County, we want to go live to amanda del castillo, shes in san jose. Amanda. Reporter yeah, todays announcement marks the third confirmed case here in Santa Clara County. As we heard earlier, the second case in the bay area is in Solano County. At a 4 00 press conference today, county Health Officials said the patient, an older adult woman had no known exposure to the virus through travel nor through close contact with a known infected person. County health says the woman was initially hospitalized for a respiratory illness. Her doctor request they test her for the virus, and the results came back last night. Since then the department has been working to find others she may have exposed, but they arent giving specific details about where the woman lives, only confirming she is a resident of the county and contracted this through a community case. Officials say this case is an important one because it signals now is the time to change course. We do need everyone to start thinking about
Facebook. Com cspan. If you are a medicare recipient, we want to know your experience with the program and your thoughts on possible changes. We will begin with House Speaker paul ryan, who has during his legislative career eyed entitlement reform as a way to tackle the nations debt. [video clip] when you talk about entitlement reform, one of the things youre talking about is obamacare. And then welfare as well. We have a welfare system trapping people in poverty, and paying people not to work. Thinking about trying to do any reforms with Social Security or medicare . President trump has not seemed interested in those things. He has not shown as much interest. We are working on entitlements he is supportive of. You cannot use budget reconciliation for Social Security. It is exempt from those rules. It is the healthcare entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt. That is where the problem lies fiscally. Host the speaker of the house thinking medicare is the problem with our natio
Christmas market. He was on germanys watch list and actually detained over the summer. But there was not enough evidence to hold him. The tension created by the berlin attack has made its way into many major cities, including right here in San Francisco. The Police Department acknowledged today it is beefing up patrols around popular destinations like union square. Nbc bay areas robert handa is live in San Francisco with more on the increased Police Presence there. Robert. Reporter well, the increased Police Presence does seem to be helping. We heard that from a lot of people here at the embacadero, as well as union square, including some visitors from germany, who saw the initial reaction from the berlin attack, up close. The family from frankfurt, germany, is in the bay area to visit a relative and joined thousands to union square. Before leaving home, the family saw how police were reacting to the berlin attack. We had police running around, standing there with machine guns, which i
Something in there for everyone. Also tonights meeting a last second attempt to reinstate the kroted artery restraint which is applied to the kroted artery in the neck incapacitates a person but in the end the carotid restraint and the officers firing at moving cars are both banned. But maybe this is not the last word in this debate. The Police Officers association could sue to overturn the ban on shooting at moving vehicles. Much more to come on this one. Live in San Francisco, terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. This should be Getting National attention as well. Thank you, terry. A taxi ride turned out to be a nightmare for a local woman. Cull ixi driver allegedly drove woman to his home and s and ly assaulted her. What uld be many more victim. Nbc bay areas ian joins us from downtown campbell this evening where the woman was picked up. Pen, as you know, this is a hot spot for bars and restaurants. What happened there . Reporter yeah, raj, police say the woman was out drinking with s
We look farther off to the north, there will be another one moving in. So this may slow down your travel plans. Ill talk about that coming up in a few minutes. Mike is checking in on the activity at the bay bridge. We dont have a lot of activity elsewhere around the bay. Very easy drive. A little slowing for 101 throughout san jose. Much lighter than typical. The bay bridge toll plaza, we have metering lights on. Well end with the live look because the lanes are all filled in. It took about ten minutes for the lanes to fill in after the metering lights were turned on. I see flashing lights, but its an oversized load. The flashing lights to let folks know be careful around the truck. It should make its way through the toll plaza. Ill be watching the truck. Hopefully it does or it could clog things up. 6 01. New this morning, there was, until recently, a jaguar plowed into the side of that car. The driver smashed through the front of a thrift store in the east bay. This is a live look at