Tomorrow night. The stricter rules are being implemented because theyre trying to slow the continuing spread of coronavirus infections. Ive been concerned at how quickly it has skyrocketed. Two weeks ago, we were seeing about 3. 9 to 4. 2 of everyone tested being positive, and we were very concerned that we reached this 8 benchmark. We set a cap at 8 , and now that weve reached that, we realized we need to scale back, keep the community safe, and really encourage people to take these additional safeguards so we can slow the spread. Reporter now, Health Officials are also keeping close tabs on the number of intensive care unit beds available in the county. Right now, about half of the 209 beds are in use either from covid cases or other cases and this recent spread of infections in the county obviously is prompting concerns about the future, the near future availability of those icu beds. Reporting live in lafayette, im sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Sergio, thanks very much. Lets
Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Edward lawrence live in d. C. And edward, we start with you. Reporter a hiccup in the implementation of usmca threatened to cause tensions between the two countries over the agreement. It caused mexicos top trade negotiator to come here to washington, d. C. To meet with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer to work this all out. Because of concerns and that meeting, the u. S. Trade representative, allayed fears. Basically mexico was concerned that the u. S. Could force them into accepting up to five inspectors into their mexican factories and u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer in a letter today saying those were not actually inspectors. Theyre attaches, attached to the u. S. Embassy here in the United States. So those attaches would offer technical guidance and expertise to the mexicans, not inspections. Adding that any compliance verification would be done by an independent panel with help from representatives from mexico and the u. S. The undersecretary says his fear
music throughout good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with the tearful boston. The star sentenced to prison time for her role in the giant College Admissions cheating scandal. That penalty generating much discussion tonight. Eva pilgrim there when the sentence came down. Reporter a solemn Felicity Huffman clutching her husband william h. Macys hand while arriving in court in boston today to hear her fate. The first of many parents to be sentenced in operation varsity blues. The punishment for being part of one of the largest College Admissions scams 14 days in jail, 250 hours of Community Service and a 30,000 fine. The sentence for one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Almost six months to the day after the fbi arrested the hollywood actress at her home. Huffman plead guilty in may. The judge made it clear that she wants to send a message that just because youve got money and youve got privilege it doesnt mean that you can get away with Something Like this. The
Companies dont have exposure to china, with the exception of amazon, which as a retailer and a distributor has a lot of exposure there they have the most china risk, outside of if you leave f. A. A. N. G. , of course theres alibaba, which its all china exposure i guess thats how i would answer the question. I would also make the simple point if you look at the f. A. A. N. G. Names, you pretty much had acceleration growth, Revenue Growth acceleration for all four names but theres a couple of very specific issues in the back half of the year. The ones with the best fundamentals right now with the easiest valuations is facebook and google krish, whats the next irobot i mean, looking at hardware, whos got an amount of china exposure that could be really damaging you know, apple clearly has a pretty high china exposure and as you mentioned before in this program, anytime theres negative news on u. S. china trade, apple becomes kind of the punching bag what i would characterize as overall wh