A changing environment through the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating our future depends on what happens here. Northern lights within the Arctic Circle starts december 21st t. W. The week on a downer as questions how its corona virus vaccine developed with can be distributed. Investors confidence program. Through has one of the highest rates of coronavirus deaths in the world its economy is also suffering look at the struggle facing. Like in many african countries the. Becoming the next. Welcome to the Program Shares in german drug develop a biotech slid by more than 3 percent on friday the initial excitement over the u. K. s approval of the companys Corona Corona virus vaccine at the start of the week has subsided as the many challenges still ahead have become clear the warning sign came when biotechs Distribution Partner pfizer confirmed it was slashing its delivery projections for the vaccine instead of 100000000 doses this year and now expects to shift half of thats jus
In napa and clear lake and weve seen cold temperatures elsewhere as well. Well continue to watch that as well as the fog. How is it looking for the commute . Things are changing right now. We do have that deadly crash at camino diablo. Fog registering in the south bay. The metering lights just turned on before 6 00. Quickly filled in all of these lanes right here and a bigger factor looking at the oakland camera with that fog. The low clouds creeping down across the nimitz, the peninsula, south bay and east bay. Stay with us. Well give you updates. Back to you. Thank you very much. We begin with the rising number of covid patients. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live in San Francisco this morning monitoring the already overloaded hospitals. And i know state Health Leaders there are being very clear the next few weeks could be critical especially as we move into the winter months which could make things worse. Reporter weve been talking about that surge expected after thanksgiving and
Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he zeem deems fit and this staff is, of course, a political appointee and has led the office since early in 2019. Let m
Of the name is at the mike a junior welcome to the program ghanians head to the polls on monday to elect the president in what is expected to be a close contest old rivalries have been revived between incumbent president s the michael and his predecessor john mahama 2016 muhammad became the only incumbents to be voted out of office and hes hoping to inflict the same fate on. In a region besets with Security Issues ghana is viewed by many as a beacon of hope and stability but he shoes such as corruption and unemployment remain a headache for many gun ians like sunny brought in. Mohammed sunny ibrahim started Development Communications at the university and. An informal settlements in ghanas capital accra. Has tried to back fill to secure a meaningful job since 2016 the father of 2 often depends on the generosity of relatives as well as casual wake to take care of his family sunny says he said nights may weaken up every d. Much knowing you know where he is the next meal will come from re
Digital program, here to talk about the white house transition process. Implications for National Security. Transition, what National Security information is shared . Guest when the gsa administrator ascertains that a all of thosect words being the specific ones in the legal process, that unlocks government Transition Office space, emails, government cell phones, as well two major sets of information. Theis the ability for Transition Team to access classified information. Agencyond is to allow review teams from the transition to begin to meet with government officials and both of those are very vital assets. A lot of focus on whether president elect biden is getting access to the president s daily intelligence briefing but in many ways, it is the not taking place that these are National Security problem. You have 4000 president ial employees flooding into the federal government over the 2021 and none of them are learning what they need to learn. All of these different staffers and agen