Mountains where well have more than an inch. You can see during the afternoon hours, the rain is looking pretty impressive and so are those temperatures low to mid 60s. An hourbyhour look at that wet weather coming up. Thanks. Expect changes with your businesses starting today. Governor newsom had to pull the emergency brake on reopening because new cases in the state nearly doubled in just ten days. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Look at all that purple. Every county in the bay area is in the purple tier except for marin, San Francisco and san mateo, theyre in the red tier. Purple tier means transmission is widespread and that includes limiting Retail Stores and shopping malls to 25 capacity and closing all nonessential businesses such as churches, movie theaters gyms. These restrictions just went into effect at midnight and that only gave businesses a day to adjust to everything. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover live in t
Be alarming. At some point here well find out finally who is certified in each of these states and the Electoral College will determine the winner and that person will be sworn in january 20th. No reason for alarm. Now, biden is going to speak here in a short time in wilmington, delaware where cnn Political Correspondent Arlette Saenz is covering the transition. Arlette, the refusal to proceed with peaceful transition of power, where should things be at this point if President Trump were not taking this extraordinary position. Reporter this is impeding important technical aspects of the transition that needs to take place. There are things like having access to Million Dollars of funding, also not having access to classified, highly classified information, having access to that or being able to discuss it. Also, just looking ahead, the transition would be unable to conduct background checks on some cabinet picks, so theres a lot thats currently in limbo for president elect bidens trans
Three questions whats the president s exit plan . Will he try to roadblock the biden transition . And how intense are things about to get in georgia . Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is right back at it. Im kasie hunt on this monday, november 9th. Lets start with the news. President elect joe biden launches his Transition Team today. His first order of business, naming the team thats going to help him turn his covid plan into policy. The Biden Coronavirus Task force is going to be cochaired by former u. S. Surgeon general vivek murphy, who was appointed by president obama and then fired by President Trump in 2017. Former fda commissioner David Kessler and associate professor of medicine at yale university, dr. Marcella nunezsmith have also been named as cochairs. Former obama adviser dr. Zeke emanuel also among those serving on the board. Biden Transition Team says the president elect will make remarks about his covid plan after he m
Election, more ominous because it is an attack within the president s own executive branch of government. New york times reports, quote, mr. Krebs has been hailed in recent days for his two years spent preparing states for challenges of the vote, hardening systems against russian interference, setting up a rumor control website to guard against disinformation. Foreign interference so many feared never materialized. Instead, the disinformation ultimately came from the white house. The recriminations of crutrump revenge firing. Of all the things this president has done, this is the worst. To strike at the harlt of the democratic system is beyond anything we have seen from any politician. Form former secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said he has done everything you would want a senior official at dhs to do. As far as im concerned, this firing is a badge of honor for chris krebs. Krebs has not been silent, telling nbc news i am proud of the work we did at cisa, i am produced
Coronavirus later on in the show. We have lots to get to on it veterans day. The banner headline on the New York Times, Elections Officials in every state find no fraud. They found, rather, quote, top Election Officials across the country in interviews and statements that the process had been remarkably successful despite record turnout in the complications of a dangerous pandemic. The New York Times was joined by the Associated Press whose journalists spread out across the country and came to the same conclusion. Their headline, quote, state cites smooth election despite trumps baseless claims. Elections experts told the Associated Press that the increase in early voting, with 107 Million People voting early, inperson, and by mail, helped take pressure off election day operations. The ap also noted that there were no incidents of violence at the polls or voter intimidation. Quote, the 2020 general election was one of the smoothest and most wellrun elections that we have ever seen, and