Narrow vote to advance the nomination this afternoon. Live coverage when centers return on cspan2. House Democratic Caucus leaders talked to reporters about their goals during the current lameduck session in preparation for the next congress in january. Good morning everyone, thank you for your patience. Good to be back here in the United States capital. Weve had our first caucus meeting this morning, we did it virtually. Subsequent to the november elections, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them and the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north, south, east and west and other incredibly diverse plans that we have to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before, more africanamericans, more latinos, or asian americans, more members of the lgbt q community, to muslim americans. Women, two native american women serving in congress for the first time in history and our
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2020] House Democrats also held a News Conference today. This runs half an hour. Mr. Jeffries good morning, everyone. Thank you for your patience. Its great to be back here in the United States capitol. We had our first caucus meeting this morning. We did it virtually. Subsequent to the november elections, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them. And the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north, the south, the east and the west and other another incredibly diverse class that will add to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before. More africanamericans. More latinos. More asian americans. More members of the lgbtq community. Two Muslim American women. Two native american women bot
Had yesterday. Heres a live shot of alcatraz was San Francisco behind it to just a little bit that was behaves there do want point out a little bit up north you might get a stray shower potentially were talking north of Sonoma County. Getting up there. It may drift a little bit to the south you might see some scattered clouds throughout the day but basically want to go with mostly sunny for much of the geography. Chilly 30s up there in the north bay again this morning, although not quite as bad as yesterday 35 up there to napa 36 santa rosa, 37 in 40s fell out much of the rest of the geography of the 37 Half Moon Bay at 11 00am were at 6068 by 2 oclock coming up a little bit were time out what you can expect into early next week marty sounds good dave get to the news this morning. We have the latest for you on the coronavirus pandemic that continues to surge across the country over the past week, the virus has claimed the lives of more than 1000 people a day. The u. S. Has recorded its
You. But then tomorrow, those big changes because were going to add rain to the the cold weather. Today were going to be washington oregon getting some of this rain that were seeing developing out of the Pacific Northwest and then by early tomorrow morning during the morning commute looks like. Thats going to start to see a somewhat weather touchdown. For the bay area were going to see that rainfall continue tuesday night and then even getting into wednesday as well so the next couple of days when a pack that umbrella toss them in the car and definitely have that rain jacket handy. Let you know how much rainfall. Were expecting and how windy it is going to be getting in your neighborhood. Coming up in just a bit at least 2 days commute is nice and dry yes, thank by the way i have one umbrella at home i keep one of the car and one at work because i always forget my umbrella, some a matter where i am i have an extra one checking in on the traffic here taking a look at 80 into San Francis
We have a Stringent Health and safety standard right now. We will have to raise that higher to be able to bring our schools back, and that is what we intend to do. We will have to focus more on testing. I want to emphasize testing is going to be crucial to the successful reopening of our schools. And everyone has to get engaged even more in testing. I guarantee you part of the plan will be an even heavier emphasis on testing, and therefore want to say to everybody in the stool School Communities we need to get the testing consent forms in this moment of pause. We need to get ready to come back and get the consent forms and so we can get into an even deeper testing regime. The state, the governor and i spoke. Some of the additional measures were laid out that the state will be taking quite soon in new york city. Across the board that will affect a number of different industries, different parts of life of this city, because we are dealing with a bigger problem all over new york city and