Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
If you have a question that you would like to ask gail collins, having just watched her program, heres how you can get a hold of us, 202 ab 2027488200 for the east and central time zones. 202748201 if you live in mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to send a text message please include your first name and city and that number is 2027488903. Gail collins, since you take that program with megan twohey and the library of congress ab whats her legacy as an older woman in American History . Her legacy in general theres a lot of legacy people have been talking about obviously that there are legal legacy the thing i think about when i think about her is that she is really the first woman i can think of in American History whose passing was more not as an wonderful person, which she actually was but as a woman empower a person and power, as a major part of the power structure of the government, as a person who made history and changed the way we live in different ways with her rulings
Im from gail welcome to the Program President trumps in quarantine in the white west wing of the white house suffering what is a mild symptoms of coffee 19 taking him off the campaign trail just a bug before the u. S. President ial election the president and 1st lady tested positive shortly after one of the senior aides was found to have been infected democratic candidate joe biden has tested negative despite sharing a platform with mr trump during this weeks heated president ial debate. Full President Trump it has been an extraordinary Election Campaign during an unpredictable yeah and that was before the president shot the weld by revealing he and his wife. The most powerful couple on earth had been infected by the corona virus. He tweeted tonight the 1st lady and i tested positive for covert 19 we will begin our quarantine and Recovery Process immediately we will get through this together. The president does have mile symptoms. To try to. Make sure that not only his health and safet
There was one man that should come to nine. We are still here breaking the stories everybody wants to talk about first. Tonight, another county passing the test and being allowed to move forw process. Im going to have a late night tonight getting prepared for all of this. I am not quite sure what to expect. A fresh start. Just in time for the Holiday Weekend. Thank you for joining us on this friday night. Sonoma is joining napa and solano counties in listing restrictions and moving further into stage ii with the new rules set to take effect at midnight tonight. Our reporter is here with the benefits and who does not. It is a great time to have a patio. The approvals for Outdoor Dining only and restaurants without will have to improvise. This is really happening. I got all choked up. Restaurant owners are ready to seek and serve their customers again. Im sure there will be some tears. It will be great to see people. It means doubling the number of patio tables as this becomes the dining
Those restaurants that is still doing Something Special in spite of everything going on today theyre going to be offering a special mothers day brunch take out that starting at 07 00am so you can place in your order and come down here and pick it up. Now many of us are used to taking mom and grandma out from others david since that is not an option for many of us this year we can still do something very nice for them and restaurants throughout the bay area are going to be opening up their doors for takeout so families can still treat mom and grandma. Now its still fairly early but were going to be talking with families as the morning goes on to find out how theyre celebrating in spite of everything on this mothers day. Now reporting in walnut creek Reyna Harvey Kron 4 news. And the rain while the coronavirus pandemic has hit a new milestone with more than 4 million positive cases worldwide. Here in the u. S. Were looking at 1. 3 million cases in growing. Federal officials are looking a