Another 8 today. Facebook, twitter ceos appearing on capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey were on the hot seat over censorship concerns. Well have the highlights from their testimony in just a few moments. Im connell mcshane. Welcome, everybody, to after the bell. It us great to have you with us. Time now for the news happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. We have blake burman today in washington, susan li and Jackie Deangelis both in new york an gerri willis coming up. She is watching the retail numbers. Blake, lets start with you, any update from washington on the stimulus talks with virus numbers continuing to spike . Potentially, connell, when you look especially down the road, december 11th. Why . Lawmakers need to come together to pass a spending bill so there is not a government shutdown. That is significant in its own right. Why is that also important . Because there is now starting to be some talk in washington about whether or not lawmakers could also ad
That we saw over the summer in july. Weve talked so much about the twindemic, that covid surge combined with flu season. This could overwhelm hospitals in a matter of weeks, and despite the gloomy outlook, many local Health Leaders are feeling much more confident this time around. Here is nbc bay areas anousha rasta. Reporter if the latest surge in covid19 cases wasnt bad enough, now hospital workers and Health Care Workers need to worry about the looming flu season as well. We have been preparing for capacity. Making sure that we have equipment and supplies and just making sure that our protocols are in place to keep our patients safe as well as our Health Care Workers. Reporter dr. Sam shen is an emergency medicine doctor at Stanford Health cares palo alto campus and tells me he thinks the team and the hospital are ready to face a surge in covid patients. Should we hit a surge scenario, you know, we have prepared different backup plans. We have a scenario to manage surges and then we
The much talked about surge in covid19 cases appears to be happening in california. New numbers show a shocking rise in infections hitting numbers not seen in months. With that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. Im dion lim. Certainly not a good day at all for california with the coronavirus. The state reported nearly 11,000 diagnosed cases today, the highest since early august. The Positivity Rate continues to rise with the 14day rate jumping to 4. 4 . It was 4 on friday. That number is a strong indicator of the transmission rate of the virus. Nearly 3700 people are in the hospital getting treated for covid19 and about 1000 of them are in the icu. Now, the spike in covid cases is increasing the demand for testing right here in the bay area. But some testing sites are reaching capacity. According to abc 7 News Reporter cornell bernard, some advocates are calling for more testing sites to handle the load. Reporter across california, the need for covid testing is in high
This one, here at pier 30 on the embarcadero. With the surge in covid cases, many are reaching capacity. The lines are getting longer and longer. Reporter the Health Committee chairman from the Latino Task Force says demand is unbelievably high at this test site in the mission. Recently 500 people are getting tested every day. We are here to service the Latino Community but not exclusive to and so we take care of the folks that show up that need that test. Reporter he believes the city needs more testing sites. We need a vast amount of low barrier testing sites throughout San Francisco, easy access, sameday walkup in all the neighborhoods, where we know that there is an increase in cases. San francisco currently does more testing than any other city in the nation. Deputy Health Director dr. Navina baba says the city is doing more than 5,000 tests per day. Many who are lining up are not high priority. People exposed or have symptoms or essential workers. If people have other reasons to
How americans malls are getting creative during the age of covid19 live, from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening, for many of Us Thanksgiving wont be the same tomorrow not close. It is a holiday bringing family and friends near and far and thats what this virus thrives on whether you are serving a turkey or zooming this year, remember the pandemic is ripping through cities and towns from coast to coast and the data shows it has no signs at all of slowing down. Just yesterday 88,000 people in america were in hospitals sick with covid it is the 15th straight day that hospitalizations hit another all time high. Deaths theyre on the rise, too the u. S. Reported more than 2100 people died yesterday. The most deaths since may according to johns hopkins, the numbers are obviously troubling. The doctors and scientists assuring us there is light at the end of this dark tunnel. Two weeks from tomorrow, fda will meet to discuss whether pfizer