It also allows biden and vicepresident elect Kamala Harris access to National Security briefings. In a tweet, President Donald Trump said gsa administrator emily murphy and her team should do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols. He said he had instructed officials in his administration to do the same. The gsa announcement came shortly after officials in michigan certified biden as winner of the battleground state in the november 3rd election. Biden has been moving quickly to form his cabinet. Hes now unveiled nominees for several key posts, including Antony Blinken for secretary of state. Blinken was National Security adviser during Barack Obamas first term as president. He served as deputy secretary of state during obamas second term. Biden says former secretary of state john kerry will be a special president ial envoy for climate. Linda thomasgreenfield will be ambassador to the united nations, and alejandro mayorkas, Homeland Security secretary. Avril haines, form
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Toes the world. America is back. And cassano trumps refusal to concede an embarrassment and protests in peru as a preferred president in 4 years is torn into office. Thank you for joining us. Hong kongs government has disqualified for opposition politicians, moments after beijing passed a new patriotism resolution. It allows Hong Kong Government to remove politicians who quote, endanger National Security or challenge chinas rule of hong kong, 19 opposition politicians out earlier threatened mass resignation if any of them were barred from the Legislative Council. No sane goal. There are for legislators who have been deemed in accordance by the law to not genuinely swear, to uphold the basic law and not genuinely played their allegiance to hong kong. We have doubts about their ability to perform their duties. If they are unable to uphold the basic law and to support hong kong, of course they are not qualified to be legislators. Lets bring in david palin, live for us in hong kong. So dav
And im laura garcia. I hope you had a great week, marcus. I did. Got some workouts in. Nice, nice to see it. Lets say good morning to meteorologist kari hall. She has a look at our forecast. Hi, kari. Good morning. We are starting out with a nice week ahead as we look at what were expecting here, a little cooler for this afternoon as we see more fog developing near the coastline. We do have a mild week ahead. Well be watching out for a fire danger so ill talk about that coming up in a few minutes as well as some temperatures that will start to cool off by the weekend. Lets head over to mike with a look at the morning commute. All right, kari, a live look for the Golden Gate Bridge where the entire screen looks the same color as the bridge. Thats the fog with the light and thats the reason why chp gave a little advisory. As we look at the map the area circled doesnt have the yellow highlighting. The fog is drifting around. The rest of the bay shows a smooth flow of traffic and that will
Week with temperatures coming down. We do have a mild week ahead. One thing ill be watching will be the high fire danger especially in our north bay hills. It does start late tonight but a couple other chances of some dry offshore winds. Well talk more about that in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking now for the morning drive . Its looking as you would expect, 5 01 right now, a very easy monday start. Well look at the bay bridge toll plaza. We talk about the clouds around our shot here. Chp says on the other side, the eastbound side off the lower deck it will get foggy from time to time. Watch that coming in out of the Treasure Island tunnel. No problem for the traffic flow. Hitting to the westbound 80 direction into San Francisco. Well talk about what im concerned with in oakland coming up. Thanks, mike. Now to decision 2020 and an important deadline. Today is your last day in california to register online for the upcoming election and get a ballot in the