damián trujillo: buenos días y bienvenidos a comunidad del valle; soy damián trujillo.en el programa hoy, chusma house publications, una nueva película de charley trujillo, en su comunidad del valle. [música] y comenzamos con los esfuerzos educacionales en el distrito escolar east side de san josé; con nosotros de la mesa directiva, la vicepresidenta de la mesa directiva de east side, lorena chávez, aquí en comunidad del valle; lorena, bienvenida al programa otra vez. lorena chávez: hola, muchas gracias damián, gracias por invitarme; estoy muy agradecida de tener la oportunidad de hablar con ustedes sobre importantes temas, y para informarles a, a nuestra comunidad, de lo que está pasando sobre, en el distrito de east side. damián trujillo: perfecto, comenzamos, bueno, ¿cómo les ha ido este año escolar, después de un año y más, de estar en aprendizaje de distancia; cómo les ha ido en el distrito east side, en las high schools, con este aprendizaje, ahora en persona? lorena chávez: sí, pues lo has dicho, damián, aprendizaje tras aprendizaje, esa es la palabra del año; es

damián trujillo: no, pero, bastante, me imagino.una manera de educar la gente sobre diferentes temas; históricamente, los murales en méxico durante la revolución, y también artistas como siqueiros, rivera, posadas; pintar los murales porque mucha de la gente no podía leer, y querían inspirarlos a la revolución; con ese sentimiento y ese sentido, también pintamos murales ahora en la mission. damián trujillo: ¿y qué se siente que tu trabajo esté en este libro nuevo, que también proyecta las imágenes de otros murales en el-- carlos gonzales: ah, mucho orgullo, tengo mucho orgullo, y también me sale más trabajo. damián trujillo: de verdad que sí; el mensaje que quieras tú, que quizás los que vean este libro, no solamente el mural tuyo, sino los demás que están aquí; el mensaje que quieras que ellos reciban. carlos gonzales: bueno, este, no más es pa' darle el sabor de la mission, porque no, no más tiene fotos de los murales, pero también capturó el barrio, los restaurantes, las fruterías, a todos los lugares que, que mucha gente conoce,

damian: boy.eems like the theory there in east side is to--you know, to do the in classroom instruction for all these students, but it doesn't end there. once they graduate, "next think of where we're going to go next." lorena: one hundred percent, yes. damian: yeah. lorena, any final thoughts that you'd like to add? i know i've asked you a lot of questions. anything that you want to add about the district? lorena: no, we're doing a lot of great things. you know, coming back from the pandemic was something new for everyone, but just being able to see how our staff and our students and our community has engaged, it gives me a lot of hope. and i encourage people to get involved, right, because your voice matters. you are part of the community and you make up all the great things that happen. so i want to encourage the families and community members to get involved, to come to our board meetings. we'd love to hear from everyone. damian: that's great. well, you know, the challenges are many for every

damian: i'm asking a very similar question.ed has never hiked rates before and left policy rates in negative territory on an inflation-adjusted until the real policy rate goes positive. this time, look where we are. it is anyone's guess as to where they go and where they stop. kailey: we are self of 1.50%. that is about 50 basis points shy of where the consensus was coming into this year. yields remaining firmly lower. also moving higher come of the santa claus rally is here. volume is light, but that is what we are looking at. guy brought up an interesting point. when we think about the monetary policy reaction function, the fed can't address supply chain issues. it can't print ships. what it can do is affect demand. let's talk more about consumption and demand with simeon siegel, managing director at bmo capital markets. he does a great job of covering capital. do you see any signs that consumer tolerance for higher prices is fading? simeon: good morning. i thing it is a great question. i think that starting in 2008, the cons

damian: the dollar is what drives e.m.'s talk about the dollar that rallies and pretty much all environments. that's typically not a good thing in emerging markets. your guess is as good as mine where the dollar is heading next. my bet is that it is true bullish -- it is structurally bullish and it is a battle we will have to fight in the next year. kailey: the question is, once we get to the end of the taper and we start the hiking cycle, what happens to the trajectory of the dollar after that? guy: a lot will depend on what happens in europe. certainly that is going to be a huge factor. i think it is a sign that everybody needs to consider. i keep coming back to this. the equity market performers this year, you can bring it up and figure out what the currency adjustment story looks like. it is absolutely massive in terms of the impact it has had. euro stoxx 50 this year, if you are a dollar investor, if you invested in europe this year is a dollar investor, you have made 10.63% in the euro stoxx 50. you have made nearly

damian: u.s. treasuries, we have not seen two consecutive years of negative total returns and i think that is what is coming in 2022. we are having a negative year here and i think we will see the same in 2022 considering the path of rate hikes. kailey: the question is when that shows up. i am looking at a 10-year treasury yield south of 150. i do not think coming into this year anyone thought we would be that low aside from steve major. anna: absolutely. maybe we will get steve back on to talk about one week -- where we go in 2022. we got up to 1.7 and that time we were all thinking it was playing save, and it did not turn out that way. kailey: tech is doing very well this morning. nasdaq futures are up .2%. just shy of the 4700 level. the 10 year yield sitting at 147. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: with the first word news. the supreme court will hold a session to weigh challenges to two biden administration policies covering vaccine requirements. the announcement that it will hear arguments in th

damian, finally. i'd like to go to china. _ very much. damian, finally.mperatures will drop. the weekend overall is exactly the opposite. it will be turning milder, and we have cloud and rain on the way. this is what we've had recently. we've had this gap in the clouds. this window of bright weather. that's friday's weather. the weather front is approaching. it's a warm front. you can see it approaching ireland during the early hours of saturday. ahead of it, we have clear skies, so that frost developing in many central and eastern areas. —1 or two degrees. at this stage, the weather will be turning milder as this air arrives from the southwest. the reason for it is this undulating pattern in the jet stream. spinning up the low pressure here, and that is dragging in the mild airfrom the pressure here, and that is dragging in the mild air from the south. outbreaks of rain, yes, mild relatively, but it will be particularly appealing out there. where you have the 12 degrees, seven degrees, and the east, it's a cloudy picture with outbreaks of rain on and off

damian: what a great question.an, how the yuan performs relative to its trading partners, is trading at the same levels we saw when we had the valuation in 2015. that is a risk. think that is probably what kit is flagging today. china local government bonds are up 8% year-to-date. find me another fixed income asset class were you can find an 8% total return in dollars. you are not going to find it anywhere. so a lot of it is driven by dollar strength but -- by dollar-yuan strength. jonathan: damian, thank you, sir. this currency is the mystery of foreign-exchange for me. if you told me we would get a 6% , 7% move on dollar index, and then said where the chinese currency is in that, howdy people would have said stronger against the u.s. dollar? tom: it is a mystery, and my answer is it is manipulated. it is not a fixed currency. i would suggest there is heavy manipulation. what i am really upset about, i look at the what a great question scored today, and you are killing me and kailey. [laughter] jonathan: lisa just

food security was the goal, and we've been working on that for 22 months, as damian said. >> >> damianean for your efforts and your organization? >> well, this would be a godsend for all off families. as othon mentioned, they pay through the system, but receive zero of the benefits, federal stimulus, things like that. so between child care and housing especially, now that the moratorium will end in march coming up, we're afraid that people will be getting evicted. we're working hard to make sure they can catch up on back rend financially to avoid those types of things. >> othon, this started as a small venture, but i understand now you're feeding over 1,000 people. how are you able to keep up with the demand? >> initially we used our own money to buy groceries for families. quickly our friends and loved once, colleagues started donating. we applied for an llc, got our tax-exempt status as a 501 c. we previously turned our lives as consultants into a positive things. our former clients are now other ben factors, and we write every grant application that we can. the important thing, is,

damian: it is amazing. only economy on the planet do have rates in the face of rising inflation. ppi prices have risen. we will see that off a little bit. when they announced ppi should,, little bit of justification in the rates. guy: come back to the rrr in more detail. what happens if this does not generate a response from the foreign exchange market, not enough to interrelate to interrelate the property sector. the did -- to they do more? is there more coming? are there different levers to pull? we were calling for -- damian: we were calling for this 50 got the last month and we are calling for another 50 to 100 again. i think at the end of the day you make a great point. it is doing everything it can, it is allowing property shares to stay in the interbank market. a lot of things are changing for better in the property sector, but 300 billion and liabilities for evergrande, those are the two big stalwarts. we need to see restructuring take place to get through this initial wave of madness. alix: that is

damian: that is great to play that out.ing party of which erdogan is a member is pu -- is polling at their approval rates at the lowest on record. at this point, they have control of all of turkey's government infrastructure, so if we don't believe in the central bank, how can we believe in free and fair voting? i still don't see any real recipe for us to get out of this mess anytime soon. guy: i remember also that incident where apparently there may have been a coup, there may not have been a coup. it will be interesting to see how this regime change story works. it could get really messy. thank you very much, indeed. damian sassower of bloomberg intelligence, greatly appreciated. around four minutes to go to the end of regular trading. this is the picture we currently find ourselves with. we have the ftse, dax, cac 40 all down. we got slower first thing this morning. we have gone sideways since then. we have watched the oil story developed and then fade out of the markets. we will deal with the details in just a moment. t

damian: awesome question.from bloomberg economics they are thinking somewhere in the order of 550 to 800 basis points. i do not think it will work. i do not think anything will work except change at the top, especially in blue of -- in lieu of erdogan comments on islam. it is clear what he is trying to do in this experimental economic policy. it is not working. guy: in terms of thinking more broadly about this, what is the regional risk? we have talked about the fact there has been not much contagion from turkey. turkey sits at a critical geopolitical juncture. it is europe, it is asia come it is migrants. thinking about how russia will act next. as you start to think about the contagion risk, how are you thinking about it? damian: it seems to be contained . a lot of foreign investors have learned their lesson. their positioning is very light. i do not see any spill over in the true sense of the word where you will see a financial market contagion in terms of asset valuations, in terms of spreads rising come e

damian: this is really isolated.the reserve positioning across the whole of emerging markets, 18 of them have seen their reserves go up over the better part of the last 18 months since the pandemic. any reports relative to money supply, turkey is in a very different situation. is going to be week earlier a, how does that affect the banks and spillover into the broader double financial market, which appears to be limited given bank balances and the like. jonathan: you take any confidence that the move is only about 1% or 2% of the back of what happened overnight? does that tell you about may be the exhaustion of selling the turkish lira? damian: not really. there's really no speculation. we have cpi coming in tomorrow. it is going to be at 20%. the one week repo rate is now i 15%. the current account surplus has come down and just the last two quarters. the economy is in trouble, and we are seeing a bit of unrest on the streets. the akp, erdogan's ruling party is at an all-time low. it is not good for turkey, but not

damian, finally. i'd like to go to china, too, and the situation in xinjiang.illion peple there. i think what's significant, chaired by seniorjudge tribunal like... not a formal court, found this amounted to under any legal justification, genocide. thank you all very much. that's dateline for this week. we'll see you next time next week. goodbye. hello, hello, everyone, i hope you're doing all right. now, most of us will notice temperatures rising across the uk today, but those rising temperatures will come courtesy of a weather front which, in turn, will also bring some rain, so there is your headline for the weekend. yes, turning milder, but rain at times. let's have a look at the air mass. you can see the blue colours being replaced by the warmer tones, the yellows, the oranges. this triangle here is called the warm sector. you can see it drawing up the milder air from the south. where you see the line, that is the boundary, that is the weather front. and that is what's bringing us this. moving in from the west this morning, continuing on itsjourney, as we h

damian trujillo: hello, and welcome to "comunidad del valle." i am damian trujillo; and today, chusma house publications and my tocayo, charley trujillo, on your "comunidad del valle." ♪♪♪ cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.abercap.com damian: and we begin today with an update on the great things that are happening in the east side union high school district of san jose. lorena chavez is a trustee with east side. she's with us on the show. lorena, welcome back to "comunidad del valle." lorena chavez: thank you. thank you so much for having me. i'm really, really grateful to have the opportunity to engage with our community today. damian: yeah, i know there's a lot of great things that are doing. unfortunately, sometimes we only cover the negative ones, but let's do the positive this time.

damian, finally. i'd like to go to china, too, and the situation in xinjiang.lion peple there. i think what's significant, chaired by seniorjudge tribunal like... not a formal court, found this amounted to under any legaljustification, genocide. thank you all very much. that's dateline for this week. we'll see you next time next week. goodbye. hello there. the second half of the weekend is going to remain fairly unsettled. a lot of cloud around on sunday but one thing you will notice, particularly in england and wales, is it will be very mild indeed. further north there will be outbreaks of rain tied in with this area of low pressure, keeping a watch on this area of low pressure, it is going deepen as it passes the north—west of the uk to bring gales, even severe gales, to the far north—west of scotland. but it will bring some rain to the north and west and it will scoop up very mild air across much of the country, particularly for england and wales. we start sunday on a rather cloudy note. some mist and low cloud, a bit of drizzle as well, some brightness brea

damian, finally. i'd like to go to china, too, and the situation in xinjiang.ignificant this week in london, chaired by senior judge tribunal like — not a formal court, but like one — found this amounted to under any legaljustification, genocide. thank you all very much. that's dateline for this week. we'll see you next time next week. goodbye. hello there. it was noticeably mild today right across the country, but particularly so for england and wales. now, we look to the north—west through this evening and overnight. this deep area of low pressure — small system but very vigorous, passing to the north—west of the uk — will bring a spell of gales to northern ireland and in towards scotland as well. stormy conditions for the hebrides and the northern isles, perhaps severe gales for a time, some blustery showers. it will turn a bit drier here by the end of the night but for england and wales, it'll stay cloudy with outbreaks of rain, certainly through wales and into the midlands. mild in the south — double figure values here. a little bit cooler further north. a

our political correspondent damian grammaticas is here.l us about the extra funding and about the challenges faced by borisjohnson in the coming days. that is right, the money we know that government is saying it is doubling this funding. the scottish government say they are asking for urgent clarification about whether this was new money or an advance on funding which they would have expected anyway. there was a meeting this afternoon between the devolved administrations and london, we were thinking signals might come from that but we're hearing that was not really about restrictions but had to deal with the fallout of staff shortages in that kind of thing. nicola sturgeon tweeted afterwards saying she wanted urgent decisions to be made but the prime minister is under pressure from all sides. the health secretary says they need to take in many different things, not just the science advice but other things into the picture too, the impact of any new lockdown and of course the mps are saying lockdown should not be a choice that the governme

it is always good news to have damian sassower join us on em.t to focus on the unraveling of mr. erdogan. it becomes about the people of turkey and we are seeing that on this friday morning. with turkish lira depreciation through 17, i have the turkish stock market up 43% and down 37% year to date in u.s. dollar. it is beginning to unravel. what does that signal for mr. erdogan? damian: not much good. there may be a call for an early election. the elections are scheduled for june 2023, a lot of people calling for a regime change. we had forecast growth in 2022 of something north of 3%, that is out the door. annual inflation we hope to remain around 20%. that is out the door. unemployment at 11%. things are going to get worse. tom: the history you and i studied, our global institutions to the rescue. can the world bank, the international monetary fund, president biden, can they rescue mr. erdogan? they can but they will not. turkey is a different animal altogether. think about how many locals have money sitting offshore. when the lira declines, t

let's discuss with damian sassower. china, evergrande, default.een waiting for that word for a wild -- for a while. what next? damian: the news everyone has been waiting for. evergrande restricted default overnight. that is about $30 billion in offshore bond. to me, it is going to be prioritizing creditors. if you look at our friends at marathon, ubs, allianz, blackrock, they probably have very low expectations on what they're going to get paid back, after the risk committee was formed. they are going to prioritize employees, homeowners, suppliers, and offshore creditors are going to be bottom of the stack. so what is the recovery on these bonds for offshore creditors? lisa: the bar is pretty low. people are having pretty low expectations. i do wonder, if you take a step back, what this means in terms of how china will handle a restructuring. this is the first really major restructuring at a time when we have kind of cast aside fears of contagion. the government seems to be trying to step in, but there is a larger message for the chinese credit ma

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alix: sarcasm from damian sassower. one of only two emerging markets are cutting rates. the lira is now a 5.7%. that is 52% down your to date. -- year to date. erdogan said they would be raising the minimum wage by 50% next year. in dollar terms that means 40% of the workforce in turkey will be getting paid $275 per year, up from $186 on a dollar adjusted basis. it was as high as $380. you could expect to see the 11% unemployment rate in turkey going from here because employers are not going to pay that. it is bad news ahead, it is bad for the economy. erdogan is doing everything he possibly can to right the ship ahead of the june 2023 elections , when his power will be called into question. guy: it is a strange one. let's talk about the banking sector. is the banking sector still able to handle this, because that is critical. damian: i just had a call and he told me if the lira is below 20 to the dollar -- we had mentioned in the past there are five hsbc, unicredit, that are most exposed to the turkish banking sector,

damian, thank ou consider things carefully. damian, thank you very _ consider things carefully.e surge of shoppers on the last weekend before christmas. however, figures released this afternoon suggest footfall on the high streets is down almost 2% on last saturday amid fears of the 0micron variant. here's our business correspondent caroline davies. it's the weekend before christmas, the crescendo of present shopping. will what it's about on dampen buying? these chocolates are selling, but not necessarily in the shop. selling, but not necessarily in the sho -. selling, but not necessarily in the sho . _ ., ., ., selling, but not necessarily in the sho -. ., ., ., , selling, but not necessarily in the sho. ., , , shop. the footfall is massively down, shop. the footfall is massively down. and _ shop. the footfall is massively down, and online _ shop. the footfall is massively down, and online is _ shop. the footfall is massively down, and online is kind - shop. the footfall is massively down, and online is kind of. shop. the footfall is massively - down, and online is kind of cove

damian: it's got to be thai baht.and has been the avon, the place he would go to go on vacation. it is the king of mobility. have not seen tourist flows, we have not seen travel come back, and the thai baht has weakened off the back of that. if you are looking for a relative value play within emerging markets, getting long thai baht as things subside in the markets reopen is probably an area you want to be positioned in. dani: i have to ask, we have talked a lot about a lot of central bank decisions next week. we also have turkey. the lira, is it a market you want to play in at all? mark: in my opinion, no. there's too much in certainty -- there's too much uncertainty. there is too much in flux. we also get this tracking of g10 government bond liquidity. government bond liquidity is at the worst we have seen all year. it is probably an impact of tapering, and also the fact that people don't want to warehouse risk in this environment. so turkey is really not the place for tactical decisions right now, in my opinion. al

damian, china and the global supply chain story are heavily linked.s out overnight, my colleague was very excited about this. china will have a very little impact on omicron. talk to me about the impact of what could happen next if that turns out to be true. a lot of countries saw this. damian: you just hit the nail on the head. a lot of emerging markets countries bought china back. i'm talking about latin america, southeast asia. we will have some real problems. forget about the supply bottlenecks. people are expecting tourism arrivals to improve to places like thailand. unfortunately, we do not see that happening. now what we are having is another kicking the can down the road exercise. you will have to adjust your gdp growth data, your inflation data for the year ahead. we are calling for 4.1 percent gdp growth in china year-over-year in the fourth quarter this year. how quickly are things going to be better, remains to be seen. alix: it also raises the question of whether we will see support fiscal or monetary. meadows are getting hit. at some poi

our political correspondent damian grammaticas is here.a ? ~ ., facing ministers, how do you see it toda ? ~ i. ., ., facing ministers, how do you see it toda ? ~' ., ., facing ministers, how do you see it toda ? ~ i. ., ., ., today? i think you have to look at the fact today? i think you have to look at the faet100 _ today? i think you have to look at the fact 100 conservative - today? i think you have to look at the fact 100 conservative mps - the fact 100 conservative mps rebelled against borisjohnson this past week over the measures which were already brought in and essentially many of them agree with lord frost. they don't like what they see as the government telling people what to do. what have we heard this weekend? as we heard, the scientists telling the government if it wants to limit things, it needs to take action. the government said it would come back, bring parliament back if it was going to do that but that could mean a very tricky face up that could mean a very tricky face up with those mps. labour is saying that the govern

damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >>> also in the south day, a tense showdown ended. a man that barricaded himself in an rv for hours. our sky ranger was overhead. this is south 7th street in san jose. the man flashed a rifle at several people, then locked himself in that rv. you can see it down below. the man is being booked for brandishing a weapon and outstanding warrants. >>> another high profile case of covid. congresswoman barbara lee has tested positive. she says she has a breakthrough case, and only mild cold-like symptoms. lee says she's isolating and will follow all health protocols. in a statement, she's urging everyone to get vaccinated and boosted. and also within the past few hours, california will require health care workers to get booster shots. the governor made that announcement today. he says he's taking immediate action due to the rise in omicron cases. he will make the official announcement tomorrow. >>> a first of its kind. san jose's mayor outlined a proposal that will require city employees to get that booster shot. it would apply to anyone ent

damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >>> now this, just in. police are responding to the oak original, reports of a person being shot. officers are asking people to shelter in place. we do have crews, including sky ranger headed to the mall. we don't know the nature of what's happened. >>> oakland police are searching for two men who robbed someone at gunpoint at the marriott hotel caught on video. take a look, top of your screen. you can see two men ambushing the victim, while he unloads his bag from the trunk of the car. the victim ryes to run away to the hotel. before he can get to safety, the robbers pointed a gun at him and demanded his bag. you can see them running off with it. police are looking for help in identifying the two robbers. >>> a hiccup for the mayor and her plan to clean up the tenderloin. the district attorney joined in opposing her plan, saying they have a problem flooding the neighborhood with police. >> reporter: when it comes to the tender loin district, there's one thing everyone agrees on, drug use is rampant. the ma

damian grammaticas, bbc news.ight followed days of questions about the event that took place in downing street last december. our correspondent, tim muffett, has been looking at the reaction to the leaked footage. political stories sometimes slip by unnoticed. ~ ., political stories sometimes slip by unnoticed. ~ . ., , ., unnoticed. what about this one? the government — unnoticed. what about this one? the government has _ unnoticed. what about this one? the government has set _ unnoticed. what about this one? the government has set out _ unnoticed. what about this one? the government has set out guidelines . government has set out guidelines under lockdown for them to go and have a christmas party and when questioned about it business meeting she is stuttering. this is the prime minister's spokesperson talking. i work in construction and i go through problems on a daily basis where i have to follow these guidelines and they have been having a whale of a time. i am guidelines and they have been having a whale of a

yesterday damian lee was added to that. i've been told damian is asymptomatic, which is a good thing. he has a newborn son in his house. so it's just one of those situations where they're going to have to tread water. there are apps. there are over a 100 players in covid protocol in the nba right now. so everyone being hit with this. and steve said he does not anticipate any of those 3 to be back where their christmas on saturday. so we'll just have to see how those one quick nugget before the game. steve kerr said he anticipates that james wiseman will start beginning contact drills next week. of course, widen the number 2 overall pick last year hasn't played this year. he suffered a torn mcl last year. so warriors fans should be excited for that. more live report coming up in the 6 o'clock hour. but for now, i'm jason dumas aspect. you guys real quick, jason can when trying to go to a game in january wants to be there. when klay comes or maybe buy the tickets now and sell them. >> what's your best guess on clay. a good qu

in san jose, damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >>> up next, an off-duty police officer steps in when a man tries to rob a restaurant where he's eating. how the confrontation in contra costa turned deadly. >>> and deadline day for b.a.r.t. workers. what happens to the ones who don't get vaxxed. >>> and storm ranger shows the rainfall coming down now. plus a check on the sierra snow in about eight minutes. this is elodia. she's a recording artist. 1 of 10 million people that comcast has connected to affordable internet in the last 10 years. and this is emmanuel, a future recording artist, and one of the millions of students we're connecting throughout the next 10. through projectup, comcast is committing $1 billion so millions more students, past... and present, can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. vaxxedvaxxed. >>> . >>> an off-duty officer's trip to a restaurant turned into a deadly shooting. a man in a black hoodie walked in with a gun, demanding money from the register. the contra costa county sheriff's office says an off-duty uc ber

damian grammaticas, bbc news.is now known to have killed 75 people. it first struck the philippines on thursday, before tearing across other parts of the country. the typhoon is now heading towards vietnam, but is not expected to make landfall there. howard johnson reports from manila. philippine president rodrigo duterte has conducted an aerial inspection of the areas ravaged by the storm. pictures posted on social media show extensive damage to the dinagat islands. typhoon rai, the strongest typhoon this year, destroyed homes, uprooted trees and toppled powerlines, leaving nearly 3 million filipinos without electricity. on the popular tourist island of bohol, the government has declared a state of emergency. with internet communications slowly being restored, more images of the devastation of leyte island have also emerged. numerous online disaster donation drives have been set up to support communities most in need. despite the awful circumstances, these newlyweds made the best of a bad situation by using the d

nbc bay area's damian trujillo is live at the fairgrounds where lines were long all day. >> reporter: the fairgrounds was testing 1200 people per day. that number has jumped dramatically the last couple of days making appointments hard to find. two days before christmas and the lines are holiday long at the fair ground's covid testing site in san jose and many other places. >> the holidays are coming up so we wanted to make sure we have a negative test. >> we wanted to have the holiday with no worries, stay healthy. >> reporter: they were the lucky ones. on the county's testing website there were no more appointments available today. christmas eve is also booked solid. the next few slots aren't until monday. >> just in the last week it's maybe tripled in our numbers on sundays. >> reporter: her i call is the clinical lead at the fair ground testing site. she said the numbers tripled in some cases, up to 3600 here yesterday alone, and that still wasn't enough. >> we're pulling in extra staff that are helping at vaccination sites that maybe have slowed down a bit and they're coming to h

damian grammaticas, bbc news.es against a controversial bill that both the us and the european union say would restrict media freedom. many fear that the government will use the legislation, which was unexpectedly passed by parliament on friday to silence critics. mark lobel reports. protesting outside the presidential palace to protect press freedom. a message echoed across dozens of polish cities after rules were surprisingly rushed through parliament on friday to restrict foreign ownership of media channels. these pictures were broadcast on tvn24 — a polish tv channel not run by the state, but owned by the us media company discovery, which is at the centre of the controversy. a news channel critical of the government, it's feared, could be silenced under the proposals. translation: it is not only about tvn, it's - about the future of free speech in poland, and that means it's about the future of our democracy. demonstrators are calling for this man, polish president andrzej duda, to veto the law — something he

i'm damian trujillo. >> certainly an area that needs a lot of attention. thanks, damian. >>> only on nbc bay area, a south bay family says their faith has been restored in humanity after a nativity scene stolen from their front porch. it happened yesterday. a man is seen right here. look at this. on security camera walking up, just grabbing some of those figurines and taking off. it also shows him coming back an hour later to steal the rest of it. the family says it was an heirloom passed down through generations. >> that someone would have the courage just to walk up and take a nativity. who takes that? >> wow. so the family posted that video on nextdoor. hours later, a stranger brought them a brand-new nativity scene and they are saying that, you know, they are really excited about that and the person that brought that said they just wanted to help out. >>> take a live look out at sfo. so many people there are trying to get to their holiday destinations or even waiting for loved ones to land. several airlines already canceling flights. and those airlines

damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. south korea have responded to record daily coronavirus cases there by re—imposing strict social distancing and an overnight curfew. the measures will last for two weeks from saturday. at around 7,000 cases a day, numbers are still low compared with other parts of the world. south korea has so far avoided a full lockdown and, with 80% of adults fully vaccinated, had lifted most restrictions last month. officials hope banning gatherings of more than four people, along with the curfew, will ease the pressure on hospitals and allow more people to get a boosterjab. let's take a look at how the rest of that region is responding. dr hitoshi honda is director of infectious diseases at the tokyo metropolitan tama general medical centre. thank you so much forjoining me today, doctor. asia so far has been spared any big increase in numbers yet. fewer than 50 cases, i believe, in japan at the moment. we have over 70,000 new cases a day here in britain. how seriously our asian nations taking the t

damian grammaticas reporting and hejoins us now.nson on top of everything else? in boris johnson on top of everything else? . , , else? in the last five minutes we have the confirmation, _ else? in the last five minutes we have the confirmation, boris - have the confirmation, boris johnson's letter responding to that resignation saying, thank you for attending your resignation, i was very sorry to receive it given everything you have achieved and contributed to this government for which i'm very grateful and i'm gratefulfor which i'm very grateful and i'm grateful for all you which i'm very grateful and i'm gratefulfor all you have which i'm very grateful and i'm grateful for all you have achieved and hope you will be able to serve this country again in the future. so confirmation there. we have also had interestingly some of the other political parties, the dup in northern ireland, saying they are concerned about what this means for the future of the brexit deal and renegotiation of that. the liberal democrats saying that the rats

damian grammaticas, bbc news.cal editor of one of britain's biggest sunday papers, the sunday mirror, to hear his reaction. it's really odd for lord frost to do what he's done, especially now. he's there to negotiate the northern ireland protocol, which is one of the last major bits of brexit to get cleared up. and suddenly he quits before the job is done, which is in itself a bit weird. on top of that, it's also interesting that he decided to quit over a week ago and yet borisjohnson wanted him to keep it secret because he thought a high—profile resignation like this would damage his government even more than it's been damaged at the moment. they're both friends, but lord frost was boris johnson's special adviser when he was foreign secretary. but he must be very angry with what's going on to do what he's done. he talks in his resignation letter about being unhappy with the direction of travel of the government. he doesn't specify specifically which bit he's unhappy about, but he certainly says he's against coerc

damian grammaticas, bbc news.elegraph's brexit editor, dia chakravarty, is following the story. here's her reaction. it has been a fairly interesting piece of news. for those particularly interested in the brexit agenda. it has been interesting because particularly if you spoke to some people, there was a sense that in some voters, some donors and may be some backbencher mps who were refusing to come out against borisjohnson. 0rjoin the rebellion against him because there was a fear that if boris johnson left, lord frost's position might become a bit tricky. there was on the other hand another group of people who i was speaking to, and they were telling me that they were surprised that lord frost had lasted as long as he did last, because they were concerned that a lot of people who were supposed to have the prime minister's ear thought very differently about the brexit negotiations then lord frost. those other group of people would avoid confrontation with the eu. this was a quote i heard, and this is was not lor

let's talk to our political correspondent damian grammaticas. what do we know about this?as broken the last half hour by the mail on sunday newspaper, it is understood that it is correct, not confirmed by either number ten or lord frost and his department. but it appears he has written four he wrote a resignation letter in the past few weeks to the prime minister and was persuaded to stay on until the end of the month, we think. so, until the end of the year. now, the reasons for this, it appears that it may be over the issue that lord frost was in the cabinet, he was the chief brexit negotiator for quite some time in that withdrawal agreement and the subsequent trade deal. this appears about a different issue, lord frost argued in the cabinet, recently, very strongly against more covid restrictions, but if you get the need for thing like vaccine passports, some people call them back thing is need to display them back thing is need to display the fact that you are covid—19 vaccinated or have been all have had a prior infection. that went through as one of the measures rece

damian grammaticas, bbc news.ow known to have killed 75 people. most of those who died were in the central province of bohol. president rodrigo duterte has carried out an aerial inspection of the areas hit by the storm, which brought ferocious winds and heavy rain. it first struck the philippines on thursday, before tearing across other parts of the country. the typhoon is now heading towards vietnam, but is not expected to make landfall there. polls have opened in hong kong in local assembly elections — the first since china imposed sweeping political changes. danny vincent is our correspondent in hong kong. he says these elections are very different from the last ones. i think many critics across hong kong will see the entire political system has completely changed. first of all, this is the first election since beijing imposed electoral reform on the system. it means only people that are deemed patriotic to the country are even able to stand in this election, furthermore, many of the pro—democracy leaders that

damian grammaticas, bbc news.tes about brexit for uk in a changing europe, and is a former civil servant and whitehall expert. welcome thank you forjoining us. we will talk about the brexit stuff more directly later, but i wondered what your overview is on this resignation in terms of the message it sends and the impact on boris johnson as leader. irate it sends and the impact on boris johnson as leader.— johnson as leader. we were anticipating _ johnson as leader. we were anticipating a _ johnson as leader. we were anticipating a brexit - johnson as leader. we were anticipating a brexit free . johnson as leader. we were - anticipating a brexit free christmas for once since this whole thing started and did not expect lord frost to be resigning for zappia only recently set out quite a big agenda about realising brexit opportunities and talking about negotiations continuing in the new year. so it is, is a real surprise. said, it looks like about the last thing the prime minister needed after an absolutely terrible w

damian: we talked about it ad nausea him.now they had to have too many zeroes at the end of the currency. if we run into an inflationary spiral, leading up to 2005 inflation in turkey was running at something at the order of 50%. we are nowhere near that today. inflation is a big risk. erdogan has agreed to raise minimum ways -- waged by 50%. there are other things he put into the announcement, the positive news coming out yesterday. all of which is the hyper inflationary nature. with inflation running at 21% year-over-year, we expect that now to go up considerably in the new year. guy: in terms of the currency move we have seen today and yesterday, how much of that is this working or how much of that was basically just a short switch? damian: that is the question. i'm not going to speculate. sure, that is what i get paid to do. save -- the banks in turkey, you probably saw a number of those stepping into the market after the close yesterday. selling dollars, buying lira. i can't imagine the retail buying of the lira in that

damian grammaticas joins me. damian grammaticasjoins me.tandards commissioner and what is going on. this about the standards commissioner and what is going om— about the standards commissioner and what is going on-_ what is going on. this is 'ust a re ort what is going on. this is 'ust a report or i what is going on. this is 'ust a report or notice �* what is going on. this is 'ust a report or notice that h what is going on. this is 'ust a report or notice that the h what is going on. this isjust a - report or notice that the standards commissioner is investigating so jacob rees—mogg on the one hand, and also douglas ross, leader of the scottish conservatives. no more information than that. but we know there have been, in all the talk recently around mps standards, both men, there were issues raised, douglas ross went forward to put before the commissioner some things he thought she should be aware of. and jacob rees—mogg separately, there was questions... i don't know if this is what the inquiry is empty but questions about a loan he had.

our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports.e government's approach to tackling it. when many were hoping to clarity ahead of christmas there is instead uncertainty. covid cases are surging and boris johnson and his cabinet met yesterday. they had yet to decide on any of the key questions. our new covid measures required for england? if so, how soon and how severe? we sent an e—mail on tuesday to everyone and it basically told them you will be charged if you don't let us know, please let us know and we had maybe 150 cancelled but we have maybe 600 -- 6000 cancelled but we have maybe 600 —— 6000 bookings so 150 is not that bad. two verity of omicron isn't so severe, people are going to be angry and if you don't lock down now and it is, people are still going to be angry so... you can't win either way. angry so... you can't win either way-— angry so... you can't win either way. so for now, the vaccination _ either way. so for now, the vaccination drive _ either way. so for now, the vaccination drive goes - either way. so for now,

damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. so what are the rules at the moment around the uk?are no limits on socialising, but plan b restrictions have been introduced. that means face covering are mandatory in shops and public transport, covid passes are needed for many venues and events, and you're being told to work from home where possible. in scotland, nicola sturgeon says there won't be new rules for christmas day but you're being advised to limit socialising to just two other households before and after. businesses must take reasonable measures to minimise transmission, like one—way systems and app—based ordering. and again face coverings are mandatory in most public indoor settings, including pubs and restaurants. for wales, there's advice to limit socialising before christmas. but tougher rules have been announced for after christmas — from the 27th social distancing will be legally enforced in offices and nightclubs will be closed. and all sport will be played behind closed doors from boxing day — more on that coming up in our sport bulletin. and in northern ireland,

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