Imagine how would welcome here in germany theres been a steady upturn in the number of new corona virus infections and its showing no sign of slowing the country boast price for its initial response to the pandemic back in spring when it quickly introduced haad measures to curb the spread of the virus but cases have spiked in recent weeks hitting a record high of almost 30000 new cases on friday its the in the number of death deaths thats causing the most concern thats prompted chancellor Angela Merkel to call an emergency meeting with germany 16 states latest that mating has just gotten underway. Well for more on that joined by our Political Correspondent hansbrough and hans the German Federal and state leaders are making now to discuss the situation given the numbers weve just heard a hard lock down seems almost certain is indeed that is correct the meeting is taking place in the chancery that you see here behind me but in fact its only a mark of a chancellor who be there in person a
After todays selfimposed deadline britain and the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. On pablo foley s welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season a short time ago she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring down the spiraling numbers of new covert 19 cases. The measures that we put into place on the 2nd of november have not been sufficient. For a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and how to plateau movements but now were seeing a new rise in infections an exponential growth once again and what that means is that many people are dying you have been following the statistics im sure and we also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems and aim was always to prevent this thing in the end this is why we must act and we must act fast and the results of the decisions that we made today. Well lets break
Area counties on that list you see him on this map. Alameda contra costa santa clara napa sonoma and solano the curfew would be in effect from 10 00pm until 05 00am and it starts on saturday and runs through december 21st and this order is for non essential businesses and gatherings with the goal of stopping the spread of the virus crop forced to reassess it was live tonight in lea lafayette, she has details for us to raise. Am i can so im here in lafayette, this is a part of Contra Costa County and this is one of the counties in the bay area thats in the purple tier and its a purple tears that the state has focused and on again lets look at that map that shows all of the county so 6 of the 9 bay area counties and you can see for yourself that alameda contra costa santa clara at napa solano and sonoma counties, those counties. Now in the purple tier, currently and the order that starts this saturday at 10 00pm and it stretches to december 21st at 05 00am. Each day it will be an operati
Than 1 as many of the cloud and socalled stayathome stocks get hit. It was the announcement that Pfizers Covid vaccine is more than 90 efficient thats what really set the market on fire we got more on that in a minute. Meantime, lets send it over to kelly. Thank you, sir. It is a huge day for the markets and a potentially historic one in a fight against the Chris Christie we have full Team Coverage for you. Bob pisani looking for the market reaction. Meg tirelli and bob pisani, lets start with you historic move for the s p 500 and big volume were going to do twice normal volume on the markets. We havent seen that recently, big volume on big up days. Thats a change on market sentiment. You mentioned small caps obviously vaccine, better reopening story. That would help small caps, look at this up almost 7 more than twice the performance of the s p 500 mega cap out of big cap, mega cap tech stocks and into small cap but also a little bit on the weak side as weve been noting all throughout
That are currently in the worst shape in the states. Purple tier here that is every county except san Mateo San Francisco and marin counties for more we want to turn to crime for us to so she is live for us in contra costa. County with the latest ariza. I think the anti grand so were here in lafayette because this is a part of Contra Costa County and in a purple tier. Earlier tonight, Health Officials talked about why this step is so important. And updated mask mandate, then a travel advisory for the upcoming thanksgiving holiday. Now california officials putting into place what they are referring to as a limited stay at home order affecting all counties in the purple tier, the most restrictive level in the california reopening blueprint plan at a News Conference thursday, california secretary of health and Human Services announcing behind it. Nd the reason we knew just a couple weeks ago we were at 3. 3 . We were talking to you that about how its priming minutes rising, and it certain