To fight covid so we can open our businesses safely resume our lives and put this pandemic behind us biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris met virtually with ceos and president s of Top Companies like gm microsoft target and various labor unions biden said those Business Leaders agree we need a National Covid strategy to help the economy recover biden and harris also laid out the incoming administrations broader Economic Strategy were going to buy american. No government contract will be given to companies that dont make their products here in america bidens plans include raising the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour and creating jobs by investing in Clean Energy Infrastructure and high Speed Broadband access. The Biden Administration also wants to invest in historically black colleges and universities and communities of color hit especially hard by the pandemic now is when the real work begins. The necessary work. The good work. Of getting this virus under control biden said o
Today america reported a record high 136,000 new cases. Its the seventh consecutive day with 100,000 coronavirus cases nationwide and now, every state in the country is reporting an increasing number. Texas just became the first state with 1 million cases. In california, not far behind and at our current rate, well reach 1 million cases by the weekend. Bay area counties range from the best to the worst among the color coded coronavirus restriction tiers. San francisco is the only in the best category, yellow but preemptively going to shut down indoorining friday night as a precaution. Yesterday contra costa and santa cruz moved backwards from orange to red. A spike in new cases in napa county has Health Officials worried and for very good reason. Those numbers are rapidly moving in the wrong direction and could send napa county from the orange tier to the state most restrictive purple tier if things dont turn around. Cornell bernard found many people are suffering from coronavirus fati
Restaurants are being asked to scale back. Families celebrating a 60th birthday at their favorite restaurant, a milestone also because its their first Indoor Dining since march. I feel perfectly safe with the distancing, even though we are inside. Reporter steps away under heat lamps, other customers dined alfresco on a 50 degree evening. And buckeyes owner expects to shift more dining out here now that the Health Officer wants occupancy cut in half. If he thinks thats a good idea we are happy to go to that, go back to 25 . As long as we can stay there. Reporter marin has been back at 50 capacity over a few weeks. Though the need to keep guests six feet apart dictates how many people can actually be served. There have been several super spreader events described from restaurants. Reporter reporting to county supervisors doctor willis is 25 occupancy lines up with most of the bay area and restaurants are risky because people move masks to eat and drink and tend to linger. Research point
To try to avoid sliding backward. And marin restaurants being asked to reduce and what Indoor Dining to 25 occupancy. At 10 00, live with how that message is being received. Reporter they have seen about nine new cases a day jumped the past week, even doubled. Restaurants are being urged to scale back. Families celebrating his 60th birthday at their favorite restaurant, a milestone also because its the first and dining since march. The bug i might feel perfectly safe with the distancing. Even though we are inside. An steppes of utter heat lamps, other customers dining on a 50 degree evening. And they expect to ship more dining out here now that marin top officer once and for occupancy cut by half. If he thinks thats a good idea, we are happy to do that and go back to 25 . As long as we can stay there. Reporter arendt has been a 50 capacity in only a few weeks. The need to keep guests of part dictates how many can be served. There have been super spreader events described from restauran
Buts. Lawmakers are struggling to come to any sort of agreement. And President Biden wont rule out democrats acting alone to bring relief to millions of americans. This, as Johnson Johnson says its Covid Vaccine is 66 effect against moderate december but 85 effective against severe disease. Lets start with the latest on the Sprawling Investigation on the attack on the u. S. Capitol. Jessica sh insider is working the story for us. The manhunt for whoever planted those bombs is clearly intensifying. Reporter it is, wolf. The fbi does have new clues, but the suspect is still out there. Theres concern from Law Enforcement tonight that he or she might be plotting even more bombings out there. Now this comes as were getting a glimpse inside the Capitol Insurrection from a Police Officers perspective. But a warning here, this video is graphic and quite disturbing. A major mystery mounts tonight. Who planted the two pipe bombs blocks away from the capitol near the republican and Democratic Nat