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
Super super super cold and the other is just really cold. To stay stable pfizers needs to be stored at 94 degrees. But during us at 4 what that means is that we cant just put it amazon box or put it take it to the post office and mail it out to walgreens or cvs or pharmacies to distribute right now only certain facilities are equipped with Proper Storage like hospitals or Research Facilities so keeping these vaccines extremely cold while transporting them to far away places like oklahomas rule communities poses a real challenge the last thing you would want to do is get all this effort to make vaccines and then have it be natured not working because something in shipping storage but doctor shocker of art he says other vaccines in the pipeline may not require such special storage and those could be promising for those rural areas there going to be other available hopefully that dont state and federal leaders have a lot of details to work out identifying facilities that have the storage
Using Curbside Pickup here in the bay area some stores did not see the large crowds that were anticipated, but that depends on where you did your shopping today kron fours gayle ong talked to shoppers in walnut creek. She joins us now live with more gayle. Vicki and can i actually spoke to a manager at lululemon where the wait time was about 45 minutes and part of the reason was because they were following Covid Protocols and up staying under the Maximum Capacity to avoid those lines Health Experts are encouraging people to stay home and shop online get your deals that way at least one person i spoke to got that message. Looking at the lines and thinking were glad that will be done most of our shopping online on black friday lines out the door at Broadway Plaza in walnut creek still stores doing their best to make sure everyone stay safe in the age of covid19 theyre doing a very good job with the social distancing a lot of people Wearing Masks out here a different story in the morning
Host we are back with marcus. What does your organization do . Guest we are a professional organization who represents the anderships of state Territorial Public Health departments across the state. United states. Guest in every state the public of department has a commissioner Health Official and they are main constituents. ,hey have Leadership Teams running things on a daytoday basis. What would be your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Guest states have been very involved in this pandemic. They have been the frontline and so the organization of been working for has been working closely with them while researching issues for them and also one communicating also on communicating with others. What are your thoughts on recent headlines about the spike in covid cases . The wall street journal described it as everywhere. Guest it is very concerning. Its something we knew that the likelihood could happen. Knows we are seeing levels of infection we have not seen before
Friday deals kron 4 Sarah Stinson caught up with shoppers this morning. And has this report from dublin. Im reporting at best buy at haas crossings in dublin with their husband. No line shoppers on this black friday have been able to get the good deals without the chaos of all these years it seems like its actually. A normal day and i like because not many people what im looking to get. Electronics and we were out here very very early up very early so that we into subpoenaed lines, no lines lots of great service, lots of help a lot of people bought big flat screen tvs ipad security cameras and more dont want to tell you a lot about what it what it is kuz will be spilling the beans a Christmas Gifts best buy prepared for big crowds putting up these crowd control barriers that ended up not being used but that wasnt the case down the road in livermore at the San Francisco premium outlets weve been uses like to in the people got there early in lines formed at retailers like gucci at 5 in t