What investigators are now saying sparked the blaze. Plus, the heartfelt thanksgiving message left behind by alex trebek. Black friday changes. Shoppers showing up for sales despite a pandemic. How covid is changing how people hunt for deals. And from digital dinners to an adorable postmeal nap, how people celebrated their socially distanced thanksgiving. Good friday morning, everyone. We begin with President Trump acknowledging that the transition for president elect joe biden is moving forward. The comments came as trump took questions for the First Time Since losing the election. Trump refused to concede and would not commit to attending the inauguration. But he did say he will leave the white house if the Electoral College declares biden the winner, which is expected to happen. Trump also said hes heading to georgia next weekend to campaign for two republican candidates. Those races will determine which Party Controls the senate. Abcs Elizabeth Schulze is live in washington with th
Tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Good evening. More than 18,000 californians have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Imagine the entire town of maraga getting sick. Its the second record in five days. On saturday the record was 15,442 new cases. For perspective, over the past seven days, weve averaged fewer than 14,000 new cases. Over the past two weeks, the average is roughly 11,000. Here is another way to understand whats happening in this graph you can see our summer spike right there in the middle and on the right, the current surge, which eclipses anything weve experienced so far. In many ways, the timing couldnt be worse. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days of thanksgiving travel despite numerous and repeated warnings from Health Agencies against traveling or gathering. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, San Francisco International Airport and 101 in san jose. Sky 7 was over 680 in the east bay. You can see plenty of cars on the road at 1 00 in the
Right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera as we look out at pier 39 and coit tower on this thanksgiving morning. It is thursday, november 26th. Im michelle grego. Happy thanksgiving. Lets get to that all important forecast. The cold out there this morning. We went back down into the mid30s in places again this morning. San jose getting close to it. Most inland spots, weve got plenty of clear skies. The number in sap jose is 42. Already 36 in livermore an 38 in concord. A bit of a breeze out there as well to go along with nothing but blue skies. I doubt you will note i the weather much at all. It will probably be one of the last things on your mind. You wont have to think about it at awful mid60s, sunny, maybe a breeze. Are we doing traffic on a day like thanksgiving in lets all find out together. No, we are not. I just found out an was apparently the only one would didnt know. The all good. A new record for califo
The system. Night atbrayne sunday 8 00 eastern on cspans q7a. Earlier today, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer held a briefing at the u. S. Capitol. This is about 25 minutes. Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. As always, it is an honor to welcome back to the house inside , andormer colleagues here our democratic leader in the senate, Chuck Schumer. Welcome, mr. Leader. Words have power. When the president speaks, his words way a ton. We have heard some things lately that are very disconcerting. But numbers have eloquence, too. Yesterday, our nation suffered a horrifying 144,000 new infections recorded. Of overth straight day 100,000 cases being reported. More than 65,000 americans hospitalized with covid. A new record that threatens to overwhelm our hospitals and hospitals in rural areas particularly affected. The devastating milestone of 10 million americans infected has been passed. 144,000 yesterday. Over 100,000. 65,000 people hospitalized with covid. Thanllion americans, more 10 mil
Live now to discussion with main senator angus king who joins Healthcare Providers and Bipartisan Policy Center experts on the use of telehealth during the covid pandemic. Health team led by, Catherine Hayes and others. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Bipartisan Policy Center we were established a a little over a decade ago by four former majority leaders, senator bob dole, late senator howard baker on the republican side. Senator tom daschle and senator George Mitchell on the democratic side. Senator mitchell from the great state of maine which youll hear shortly his estate, very well represented here this morning. The country is indeed, indeed the world quite frankly is experiencing a once in a lifetime pandemic caused untold suffering and death. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, Healthcare Providers are struggling to provide Critical Care under some very difficult conditions. But if there is any good, and theres that much, but if theres any good to come out of this virus,