Audio real quick . Hell of a time getting in here today. You sound great and you look great. Thanks, i needed that. Gavel again. Okay. Good morning, welcome. I call to order subcommittee on oversight. I want to thank everybody for joining us today. Were holding this hybrid hearing in compliance with House Resolution 965. Accordingly i am joined by members here in the hearing room as well as approximately ten members on the remote platform. Thats outstanding, and i want to thank them for joining us. Before we turn to todays important topic i want to remind the members of a few procedures to help us navigate the terrain here. First, consistent with regulations the committee will keep microphones muted. For those participating virtually to limit background noise. Pause for one moment. So we will pause for one moment. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves, unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members here in the hearing room al
261,000 americans of lost their lives due to the virus. Almost 13 million cases have been recorded in the country california just saw the biggest singleday increase in covid cases since the beginning of the pandemic in the last 24 hours, california has appointed more than 18,000 new cases. The States Health Department Says hospitalizations are up 88 over the last 2 weeks and icu admissions are up 57 over the last 2 weeks in total there are more than a million recorded cases in california and nearly 19,000 related deaths as cases continue to surge across california and the Latin X Community has become the hardest hit from the virus today Santa Clara County leaders issued a desperate plea for the Latin Community in particular to avoid large gatherings this thanksgiving well for Jonathan Mccall is here he has more on this story Jonathan Demme can heres something to keep in mind 26 of the population in Santa Clara County hispanic. They now make up nearly 60 of all the covid19 cases their l
So delighted to be with a retreat for artists on a 400acre estate in new york by providing an opportunity for artists in a supportive environment and its a huge part of the local Cultural Community and worldwide through Cultural Community. For those of you who dont know this the fall benefit is coming up next week so theres a link in the chat box so you can find out more about that. Tonight our guest author is going to be interviewed by Garrett Graff a distinguished magazine journalist and bestselling historian covering politics and is a contributor to wired and the author of multiple books including the Number One National bestseller the only plane in the sky and oral history of 9 11 as well as inside Robert Muellers fbi about the governments cold war escape plan. Hes at memorably did a great interview in february in the manchester when we could do things like that are hopefully will do that again. Im so pleased to welcome tim weiner into the virtual setting. He has got events in verm
Tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Good evening. More than 18,000 californians have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Imagine the entire town of maraga getting sick. Its the second record in five days. On saturday the record was 15,442 new cases. For perspective, over the past seven days, weve averaged fewer than 14,000 new cases. Over the past two weeks, the average is roughly 11,000. Here is another way to understand whats happening in this graph you can see our summer spike right there in the middle and on the right, the current surge, which eclipses anything weve experienced so far. In many ways, the timing couldnt be worse. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days of thanksgiving travel despite numerous and repeated warnings from Health Agencies against traveling or gathering. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, San Francisco International Airport and 101 in san jose. Sky 7 was over 680 in the east bay. You can see plenty of cars on the road at 1 00 in the
In the north bay where some upper 30s can be found in saint in santa rosa at 3937 degrees currently so that chilly for some of us but not all that bad. Im talking more about what to expect into the holiday still to come. Robin sounds good. Thank you. John were checking in on the traffic for folks who do have to get out there and maybe had to work maybe do some shopping trip into San Francisco looks really good so its holding up nicely so far we havent had any delays at all that may happen later on this morning but for now youre good come on into San Francisco in 12 minutes after fremont street. Just getting word of a car fire in san leanne sorrel as you transition from northbound to 38 approaching the nimitz freeway split theres a car thats on fire crews are heading out to sea backing up a little bit there toward 5. 80 so keep that in mind as you transition from Castro Valley to leandro that car fire still working crews are responding the rest of the east bay looks good 24 the nimitz t