Biden administration can prepare to take office in january. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to another Miller Center webinar. Bill im going to moderate todays conversation. It is a real pleasure to be with you all and have these terrific guests. Guests. Actpresident ial transition was adopted by congress in 1963 to provide statutory framework for the peaceful transfer of power. It has been updated several times since. We are going to discuss rising issues coming out of that in the current transition and transfer. It has been almost a week since most Major Networks designated joe biden as president elect. The biden team has been moving forward on a transition and selected a new white house chief of staff, have launched a Pandemic Task force, and soon will be announcing other white house and cabinet level positions. Theyve started conversations with foreign heads of state and a number of american political leaders. A small but growing number of senior Republican Leaders have acknowledg
Square today empty space that would usually be packed with visitors. San franciscos lack of tourists could mean cuts to programs that residents rely on. A brks krrbc 7 News Reporter me woodro has the story. Reporter suns around San Francisco say welcome, were open and visitors are few and far between. One of the campaigns is our gate is open. While that gate just got closed two days ago. Reporter steve rizzo is general manager at hotel g. The hotel has been closed for eight months. Rizzo estimates theyve lost 8 to 12 million in that time. I imagine that a lot of places are in the same boat as we are. Your cash flow runs out when you have no Revenue Source coming in. Reporter according to the quarterly status report released this month by the controllers office, the hotel tax is expected to drop 43. 4 million below the expected 126. 2 million. One of the things that visitors really do is help to pay the cost of living in San Francisco and without them, its going to be noticeable for all
Im larry beil. Im christian see. Were in a difficult situation and we got to keep pushing. The push to get people to wear masks and stay safe into the holiday season. This as california hits an unfortunate milestone in the fight against the pandemic. The state marked 1 million cases today according to data compiled by several news organizations. That includes people who have recovered, texas became the first state to hit a million cases yesterday. More than 18,000 californians are died. In the bay area, there are more than 130,700 cases. Alameda county is causing further reopenings as it anticipating moving to the red tier. Daily new cases for 100,000 people are up to 4. 9 from the countys low of 3. 4. There is also a steady increase in hospitalization. Officials say if Current Trends continue, the county may be put back into the most restrictive tier and that is purple. Spiking numbers have counties in the bay area hitting pause in their reopenings. The question is this going to be en
Is growing every day. Chris ryes talked with two doctors on the front lines of the battle who are worried about losing ground. As the virus becomes more prevalent in the community, the chances that person sitting next to you at a dinner table or next to you in a store is infected is higher than it was, lets say, a month ago. Weve got to be super careful. New stats show thanksgiving could see the most air travel since the pandemic was declared. United Airlines Just added 1400 new flights. Add to that christmas and new years celebrations on horizon, dropping temperatures driving people indoors as numbers spike in the bay area and all over the country. Its a formula Public Health officials are extremely worried about especially considering everyones favorite holiday activity. Sit for many hours together with masks off because theyre eating. Thats a combination of all the things that are about as worrisome as you can imagine. You kind of get behind the eighth ball and you get to the point
Were concerned. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im anna dates. Thank you for joining us. Concern over coronavirus has the city of San Francisco taking a surprising turn, backward. Mayor london breed says at the end of the day friday, the city will eliminate Indoor Dining, reduce capacity at gyms and movie theaters and pause reopening at high schools, elementary and middle schools can proceed. Heres the reason why. Three weeks ago, there were 3. 7 cases per 100,000 people in San Francisco, and now there are 9 per 100,000. San francisco is averaging 80 new cases a day. Thats up from 32 a day in early october. City Health Officials say that rate is increasing more quickly than the summer surge. It is entirely plausible that we will face a situation where our Health Care System could become overwhelmed and reverse the current progress that weve made. The hard choices that we make now will help make things better for us in the future. It will get our city open. It will get our businesses o