woman: oil and gas has kept kern county moving for decades. arvin residents are fed up and those in the industry feel unwelcomed. wednesday night, arvin city council unanimously voted in favor of restrictions on theil and gas industry. those in support applauded. [cheering and applause] man: yeah, so, it's a monumentous thing that we did. we passed the oil and gas ordinance, and hopefully other cities with that type of industry will follow, so, we're gonna be talking today with some neighbors on nelson court, nd then tomorrow i'm goa have a conversation with e mayor of taft about our two cities. see if we can find any common ground. my name is jose gurrola and i am the mayor of the city of arvin. we can't deny the fact that living and being next to an oil and gas operations, that it emits emissions, and that those emissions can cause harm to health, and fossil fuel extraction and production and consumption is a big part of the pollution here in the valley and worldwide. agriculture is the base economy here in the city of arvin. now it's primar

county deputies hummable on patrol and in county jails. >> today, the county of kern, kern county sheriff's office and the california department of justice have entered into a settlement agreement that brings all of us one step closer to our goal of achieving continued significant and lasting improvements in law enforcement practices in kern county and ultimately the state of california. >> reporter: the settlement calls for policies to be reviewed and revised, crisis intervention training and an independent monitor among other things. >>> coming up at 5:30, a closer look at the man police say kidnapped and killed michaela garecht more than 30 years ago. also ahead tonight, dr. grouchy gets vaccinated. the message he wants to send about receiving his shot. ♪ >>> i'm still tracking some holiday rain. get the umbrellas ready, you will need it. i will have the details after the break. ♪ ♪ digital transformation has failed to take off. because it hasn't removed the endless mundane work we all hate. ♪ ♪ automation can solve that by taking on repetitive tasks for us. unleash your potential. uipat

kern is in the san joaquin ridge. ? los angeles county many restaurant owners celebrate what they consider a victory. a rule that could potentially help them reopen outside. a judge ruled yesterday that la county acted arbitrarily. county health have organize argued was essential to curb the spread of coronavirus. restaurant owners say there is no data to indicate that outdoor dining a super spreader. >> the judge asked. what is the relationship between outdoor dining and icu beds and the county over and over responded, we don't have to tell you. >> while the ruling doesn't allow la restaurants to reopen it does require the health department to justify their order to close them. plus la county is prohibited from imposing its dining ban beyond the three week period. >>> the price to pay for partying in a pandemic. the massive arrests made in an underground california house party. >> our dry weather pattern continues for now but tracking some changes. we will talk about our rain chances coming up. >> and we are taking a l

. >> when you say the general in charge you are talking abo general kern as? >>no, he's in charge of everything i don't know if i'm supposed to give o his name but general macauley. >> there are systems in place and i may not he is hot a commodity is covid but there are things you can do. >> the pharmaceutical industry itself, they are requiring extreme temperature f the sensitivity. it not something new. it doesn't -- the protocol in health care are all bar and modifying is necessary. i don'tave any visibility to what was done or what'going on in that area but that was my recommendation. does that mean and i don't want to go all the way to the word relaxed that you don't have huge concerns with respect to the vaccine? >> no, i don't. i have full confidence in what the board of pharmacy and the health care organizations in the united states he already created. i was in that indust for over 10 years. being able to ship, and we h drugs in the other company that worked with. they came every day from the warehouse to a distribution center. all the gps tracking wki

. >> historian doris kerns-goodwin says the president was concerned. >> it's extraordinary that whenou read about wilson's presidency, the way he handled the flu and even the flu itself is hardly mentioned. historians argue that he had two crises to face. the first was the flu and the second was the war. the war went first. anything about the flu and the soldiers getting it in great numbers in the barracks would hurt recruitment and the war effort. >> wilson wanted nothing to distract from the war effort or in any way hurt morale. therefore, national public health leaders said things like, this is ordinary influenza by another name or you have nothing to fear if proper precautions are taken. >> there was no motivation for the president back then to get america focused on fighting this flu? >> president wilson never mentioned the spanish flu. >> never mentioned it ? >> never mentioned it during his presidency. the war was all that mattered. for most americans, the war was all that mattered. the war effort doesn't just mean sending troops over there. it means keeping factories going re

we spoke about the president-elect's past and future jobs with historians doris kerns good win who chronicledresident lyndon b. johnson. >> what can biden take away and learn from lbj's legacy? >> you know, there's no question that lbj was a man of the congress as

details now from fox news media analyst and host of foxy media buzz, howard kern.o speak of "the new york post" broke the story about hunter biden's laptop, many ignored or played on the allegations. mpr even said, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. others dismissed it as meddling by moscow. >> basically functioning as a russian asset by pushing russian disinformation. >> he had said this entire thing is so obviously a russian pot, it is to me, and i wasn't even an ambassador to the russian federation. >> fox news 2:00 for following up with 8x biden business partner for an attempt to deal in china. >> he talked with talk with carlson about his face-to-face interactions with joe biden. >> when i asked candidate biden against the story. >> it's another smear path and, camping. now the press is taking the foreign deal more seriously after he confirmed in a biden transition statement that the justice department is investigating his taxes. president-elect son acted legally even after some history of unpaid taxes. even now, the story

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welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc i'm becky quick along with joe kern and andrew ross sorkin.ajor indexes all ended last week at record highs we're talking about the nasdaq, the s&p 500, the dow, and the russell 2,000. that's the first time that all four of those major averages have closed at a record high since january of 2018. so you're coming up on three years for that it wasn't just that, the nasdaq 100 also sitting at record high. if you were looking at other things like gold breaking a three-week losing streak and wti oil sitting at

we spoke about the president-elect's past and future jobs with historians doris kerns good win who chronicled another president lyndon b. johnson. >> what can biden take away and learn from lbj's legacy? >> you know, there's no question that lbj was a man of the congress as biden has been and learning how to deal with those individual congressmen and senators, i think there's no better person than lbj. and just think, after that inaugural oath that he took, he we want to a joint session of congress and he made very clear that his absolute first priority was the passage of the civil rights bill that kennedy had introduced that summer. it was totally stuck. nobody thought it was ever begog to get out of the house and senate. he made a pledge this will be my first priority. his adviserin s said it's crazy. you shouldn't use the currency of the presidency for this. and he said then what the hell is the presidency for. he had individual congressmen over in groups of 30. they'd come with their spouses. the spouses would go on a tour after dinner of the white house, and then they'd have port and bra

and doris kerns so much of the president's legacy shaped by the very end of his presidency. the transfer of power. the final speech that a president gives. i mean, wait for this one. right? see what the legacy is left there. guys, stay with me. i have to go to another topic and coming back with you, because we have breaking news to share. from capitol hill. nbc's lee ann caldwell joins me from there. talk about the negotiations, trying to get covid relief. extending funding of the government and the like. where does everything stand right now? >> reporter: hey, alex. so congress did give themselves an additional 48 hours to come to agreement on covid relief legislation. so that's a sign that they think they only need until sunday night to get things done, but there might be some snags, we just heard from a republican member of senate leadership, john thune. he said votes could slip into monday. so it might take a little longer, but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was just on the senate floor saying, it is time to get things done. let's take a listen. >> we've had prod

many kerned th eare concerned t holiday season is going to create the next spike again.ght be a short lived reprieve in the number of new cases. remember where we're at now. we're talking about, you know, 200 to 250,000 new cases a day, a number that was unfathomable just, you know, two to four months ago. and i worry about is if we have additional cases as result of holiday-related exposure, we could look back and say, boy, i wish we had 200,000 cases a day again. >> do you feel as if we have -- we're right now the post thanksgiving -- the thanksgiving impact is here? are we experiencing that now or do you think not yet? >> i think we actually have experienced the post thanksgiving surge in terms of cases. in terms of hospitalizations and deaths, that is still clearly emerging yet. that will play out as a lagging indicator for the next few weeks. the same thing will be true for holiday season. we won't immediately experience an increase in cases. and in fact i would suspect that with people off working, we might even see a decrease in cases that unusually will seem like

>>hard to believe but david kerns takes a look now at the fake medical items that are being sold online including fake covid vaccines. >>transnational criminal organizations would love to exploit anything in order to make a buck. >>the department of homeland security is keeping an eye out for scammers just take a look at what's out there. 100,000 non medical grade masks, hundreds of so-called remedy kits to treat covid-19 even counterfeit applicators to test for the virus. they're all fake and the work of federal agents and immigration and customs enforcement is keeping them off the market whether it's an individual to try to make a fast buck. >>the business who is trying to take advantage opportunities in foreign countries in order to bring in products that are approved it's all part of operation stolen promise an initiative that's already seized 26 million dollars in proceeds from counterfeit items even things like this they look like real cleaning products but they're so diluted with water, they don't work in their control item right now. now with the first doses of the vaccine arriv

single digit, 2%, 3%, 4%, high fire danger remains especially for los angeles, ventura and southern kernounties even through saturday even though the winds are light they are still blowing offshore and that's a very dry wind so we have to keep that in mind. in most canyon passes they're likely to see gusts up around 30, 35 miles an hour over the weekend but this is a much better condition in terms of fighting the fires because the winds aren't as strong although fire could spread rapidly here they do anticipate more santa ana winds next week is the bigger issue. >> on the other side a nor'easter whipping up the coast. >> this is going to be a monster storm for new england. these two systems phasing together to create rain, snow and wind there will be rain around new york city and boston but boston will get a change over to snow and snow over the interior seconds of new england could add up to more than a foot by saturday night, early sunday morning. boston's looking at anywhere around 3 to 6 inches in the general area but go up towards new hampshire and parts of maine and that's where yo

i remember when i first started, denny kern told me the score could not go up unless we got more people, and it's just turned out that we can work harder and more efficient and focused, and the squares have continued to go up, so we're proud of that particular metric. >> taylor, if i could interrupt for a second just in time to sort of thank the commission, as well, because of your investment. >> yes. >> and focus on things like deferred maintenance. >> yes. >> both through the annual allocation of 50% of the open space reserve that goes to different maintenance and through your approval of our annual budget, which includes dedicated funds in prior years as much as $15 million for specific demands. and that, combined with our incredible hard working staff, both gardeners and custodians and our structural maintenance staff, our spaces have really been there for san franciscans in the last seven months, and they've held up beautifully. >> okay. next slide. so as all the initiatives in the last strategic plan, the charter requires me to report how many have been commenced or completed, and

that bill barr, who is pretty good at finding a kern el of something trump likes and blowing it up tos repelled prosecutors and he can't find anything, can't find any evidence of fraud and has to idea what trump and rudy giuliani are talking about. >> let's take a step back. on sunday night, donald trump's choice to head up election security went on 60 minutes and said as plainly as it could be said that there what those fraud, that 95% of the ballots were backed up with paper ballots that were auditable and the hand counts match the machine counts and once again there was no fraud. that was the first blow. then the second blow came today when barr, who appears to have been willing to do almost anything for donald trump, finally drew the line and said, nope, not doing that. i'm not going to pretend there is evidence when there is no evidence. there is no fraud that is sufficient to do anything to overturn this election. let's move along here. now my favorite part of today was ron johnson. okay, hapless ron johnson. he comes up with this statement, i mean it is just hysterical. he come

welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc i'm becky quick along with joe kern and andrew ross sorkin.he major indexes all ended last week at record highs we're talking about the nasdaq, the s&p 500, the dow, and the russell 2,000. that's the first time that all four of those major averages have closed at a record high since january of 2018. so you're coming up on three years for that it wasn't just that, the nasdaq 100 also sitting at record high. if you were looking at other things like gold breaking a three-week losing streak and wti oil sitting at record levels or closing at five-week winning streak it is on. you've seen big gains there. if you take a look at what is happening this morning with u.s. equity futures off a little bit but again off the record closes. dow futures indicated off by about 150 points if you take a look at what is happening with the ten year now, you'll see the yield is creeping up to 0.94%. andrew >> thank you, becky. >>> let's bring you an update now on the pandemic and where things stand the uk now has begun distributing the covid vaccine made by pfizer a

i remember when i first started, denny kern told me the score could not go up unless we got more people, and it's just turned out that we can work harder and more efficient and focused, and the squares have continued to go up, so we're proud of that particular metric. >> taylor, if i could interrupt for a second just in time to sort of thank the commission, as well, because of your investment. >> yes. >> and focus on things like deferred maintenance. >> yes. >> both through the annual allocation of 50% of the open space reserve that goes to different maintenance and through your approval of our annual budget, which includes dedicated funds in prior years as much as $15 million for specific demands. and that, combined with our incredible hard working staff, both gardeners and custodians and our structural maintenance staff, our spaces have really been there for san franciscans in the last seven months, and they've held up beautifully. >> okay. next slide. so as all the initiatives in the last strategic plan, the charter requires me to report how many have been commenced or completed, and