Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
In Santa Clara County tonight is the last late night at the random lounge the popular bar and restaurant in san jose has been serving cocktails recently outside until 2 in the morning. Owner tony griffis calls this new curfew counterproductive. If the real culprit here is private gatherings that maybe instead of targeting bars. We target costco safeways and liquor stores. And see if we can cut alcohol sales, there. For now the curfew will be in effect until at least december 21st in all of the counties in that most restrictive purple tier as of tonight. All of the bay area counties are in purple except for murray in san mateo and San Francisco and that could soon change in San Francisco has covid19 cases and hospitalizations. Continue to soar kron fours dan kerman explains what could change in the citys soon as this sunday. San francisco is losing its battle against covid19. Her current case place us on a trajectory to be in the purple tier, potentially as early as sunday. During an on
I want members to know that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantive substantive debate, even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with the Ranking Member mr. Smith and his staff to ensure that the rights of all members are respected in this new virtual format. Before i turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their fiveminute statement. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally, we have several members who are waving on to the subcommittee for todays hearing. Given the large number i will recognize members in an
Good afternoon, everyone. During the briefing last week and it means the other times before, i said the health and safety of missourians is our first priority. This will always be true for me as governor. I also said that we must begin to increase our focus on economic recovery as we move forward. When we developed our show me strong recovery plan, we based this on four essential pillars to give us a benchmark Going Forward. The Health Care System capacity, and Public Health data. Reopening the economy was especially dependent on Health Care System capacity, and we have met that pillar. The other three pillars were also critical to reopening, and we continue to monitor those on a daily basis. As i said yesterday, testing will continue to be a priority as we move forward. We will have we have the teststing capacity and now we mt find ways to use that capacity to test as many people as we can. 7, we have tested over 154,000 missourians that have been tested for covid19. Of these tests, a
A beautiful picture of San Francisco in the east bay and alleges the bay bridge in San Francisco comp we will talk about the warm up underway in a few minutes. As we come in, we do want to say that some of us that are one other the mothers and wives that are mothers are nervous. Cannot just go shopping anywhere. Some of the mothers day things that you do normally like take her to brunch are not on the table this year. I will start with you, maybe you can give me a suggestion as other i think in my family were trying to be close to our mom. One of the four siblings, and we live in the bay area. Were arranging a text drive by porch visit type thing. At one point or another, we will be in livermore on sunday. Just, you know, that hug that you normally give and get from mom will not be there. Thats a rough one. Mike, what about you . Well, my mother lives us with and my family. Its like a double whammy. The question is on that i need to deliver, so the plan here moving forward is, you know