Monday. Before the meeting the former Vice President released the names of his picks for several key posts. Mr. Biden has chosen tony blink and for secretary of state. Jake sullivan as National Security advisor. And linda thomas greenfield to become the next u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. He is the first Latino American and immigrant nominated as secretary of the department of homeland security. While she has become the first woman nominated for director of national intelligence. After a standoff of more than two weeks the General Services administration has given the go ahead to begin the formal transition process. On twitter President Trump says his case strongly continues, but he is now telling the gsa administrator to do what needs to be done. Michigans board of canvassers voted monday to certify former Vice President joe biden won the state. It also passed a motion calling on the state legislature to update the election. There preparing for the holidays. Monday, first lad
By law, the bidenharris team cannot access federal funding or contact federal agencies without gsa signing off. Now despite the step, the president is clearly not conceding. In a series of tweets he wrote our case strongly continues. We will keep up the good fight, and i believe we will prevail. Nevertheless, in the best interests of our country, im recommending that emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same. Now, in response to the letter, the executive director of the bidenharris transition wrote todays decision is a needed step begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. This final decision is a definitive administrative action to formally begin the transition process with federal agencies. Now, in her letter, murphy said she made her decision now because of developments involving legal disputes and certification of Election Results
Department planning a special enforcement action. Now tonight, ktvu has more on stores facing citations or fine fist they violate health and safety fine if they break them. Reporter it is aimed to protect the community. Reporter more shoppers are expected to visit shopping malls and big box retailers hoping to score it. Increased risk for coronavirus to spread. We will have Law Enforcement officers patrolling the area. They will be visiting all of the poplar destinations. Extending into the weekend. Santa clara county inspectors performing double duty as enforcement officers. This is not complying about the health order. Possible violations include employees not wearing masks, no social distancing and stores and exceeding capacity limits. And fined if they dont have protocols and limits posted. Fines can be 500 and up, head into the thousand fist violations are severe enough. Unlike past enforcement when businesses could correct the violation, citations this time around will not come w
The vaccine developed by Oxford University doesnt have to be stored at ultra cold temperatures as some others, which makes is easier to distribute. The subfreeze by pfizer and partner biontech is one downside. The fda says a committee will meet december 10th to discuss an emergency use authorization which could start the Distribution Process immediately. Moderna is expected to file for an emergency use authorization by the end of the month. Its vaccine is 95 effective and can be stored at regular refrigeration temperatures, developed thanks in part to funding from dolly parton. While the u. S. Military is gearing up for what it calls operation warp speed to distribute one or more vaccines once approved, others are scrambling at the local level to give the series of shots. Abc 7 david louie spoke with a logisti logisti logistics sker logistics expert. It was Pretty Amazing to see how fast the testing ramped up, but vaccinating millions of americans once supplies become available will be
And it is beginning to look a lot like a socially distant christmas as the rock center tree lights up and as we all mask up and get in line. It is thursday, december 3, this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is how your money and Global Markets are setting up their day. Futures not giving us a lot of clues. Were pretty much mixed. We had more gains for the s p 500 yesterday. Yes, another record. Your 28th of the year if you are counting at home the nasdaq 100 also hitting a new record today though, we also focus squarely on oil. Opec and its allies meeting today to try to hammer out a deal to extend production cuts through march. They could not get a deal done on monday. Today rush 1sia and other natio join the talks if no deal is made or they reduce the cut instead of extending the entire thing, oil prices and stocks could take a big hit, tha