Overwhelms hospitals. The news at 6 00 starts right now. Good evening. Thanks so much for joining usch im anousha rosta. Im terry mcsweeney. Some hope tonight as the first batch of vaccines is about to get shipped to states across the country. It comes just as hospitals continue to be overwhelmed. In the San Joaquin Valley hospitals have run out of icu beds. Here in the bay area were just teetering above that 15 threshold. The county joins marin, San Francisco, contra costa, alameda and santa clara counties. The new restrictions impacts wineries, tasting rooms and much, much more. Heres nbc bay areas christie smith. Reporter its the first full day of the changes here in Sonoma County. Weve been speaking with businesses. Some say they do notice fewer people out and about. Others say it was already pretty quiet before this. So were surrounded by wineries and restaurants. Its a huge part of what draws people to sonoma. The shop is open and ready for business, but they do notice a differen
Each term aches landfall in the u. S. State of florida after killing dozens of people in Central America. Where the transition to a joe biden presidency in the United States is gathering pace with some key decisions already made the president elect has announced this task force to tackle what he says this is top priority the coronavirus pandemic is cochaired by dr David Kessler who served on the bush and clinton administrations on sunday biden visit a Church Cemetery where Family Members are buried including his late son donald trump spent the day playing golf and side washington and is still refusing to concede defeat his campaign is planning legal challenges and states vary hes dismissing the counting of votes where World Leaders including israels Binyamin Netanyahu and saudi Arabias Mohammed and sound man have congratulated joe biden while former u. S. President s and republican george w. Bush also sent his. Swishes well heres some more of what george bush had to say in that notes p
Will allow for the elevation of the voices of science to curb the spread of the disease and that this task force will be working with state and local officials to allow for schools and businesses to reopen so this is a clear agenda promise that was made on the campaign trail by joe biden and comma harris they would make this a top priority donald trump is still refusing to concede defeat his team is preparing legal challenges to some of the kind some battleground states that favor joe biden fellow republican and former president s george w. Bush says the fault was fair. A new round of talks on libya is getting underway in june disease capital 75 libyan representatives have been invited symbolizing the 75th anniversary of the United Nations which is leaving discussions the talks are a way to set up the groundwork for possible elections. Turkey has congratulated us or belligerents president says his forces have seized an important city in the disputed nagornokarabakh region shusha is the
Disease and that this task force will be working with state and local officials to allow for schools and businesses to reopen so this is a clear agenda promise that was made on the campaign trail by joe biden and Camila Harris that they would make this a top priority but make no mistake about it there will be other Top Priorities for this Transition Team as well including how to hit the ground running following inauguration to do a number of the trumpet ministrations policies including rejoining the Paris Climate Accord rejoining the World Health Organization and even on doing parts of the travel ban for a handful of muslim majority countries so its very clear in the statement being made by this team is that they want to have drastically different policies beginning on day one. 0 meanwhile donald trump is still refusing to concede defeat his team is preparing legal challenges to some of the counts in battleground states that favored biden that are republican and former president george
The shift we saw in washington yesterday about 4 00 p. M. We dont need to be on this all day. Every other network is going to cover it up and sideways come but this this is original actions by a president of the United States, really reminiscent of what we saw in 1876. It is a story our Washington Team will cover. This election of 2020 continues. Jonathan that tuesday night still continues in some ways. The news of the last 15 minutes is on the vexing front. Pfizer on the vaccine front. Pfizer set to file today for emergency other ration emergency authorization use. Think that has been the sequence, and each time there is a lesser market reaction. Jonathan i tugofwar continues. If we think about the tugofwar right now, the tension is phenomenal. On the one side, the darkening near term outlook because of the restrictions in the of the economy, and then the brightening forward outlook it can get vaccinations started in month. In the last 24 hours, the Federal Reserve and the treasury se