Disasters and small tragedies and we had to experience one today with the unfortunate fatality of one of our City Employees he want to spend a minute recognizing this persons contribution outstandingly theyre they were out in an area of the city picking up Illegal Dumping a tragedy accident in which one of our employees became a fatality so if we can just have a little moment of silence for our employee and a kind of recognize of his life i contribution to our city. Thank you. Wow. What a week and i want to say first of all, i want to thank d e m and all the indemnify departments and different agencies and the people that coma together for so many years to train ourselves to respond at the highest level that this earthquake that became a very apparent to us in napa and inoptional didnt have serious impacts at least immediately to the city of San Francisco but we remain vigilant and many of our engineers from dpw and other port and other jurisdictions are doing deep dives into our asset
Want to wish you a very good morning on this sunday, january 3rd. It is 2021. Im christi paul. And im john avalon in today for victor blackwell. Good to see you. Good to have you back with us, john. The u. S. Is under an awful lot of pressure both from partisan politics and the pandemic. We have more than 350,000 people that have died as of today in this country because of the coronavirus. For the 32nd day in a row, more than 100,000 people are battling covid19 in a hospital. Now vaccines are on the way. Getting people vaccinated, its taking much longer than had been anticipated. There are 13 million doses that have been distributed thus far, but only 4. 2 Million People have received their first shot. And president elect joe biden will inherit this crisis in just 17 days. Before the inauguration on january 20th, a series of consequential steps begins today. In just hours, nancy pelosi faces reelection as speaker of the house. With 117th u. S. Congress set to be sworn in. On tuesday, c
Markets now and we have a lot coming up. We have big issues in a few minutes, we start with stocks and the markets pulling back a little bit from record highs that were set yesterday hanging above 16,000 on the dow. Nicole petallides on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Nicole the Dow Jones Industrials pulling back, 16,008 holding at 16,000 mark to the s p holding 18 under market, a record close for the s p 500, down two points, squeezing out a gain in the ticketing nasdaq, worth noting the s p is coming off of its 49 food record high, a stellar year for stocks and we are seeing stocks on track to break two session win streak. Named leading the dow include Goldman Sachs, jpmorgan, chief financials doing well on the heels of what we heard from the volcker rule, that was a unanimous vote and microsoft, pfizer and cocacola weigh in on the Dow Jones Industrials. Connell you talkedabout the fdic vote on the volcker rule and that is the story, the first of five regulators voting on the new ru
The internet. There is a third say this effort. Well here in korea life and soul and with an uncommon thing so much for joining us. We begin with the record breaking export deal for the Nations Defence industry Korea Aerospace industries sealed an agreement with more than two billion dollars with iraq the agency is to export twenty four supersonic like fighter jets to the nation making inroads into the arms market in the middle east the Defence Ministry correspondence that has our top story. Korea Aerospace Industries signed a landmark export contracts with iraq on thursday. The era space agency will provide twenty four units of the t fifty iq multi role Light Attack Aircraft to the middle eastern country. I played seventeen from one point one billion us dollars the package deal includes Pilot Training and other Operational Support making the total value of the deal worth more than two billion dollars. Its the most expensive single defence export deal korea has ever seen. The t fifty i
Years. Id like to call this month to month of the San Francisco Disaster Council to order if everyone can find a seat. Thank you all for being here and on fairly late notice we gave 72 hours of notice after this weeks quake. Im going to im going to turn it over to mayor edwin lee for opening remarks par good afternoon. Welcome and again, thank you to ebbs members of our Disaster Council for assembling users together before we begin let me ask if we can take a moment of silence there are big disasters and small tragedies and we had to experience one today with the unfortunate fatality of one of our City Employees he want to spend a minute recognizing this persons contribution outstandingly theyre they were out in an area of the city picking up Illegal Dumping a tragedy accident in which one of our employees became a fatality so if we can just have a little moment of silence for our employee and a kind of recognize of his life i contribution to our city. Thank you. Wow. What a week and i