Tomorrow night. The stricter rules are being implemented because theyre trying to slow the continuing spread of coronavirus infections. Ive been concerned at how quickly it has skyrocketed. Two weeks ago, we were seeing about 3. 9 to 4. 2 of everyone tested being positive, and we were very concerned that we reached this 8 benchmark. We set a cap at 8 , and now that weve reached that, we realized we need to scale back, keep the community safe, and really encourage people to take these additional safeguards so we can slow the spread. Reporter now, Health Officials are also keeping close tabs on the number of intensive care unit beds available in the county. Right now, about half of the 209 beds are in use either from covid cases or other cases and this recent spread of infections in the county obviously is prompting concerns about the future, the near future availability of those icu beds. Reporting live in lafayette, im sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Sergio, thanks very much. Lets
Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Edward lawrence live in d. C. And edward, we start with you. Reporter a hiccup in the implementation of usmca threatened to cause tensions between the two countries over the agreement. It caused mexicos top trade negotiator to come here to washington, d. C. To meet with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer to work this all out. Because of concerns and that meeting, the u. S. Trade representative, allayed fears. Basically mexico was concerned that the u. S. Could force them into accepting up to five inspectors into their mexican factories and u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer in a letter today saying those were not actually inspectors. Theyre attaches, attached to the u. S. Embassy here in the United States. So those attaches would offer technical guidance and expertise to the mexicans, not inspections. Adding that any compliance verification would be done by an independent panel with help from representatives from mexico and the u. S. The undersecretary says his fear
Is. The way we defeat donald trump and everybody up here by the way is united, no matter who wins this damn thing. We are all going to stand together to defeat him. [cheers and applause] keep waiting for you. Pete all right, take your Blood Pressure down after that. Good morning, welcome to the saturday edition of fox friends. Come on in. Here we go. Its been a big week, long week. Look who is here Jason Chaffetz and emily compagno. Emily happy saturday. So happy to have you with us. What did you think about the debate . Jason highlight reel oficallofcliches. I think donald trump is stronger politically today than he has ever been. And i keep saying that week after week. I think he gets stronger and stronger. This is a divided field. This is somebody who is looking for a leader. This is a group that i think is headed towards a brokered convention. I really do. Pete i think you are right. Watching it visually, such a big stage. And then these little bitty seven podiums. If thats your i
Announcing today it has charged 50 people, 50, in a widespread and longrunning bribery scheme to get their kids into some of the countrys most elite clejts and universities colleges and universities. It is the Largest College admissions scam ever prosecuted by the justice department. Those facing charges, ceos, athletic coaches at some of these elite schools, insiders at the s. A. T. Or a. C. T. Testing centers, and obviously affluent parents, including Academy Award nominee Felicity Huffman and full house Actress Lori Loughlin. Prosecutors unveiled what theyve dubbed operation varsity blues this morning in boston, saying an admissions consultant by the name of William Rick Singer was at the center of this vast scheme. A central defendant in the scheme, william singer, will plead guilty today to charges of racketeering, conspiracy, Money Laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice. Between roughly 2011 and 2018, wealthy parents paid singer