Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
In person. Nothing was going to stop us. These players deserve support and that is why we are here. Right now, Health Officials in San Francisco tonight are launching a new strategy to keep cases under control, and like many other things these days, it involves your phone. Good evening. Andria borba is live in San Francisco, with the hope behind this new plan. It takes advantage of the fact that people are used to doing things via text message. Perhaps the readiness to answer a phone call but they can still get the Contact Tracing done to help spread the help control the spread of this disease. The fight to trace the spread of covid19 is moving to text message. The more people that answer the call or text the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and beating up the reopening of our city. Reporter it is called a Virtual Assistant and after a positive test you could get a text message to your cell phone, where you fill in the blanks for contact t
Now at 11 00 countless urgent warnings didnt stop people from gathering this thanksgiving. So now what . Tonight the new strategy from Bay Area Health officials to slow the next covid surge. Plus shots fired at a packed Northern California mall sends black friday shoppers running for their lives. At least one person dead tonight, the manhunt underway to find the gunman. This is stupid. This was dumb. This was cowardly. For whatever reason it had to end up being violent and it had to be tragic. Holiday shopping during a pandemic, well show you what popular spots in the south bay look like this black friday. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area tonight, Bay Area Health officials preparing for a major coronavirus surge. Good evening. Im brian hackney. Im andrea nakano. Theyre crafting a new strategy after people ignored warnings not to gather over the thanksgiving holiday. Tonight Alameda County became the first in the bay area to top 500 covidrelated deaths. Those numbers are expe
Reporter in San Francisco theyre hoping cell phones hold the key to contact tracing. The more people that answer the call or text, the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and speeding up the reopening of our city. Reporter after a positive test youll get a text asking you to fill in the blank for contact tracers. The city is now averaging 130 new cases of covid19 a day and more than 900 a week. Now we are in a large surge with infections that are more widespread across the city and reaching different populations and our numbers have been increasing sharply. Reporter its a surge that started before the Holiday Season thats expected to continue through december. We saw this spike in the summer and it was hard to get back down. So the quicker we get it under control, the better off well be in the long run. Reporter if you get a positive covid19 test in San Francisco, you should expect a test and Public Health officials hope youll answer it becau
In june of next year. Natural gas is dangerous. Reporter rafael, who sponsored the legislation. Maybe most significantly, natural gas is a potent Greenhouse Gas that contributes to climate change. Reporter since 2010, as hundreds of coalfired power plants have closed, natural gas plants in many cases have replaced them. Natural gas produces about 40 of u. S. Energy needs. Former San Francisco mayoral candidate and activist Richie Greenburg doesnt believe california can make the transition from natural gas to all electric. The state of california does not have the ability to meet the energy needs, electricity needs and home heating through electricity at this point in time. Were not going to be relying on fossil fuels anymore in our buildings. Theres huge Greenhouse Gas savings. Theres Huge Public Health savings. And cost of construction goes down because youre not needing to install a gas pipeline. Reporter groups like earth justice cite the wildfires as a reason to move away. The sky