is the census does a pulse survey. They take a regular survey of americans. They found that 15 of adults say their families are struggling to feed their kids. That is up from 1 just a year ago. Really remarkable change. Host struggling to feed their kids. Define
Democrats can call in at 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. You can also send us a text this morning. That number 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social wj, on on twitter cspan facebook. Com cspan. Today marks three weeks since election day 2020. Transition to Bidens Administration begins. Take you now to the front page of the trade news. Their lead story about the certification process. Michigan born in charge of certifying election votes casts what they call a pivotal vote, cementing joe bidens victory in the state. The board of state canvassers voted 30 to certify the results. The republican board member crossed over to certify the election, which is traditionally viewed as an administrative step , but had drawn a spotlight as the Trump Campaign questioned the integrity of the election. Less than two hours after that final vote, a letter from gsa administrator emily murphy to joe biden. That sa
Hello, and welcome if youre watching on pbs in the us or Around The World, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The European Union is introducing Export Controls on Coronavirus Vaccines produced in europe. The move will force Pharmaceutical Companies to get permission before supplying doses outside the bloc. It comes amid a Supply Dispute between the eu and two major vaccine suppliers, astrazeneca and pfizer. The European Commission says Export Controls are necessary to ensure that all eu citizens had access to vaccines. Nick beake reports from brussels. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered, even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all hangs on the contract the two sides signed thats now been released, although with parts blanked out. Astrazeneca says it agreed to do i
The vaccine is expected to be highly effective at preventing symptomatic disease. And very effective at preventing severe outcomes from the disease. We believe that this data, these data are robust and should be clearly sufficient to enable the emergency use, authorization. In the u. S. , we anticipate that the benefit of the spec scene is going to be quite significant. We really look to the ability to deploy this initially under emergency use authorization. Also coming up irans top nuclear weapons, scientists murdered tehran, says the weapon was made in israel. It was the u. S. Involved. Is the u. S. Now a target for retaliation, but they sink to proportionally act it was very difficult for you dont to kill a u. S. General so they would try it made me once and theres a way, but the timing once again is not the best. But to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all of our viewers around the world, welcome, we begin the day counting down the day is how long will it be until t