And putting months of planning to test at local hospitals. This graphic shows the average number of cases in the bay area. The numbers on the right, cases are rising. We have more on what hospitals are preparing for. Reporter bay area doctors say hospitals are better prepared for a surge because they have been planning for one since sprng. This tent was set up for covid19 patients. It hasnt been filled but experts worry this time as cases rise sharply that may chang. We have a playbook, we have a formula that we set up even from the beginning of the pandemic. Reporter this doctor says while bay area hospitals are prepared for a fall surge in covid19 cases he is urging everyone to keep the guard up. Cases are climbing. Right now San Francisco is seeing an average of 80 new cases a day compared to 32 a day in early october. Experts warn if the curve isnt flattened it could climb to 300 cases a day by theened of december and could overwhelm hospitals. A lot more people are in the hospital
Mr. Axelrod admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. Dad flew that for about two years during the war. But my grandfather also served in world war i and i
Thanks to pfizer well have a vaccine by the end of First Quarter that news sent the market soaring. The dow is only surging 830 points that tech heavy nasdaq, the demand of so many stocks that did well under covid19 tyranny lost in an astounding 1. 53 . What a bifurcation it is also the time. We are in the middle of a spike of infections. New cases are exploding over the country, over 100,000 a day and even the weekend we are much treating it in the spring that only matters if we have enough hospital beds a lot of people are having cavalier attitude. Hey, you are fine unless you are old. Well, guess what, a lot of us are old. The sense is understood and respected. When you have more than 100,000 new infections everyday, you are looking at a lot of fatalities we need this the truth is we tried to fight the pandemic state by state. That failed. Europeans are failing too, i know, asia is doing great. If we were serious of Contact Tracing and social distancing and wearing masks, we may be
American veterans memorial. We broke ground this morning and we will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. And so were glad that youre here. Were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. Shes a cheyenne peace chief. Hes been a career Law Enforcement official. Hes a working artist and he is a marine and a vietnam veteran. So please greet harvey pratt. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Harvey, what caused you to submit a proposal, a proposed design for the memorial . Well, our veterans director just kept after me. I had no really had no hope that i would even come close or submit a design. He kept after me. He said, do it for the tribe, harvey. Submit something. And i thought about it and i said let me dream on it. I have to dream. I do some of my best creativity is done early in the morning, in that dream period. Thats what i did. I went home and i dreamed about it and i
Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and the 2020 election, sort of a deep dive, when it comes to twitter and facebook, about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them. Can we do better . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk about here is Health Risks Associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly. A 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram or snapchat. So why are we having this hearing . The products that these two Companies Offer people like and they use. So the bottom line is, theyve probably been more successful than their wildest dreams. And theyre having to make decisions that offend people on the le