Lower access to quality treatment when they are infected, and tragically, higher mortality rates. One in 1000 black americans have died from this virus. This is a staggering statistic, and 57 of black adults, 46 of latino adults know someone who has died or been hospitalized by this disease. Folks, we have lost more than 220,000 lives in this virus already, but this administration has given up. Over the weekend, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, went on television and admitted that they wave the white flag and declared surrender. He said, we are not going to control the pandemic. The American People deserve so much better than this. Look at what happened last night in omaha, after the trump rally ended. Hundreds of people including old americans and children were stranded in subzero freezing temperatures for hours. Several folks ended up in the hospital. Its an image that captured President Trumps whole approach this crisis. He takes a lot of big pronouncements, he makes a
Joe biden good afternoon, everyone. Let me say to the press, im going to make a short statement here and going over to vote with my wife. I will be happy to take your questions after i vote. I just completed another Public Health briefing with my team of Public Health experts. We looked at the latest reported data and how it indicates that we are on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than anything we experienced to date. We talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by the administrations declaration of surrender to the virus. We discussed the vital importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbors, and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political. Its patriotic. Wearing a mask. Wear one. Period. We focused on the way this virus is hitting communities of color much harder, particular black, latino and native american commun
Spike in cases across the u. S. We looked at the latest reported data how we are on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than anything we experienced to date. We talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by the administrations declaration of surrender to the virus. We discussed the vital importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbor and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political. It is patriotic. Wearing a mask p, where one,eriod. We focused on the weight this virus is hitting communities of latinoparticular black, and native american communities. We are seeing racebased disparities across the aspect of this virus, higher infection rates lower access to testing and harder time quarantining safely because of their financial circumstances. Lower access to quality treatment when they are infected and tragically, higher mor
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Look at fire danger. And len and michelle, tracking offshore winds, especially in the Higher Elevations, a big concern for us as we head through today, tomorrow and through actually the rest of the week. So checking wind gusts so far. Mount diablo, one of the strongest gusts of 55 miles per hour. Knoxville of 39, looking at 36, cold spring mountain. Mount st. Helena. 32 for the oakland hills. So a red flag warning in effect for all of our bay area hills and mountains. For our Higher Elevations. And really watching up to 2,000 to 3,000 feet. So were looking at the north bay mountains, east bay hills and valleys. Diablo range. And the San Mateo County coast. Under the red flag warning now until 8 00 a. M. Due to gusts up to 40 and 50 miles per hour. Again, mount diablo, talking 55 mileperhour wind gusts. Cooler for today, our temperatures are anywhere from 2 to 10 dueling degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. Youre looking at daytime highs, about several degrees. So well talk more