think about, you know, possible strategies for moving forward. there is one piece of good news that i ll mention, that in the recent appropriations package to talk about threats to global health could not be more timely. i am pleased to convene the meeting. welcome to the council on foreign relations meeting. i am frances townsend, the executive vice president of worldwide affairs at mcandrews inc. and i will be presiding over today s discussion. i will have the privilege of leading the conversation for 30 minutes, then i will open it up to questions and answers. we will end at 1:30 p.m. these gentlemen are very busy, as you can imagine, dealing with the coronavirus. by looking back , emergingast decade infectious diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it ebola, the zika virus, and now the novel coronavirus. the threat is not dissipating. when it comes to non-disease natural disasters the stafford act provides funds to enable immediate response by and by comp
diseases. sarah: i am pleased to convene the meeting. welcome to today s council on relations meeting. i m the executive vice president of worldwide government legal affairs at mc-andrews and forbes incorporated. i will be presiding over today s discussion. i will have the privilege of for 30 a conversation minutes and i will open it to questions and answers. promptly at 1:30 as you might imagine. very busy emen are right now dealing with coronavirus. so let s just start looking back decade, ghly the past emerging infectious diseases ave played a recurring and minous theme, the h1n1, ebola, zika and the 2019 novel oronavirus, the threat is not dissipating. when it comes to nondisease natural disasters, the act disaster relief funds to enable immediate response by small son, there is infectious disease rapid response reserve fund. stafford act ore like mechanism to enable a research sponse to these new threats? first aybe i ll take the whack at this. because i think that the f
director kadlec. i am pleased to convene the meeting. thank you to today s council on foreign relations meeting. regos-townsend of legal and business affairs. and i will be presiding over today s discussion. i will have the privilege of leading a conversation for 30 minutes. and then i will open it to questions and answers. we will end promptly at 1:30 as you might imagine. these gentlemen are very busy right now dealing with coronavirus. so let s just start. looking back over roughly the past decade, emerging infectious diseases have played an ominous heme being h1n1, ebola, zika and now the novel coronavirus. the threat is not disapating. the stafford act provides disaster relief funds to enable immediate response. o we need a more stafford-act-like mechanism to research these new threats? so maybe i ll take the first whack at this. because i think the feeling in congress in discussions with both house and senate members is that clearly there s a value for having some kin
closer to the coast and closer to the bay itself. you can see visibility is affected all the way towards conquered as well as down the peninsula into the south bay. so another morning with those patches, a very dense fog that you ll be encountering. james, just tell me on his right to work. he hit one of those thicker areas, too. so just be mindful of it. as for radar, you can see that we do have otherwise clear skies once the morning fog burns off much like yesterday. we re in for a day full of sunshine and eventually really mild weather. it s chilly this morning, though, back down into the 30 s and 40 s livermore, dublin conquered as well as much of the north bay. well, down into the 30 s berkeley year at 44 degrees later today, it s a return to the 60 s much as we ve seen so much of lately. i ll be talking anything that may disrupt the steady trend of weather. all still to come. first of all, though, let s get a look at the bridge is where we are seeing some fog. obviously
we re broadcasting on your television, but we re not only there. you can join us live on roku, amazon fire, appear many tv and online. let s get you started with this wednesday morning and take a look at the forecast. meteorologist vianey arana in for kari this morning. thick fog, especially the north bay and down through parts of the south bay. look at san jose, down to about a quarter of a mile in visibility. there s some stretches where you won t get any fog and then there are other areas where you can barely make out what s in front of you. in through napa, as well as the oakland area, san carlos, half moon bay and fog in san francisco. it s also really cold. temperatures are starting out in the 30s in a lot of spots, including morgan hill, 37 degrees, livermore 37, napa 38. so even though we ve got a cool start, we are expecting a mild afternoon. temperatures trending upwards into the 50s and eventually a couple of mid-60s in through the interior valleys. look at wal