All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
Well, we begin with a holdup in the traditionally smooth transition of power after joe biden declared victory in the president ial election. Bidens team is threatening legal action against the federal agency overseeing the transition process. It accuses a top administrator of not freeingng up money and access to agencies. Meantime, President Trump has yet to concede over unproven allegations of voter fraud. Deborah alfarone is in washington. Why arent Administration Officials cooperating . Reporter well, annemarie, the person who oversees that federal agency you were talking about, her name is emily murphy, and she was appointed by President Trump. The president hasnt conceded. Hes continuing to vow that hes going to have his legal fight, right . So this really is unprecedented that murphy wouldnt sign the paperwork that would essentially start the transition process, but as you know, 2020, unprecedented here. President elect joe biden urged americans to come together to fight the coro
No nationwide lockdown thats the message from President Trump as the feds deal with a growing list of hot spots around the country and why the white house is saying it wants to cut any deal between microsoft and chinas tiktok it wants a piece of the action tuesday, august 4, 2020. Good morning im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan today kicking off your Tuesday Morning with some stock instability. The dow down some 40 points, the nasdaq down 40 points as well. The s p off by 18 points the market rallied after capping off a win streak the dow rallied more than 400 points as you are seeing in this time lapse from yesterday. The index hitting another alltime high with the 29th record close of the year so far. The tech sector broadly higher closing in on its alltime high as well. The S P Technology center up 24 gains year to date sales force, microsoft, facebook, take two interactive, qualcomm apple, after a more than 10 gain on friday closing up another 2. 5 , the stock is now just Percent
Order ending preferential trt for hong kong and said he would sanction chinese officials responsible for crackdown on political dissent. He has taken this opportunity to attack everything from what he calls the china virus, the who, and his democratic rival joe biden. Of course, he has taken the chance to really talk up market gains we have seen recently. Absolutely, and talking about the prospects to get a vaccine in the u. S. And what he says will be record time. A pretty wide range of issues being focused about by the president. We will continue to dip back in as we get lines, but lets get some context. Mario, a pretty wideranging array of topics being addressed by the president. It is really just to the drumbeat of escalating tensions and tit for tats we are seeing between washington and beijing. Absolutely. You described it perfectly. Months, the Trump Administration has been pantomiming that he is going to be tougher on china. He has increasingly pointed to china as the reason fo
A look at this video watch this see this what youre seeing right there is an oil tanker from iran in open waters heading for venezuela and as you can see in the video its being escorted by a venezuelan mabel warship youre going to see that just as we pull out here hold on there it is see it right there now why would an oil tanker need to be as score did buy a gun ship right and the reason is this the United States has threatened to stop the tankers from reaching venezuela a country where citizens are waiting in line for hours because theres a shortage of fuel so let me show you im out of what were talking about thats taking place here heres heres a map of 5 ships that are making their way all the way from over here in iran. To vent as well. And the 1st 2 ships by the way the fortune and the forest theyve already arrived in venezuela and the remaining ships thats the petunia faxon and the gavel clavell sorry all 3 of those are still in midocean theyre following behind they could arrive