Thank you for having me. Dr. Fauci, you are there. I will plunge right in. I dont see you yet on the screen but i know you are there. Dr. Fauci i am here. Good to be with you. Judy lets start with the basics. Where are we as a country in the battle against covid19 . If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci it is a mixed bag. You can look at the numbers and they are very serious and concerning. Deaths,d over 185,000 six plus million infections. If you look at the country, a large heterogeneous country, some areas are doing really very well right now. Particularly those hit badly early on. The new york city metropolitan area has at least for a month now have less than 1 test positivity. In contrast, in other parts of the country, but we saw and some of the Southern States that had big surges where they tried to open up the economy, that brought the baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 to as high as 70,000. We are back down now to between 30000 an
Dr. Fauci it is a mixed bag. You can look at the numbers and they are very serious and concerning. Weve had over 185,000 deaths, six plus million infections. If you look at the country, a large heterogeneous country, some areas are doing really very well right now. Particularly those hit badly early on. The new york city metropolitan area has at least for a month now have less than 1 test positivity. In contrast, in other parts of the country, but we saw and some of the Southern States that had big surges where they tried to open up the economy, that brought the baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 to as high as 70,000. We are back down now to between 30,000 and 40,000. And just as those states are starting to level off and come down which is a good sign, we , are starting to see the beginning of surges in places like montana, the dakotas, michigan, minnesota, iowa. So it is really a mixed bag. Some areas are doing really well. Some are still threatening to have surges. I
Danger. Tom vacar has the latest on what might catch us by surprise. Every time we have an extreme power or extreme heat event, power issues are very likely to arise. We understand that. But thats especially true when coming off a recently very high one. Pg e says in the greater bay region there is no immediate likelihood of a psps event over the hot weekend. A key element for a psps would be a National Weather service declared red flag warning, which the Weather Service said is unlikely over the weekend. But if any wildfire threatens to short out or topple power lines, that could force localized power shutoffs, and in extreme heat, Power Equipment can and does fail, especially sunday and monday. With these tripledigit temperatures, there could be some heatrelated outages in the areas where its 100 degrees or more for a long period of time. So we want our customers to be prepared. Reporter pg e have some cooling centers over the weekend where wanted. These centers will take covid19 rul
The real changes goingon charges. Saturday afternoon into sunday and monday, and thats when temperature start to elevate the San Leandro Police up us significantly. And the heat advisory for areas or is the 1st in Alameda County away from our. A lot like today. To be charged with a deadly slightly warmer. Than the five day forecast. Crime since the bart shooting of oscar grant back in 2009. You can see over my shoulder big number start to show up saturday, sunday, and monday. Good evening, everyone. Right now, the hottest day of im frank somerville. And im Heather Holmes come the week sunday with in tonight for julie. Temperatures coming up near 107, so going to be a hot one. Alameda county da says the man with the bat inside that fire danger comes up as well. Air quality hopefully will be walmart did not pose an immediate threat to the officer better by then, but right now or to the public. We are still through tomorrow she is bringing charges of in spare the air alert. Involuntary ma
You later have it for on our website at cspan. Org. Coming up at 2 00 p. M. , we plan to bring you live coverage of House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy on his legislative priorities in response to the pandemic. We plan to have that live starting at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Next week on our program. Anding us now is president ceo of the naacp derrick johnson. Thank you for being on our show. About where africanamerican support was for the democratic ticket for years ago and what has changed . What needs to change for joe biden . Guest we had a High Percentage voters supporting the Democratic Party in 2016 but we did see a drop in voter participation, about 7 , which is the first time in 20 years you have seen a drop in africanamerican voting. I believe as a result of the harris,ment of kamala you will see an increase in voter turnout compared to 2016. Down i understood you set with candidate biden to talk about issues, racial equality at the top of that list. Guest we are in the mi