joining us now is harris county judge lina hidalgo.ly appreciate it. >> thank you. >> let's begin with what you're doing on the vaccine with those hundred dollar bills. has it surprised you how effective it has been? >> absolutely. it exceeded our wildest expectations, and i have to credit the biden administration for highlighting that 100 dollar figure, in those incentives. we launched the program this tuesday, we had over 3000 people get the vaccine out are harris county sites, on average, before we started the initiative it was about 430 people a day. so it is continuing to increase. it just shows you that you can be creative, you can be bold, you can move the needle on this virus even in a state that is hostile toward actions and trying to mitigate this crisis. we are thrilled and you know whatever it takes, we need to get those vaccination rates up. we're not done, about 58% of our eligible population is fully vaccinated, we have our ways to go, but we are doing everything we can this and so much more to try to get people vaccinat

by abigail breslin, is in prison in france, convicted of the murder of her classmate and partner, linanvinced that a new lead could get her out ofjail and bill decides to investigate himself, with the help of a local that he meets at the hotel. virginie is a liberal bohemian actress portrayed by camille cottin. she also happens to have a cute little daughter who bonds with bill. and so an odd couple friendship plays out alongside the drama of a father trying to clear the name of his incarcerated daughter. both are involving but they're an odd juxtaposition. on the one hand, there is an arthouse character piece about a culture clash relationship. on the other, a crime drama. when this plunges headlong into thriller territory it's a bit of a jolt. but damon and cottin are great together and this has something to say about personal politics, the media and prejudice. while it's not mccarthy's best work, stillwater is eminently watchable. what did you do? you just have to trust me. you have the perfect life. the rich, handsome - husband who adores you... deaero'hare, there's neverenough tim

what do you think it says about lina khan, that she came back with this, and so quickly?aomi: obviously, lina khan has been a leading advocate for more progressive vision of antitrust enforcement. she is the one arguing that, the traditional measures of competitive harm, which is, do consumer prices go up, is insufficient to really capture these tech giants, which are often offering free services. so she came back with a suit this quickly -- i think it is not surprising. it is what her supporters in congress and beyond were likely expecting. whether she succeeds will be an interesting test case to whether she will be able to get her agenda accomplished. it will also give, depending on which direction it goes, it will give congress some nudging in one direction or another to get at the question, do our current antitrust laws, are they modernized, up-to-date enough to capture proper enforcement in the technology industry? emily: we will be following to see how that one plays out. facebook had asked -- to recuse herself from this together suit, but the f.t.c. said it would n

pedro: lina hidalgo, la jueza del condado harris houston dijo que su gobierno darÁ tarjetas de 100 $ busca el estado. >> desafortunadamente por el 40 por ciento de dÉficit dde enfermera que nos falta, estamos hablando de camas usable es como de 1150 camas. pedro: expertos alertan que la contingencia que se vive en texas podrÍa prolongar por semanas y posiblemente por meses. >> mÁs del 90% de los pacientes que nos llegan no son vacunados y la otra cosa que es importante que la mayorÍa de esa gente tambiÉn es mÁs joven. pedro: el gobierno hizo nueve centros de infusiÓn de anticuerpos que buscan evitar que pacientes contagiados terminen en hospitales. en mcallen, texas, pedro, univisiÓn. patricia: por su parte, la ciudad de chicago ordenÓ el uso obligatorio de las mascarillas en espacios interiores para todas las personas de dos aÑos o mÁs, independientemente de si estÁn vacunada o no. la medida regirÁ desde el prÓximo viernes e incluye bares, restaurantes,gimnasios, zonas comunes de condominios, edificios y clubes privados. por otra parte, un nuevo estudio concluyelas mujeres embarazad

profitability has centered around this dealmaking now that strategy could be in the cross hairs of linahan's ftc. uber shares down 16% year to date and last week its quarterly results showed it continues to lose money on its core business. jon, we do get doordash after the bell tomorrow. remarkable noted this before. how differently investors value these two ompanies doordash shares up 30% year to date look at something like its priced to sales ratio, nearly double that of uber. we know tony schoo has grown this company in terms of convenience delivery more organically. >> doordash might be uber's best argument here, saying, hey, look we're not clearly that big in delivery look over at doordash, and, by the way, our ride-hailing business has not helped us push into that area we'll see how they make this argument, carl, but definitely not the landscape we saw a few years ago. not sure, kind of an acquisition works have gotten, or this kind of partnership would have gotten this type of scrutiny? >> yeah. seen a lot of -- you know, pressure from regulators on social media, and ecommerce, b

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care lina young new on my staff making her mark. and abigail worked on the buy america provisions. my staff has worked with others on buy america over the years but sam with senator portman's staff, brian with senator baldwin have been particularly helpful. i want to recognize my former aid nora todd who led our efforts for much of a decade on buy america. through all of this, joining me on the floor is laura swanson respecting my staff director, who works unbelievable hours with a small child and continues to be a terrific mother and wife and an amazing staff director, and i say exactly the same about our legislative director, jeremy, who is not a terrific mother but a terrific father with his family and has worked so very, very hard holding all of this together for over a decade. so i thank my staff. i thank my colleagues. this legislation -- i remember saying to senator casey on march 6 when we passed the american rescue plan, i turned to him because of the child tax credit and what we did with pensions and so much else that senator murray had work on too, i turned to bob and sa

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blamed his predecessor josie, the boss made for what he called the dramatic situation that led to lina. leslie's departure boss last messy to paris, such a man because it couldn't give him a new contract that would fit within the spanish leave. strict financial fair play rules. he also says the tubs wage will currently account for 103 percent of total income. i guess we need to finance is weren't good and it was worrying, but the board and i have a plan which is still valid, which is to work hard to change the situation. and if you asked me how i feel, now my morale is very high, especially after seeing the team yesterday. we convinced the decisions that needed to be made have been made. for example, in the case of leo, it's sad but necessary because the club is above everyone for defender, raphael brand says he's excited to begin playing for manchester, united. they agreed a $55000000.00 deal with roman trade and he was presented to the united funds before saturdays premier league when it leads around spike about how united tried to find him 10 years ago before he went to madrid. a lo

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lina wen, former boston health commissioner and the author of life lines, a doctors journey.e a mom. you have young children. would you send your unvaccinated child back to school in a district that doesn't require masks? >> it's really hard, because at this point, pamela, we know what works in order to get our kids back in school full time in person and keep them safe at the same time. we can do this. what i would say is for parents who are in schools where masks are not required, one thing to do is to try to talk to other parents in your child's class and see if you can make mask wearing the norm. also, quality of masks really matters. don't accepted your child to schooled with a encloses face covering. use as least a three-ply surgical mask if your child is old enough and can tolerate it. >> we have some questions for you dr. wen. one viewer asks are we seeing more childhood cases because this variant is far more contagious and thus lots more kids infected or because kids are actually more vulnerable to infection with delta and serious disease from it. . >> seems like it's

>> lina khan has only been in their job since june.s one president biden and named her as chairman of the ftc. since then, she has already taken steps to beef up enforcement. she is warned companies proposing mergers that the ftc could investigate and challenge their deals, even after an initial review period expires. in this letter to senator warren, she said i believe antitrust agencies should more frequently consider opposing problematic deals outright. tom: we've got a major deal involving lockheed martin. is that at risk now as a result of this additional scrutiny from the ftc? bruce: yes, i think that's a fair conclusion. lockheed has proposed a $4.4 billion deal to purchase aerojet rocketdyne holdings. people see that as a real litmus test for how the administration is going to address antitrust. raytheon technologies has objected to the deal, in part because it would put one of its major suppliers in the hands of lockheed. senator warren has also warned of the harms if a deal like this goes forward. this letter does indicate th

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lina nguyen. she's the author of a new book "lifelines a doctor's journey in the fight for public health." dr. nguyen, appreciate you being here. this is a choice between a quote free society of bio medical state. that's how they are framing it. is that what a school mask mandate is about? >> no, of course not. i don't even understand what is this term of this bio medical security state. should we not use antibiotics for pneumonia or not get your appendix out? we're at war. we're at war with this virus that has already killed more than 610,000 americans. we now have the tools with vaccines and masks to stop further death and suffering and destruction. i mean, why is it that there are political leaders in this country who are saying we have these tools but we're not willing to use them and in fact, we'll forbid people from using these tools to protect their family members, their employees. it really is -- i don't have the words for it. it's extremely frustrating and really tragic and it's the reaso

and gets pushed out right, like play doh fun factory and when you see that, and you see that narrow linaw what i'm talking about this, this narrow line going across the bay, that is the high pressure not tells you high pressure is going to own the environment for at least the next 24 hours or self. so let's be knowing that we see that footprint go. it's gonna be warmer tomorrow. that's it's that simple 86 right now in fairfield, 88 in brentwood, 86 in livermore. so pretty nice day overall today in a pretty nice day in store for us again tomorrow as we look at temperatures that are running a little bit warmer than yesterday. at this time, like we said, it will be a little bit warmer again tomorrow. so let's take a peek here. you look at that in the estuary and out in the quad iq park. used to water ski out there. i was here when they did, um, they used to have the world water ski championships there if you can believe that, but they don't do that anymore. i don't think there's the fog tomorrow morning. you see it pushing inland was like 1980. i bet it was 81 1980 or 81. it's a big deal. a

. >> yeah, and, carl, you said it yesterday, we're starting to get a sense of what lina con's ftc is going to looklike not just about big tech, but in this case, it is interesting to think about instacart. we spent a lot of time talking about the company, talking to the company, and it has been such a success story, even amid amazon entering the grocery space. it seemed to get a boost from other grocers. those exclusive contracts are coming up. so instacart may be looking for scale, and the information reporting that instacart initiated talks with both doordash and uber. it makes you wonder what their finances are going to look like when we do finally get that s-1. we talked a lot about their advertising model in business and how that probably provides better margins, but it is bread and butter is still grocery delivery we know this has become a much, much more competitive space over the last years and, tony shoe, very good at capturing market share. look at what he's done in restaurant delivery, and convenience. >> yeah, the regulatory environment is tricky. but this is where valuat

lina nyn. also, andy schlavic, and arthur of "preventable." words from the cdc, how does this surge get turned around? what should people be doing tonight or tomorrow morning? >> i think there are two things that are equally important when it comes to turning around the surge. one, of course, the ultimate answer is vaccination. we know that what will stop the virus in its tracks and really is our only and best way out of the pandemic is to increase our vaccination rates. if we have a high enough level of immunity in the u.s. and we're able to stop the virus from wreaking the kind of havoc that it is, but the second thing is it's going to take a while for people to get vaccinated, even if everybody who is unvaccinated, we're talking about a month before they're able to be vaccinated. in the meantime we're going to have to look at the type of measures that we took in the past, including indoor masking i think is the single most important thing we can be doing. if there are public spaces in which situation vaccinated and unvaccinated mixed. >> th

santa lina is going 26 miles an hour and notice that direction. see that that's a northerly wind. the rest of these are still kind of westerly said. that's wes there that's northerly and mount diablo at 16. so that's the shift that's occurring when the winds start to come out of the north. that's when this smoke, and that's when the red flag warning in the stronger winds will become an issue. so here's the forecast for the smoke. we had a little bit of clearing today, right? not too bad, but watch what happens overnight is that north wind see the arrows over there, so they start to go a little more north. they get a little more orange because the trajectories are increasing. the velocities are increasing. and look at that smoke hanging out in the morning hours. the afternoon wednesday just looks like a smoky darn day for the bay area, and we're even worse for the central valley. i think we're gonna see smoke on the levels of some lot of yellow and some potential oranges, too, and that takes us right through thursday and probably a little bit into friday as well. so a lot going on

lina con, tim wu, jonathan canter, all seen as regulators that can be very tough on big techs.o what have the companies been spending on for many years if this is going to be the outcome, we know scrutiny is increasing >> sure, yeah. so to that point, right, there has been a pretty substantial increase in scrutiny by government, but i think that is mostly because very recently people have woken up in government and society to these broader set of harms we know it harms workers and consumers, but also has broader social harms and, yes, there is some disheartening movements we have seen from the federal government, there are a number of cases as you mentioned from the doj and ftc, a number of state cases and laws being considered at the state and federal level. this is just sort of the beginning of the movement against this for, you know, 20, 30 some odd years, substantial lobbying that has entrenched their power in significant ways and we're in a moment where people are waking up to those harms. i think it is critical to seize that moment and double down on making the economy co

doctor and cnn medical analyst lina nguyen and wrote the book "lifelines a doctors journey in the fightublic health." dr. nguyen, thanks so much for being here. okay. just help us get our heads around this concept of the booster shot. we go in once a year to get the flu shot and we know every year we have to get a different flu shot. now every eight months we'll have to get a covid shot? >> i don't think we know it's going to be every eight months at all. so when we look at other vaccines and how they work, there are some vaccines you get a series. so for example, polio vaccine you get four doses. hepatitis three doses and you're done. that may be the case for the covid vaccine. maybe the third dose is the final dose. or maybe it's more like the tetanus vaccine, which you have to get a booster dose every ten years because your immunity wanes or maybe it's like the flu vaccine where maybe you have to get this every year. we don't know that's the case. at this point we're waiting for data from the biden health team what exactly they're seeing because from what i understand, the vaccines s

lina nguyen, the author of a book entitled "lifeline as doctors journey in the fight for public health this study finds this delta variant doubles the risk of hospitalizations compared to the alpha variant. how should the results of this study inform our behavior? >> this is a really important study because previously, we know that the delta variant is a lot more contagious than all the other variants but we weren't sure as to whether it causes more severe disease. this is a really well conducted study with more than 43,000 people with covid-19 in the u.k. and they found that people with the delta very yeariant compare the alpha variant are twice as likely to be hospitalized and one and a halftimes more likely to end up in the emergency department and we should see the delta variant as being more severe and that it also causes potentially a greater burden on our health care system, as well. >> let's get through important issues. the president says he spoke with dr. fauci about potentially shortening the window of the planned covid-19 booster shot program from eight months potentially d

lina quiso compartir uno de sus secretos. dove beauty bar.mportante que todos los padres sepan las opciones que tienen. hoy tambiÉn estÁn los doctores. para nosotros todo el mundo tenemos que trabajar fuerte y junto para tener la informaciÓn que necesitamos para hacer las decisiones buenas. yo soy padre tambiÉn. la salud de mis hijos de lo mÁs importante para mÍ. marÍa: quÉ piensan ustedes de las mascarillas? >> no lo quiero usar, pero yo sÉ que me protegen. sÉ que para los niÑos mÍos la salud ellos en lo mÁs importante para mÍ. mis hijos tienen la vacuna ya, pero sÉ que las mascarillas protegen, no sÓlo a los estudiantes, los maestros tambiÉn. marÍa: saben en la florida cuando somos el estado que se lippi centro del nuevo resurgimiento de la pandemia, el gobernador dice que las mÁscaras no tienen mucha ciencia detrÁs y esto ha provocado una confusiÓn en el cuarto distrito mÁs grande del paÍs que es el de miami—dade. >> me da mucha pena. me frustra un poco. el aÑo pasado cuando estÁbamos abriendo las escuelas no tenÍamos la vacunas, no tenÍam

lina quiso compartir uno de sus secretos. dove beauty bar.ara inmigrantes. inimaginable nÚmero de familias que sigue cursando ara mismo por la frontera sur. muchos de los niÑos pequeÑos enfermos y cansados tras una larga travesÍa. hay niÑos que se entregan a los agentes con la esperanza de reencontrarse con sus padres. pedro ultreras nos muestra lo que vio en el valle del sur. pedro: los migrantes llegan y llegan todos los dÍas al valle de texas en enormes cantidades. la gran mayorÍa de los que por aquÍ entran son de honduras y guatemala y vienen de otros paÍses, llegan pidiendo a dios que no los deportan. >> confiamos en dios que nos va a dar la oportunidad... pedro: les toca caminar entre tres y cuatro horas despuÉs de cruzar el rÍo para entregarse la patrulla. esta madre ya no aguantaba el cansancio, su mayor temor es que la regresen a mÉxico. son apenas las 7:00 p.m. y es el segundo grupo que encontramos y la mayorÍa de los migrantes llegan al oscurecer y puede ser una noche muy ocupada, a quien el lugar en donde nos encontramos hay por l

lina and marion cockrell. >> todd had one airplane in the hangar and one in the driveway. they loved having an ex-fighter pilot for a neighbor. >> todd was always -- i mean, he was just a genuinely interesting guy. he would make eye contact with you. he always wanted to know about my job. "what sorta cases are you working on? what kind of law do you practice? " >> i had actually kind of looked at todd as kind of a "guy's guy". >> you enjoyed their company? >> we did. >> enjoyed todd a little more than rachel, maybe. >> i knew her less well than i knew todd, i feel. i feel like we were both in the same place in our lives, but sort of moving in different circles and -- >> she wasn't one of those people kind of that you immediately were attracted to or what? >> no. i don't -- i really liked her but she always seemed a little bit distant. very polite, very friendly but a little bit distant. >> you want to go over there? >> yeah. >> let's go over there. >> by 2009, rachel and todd had two little daughters eva and ariel. >> he always seemed very involved and very engaged with th

lina miller, c.e.o. of urban alchemy. >> hi, everybody. bayview-hunters point, and i'm a doctor, i'm a psychologist, so we try to integrate a lot of work around trauma and science and understanding and trauma into our work. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. you all know him, you all love him. he is the director, mr. nate ford of s.f. rebels. >> good afternoon. i am nate miller, founder and director of san francisco rebels basketball team. we're doing a lot of great things and just happy to be a part of this panel today. thank you for having me. >> awesome. thank you. all right. so let's jump right in. so our first question is, how should we approach violence prevention? >> so collectively, in japantown, we have many community organizations, and when all this asian hate violence came up, i think we as a community, you know, we can't feel those crimes happening in j-town, but we knew we couldn't just stand around the side and wait for it to happen, so a few of us formed a coalition, and we called it [inaudible] coalition, and many of the com

lina miller, c.e.o. of urban alchemy. >> hi, everybody. bayview-hunters point, and i'm a doctor, i'm a psychologist, so we try to integrate a lot of work around trauma and science and understanding and trauma into our work. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. you all know him, you all love him. he is the director, mr. nate ford of s.f. rebels. >> good afternoon. i am nate miller, founder and director of san francisco rebels basketball team. we're doing a lot of great things and just happy to be a part of this panel today. thank you for having me. >> awesome. thank you. all right. so let's jump right in. so our first question is, how should we approach violence prevention? >> so collectively, in japantown, we have many community organizations, and when all this asian hate violence came up, i think we as a community, you know, we can't feel those crimes happening in j-town, but we knew we couldn't just stand around the side and wait for it to happen, so a few of us formed a coalition, and we called it [inaudible] coalition, and many of the com

care lina young new on my staff making her mark. and abigail worked on the buy america provisions. my staff has worked with others on buy america over the years but sam with senator portman's staff, brian with senator baldwin have been particularly helpful. i want to recognize my former aid nora todd who led our efforts for much of a decade on buy america. through all of this, joining me on the floor is laura swanson respecting my staff director, who works unbelievable hours with a small child and continues to be a terrific mother and wife and an amazing staff director, and i say exactly the same about our legislative director, jeremy, who is not a terrific mother but a terrific father with his family and has worked so very, very hard holding all of this together for over a decade. so i thank my staff. i thank my colleagues. this legislation -- i remember saying to senator casey on march 6 when we passed the american rescue plan, i turned to him because of the child tax credit and what we did with pensions and so much else that senator murray had work on too, i turned to bob and sa

the truck to the grain elevator but from there it has to go to a mill where it's milled into sell lina -- semolina flour. and it's sent somewhere where it's then made into pasta of all types. but the 750,000 people in north dakota can't eat all the pasta that's made in the united states of america. so pasta has got to get to other places. in some cases it's manhattan, los angeles, or it might be some country overseas. once again pasta is lightweight. that can even go by air. oh, that brings in the airports which by the way bring a lot of the tourism traffic to and from our great nation. the point is the reason there are some 150 to 200 organizations large and small, medium size, the reason that the overwhelming people in the united states of america support -- support this infrastructure package is because they know of the importance of it. the other thing that i love about infrastructure is that it push pes against inflation. mr. president, we're expensing real inflation in this country, and some call it transitory, which i guess is a cooler word for temporary. inflation is already te