Cdc director dr. Robert redfield. He is the Nations Health Protection Agency and defense americans against dangerous threats and the response to inaccurate information on those threats or record of the head of agency data redfield has been one of the nations leading voices. During this pandemic sharing new information, issuing Public Health guidance and advising americans about how to safely return to work, school and daily life. We are glad to have him with us and what has sadly happened as and a sadly Pivotal Moment in this crisis right now as you all know cases are spiking across the country and as a result we are seeing different types of lockdowns like we saw in the initial wave of thekd virus and americans everywhere are hungry for information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season this winter but back to redfield will address thall of these issues and more d well take questions from our audience as well. Without further ado dr. Redfield welcome. What can you tell
This is today. Tomorrow morning. You see how does the wind look to you . Doesnt look that robust to me at all. You see the contours, right . So theres wednesday morning. Now its going to fire up a little bit. We get into thursday morning right there, right . So there is your red flag warning. Those winds are going to verify. I think most of these winds will be 25 to 30, but that thursday morning appears to be the main event, but its mainly north bay, and, again, a lot can happen between now and then. Bill, thank you. Now lets go to debora villiam, and fire conditions are growing. There you can see a sold it brush field, and stuff that would really burn. Reporter climbing a fire road on marin countys Mount Tamalpais, we pop out at 2600 feet where the winds whip hardest during red flag conditions. You can hear it just walking around. Reporter and where fuels are dry. Even this close to the ocean. During august, lightning, a tree strike, started a fire that started small. The wrong fire o
Weve heard in the previous sessions today about Fact Checking political news, a Law Enforcement is preparing for potential post election violence. Weve also discussed the impact of disinformation about covid19 and communities of color. Our next panel will focus on covid19 political mobilization and digital platforms. Weve seen the power of information and disinformation in the era of coronavirus but how can people cut through the sea of claims and counter claims on the internet and social media and make sense of the sheer volume of information out there . And what is the responsibility of those who oversee social media platforms to make sure that information out there is actually correct and accurate . So today we have a distinguished group joining us. Im going to start with you, first, david. Dr. David is an associate professor in the school of engineering and applied sciences at the George Washington university. Hes the associate director of institute for data, democracy, and politic
A note. This country has seen a rise by white supremacist. We are now seeing information of new groups that recruit aggressively and openly celebrate violence as there ammo. This this is the build up foa long time. That terrible moment. Thats probably our main objective. Something official of the cues and teeth of being a major cause of violence in the nationwide protest following the killing of george floyd. Arrested after prosecutors said he was stockpiling weapons for an attack to fuel race wars. In the u. S. Rightwing extremist willing to at least 15 mers last year. Thats a 35 increase over 2017. The 17 your faces felony homicide charges for shooting three people during tuesday nights protest in kenosha. The alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was a classic case of terrorism and violence in the country could get worse. Rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns. U. S. Security officials are warning that violent domestic extrem
We will continue to see this pattern repeat until we get some rain in here. Lets get to the graphics and talk about where we have the advisor in place. It will start over areas of our north bay hills and starts actually as we get into tonight pick it will begin at 11 00 or so and expected to remain until wednesday morning. As we shift to areas over santa cruz, this actually starts thursday morning and will last into friday morning and one last stop for the east bay hills, this is expected to begin over areas wednesday and last into friday as well. So we have a lot going on out there but the fire weather concerns will be in the hills once again with north bay hills and east bay hills and down through the diablo range as well as the Santa Cruz Mountains pick you can see the winds coming in from the northeast at atlas peak. And easterly breeze over mt. St. Helena and over the oakland hills. We have a northerly wind. Not strong, just yet but the advisory not in place just it, it will start