Senate but expect that to happen. Yesterday on the midday news, we were able to say that biden had confirmed that yellen was, indeed, his pick for treasury secretary. Wall street has suspected that for more than a week. She is one of the reasons the stock market has been doing so well. But this morning, as you saw on nbc bay area in that special report a short time ago the president elect made all of this official. The team im announcing today will play a Critical Role in shaping our plan for action starting on day one and move fast to revive this economy. They are going to help me help us, help the country lay out my build back better plan. Its my great honor to have this opportunity to serve you and the american people. And to join this incredible Economic Team at this moment of great challenge for our country. Reporter president elect biden has named neera tanden as the director of office of management and budget. Now, this nomination probably will not get through the republican dom
On facebook, youtube, twitter and from axios. Com. With theollow along axios on twitter. We will unpack how the pandemic has changed the trajectory of healthcare and what is expected over the next four years. Is dr. Robertt blendon, professor of Health Policy at the school of Public Health. He is joining us from boca raton. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Theets Start Talking about Number One Health topic right now, the coronavirus. Lets talk about equities and disparities. Can you outline what are the best things we can do from a policy perspective to help reduce the pain of the pandemic and to reduce the inequities associated over the next few months . Dr. Blendon first i want to be very cautious. A number of things are done under an emergency basis over the next six months. A lot of like and hispanic americans could die. There are a lot of things we can do about race inequity that are really important. I am really worried about the next six months. Americansent black and latino am
You can see just around napa American Canyon and vallejo about a half mile visibility. This is going to drift maybe slightly south and slightly east and the winds are light and variable this morning. Definitely not going to be a big player like it was yesterday. Sunshine will be this afternoon and look at these temperatures 58 the cool spot at Half Moon Bay and 61 in San Francisco and oakland 64 along with san jose and san rafael and napa and 67 today in concord and santa rosa. Ill give you an update on the thanksgiving forecast. Heres reggie. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could go into the purple tier, which is the most restrictive as soon as today. We anticipate some tier movement. A handful of counties moving to a more restribbive tier. Three counties in the red tier but could slide back to purple. San mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the restrictions in the counties in purple. It is necessary to help curve the spread. Watch at abc7news.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell told reporters he was still interested in passing targeted legislation for Coronavirus Relief and he remained focused on the Senate Business and not the president ial election. He spoke from capitol hill after Senate Republicans met behind closed doors for their weekly luncheon with the Vice President in attendance. Good afternoon, everyone. We had a good discussion about wrapping up the next couple of months. I think this is a bipartisan and bicameral desire to get an omnibus appropriation bill as senator shelby gave an extensive report about the work thats going on there. I will be talking to the speaker about that as well. I think both sides think it would be better to do an omnibus appropriations bill before the end of the year rather than another shortterm so hopefully we can get there. On the possibility of another coronavirus package, it seems to me that with 6. 9 unemployment, thirdquarter gdp growth of astonishing proportions that even th
In this edition of the weeks talkers. Watch. Maria when do you expect we will have a name youll hear from the president who his nominee is this week certainly. And theres precedent for this. Unlike the last time around when Justice Scalia passed maria mark, do you think theyre going to be able to come to a vote before the election . I think the vast majority of americans overwhelmingly believe that its this president s pick, and the vast majority that i want that i talk to want someone confirmed before the election. Maria you have Chuck Schumer saying the republicans have no right to fill the seat. The sad part here is how far the democrats have gone. Theyd rather dismantle this nation than dignify the constitution. Maria what do you make of this, anarchistic jurisdictions. He has clearly been the worst mayor in the history of the city. I cant tell you how bads he is, how many things hes done wrong. But it is clear this is an anarchist city. All you need to prove it are the videos of t