Santa clara county gets serious with retailers. Well tell you how many Health Violations they handed out on black friday. Today the city of berkeley reactivated its covid relief fund, hoping to help hundreds of struggling businesses and tenants. Im spencer christian. Mild weather of late november will continue into earlry december. Ill have the forecast. Abc7 news at 11 00 begins now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Scary. I mean, because covid. But the deals are good. Ahead of a busy Holiday Shopping season, Health Officials up and down the coast are cracking down. Some bay area retailers are being fined for covid violations. And tonight in los angeles, officials are strictly limiting any social gatherings to only people in the same household. It all comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dion lim. With the Holiday Shopping weekend in full swing, officials are trying
And we are pleased to have with us senator tammy duckworth. Needs nouckworth introduction. She is an iraq war veteran, former assistant secretary at the department of Veterans Affairs and now u. S. Senator for the state of illinois. Illinois. And i think for those of us working and National Security, certainly for those of us who are women and National Security. We think about people are breaking down barriers, et cetera duckworth is at the top of the list. One of the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom. First u. S. Energy given birth while in office. And particularly in todays event the first member of congress he was born in thailand in the first asianamerican he was elected to congress and the state of illinois. So in addition to the work shes done on defense and Veterans Affairs, et cetera duckworths spent a lot of time thinking about the military challenges we face in the pacific. She has really been an advocate for the alliance
How do they deal with social justice . And what are working conditions like . We vis eight couries on tw contints to fi out how europe and asia work together,s in our series work places. A beacoof hope inhe ocea a seaweedarm an hour outside e indonesi capital,jaka. Could this be e solution to global problem nory mulyo definitelthinks so. Shes carrying out research into how seaweed can keep the seas clean. Her home country is the worlds secondlargest plastic polluter after china. Indonesia processes more than 60 million tons of Plastic Waste every year. Over 3. 2 million tons of it end up in the ocean. The government has pledged to reduce this by 70 by 2025. Its an ambitious plan. Traditional Waste Disposal methods cant keep up. Thats why indonesia backs pioneering ideas like the one mulyono is proposing. She makes packaging out of seaweed. How can we solve it if we do not have something to replace this plastic . Of course we cannot go back to our motion to leave without plastic packagi
Looks at responses to disasters in history with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, we have examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown. Disasters, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david oceanfys Pulitzer Prize winning book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course thats when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i
On delivery. Why you want to give yourself extra time this year. Life through the eyes of Matthew Mcconaughey. Well talk to him about his new book and why, despite many ups and downs, he still feels pretty good. I cant do it like him, but, first all right, all right, all right. But first, heres todays eye opener. No one says it like him. Its your world in 90 seconds. If your family traveled, you have to assume that you were exposed. Its going to get worse over the next several weeks. We may see a surge upon a surge. Doctors bracing for another deadly wave of cases after the thanksgiving holiday. The next surge is expected just as a new vaccine arrives in the United States. The light is at the end of the tunnel but the American People to have to do the right things. President elect biden and Vice President elect harris have announced an allfemale communications team. Wisconsin finishes its recount confirming president elect joe biden as the winner. Trump vowed to challenge the outcome i