Octogonerian its monday, november 9th. Early today starts right now good monday morning. Im phillip mena. Glad youre starting the new week with us im Frances Rivera joe biden is the president elect securing the office thats twice eluded him before. Nbc news projected his win in pennsylvania on saturday pushing him past the threshold of 270 electoral votes. His margin of victory could further widen as further votes are tallied. He continues to hold a lead over President Trump in georgia and arizona. Biden and Kamala Harris will hit the ground running today laying out their transition strategy and announcing a Coronavirus Task force nbcs tracie potts joins us from capitol hill with the latest tracie plenty of challenges lie ahead for the president elect. Reporter big challenge, and the biggest is probably this virus, frances, that has infected more than 10 million americans and killed more than 200,000. The president elect says that will be the focus of his transition especially today. W
Several San Francisco restaurants all closed indoors because of covid she says that she was not pleased to hear about the governor photographed inside the pricey French Laundry restaurant with his wife for a Birthday Celebration with at least 12 people in attendance. Were locked down the call indoor everything is shut down a u n i mean the Restaurant Business as well so its a really hard time for everybody really do think it said double standard. He has all these expectations for us diana who owns a restaurant in Citrus Heights near sacramento also thought that the governor. Was definitely not practicing what is preaching and at the same time expecting all of us who are trying to you know enjoy a nice meal and be with our families and now we cant even be you know in thanksgiving together the French Laundry is only open for reservations with the prefix menu of 3. 50 for 50 and 850. A plate. It is unclear which offering the new sums had and who paid for it. The governor has said that he
Coffee shop in redwood city. Im happy for those Small Businesses that are just barely making it under the current conditions. Im hearing from Small Business owners, restaurants, that theyre looking at cutting back staff if we go to purple. Reporter but the countys Health Officer says people are still not doing enough. And today he issued this blunt warning saying right now enough people are acting like they are individuals n. Reality, we are a collective with relationships and interdependencies that when severed will result in both our individual and collective demise. County supervisor david can pa agrees people need to do more. He speaks truth to power, but hes trying to reinforce people, please dont let covid fatigue set in. Reporter he says right now San Mateo County is in good shape when it comes to available hospital beds. In redwood city, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. As we mentioned at the top of the show, San Francisco is not in the purple tier yet, but the county Health
Much out. For many in the bay area, this is what they woke up to this money, if there wasnt a downed tree, many found leaves and branches scattered all over the ground, on the left, a tree fell on Market Street in san jose, damaged some Electrical Equipment and knocked out power, in the middle, those strong winds knocked a tree on 103rd avenue in oakland, it also took out power lines. On the right, city crews were busy cleaning up a downed tree in san leandro this morning. In orinda, we saw downtown banks and businesses in the dark this afternoon, the neighboring cities of moraga and lafayette were also affected, pg e turned off power in a large part of the east bay holes and contra costa and alameda counties today, including parts of berkeley, oakland, and san leandro. You can see the widespread outages indicated by the purple triangles, power was cut all across the bay area, including in sonoma, napa, solano, and marin counties, customers in san mateo and santa clara counties are als
Voters. So were going to win this natithis state of michigan and were going to win four more years. And folks, i have a feeling were coming together for a big win tomorrow. So who will win the white house, when will we know and will there be any type of civil unrest . President trump burning the midnight oil. He just wrapped up his final rally about 30 minutes ago in michigan. It was 1 30 a. M. Eastern time. Joe biden also campaigning late into the evening. Reporter on election eve neither president ial campaigns slowing down. President trump taking the stage in grand rapids, michigan, after midnight local time. The same spot he ended his 2016 campaign. Were goi were going to win the state of michigan and going to win four more years in that very beautiful, beautiful house. Reporter mr. Trump went on a battleground blitz today rallying in pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan and dismissing polls that show him even with or trailing biden. Were supposed to be way ahead in the early votin