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
If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expression cases decided in his tenure, hes been in the majority. Hes taken the lead of nearly 80 of the time so theres Something Special about this, something that speaks to how john roberts sees the court. The first conference of report the roberts report, collins and hudson, each of whom is published more than ten books on free speech examined 56 cases handed down by Roberts Court from 2005 to 2020. He offers i open details looks at the cases and justices different approaches. Here to tell us about i
Speakaries question, you can do so in either the chat or Comment Section of the live stream youre watching. The Commonwealth Club has suspended in person event but to keep you informed were going full speed ahead with a full sleighed slate of live online program. Mose conversations are free to the public so we ask you consider donating to the club to help us continue our work. Please visit us out Commonwealth Club. Org something or text donate to 415 3294231 during this program. You can find this information in the description becomes. Now, please join me in we canning shawnking and jane kim. I served as a supervisors here in the city and county of San Francisco, and most recently as the california and National Regional mit political director for sanders 202. And im mealed to be here today. Im so excited, shaun, what an incredible feat. Congratulations on writing your first book. Thank you. Only there are not too many things that scare me more than writing a book. And so i would love t
Welcome to do you. Glad you could join us our grand military parade over the weekend in north korea has left analysts concerned about the Nuclear Threat posed by the how. The calls of the. New missile a mock up of fish was put into during the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Workers Party of north korea if fully operational the missile could be capable of carrying multiple Nuclear Warheads and targeting American Cities now north korea already has missiles capable of striking u. S. Cities but it is the multiple warheads that any misfiled carries that makes defending against it much harder and more expensive has more on what many believe gives north korea a very potent bargaining chip in future negotiations with the United States. It was a kind of military has become used to seeing in north korea. With a vast array of military hardware on show. And the usual statement of defiance from the countrys dictator kim jong un we need to physically here we will continue to strengthen selfdefe
Western city of cologne so new rules put in place over the weekend clubs and restaurants not have to close by 11 at night. And get moved up is chief Political Correspondent Melinda Cross welcome how worried is the German Government about these increases in hotspots its definitely worried the government spokesman said today that the situation is serious that the country is standing sensually at the beginning of a 2nd wave and that germany is also seeing more severe cases involving the need for intensive care and hospitalization and so he called this a very decisive moment for germany Going Forward and people in germany are looking at a patchwork of new regulations as each state introduces its own rules why. Well under germanys federal system state authorities local authorities do have the right to decide what kind of restrictions to impose and the fact is that the situation is very very different if you compare say a big densely populated city like berlin or munich with the much more Ru