those electors go to their state capitals and cast their electoral votes as they did today. small states like wyoming cast three ballots. 55 ballots cast in california. nobody watches this particularly. there s been more interest this year. in some sense, we did not see a lot of surprises today. sometimes we see what we call a faithless elector, who votes the wrong way. we didn t see that today. but we have perhaps some controversy with some other slates of electors outside the room perhaps casting votes in a very unusual way. i don t think that is going to affect the election results. the 50 states and the district of columbia have meetings. the votes for president and vice president were cast. 6, next step is on january the house and senate come together with the vice president presiding and they count the votes. at that point, the election really becomes official. we expect then he will become the official president elect. we can call him the president thet, but at that po
confusion announcing yesterday that the doj will appeal a federal judge s decision that struck down the mask mandate on public transportation. the move comes after the cdc has been requiring travelers to wear masks on trains and airports wasn t necessary for the public s health. except those immigration restrictions rolled those back. okay, but just a few days ago, president biden said americans get to decide for themselves. watch. should people continue to wear masks on planes? that s up to them. i would love to give our viewers a crash course in coordinated coherent perfectly messaged policy, let s roll the tape. this happened over the span of two hours on monday. watch. the cdc continues to advise and recommend mass on airplanes. we would advise all americans to do that. should people continue to wear masks on plane? that s up to them. are you going to repeal the masked mandate? have not heard from the cdc come i don t know. trust the science. degen, ever
the president s first year in office. wednesday, you might want to get up early. that is because the january 31 full moon is considered to be special. we will explain coming up. first let s head over to rosemary and see how the day is shaping up. we will be dry, partly cloudy and not that much fog on wednesday. that will look good. we do have a little bit of fog in some areas. san francisco looks good though. we have partly cloudy, mostly clear skies today. temperatures continue to climb into the afternoon as the warming trend continues all the way into monday. this morning, the visibility has changed in some spots. most of us still look good. the peninsula, east and south bay look good. the north bay is tracking fog. it is patchy fog. that is a wrote along the napa valley floor. if you are driving through the valley locations, be prepared. you may come across patchy, dense log. upper 30s in santa rosa, 34 in fairfield. 47 in san francisco. afternoon highs for toda
area, but around the country. let s hear your reaction. what do you think really happened here? well, we can only talk about we don t know what happened other than the feds did not see anything they can charge him with, so the statute of limitation passed. he is still the chairman of the democratic party and still has tremendous amount of influence in capitol hill. i mean, they call him the mayor of capitol hill. now, what we have lost is a senior leader who would have been chairman of committees from congress. you know, this is a trend where more and more members of congress who are incumbents are dissatisfied with how what the job is, and because it s such a tough job you re all day long reacting to complaints and criticisms by the constituency. there is no result-oriented job anymore because you re not accomplishing much. you re just sort of dealing with crisis and complaints. he did mention partisanship. you know, trey gowdy, congressman brady, many of them
whether the tax, in fact, will be passed along to consumers. that s a double-whammy for folks if in fact they have to pay for it. what do you think, sam? well, this is a very complicated story because it s not just about the tax, it s what the mayor wants to do with the tax. the pre-k initiative that was part of his mayoral campaign is meritorious in every way except implementation. and there are stories that are coming out now about the number of high-quality what are called seats in early childhood education. this is a plan that s being rolled out as we speak. it hasn t been put together. we re talking about a school district that s in serious financial as well as operating stress. so there s a lot going on here. plus, the rec centers and the bond issue. to kenney s credit and i give him credit he laid out his vision and he s put a plan together to try to execute on it. but little by little, there s been cuts of 1,000 little nicks. first it was 3% and there was a tax