Crimes. The gun violence archive finds that there have been nearly 300 Mass Shootings, meaning at least four people shot at once, since this year began. Cnn chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins is with us now. So give us a look at what we expect to hear from the president. Reporter i think, number one, the fact that were hearing from President Biden taking the entire day at the white house to focus on this publicly shows that the white house is wanting to look like President Biden is on top of this, that he is taking steps to address the spike in Violent Crime that youve seen happening in several cities across the u. S. So thats why hes sitting down with the attorney general, with those Law Enforcement agencies and mayors to talk about this. Whats important, though, is what were going to hear from President Biden is he is viewing all of this through the lens of gun violence. That is primarily going to be his focus when he comes out a few moments from now to address this. One
Lamar williams, and mr. President and madam clerk, i would like the opportunity to share a few words on mr. Williams after supervisor walton did his in memoriam as he has deep ties to both district five and district 10. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. While i didnt have the honor of knowing tui, so many people that i care about cared so much about her, and i just wanted to express my condolences to her husband and family as well as to our colleague, sonny angulo. What a tremendous loss. In addition, im introducing a resolution today, urging Governor Newsom and the department of Public Health to prioritize californias Public School educators for phase one vaccine access. In the early stages of this pandemic, San Francisco and other communities across the state closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus across our community. Schools responded by instantly switching to Online Learning
Decision to extend federal funding past the december 11 deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown. Your watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Bay black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who in your wisdom has so ordered our earthly lives that we must walk by faith and not by sight, increase our trust in your sovereign care. Remind our lawmakers that no problem is too difficult for you to solve. Lord, give our senators a faith th triumphs over despair, love that triumphs over hate, and courage that triumphs over faintheartedness. Empower them to be bold participants rather than timid spectators in meeting the daunting challenges of these times. We we pray in our powerful name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I edge allegiance to the fla of the United States of erica, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
Louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing the good hand hygiene and with all of this we have to have a program of smart testing and im sure we will talk a
November alone about one quarter of all us cases since the pandemic began. More than 256,000 people have awesome that died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in the bay area. Local Health Departments now reporting 185 new cases of covid19. Nearly 139,000 cases have been reported in 1900 deaths have been recorded here in the bay area since the start of the pandemic california seeing 14,000 new cases today. The states Positivity Rate over the past 2 weeks has now jumped to more than 5 . With cases skyrocketing all across america tonight, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Now strongly warning folks not to travel for the holidays. The cdc says the safest way to celebrate thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people that you live with yet the tsa says friday and saturday. Where the busiest day since the pandemic brought air travel to a near halt in march and wednesday and sunday are expected to be the busiest travel days of t