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Gauging the response, what is working and what has done well. We made toefforts implement travel restrictions and limit travel from china clearly bought us some time. It slowed the rate of new cases coming into the country, i think the question becomes what we do with that time and we did some things well and some things not so well. I think we prepared the nation, we got the Health Care System prepared. We will educate providers. Learn more about the virus and how it spread and how you can combat it. One thing we didnt do that we should have was had in place broader screening. We should event omitted screening weeks ago and really a month ago or even more. To try detect small outbreaks early. We had problems rolling out a diagnostic test, we took a very linear approach in my view and depended upon one test promulgated by the centers for disease prevention rather than not it also working with academic labs together diagnostics. Then we had to scramble and so we are now just getting in
Museum. Im winning interpretation here at the museum and thank you all for coming out this evening for this very special event. A few housekeeping i have before we begin let because of your wonderful old historic boarding house here in Downtown Washington we do not have restrooms available on this floor. If anyone should need to use the restroom during the course of the program please see alyssa right behind you and she could lead you to where you need to go. This is a pay what you please program this evening meaning that the conclusion will have to give and a negotiation and a Non Profit Organization and supporting the memberships and your donation will directly support the programs of education here at the missing Soldiers Office. A donation boxes just outside your way downstairs through the elevator. Now on to this evenings program. How many of you have been here to the missing Soldiers Office before . A show of hands. Quite a few of you, excellent. Who those of you having your firs
A look at the weather with dave spahr. Good morning, dave. Well, good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. And we started the actually overnight some showers working their magic a little bit here and leftovers. All that surface moisture from the rain. So their go after negotiate through a little the way, some ground fog that were starting to see. Some breaks happened already. But as we speak for right now, again, the fog pretty much taken hold of the east bay shoreline, as we can see and even covering up the shrubbery there as well. And well get some clearing going on this. We do have cloud cover a loft in which 2 contend heres what it looks like on the big view of the west coast. You can see that trough digging in here right here in the west coast. And as a result, todays going to quite a bit of cloud cover around. We could see a couple Little Spring of showers here and there are more important with daytime heating. Its perhaps some Thunder Showers, a possibility be very isola
Coming up. Maybe a little bit of a slipperiness on that morning commute. Bill, thank you. Now to ktvus Cristina Rendon in the coffey park neighborhood in santa rosa and christine, People Living in the burn areas are preparing for the worst. Reporter they are. We actually moved. We are in the sutton grove area here in the northern part of santa rosa but this is an area that is very hilly. Ill step out of the way so you can see it has the potential for runoff and you cant tell by looking at this puddle but the storm drain there is protected by a barrier. Thats why were starting to see some puddling here. But its things like that officials want people to realize as we head into the winter season, they say that vegetation thats burned off is at risk for flash flooding due to runoff and this flash Flooding Risk may last up to five years because it can really take that long for vegetation to regrow. Also, debris and ash can be picked up in floodwaters. Thats why city and county crews have be