Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live i am eugene scott a political reporter of the Washington Post and i would like to welcome our first guest this morning assistant Health Secretary at hhs and a member of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force admiral brett, thank you so much for joining me. Good morning it is great to 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
Map just yet but were close in Santa Rosa Petaluma and fairfield starting off the morning in the low 40s later today, look for to daytime highs eventually in the 70s 80s yet again. Robin all right, thank you john lets check in on the traffic. Were taking a look at your drive here on 18 to San Francisco live look at the bay bridge toll plaza and theres a line in some of your carpool lanes there on the left side you can see its stacking up a little bit but all is well across the upper deck, im still tracking a motorcycle crash in valais how so if you come from the north bay and you plan on commuting to the east bay, 80 west after 7. 80 motorcycle accident clearing to the shoulder, lots of heavy traffic back from highway 37 but upper mid and lower east shore look really good so through hercules and richmond and Berkeley Emeryville were down to 80 minutes for your drive time well check more coming up james darya thanks a lot rob and one day to go before the election in San Francisco, the c
Here in the bay area county registrars are busy processing ballots, but theres also a growing sense of anxiety from many voters. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana reports in San Francisco on voter turnout and voter stress. Reporter just two days till polls close on election 2020, and county registrars offices across the bay area are already busy processing ballots. But for some voters there is still a pretty high level of anxiety. I am anxious in the sense that in light of the new voting, you know, vote by mail, we wont know whats going to happen till much later than tuesday. It becomes contested, violence, unrest, things like that. Reporter however you decided to keep track of the election, whether watching the news around the clock or checking updates, psychologists agree on one this can. Voters from all parties have been reporting high stress levels because of the election. Its been at times divisive and at other times bizarre. There are boundaries around how much of the conversations y
Its still in novato but makes a big difference if youre traveling on the highway. 37 no problem but you may be distracted. Very light traffic. You see that throughout the area. No backup at the bay bridge. Tiny slowing out of the altamont. Back to you, laura. Thanks so much, mike. Here we go, decision 2020. A little over 24 hours the polls open in california. President trump now suggesting if he wins reelection he may fire americas top Infectious Disease expert. Check out this exchange at a rally in florida last night. Fire fauci fire fauci dont tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election. The president and dr. Anthony fauci have had several highly publicized disagreements during the pandemic. Now that news comes as both president ial candidates are making one final push to voters ahead of the election. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in wilmington, delaware, with a look at the latest full day of campaigning. Sure to be a full day of campaigning. Re
And a very tight one to a handful of states cant be called at this point just because the tally is to close the margin. Is too close and yet so going to be tracking for. Well east today for sure and least a few days to come as we take a look at the big wall and you can see that biden has a lead in the Electoral College to 38 to to 13. James even talking about how this count is far from done in their 60s talk a little bit more about also the battle for power in the senate which also is. Up for grabs still at this hour. It is and it seems like a lot of these senate. Voting down ballot sort of follow it follow along party lines to right from the top of the ticket places that democrats thought theyd make inroads turns out voted in line with pretty much how the president ial election has been going so far so lets give you a quick look on the National Scene democrats were able to flip one seat. And that was in the state of arizona, they also got colorado, but them last, alabama so that kind