Support, a new bill with higher payments facing an uphill battle in the senate. President elect joe biden saying today hes in favor. Do you support the 2,000 payments . Yes. Reporter the house also voting today to override a president ial veto of a bill funding the u. S. Military. The president objecting to items in it, including protections for social media companies. Now, the Senate Considers the covid relief bill tomorrow, and the president s support for the higher payments could put some Senate Republicans in a very tough spot, having to agree to payments that they actually oppose or take a stand against the president. Raj and kira. Susan, thank you. Thats the financial and Political Part of it. As we approach the new year, kira, most Health Experts project more people will continue to get infected. So bottom line, its going to get worse before it gets better. Yeah, raj. California is reporting 33,000 new cases as of today. The Positivity Rate is climbing to 12. 5 . Thats the highe
Extending our stay at home order. And the goal with 20 million vaccinations by the end of the year, but so far the nationwide total is just 2 million. Whats the hold up . Weve got some answer. And when is it your turn . Whos next in line for the vaccine and whats being done to speed things up. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Covid relief checks will be issued in a few weeks, but heres the issue. How much will each person get . While the politics plays out, peoples lives and livelihoods hang in the balance. Nbcs jean elle, joins us from San Francisco. Reporter Small Business owners say they dont understand why it took nine months for elected officials in washington to pass a second round of Financial Relief to get help here to main street and to the people who support it. Some say its too little, too late. Ive skipped multiple paychecks so my employees can get paid, so i can pay a little bit of rent. Reporter like most Small Business owners who cant operate during covid19 shu
Exactly. Days until that election, more places and more opportunities for folks to do just that. This is a big weekend for several bay area counties. If youre here youll see a super voting center, a center where instead of having several polling locations, they will have one center. The Oakland Coliseum being one and the San Mateo Center behind me being the other. California voters are not required to show identification but if you are voting for the first time in the state after registered by mail, it is suggested that you bring one. In terms of contracost a county, voting there started a few minutes ago. Centers are held at churches, hotels, businesses and community centers. A quick check at the contra costa registrars website can tell you where to go. San francisco county has early voting at civic center location. The polling site has been open several weeks and continues to see visitors. We had a chance to catch up with some folks and listen to their experience and why it is so cru
A caller who itself is now in poland somebody because he was the only one basically who hasnt taken the hits from the government he had to leave the country he was basically forced them to detain her now by refusing to be edged out of her own country as so many other opposition figures have she has also been involved in the founding of a new party but i think that the early early early days of that kind of thing now at the moment this is about the symbolism of these protests coming out week after week and she is certainly one of the most recognizable and most competent faces of those protests even if those protests are happening without kind of an obvious organization or leader indeed coming out week after week i mean we saw sunday more siege protests that we have the same problems things farm what is now going to happen and what is next for the opposition. Im sorry there is no road map to this this is a country basically that had no politics of the possible to the century where one ma
The kincaid fire burning out of control on this friday morning. Continues to grow. Containment remains at 5 . Pack starting to be felt outside of Sonoma County as the smoke from the fire. Yesterday drifting toward specific ocean. Smoke drifting across marin county as well San Francisco. Welcome to the nine everybody alongside, a big story in the twin next 24 hours. Another window back coming back. More than 1000 out there, a big day to knock the fire down so they do not have any flareups if the wind comes back. Remember the fires were going on the last time the air was so thick with smoke people were wearing mask. School was canceled for a full day because of the air quality. If you have not seen that bad airquality you are in the north bay area. Smacked when i left home. I see the smoke visibly. And marine county as well San Francisco. Was good to the latest on the contained fire. The fire is more than double in size. Compared to what it was this time yesterday. At thisfire says, fire