Chain of events that ended with the Police Shooting outside of bay area mall. Eyeopening new numbers about the coronavirus and nurses, tonight why are so many workers of filipino descent dying . If you have gained weight during the pandemic, you are not alone. Tonight the Science Behind covid cravings and had a cope. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. Now, alive look outside, two days before thanksgiving and we are seeing some serious coronavirus warning signs. The state reported more than 15,000 new cases today along with an increasing Positivity Rate and an 81 spike in hospitalizations in the last two weeks. Heres a look at the bay area Positivity Rates, ranging from 1 2 in marin county to 3. 7 in contra costa county. The situation still much better than what is going on in southern california. La county has a Positivity Rate of 6. 6 . This alarming new statistic caught our attention when it comes to nurses that are dying from the coronavirus, nearly a third of them are from filipino d
To raise your hand to speak. At this time i will ask the moderators to please allow the next caller in the queue to speak. Can you repeat your question, caller . [no audio] caller, can you please repeat your question . Caller hi, yes. Two questions. One, what were the total number of officers fired and how many lethal shots . The deescalation at one point there were multiple officers shouting and one of the officers suggested that one person at a time speak. I wasnt sure if that was that officers initiative were part of the department policy. Thank you. Thank you, caller, for your question. I heard that your question you asked how many officers fired lethal and how many fires fired less lethal and the answer is two fires fired lethal and two officers fired less lethal. To your latter question, on the video where you heard the officer repeatedly say indiscernible that is a part of our coordination as the way that our officers are trained. And as you have heard on the video, the officers
11 41 a. M. Thank you for everyone that signed up to be liaisons and see you on november 30th. Thank you. Thank you all for joining us. As a friendly reminder please mute with your camera turned off to avoid distraction. Submit two questions by chat only. Submit questions and include name. We will do our best to take questions in the order received in the q a portion. We will have intake by emailing. Welcome, director colfax. Hi, good afternoon. Thank you so much for joining us today. As we head into thanksgiving holiday week, i want to acknowledge those lost to covid19. Although the deaths in San Francisco have been lower than other cities, each person who has passed away is one too many. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Across the nation we are seeing tens of thousands of lives lost to this virus. In the last two weeks alone, death in the United States increased by 64 . More than 257,000 people have died. Hospitalization rates are increasing dramatically. 50 in the la
Focusing on National Security and Foreign Policy. Making sure we selected a cabinet that looks like america. That reflects the best of our nation. And that is what we have done. The list of sixes headlined by secretary of state nominee antony blinken, a longtime aide, alejandro mayorkas, for Homeland Security, linda thomas greenfield for ambassador to the un, avril haines for director of National Intelligence and former secretary of state john kerry as special president ial envoy for climate and Jake Sullivan as National Security advisor. Fresh perspective and an unrelenting belief in the promise of america. There are a number of first in the group including the first woman to serve as dni. Mr. President elect, you know ive never shied away from speaking truth to power and that will be my charge as the director of National Intelligence. Mayorkas would be the first latino in his decision if confirmed. I will work day and night in the service of our nation to lead the men and women of th
Although the deaths in San Francisco have been lower than other cities, each person who has passed away is one too many. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Across the nation we are seeing tens of thousands of lives lost to this virus. In the last two weeks alone, death in the United States increased by 64 . More than 257,000 people have died. Hospitalization rates are increasing dramatically. 50 in the last two weeks across the country, 55 in california. Consistent with these increases across the nation and state, we are seeing the local cases in hospitalizations continually decline. Many cases deaths and hospitalizations can be prevented if we follow the basic measures that we know prevent the virus. Now, lets look at some data. Slide one, please. This slide shows how the surge is in relation to prior increases in San Francisco. Today 14,600 people are diagnosed in San Francisco and resulting in 158 deaths since the onset of the pandemic. As you can see from this slide,