Will it really work . The states top doctor is feeling the pressure and the resentment from many people in the community. Today he defended his decision. He said california needs to stay home. Because cases are continuing to hit record highs almost daily. He pointed to the success rate of shut downs in europe. Belgium put in a three week stay at home order. Its positive ratd fell from 21 to 8 in that time. England had a four week order. Cases dropped by 30 . He says he understands the restrictions are inconvenient. But its what the state has to do at this time as hospitals become over crowded. The goal of saving lives become threatened when the system isnt as robust and strong as it can be. To deliver care to as many californiaens as needed. Reminding everyone there is light at the end of tunnel. The first doses of vaccines expected to arrive one week from today. Hundreds of people crowded outside the courthouse today very few of them Wearing Masks to support the pastor who landed in f
One of the hottest stocks in the market, General Motors dives in and the ceo will join us in just a moment power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im dominic chu. One bright spot is the Housing Market you have restoration hardware, williams sonoma, theyre jumping and then you have trex, which makes decking and railingtype products for homes and two Retail Stocks hitting new highs, will brands a the a 52week high, target at an alltime high yet again today after its big blowout Earnings Report yesterday. And, kelly, you mentioned the electric vehicle trades tesla a the at a new high is up 20 in just this past week kelly. All right, dom. The dow sliding today and heading now for a down week. Lets go to bob pisani for the action the markets are still having a hard time to figure out on what to focus. Do you focus on the spring reopening in 2021 and Second Quarter or on the covid winter right now . Today a little more focus on the covid winter the good news is tech which has be
Busy today in Santa Clara County, especially at the fairgrounds. They had 2500 testing slots today which were all taken. And that is where we find da lin at the fairgrounds in san jose right now. Reporter all is quiet now because they close down 3 00 but ill tell you, earlier, a lot of folks, as you mentioned, coming home from their thanksgiving trip, also some essential workers as well as folks who are saying they have symptoms and want to get tested. 18 testing booth at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Each one with the short line of cars. Some cars contain families of up to five people. All getting tested at the same time. That is a lot of people. The line has gone so fast. Some just came back from a trip and somewhere required by work. If we are positive for covid 19 we are not allowed to work. Health Officials Say Santa Clara County has no single day covid cases in the bay area and they are seen troubling trends. We are definitely seeing our people with symptoms or have a house
Forces, have 72 hours to give up the fight. Pakistans Opposition Alliance defies. Coronavirus restrictions to hold a massive rally. Demotic Prime Minister sharon concepts down my the us says its hoping to begin a program of vaccinations against covered 19 as soon as december, the 11th. Ahead of the white house, vexing Task Force Says it plans to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year. 2 vaccines are up for approval in early december, both said to be 95 percent effective. Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval. So i would expect maybe on day 2, after approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people who will be immunized across the United States across all states. In all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine. , there has of course, been a surge in new infections across the u. S. , which has now recorded more than 12000000 cas
We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch