Medidical workers at high risk infection and elderly peoeople o are more likely to develop serious s symptoms will have to priority under the scheme. Pregnant women and people who care for seniors couould also receive early vaccinations. The Central Government says a local Health Authority should not have to bear the cost of vaccines. The draft also lays out a plan for what to do if vaccines, which have undergone accelerated testing, cause serious side effects. The government is creating a plan to compensate pharmaceutical companies for any losses they might incur if that happens. Experts will get a look at the plan on friday. The government has not yet decided how best to distribute doses of the vaccine or whether residents will need to pay for it. The head of the International Olympic committee is once again promising that the tokyo games will go ahead, despite ballooning costs and the risks posed by the coronavirus. Thomomas spark madee the pledge a r rare appppearanc at a coordidin
Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members
Probably a good thing here in the winds we are getting a bit on shore which is kind of been the program for a little while well see that heading on into the weekend. As well live shot coming in from timber on there you can see the fog still pretty much firmly in place but its starting to lift elsewhere across the bay. Temperatures are still in the 50s up here the north bay east bay, youre looking at approaching middle 60s, 58 cool degrees for san jose and for comparison, were a little bit warmer in the east bay this morning. Cooler in the north bay. The breakdown for you look at that shot there of the sfo the smoggy look 83 gogos on by high noon at 3 oclock were talking 92 marty. All right dave thanks a lot to start in the east bay this morning, several big stories happening in oakland this week. And that includes demonstrations over the shooting of jacob lake in wisconsin also some businesses will be allowed to reopen starting today and thats big news as well joining us to talk about
Later today, daytime highs eventually on the warm side yet again weve gotten used to this lately though upper 70s 80s right alongside the bay and 90s for a few inland spots. Daria. Thanks a lot lets get to our top story right now the fall semester for oakland is here online today, thousands of students. Well Start School Year the district spent the week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There are frustrations though with the Distance Learning plan has some parents reported last week that their students didnt get their laptops yet. Attendance is mandatory for students in all of their classes. The beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is their students. I know this is a really different than what youre used to when you were hoping for and. Were going to get there were going to mak
Approve this unemployment payment. Because congress has the power of the purse, the unemployment payment would be 400 which is 200 less than what americans were getting before the july 31st deadline which might be short of what people really need right now and 100 of that payment states would be required to cough up. The request might be an unfair request considering that states have desperately needed funding as they prepare for School Reopenings and having to pay for the medical response to coronavirus among other things kron 4 political analyst michael yaki says the president s actions today were essentially a way to play on peoples emotions. I think that the American People are going to be asking themselves and this is a president who Still Believes that the coronavirus is just going to disappear magically. How sincere is e the fact that his chief of staff was to really represent him in the negotiations and apparently couldnt deliver on any of the items that the president said. Is