contra connick county has so far find several businesses. their latest fine was issued wednesday for $1000 despite that the owner plans to stay open. >> i know the county feels the broad sweeping measures may spread the flow of the virus. what i have difficulty with, if i close my business i have to stop paying employees during the holidays. >> we have to protect the public. we don't want to take drastic action unless we absolutely have to because we know businesses are struggling. >> the owner has set up a gofundme so far he has raised $7000. >>> it's not one thing it's another, spare the air in a packed weather conditions are trapping woodsmoke pollution near the ground so starting early monday morning high fire danger coupled with all of this could force pg&e to cut power in parts of the north bay. warnings are up for about 8500 customers in napa and sonoma counties so fire weather in december believed to darren to explain. >> when and where will be the concerning time frames? look how pretty it is out there right now. sunsets not going t

the testimony of the joint committee on the connick of the war for the gettysburg campaign is really spearheaded by some of the most controversial generals danhe union army, with butterfield. they already testify to the joint committee on the conduct of the war. d.c., inin washington, early 1864, to discuss the reorganization of the army. this is march of 1864, right, because the army is going to be we organized. grant is coming. meade is in washington. on the streets, he hears people talking about the investigation going on about his leadership. he did not even know about it. he writes this letter back to his wife, and he says all the courtrooms, all the barrooms, all the conversations on the streets of washington are about my leadership in the gettysburg campaign, so he will end up testifying before the joint committee on the connick of the war. the book you should has a lot of excerpts, a great book, about 15 generals that testify on the whole, and in the end, they are looking to see why gettysburg was not more of a culminating victory, right? we can get into the pursuits. i do no

safe and for businesses it's no different here in new york city the latest victim is club 21 and i connick establishment that is now shutting its doors for good the restaurant has been serving customers for a century there's been some big stars along the way such as novelist ernest hemingway tennis player john mcenroe as well as every sitting president since roosevelt except of course george w. bush and barack obama club $21.00 is not alone small businesses have been devastated some estimates say that as many as 50 percent of them could go under soon but if you have more like a having taken away from them when they finally hired you were not getting any support from anyone in order to save a job pretty well you really need. to brush my teeth i think is getting more and more people out of work and it happened way back in the new york state restaurant association made up of over 6000 operators has many who fear they won't make it through the next 6 months it's carried over one year or every day and we there are some people we have a little bit of business we can do of these 2 little bit more

safe and for businesses it's no different here in new york city the latest victim is club 21 and i connickestablishment that is now shutting its doors the restaurant has been serving customers for a century there's been some big stars along the way such as novelist ernest hemingway tennis player john mcenroe as well as every sitting president since roosevelt except of course george w. bush and barack obama in light of the going global crisis and it dissipated extended recovery period for the hospitality industry the difficult decision was made that it will not be feasible to reopen the 21 club in its current form for the forseeable future club 21 is not alone small businesses have been devastated some estimates say that as many as 50 percent of them could go under soon who is closing 2nd in this country my business is in holds no water no gallery openings and i can't even open my studio. because therapeutic massage is so up close and personal i have only come back to about 40 percent of my previous clientele i am afraid that the gov will shut us down again which will be the end of my busin

you otherwise things are very different we've got no river was a real we've got all of that is like connick landmarks the sydney harbor bridge the opera house which normally is food of international gates and locals who you walk down to watch that far i would describe none of them live there it's all very empty and there are also kuwaitis but the forwards continue it's a shorter celebration this year that's been forced for some months now and a 7 minute show rather than. minutes i think that's probably because the organizers want to see we are hoping that they didn't spend too much money on this at a time when a strike is going to be a financial difficulty but premier gladys berejiklian the premier of new south wales has told everyone to stay home please don't say very and this is all in response to that december 11th outbreak in the north of asia seriously the of course which is made everyone a little bit cautious you know tell us a little bit about the outbreak then moving away from the celebrations if he is in the midst of a covert 19 outbreak how is that affecting life in the city at th

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. >>> i want to go now to michael smerconi smerconish, host of smer connick and john avalon. michael, let's start with the tensions. the biden team said they wanted no holiday pause, one would think there would be no window for a pause given the attack that just happened on this country. what do you make of what's happening. they're not giving any explanation as to why all of these briefings paused, either. >> it's so sad and it's potentially dangerous. partisanship used to stop at the water's edge, we could have our differences as republicans and democrats, liberals and conservatives but we would be united against a common foe. not only is the nation right now subject to a cyber attack, but the department of defense is playing is very lead role with regard to vaccine distribution. there should be no such thing as a holiday. holiday and national security are incompatible with one another. we are not running a gift shop here. >> right. incompatible in any situation and i think it's so important that you raised the defense department's roll in the vaccine rollout because it is

caught up and finished season 2 but there was a huge moment, luke skywalker, one of the most rye connickthat and how did you keep that under wraps? >> it was very tricky because it's very hard to keep a secret nowadays especially with "star wars" because people are so curious and so many involved with the process with visual effects finishing, making it, filming it at the studios, everything, and every leak -- every piece of casting leaked and we were so scared right up nilanjana till it aired that our surprise cameo was going to leak too but we started off the whole series with the baby yoda reveal, with the grogu reseal. that was a secret that everybody was really blown away by and part of that is not telling too many people, not having merchandise that's being tooled up and announced, all that kind of thing and then to have the very last episode to have mark hamill actually on set filming and us using whatever technology we had available to deage him and try to make him as much like he did in the old films -- >> it was an exciting moment. i have to ask you quickly, grogu, where did th