Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you our programming during the lunchtime hour. Celebrating the release of livewire if at any time click the link to purchase a chat of the book on the website. Women to submit to the q and a box which can be found at the bottom of your screen be sure to put your question in the q and a. On to the main event doctor David Eagleman is a New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist work at the National Nonprofit institute an adjunct assert. Best known for his work on time perception, his new book livewire also misled from anastasia to dreaming that revolutionized how we think he will discuss bio hackers human using echolocation in the present and future of ai im so here one excited to hear him talk today. The floor is all yours and then i will be back to moderate q and a. Thank you its a great pleasure to be here i have been to politics and prose in person. Im sorry i cannot be there this year b
Is worried about covid hot spot the cold weather thats coming pickup. He spoke today on a panel for the Silicon Valley leadership group. So im concerned unless we do something to turn this around, were going to have a very difficult, very painful winter. Reporter he said universal wears of masks and continued social distancing will help, and so will choosing Outdoor Activities over indoor when possible. No one has an appetite to shut the country down again. Reporter he said he is cautiously optimistic about a vaccine. There are six possibility, five of which are in advanced trials. We should be able to get an inkling of whether or not we have a safe and effective vaccine sometime in mid to end of november, beginning of december. Reporter bestcase scenario, he said, vaccine doses would be ready for public by the end of this year or early next, so it will take months to disemname to everyone. Santa clara Health Officials say they are already look at logistics. Whether the storage and han
We try to take a little bit of the california ingenuity and innovative spirit we are well known for and we reached out to perkin elmer, and we reached out to a number of other partners to develop a strategy. The governor said the lab has already created 300 new jobs with 400 more expected in the spring. To the south bay, a San Jose Church that says it will continue holding large Indoor Services in defiance of Public Health orders ring the covid19 outbreak, now the county is taking the church to court. Henry lee is here with more on this standoff. Reporter for months, Calvary Chapel in san jose have been holding in their services for as many as 600 people each week, despite a ban on gatherings because of the coronavirus. On friday, Church Leaders say nothing will change, even in the face of a 350,000 fine by Santa Clara County, which is now taking them to court. The pastor says he knows coronavirus is still active, but he is worried about a Mental Health pandemic. People are hurting, pe
But i felt like it was going to be safe. Reporter more than 40 of ballots sent out have been returned, but with a major jump in Voter Registration from 2016, secretary of state alex padilla says it means there is still a lot to people who need to cast their vote. The math is simple, there is more than 22 million registered voters in the state of california. A little bit more than nine a half million ballots already back, that is great early voting number, but that means there is more than 10 million voters who have yet to participate. Reporter several sports arenas will be converted into early voting and ballot drop off locations, starting saturday, and three election day, that includes levis a stadium in santa clara, and the oakland coliseum, the warriors have transformed the practice facility in downtown oakland on broadway, and Kaiser Permanente arena in santa cruz into pulling sites, the area around the chase center will serve as a ballot dropoff location, with more options opening
Heodel mainturnt has and us the time well within the next few weeks to have enough ventilators we believe to meet the needs of 40 million californians. In fact, Governor Newsom is so confident of the states ability to meet the demand he is now sending 500 ventilators to the national stockpile. They can quickly be redirected to hard hit areas like new york. Governor newsom says the state will get the ventilators back if the need arises here. Good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight. While the governor is loaning out ventilators to the federal government, Santa Clara County is looking for some. Local officials held a News Conference today issuing a bounty for a thousand ventilators, new, used, or broken. Well be giving a thousand dollars per ventilator but were also really excited to take donations. I mean, so if you can donate it, it would be great. Santa clara county is the hardest hit county in the bay area with more than 1200 cases and 39 deaths. Right now the county has some 650