public policy in previous government experience joining us now via zoom kron 4 political analyst michael yaki michael thanks for your the big news today other than these appointments is that. >>president trump is appearing too be going along with the transition which obviously is is noteworthy as far as how biden is building his team what do his choices. so far tell us about what kind of administration the biden team will break. >>well he said from the beginning his cap is is going to reflect america and so far he's on track whether it's all under majorca at dhs whether it's our own doctor janet yellen go bears as secretary of treasury. and and so you're just seen your scene at the cern to roll out and it's going to be i think important exciting time. and you more exciting they get to do something well for the next 50 odd days because the transition actually begun, so they find out you know where all the papers were filed were all the executive orders are buried. most importantly we're all the policy has been going so that they can start getting ready to make change they want. >>michael you n

>>michael yaki thank you for joining us here tonight at 8 we're talking you again at 00:00pm tonight and i'd like them to focus a little bit on kamala harris and the history that was made there and also who you think might be replacing her in the senate. so really thank you all right, we'll see you then. thanks michael. >>meanwhile, our coverage of the biden harris victory continues right now with kron 4 dot com. there we have more reaction from lawmakers including an article with a look into what the biden administration's first 100 days could look like. we also have an article that fact check selection, conspiracy theories that you may have seen popping up online. it's all available right now kron 4 dot com. >>and now to our 4 zone forecast a outside things looking picture kron 4 meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez is here with a look at what you can expect as you head out the door for your sunday, yeah, definitely head out in layers today and even tomorrow as well because it's going to be a few degrees cooler, let's take a live look outside san francisco international airport and we a

>>still to come here on kron 4 news at 9 on our local political analyst michael yaki. >>discusses with us what we can expect from a joe biden presidents. >>and we're tracking the dry clear weather for us here in the bay area snow for this year of more coming >>who voted for president trump. i understand the disappointment tonight, i've lost a couple times myself but now let's give each other a chance. to put away the harsh rhetoric. temperature see each other again lesser each other game. make progress we have to stop treating your opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies their marriage. >>those are the words of president elect joe biden making a call to some voters, trump voters during his victory speech tonight. >>the associated press reported that he surpassed the necessary 270 electoral college votes to become the 46 president of the united states this morning, pennsylvania there the deciding factor. but for more now on joe biden's victory and also senator kamala harris's victory we're joined now by our political analyst michael yaki and that's where i wa

>>michael yaki any expectations you choose to share with the president might say. >>i mean i know i'm a little concerned about how long it's taken for him to get to the podium. and i'm wondering if that's all because his advisors and he are struggling over what exactly he wants to say because i think we all know with the president. we like to say it's basic going to be a rehash of his campaign speech and accusations of a warning against voter fraud and everything like that are claiming victory and his advisors are probably trying to tell it like jonathan was just saying you know take a step back. so we're going to go home spend a long night. we'll let the process take care of itself, but you know i every time i think that the president could rise to that occasion he is he sorely disappointed thing. >>sorry producers talk to me my we likely to end up in some kind of messy court situation. >>grace class and respect those 3 entities those 3 kind of attributes are hugely important and the president doesn't always exhibit any element of those things joe biden tried to t

by michael yaki. in san francisco he's on the u.s. commission on civil rights and acts as an advisor to senior government officials corporate executives and community leaders michael 1st of all i hope i got your last name from pronounced correctly. how dangerous are the statements that we have heard from president trump since election night well 1st michael good morgan from cisco. they statements are extremely dangerous this is their own found. all they're doing is stoking paranoia and fear amongst his right wing among for right wing supporters supporters who have shown very little hesitation in the past use force and armed violence to achieve their ends. what consequences could his words have for america and essentially the sort of collective feeling that americans have about its democracy . the hallmark of american democracy for over 200 years has been that we have peaceful elections and a peaceful transition of power it's if we do not remove people at the point of a gun at or at be at a riot they're not lynched they're not they're n

michael yaki we appreciate your time so much tonight here on kron 4 news in primetime new jersey at 08:09:10pm, so that's a lot it really is once again. i still say we've got to get on the payroll here. >>i love to do thanks michael guess. >>she will call a harris is making history today as the first black woman to become vice president. the united states it is something that's never been done before. and comes as america faces a reckoning on racial justice. harris is also the first person of south asian descent elected to the vice presidency kron four's gayle ong reports now from berkeley. >>where harris spent her childhood and what this means for the bay area. >>it's a massive turnaround a massive change and and see somebody in the white house and representing our country only looks even has this really similar background of. >>you know having professor parents and both being both block in indiana and it's like wow lice president elect kamala harris was born to a jamaican father an indian mother the been dari family of berkeley share similar at the backgrounds and have been supportin

i asked political analyst michael yaki for his thoughts on how. >>biden is doing on that. >>he's done a pretty good job and when you look at when you look at it was put in there and the fact that you have the first warming director of the national intelligence when you have janet yellen the former fed chair as the search or the treasury, the first woman to have that up you've all 100 majorca at dhs this is a good national security which is not only by diversity and balance and looking like america, it's right sending a message to the rest of the world where america's going to be come january 20th 2021 no partisan warriors as somebody put it these are mostly trusted establishment figures. >>well progressive spill happened certainly with the janet yellen appointment that's that's a very good sign. for the progressive side, this is someone who in her career at the federal reserve bank in san francisco. i might add. really a ground breaking study and on wage disparity up based on gender and i think that we look at the point of 100 myrick a another a berkeley alum i might go be

thank you very much grant so we want to go now to political analyst michael yaki joins us to weigh in on the presidential election and the electoral college map michael the democrats were anticipating a blue wave, not this razor thin. >>election count today that we're dealing with still looking at tonight, what's your reaction to that. >>basically i this is a very intense ground game that was executed by the trump campaign really to perfection. they did a great job of door knocking they send people out in the field something that the democrats consciously during the pandemic decided they were not going to gauge and they're going phone calling phone banking. typical male get out the vote hyper techniques but not the kind of drag your neighbor to the polls which is actually what the democrats use this news to do. and and that's pretty much how obama which addict or in 2008 2012. >>the biden campaign not quite ready to declare victory and call him president elect, but what do you think it sure looks like that's the direction we're going here. >>well i mean this is this is nail-biting tim

>>let's talk more about this with our political analyst michael yaki good morning michael.>>good morning happy almost thanksgiving i you to things you can almost start to happen here. absolutely now the transition letter from gsa is gone. they can get office space they can actually start talking to people most importantly being searched finding out. what's been going on for the past 4 years in the inner bowels of all of the all these agencies if you're preparing to govern on day one that's really what the importance of the transition is it's unfortunate or 2 weeks to get going. going to be a long thanksgiving weekend for a lot of these folks because they're going to be working very very hard to make up for lost now the president this morning on twitter still says he's not conceding anything he still fighting this in the courts but. >>effectively though that phase is pretty much past us right now that the government has acknowledged a job i will be the next president. the transition is happening whether the with the trump wants it or not. >>isn't and you know whatever the tr

resembles a guest list for georgetown dinner, but political analyst michael yaki says stability might be just what washington needs. >>these are people who have been through that been in the trenches they've been through the wars. they are part of the establishment. for better force of of america and these are people who believe in the world order. it used to be they are before donald trump. and that's really important for by because he needs to have stability. at the international what we need to build a project and rick and reassure and bring america back into the family of nations because he can't be distracted by that he needs to be focused on the pandemic you need to be focused on the economy. so this team with a lot of years a lot of background a lot of strength in the tradition of american bipartisan leadership in the world is something that he can sort of put on autopilot and let them go forward. he's busy trying to figure out what janet yellen others. how he's going to be creating. plan for the mass immunization of this country against covid amenities i would call or or play

>>joining us our panel michael yaki michael is a former senior adviser to house speaker nancy pelosi,ical science professor at sonoma state chair of the department there jonathan madison and jonathan is the bay area. vice chair of the california republican party. all right gentlemen as a grand has been telling us some really crucial battleground states are too close to call florida considered key to the president looking good for him and things looking up tight and some of the other states ohio arizona for example, north carolina jonathan i'm going to start with you what do you focus time. >>and the president's game plan was the same in 2016 right. keep the states that republicans the previous election year. mitt romney l ohio, north carolina and some of those other states. so the president a game plan this time it was told every scene every state that he in 2016 and pick up a blue state or 2. and now you're seeing as the night goes leading in states like ohio pennsylvania wisconsin, michigan. in florida starting to look like a what is considered a blowout for purposes of florida's co

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what's happening today the day we've been waiting for for a while now we have political analyst michael yaki michael good morning. the day is finally here. >>michael what you know does anything strike for this morning that you're seeing so far as bizarre. well i just think that. >>you know for probably half the country, it's been a very bizarre for years so it's it's thing was bizarre is there still people out there in california who are not registered to vote. and you can and still today register and vote that's one of the great privileges of democracy, what's part of the grand experiment. we engage in over 250 years ago you can go to wherever your polling place would be go to your county go to the county clerk. their number ways that you can still register and actually vote. today i would encour ge anyone who hasn't done it to do so because it's part of what makes this country great. >>but i guess i'm one of them by the czars like what out of the ordinary because we keep telling people listen. the results not coming in like us maybe not knowing what's decided tonight is not unusual is it t

>>as for what's next how analyst michael yaki says he is particularly interested in who biden selectss his secretary of defense and the job of attorney general those announcement should come soon. >>it was a record breaking day on wall street, the dow jones traded above 30,000 points for the first time ever as investors were encouraged that the transition of power in the u.s. to presidentelect biden will begin and the latest progress on developing covid-19 vaccines. the dow climbed 454 points. the nasdaq jumped a 156 points. the s and p 500 rose 57 public health departments are urging people to avoid gathering for the thanksgiving holiday still in contra costa county covid-19 testing sites are booked with appointments since the start of the pandemic health health services says the daily average of covid test has been around 5,000 but in recent days that's increased to almost 7,000 tests per day the county has temporarily suspended its flu shot clinics, so staff can focus on providing covid-19 tests at its 10 different sites for anybody traveling by plane this week you may see some new

>>let's talk more about this with our political analyst michael yaki good morning michael. >>good morning happy almost thanksgiving i you to things you can almost start to happen here. absolutely now the transition letter from gsa is gone. they can get office space they can actually start talking to people most importantly being searched finding out. what's been going on for the past 4 years in the inner bowels of all of that all these agencies if you're preparing to govern on day one that's really what the importance of the transition is it's unfortunate or 2 weeks to get going. going to be a long thanksgiving weekend for a lot of these folks because they're going to be working very very hard to make up for now the president this morning on twitter still says he's not conceding anything he's still fighting this in the courts but. >>effectively though that phase is pretty much past us right now that the government has acknowledged a job and we next president the transition is happening whether the with the trump wants it or not. >>isn't and you know whatever the trip the pr

direction, let's talk about what we're seeing develop this morning with our political analyst michael yaki good morning michael. >>good morning. this is this is a good night for insomniacs yeah, no kidding as we're watching hour by hour. the numbers are changing and then we saw things start to flip. >>and we also last night saw the president come out to the press room there at the white house and speak for the first time since go off rails late election night just got through it all out there just kind of threw everything out and. >>the problem with this is everything needs to stick for it to matter i mean with by u.s. to win one state with trump everything he's alleging has to come together. >>i mean i mean. wolf we also saw when every single state which is not going to be doing i mean. pennsylvania is looking. well i think it's and i think it's i think it's locked and i think the networks are just waiting until they get to about 15 or 20,000 vote leave in order to sort of push it to it put its decision desk make the call. nevada's looking good i think arizona is not training anymore in h

i'm joined by michael yaki in san francisco he's on the u.s. commission on civil rights and acts as an advisor to senior government officials corporate executives and community leaders michael 1st of all i hope i got your last name pronounced correctly. how dangerous are the statements that we have heard from president trump since election night. well 1st michael good morgan san francisco. it is the the statements are extremely dangerous this is their unfound and that all they're doing is stoking paranoia and fear amongst his right wing among for right wing supporters of supporters who have shown very little hesitation in the past use force and armed violence to achieve their ends. what consequences could his words have for america and essentially the sort of collective feeling that americans have about its democracy and the reason. that the hallmark of american democracy for over 200 years has been that we have peaceful elections and a peaceful transition of power it's if we do not remove people at the point of a gun at a riot they're not lynch

i asked political analyst michael yaki for his thoughts on how biden is doing.s done a pretty good job and when you look at when you look at it was put in there and the fact that you have the first warming director of of national intelligence when you have janet yellen the former fed chair, as the search or the treasury, the first woman to have that up you've all 100 majorca at dhs this is a good a very good especially for his national security which is not only by diversity and balance and looking like america, it's right sending a message to the rest of the world where america's going to be come january 20th 2021 no partisan warriors as somebody put it these are mostly trusted establishment figures. >>we'll progress of speed happened certainly with the janet yellen appointment that's that's a very good sign. for the progressive side, this is someone who in her career at the federal reserve bank in san francisco. i might add really a ground breaking study and on disparity up based on gender. i think that we look at the point of 100 my or ca another a berkeley a

>>as for what's next analyst michael yaki says he is particularly interested in who biden selects as his secretary of defense and attorney general those announcements could come soon. >>2 turkeys won't have to worry about ending up as a meal this thanksgiving president trump pardoned them in annual thanksgiving tradition. >>i grant you a friend. >>that is corn the turkey. the national turkey federation presented corn and his fellow turkey cobb in honor of their home state of iowa. the pair will retire to a new home on the campus of iowa state university. >>coming up hip-hop for change how an east may use group is fighting to redefine the genre of hip-hop to empower children as young as those in kindergarten. >>and next in sports, a usf women's basketball team begins its season tomorrow. we preview what they're doing to get ready. kylen mills has the story coming up. >>4 sports brought to you by xfinity. >>too bad, what happens in kansas city doesn't stay in kansas city, especially when it airs on national television but the las vegas raiders have to move on as they head into a crucia

>>and for all of this and more we're turning to our political analyst michael yaki good morning to you job when i was working for nancy pelosi, one of our favorite things to do if there's a break in our evening schedule in jeopardy was on the sit in your living room and compete against each so. >>i feel i feel like that's kind of how always trying and to answer the question what michael let's talk a little bit about what happens now right. we talked yesterday with you with reaction in regards to joe biden and kamala harris winning the election here but now there's a lot of work to be done but they're still counting going on in this election. so what's going to be happening over these next couple of days and weeks. >>well actually there's going to be a difference in accounting going on january 5th which has tremendous impact on by the administration and what it chooses to do going forward. if they can get. the 2 senate seats in georgia that changes the entire equation for how the binding ministration we'll do we'll deal with its cabinet picks because it's one thing to have a cabinet. th