joining us now is dr ben penske. he is director stanford's clinical vory ology lab, which discovered this new variant doctor. thank you so much for being here. how was this new variant detected? yeah, we screened at stanford all of the positive cases that come through our laboratory, and we identified this based on the mutations present and then we confirmed the variant by whole genome sequencing, so right now it is just one case that is confirmed, but there are at least seven others in which you suspect that this variant is also involved. when might we get the results of those cases? yeah, we should know that very shortly. they are on the sequence, sir. as we speak, and in the next day or two, we'll have that information and are all of these cases centered at the same bay area facility. we collect specimens from across the bay area s o. these were from a variety of different sites, okay. what do we know about the travel history of the patients involved here at the moment? we don't. have a lot of information about th

has faced widespread criticism for making it harder to call out police abuse here's artie's child penske there was rounded criticism of this bill when it was presented a year ago not just from the left from human rights organizations and also journalists who says well concerned about elements contained in this global security bill now one of the most controversial elements was oh it's a cool 24 we've discussed this many times and the feelings about this is that it would continue issues in the ability of the press to do their job when it came to distributing images of the police offices as a result of that controversy and the widespread protests we saw here in france the government said it was going to completely revise this particular article the sticker mind over the protests against article 24. well the government said it was 3 writing that article completely but as it's been posted a there are elements that still are being criticized by many article $24.00 in the bill that was posted a bipolar man terrance still contains limits on who can call and publish images all of the police if t

since the start of january the has been one suicides among men to go into nz every 18 days well into penske has more on the crisis facing frontline medics and front. just to give you a sense most interns are supposed to be working a 48 hour week that's more than most people would generally in a week but we know they were more than that sometimes around 60 hours in a normal week but that union told r.t. that during the code 900 pandemic things are so bad that some interns are working up to 100 hours every week. this is got worse during the pandemic but it was already a serious before out of also sides among medics 25 percent were interns and among attempted suicides it was 70 percent 4 percent of trainees had attempted suicide and that was before the current crisis before interned worked a 58 hour week much of that in surgery and that's got worse during the pandemic it rose to 60 hours than 70 hours than 80 and in paris up to 100 hours so weak so it's exhausting now that union has told r.t. that they need to be immediate action to alleviate the situation and the pressure for the intern's now

me is to bolster republican principles to combat separatist tendencies are to charlotte to penske picks up the story. francis plans to defeat separatism have already caused alarm bells to ring particularly amongst the muslim community they've said that the north seeks to divide and could provoke hatred of muslims now the country's senate has voted to make an already controversial bill well explosive in a bid to fight against extremism senators adopted measures including a ban on parents wearing visible religious symbols if their company children old school trips essentially a ban on he jabs turbans or skull caps the book he would be banned public swimming pools prayers would be banned on university premises so too would any display of a foreign flag at a waiting artist enough was the reaction is what's next and look we can no longer speak of a functioning democracy in france given all these measure is this if you're a minority but more generally once these laws are passed they apply to everyone so yes there is a state of excitement for the left and that was human rights and the centrist

that's now an average of one suicide every 18 days among youngsters walking at hospitals shot at 2 penske reports from paris. well we know the in the medical profession it's one of the toughest jobs in the world and we know how much tougher that has go over the last year with the pandemic time and time again we've told you stories about how medical staff are suffering under the pressure now we've been hearing about the situation from medical interns who normally work brutal hours as they try and finish their training to become doctors to be the people that save lives in the future and one union has told r.t. that the situation is so bad that these essentially frontline soldiers in the war against 19 and now at breaking point believe some people in the rezoned we're in a terrible situation now and since the start of january there has been one suicides among medical interns every 18 days just to give you a sense most interns are supposed to be working a 48 hour week that's more than most people would generally in a week but we know they were more than that sometimes around 60 hours in a nor

need this announcement will not allow any panic that was solid to penske reporting from paris many thanks well before we get some further comment from a guest in the u.k. a truck regulator has cautioned against giving astra zeneca to people under 30 the watchdog registered 79 blood clot cases among those who had received the vaccine with 19 deaths while we went to the streets of london to see what they thought. i had my 1st box in the good book problem not get in there because you saw this from some health condition she's not getting it simply because of the little clots and we do actually know someone who's had a stroke since get in the vaccines and not all of them are you know because they love you for has been vaccinated there r.k. this will be even more side effects that we don't even know about this is just one thing that we can now they have no idea what this could be i guess the fear is will be bigger don't do you actual problem we've got a good public health system keep an eye on these things and obviously go be looking at the latest research but while the advice to still take the

celebrities to entice the public into getting the astra zeneca shots but will people bite artie's sure do penske hit the streets of the capital to find out. celebrity power could be about to be harnessed for its most bizarre campaign to date helping to convince people to have the astra zeneca job questions over its possible links to rare blood clots and its effectiveness have essentially made it roll the design a rouble for some leaving the french leadership scratching its head and wondering how to make it more appealing we have had difficulties convincing people on astra zeneca we must think about communication and our ability to convince if we want the vaccination campaign to improve though the president to may have been part of that given his previous buz own the vaccine the real problem with astra zeneca is that it doesn't work the way we were expecting it to the problem is so bad that in the city of nice a covert vaccination center not to be closed over the weekend when only 58 people turned up despite some 4000 doses of astra zeneca being for grabs so how did change people's mornings that'

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ben bleiman who owns several bars and san francisco, including tonic sort of penske's in teeth says. >> yellow tier change will help a lot of bars in the city bounce back. we don't have servers. we don't have the. we had to scramble to get all of the logistics and all of the gear that you need to serve food and you know some places nailed it, but others it was just a real hassle and cost a lot of money and labor. >> it's a lot of money and equipment and and then the customer experience was typical. you so it's a really big deal. let's get back to doing what we do. the yellow tier status would also allow live performance venues to increase their capacity. >> however, most venues in the city say it's still not enough to operate at a profit of them are reopening the capacity. >> means that you spend more money on staff and you could possibly make at the door and at the bar manager. a dna lounge. devon dossett says. >> like many other live music venues in the city. they don't plan to open until after june 15th the target date, california aims to fully reopen the possible tier change come

in a race that featured 35 lead changes, among 27 drivers, team penske's brad kozlowski led for the onlyttered with the final lap, for the sixth evacuate ry of talladega, tying dale earnhardt jr. and jeff gordon for number of wins there. glad everyone made it out all right. >>> let's go to weather and meteorologist bill karins for a check on the forecast. bill, happy monday. >> good monday to you, we're going to test the air conditioners this week for the first time in the northern half of the country. so let's me explain the weather pattern this week. as we, actually, a little coolish in many areas in the country. the snow we were tracking. this week, completely different story. so we had the huge storm coming in to the west, a slow-moving storm, out ahead of it, winds out of the south and that means a lot of people will be warming things up. the only problem is typically when you warm things up, you get thunderstorms, and the only chance we have really of severe weather this week is going to be tuesday, not today, going to be tomorrow afternoon, evening and we're talking into the plain

finally roger penske do i really loved working with, he was a great director. rogers said let's get the money. everybody said let's get the money. forge a sunday night. we had to launch in asia. wachovia was going bankrupt. tarp failed. seven banks injure go bankrupt and had to decide kind of like 15 minutes to go to lunch the next day. i never felt like i had so much pressure in my life, like i wanted to like suck my thumb and call for my mommy. [laughing] just like, it wasmb just like brutal. the market is down 1200 points the next day. we get and go two days later and we race $18 billion. that was just a normal day. >> right. >> quickly out to work on aircraft engines a of things e that. a long-winded answer to say i think in this era simpler is better than complicated. when life is complicated, simple is better. i just see that, i probably should've made the company simpler faster but it's just such a different time and we were probably toooo complicated for the era. >> right. okay. i'm going to switch gears a little bit. get a little more subjective. we ha

for us we pulled in the largest names in the industry including companies like anheuser-busch and penskeour electric power train technology when we start rolling out demos later this year. we're thrilled about this announcement we have the best names in the industry here working with us. >> not everybody is familiar with what you do so these -- you may eventually make an electric truck but at this point you take existing semis and change the power train for almost a hybrid electrical and slash natural gas power train. it has been done immediately to existing trucks? >> that's correct. so we're taking a little bit of a unique approach here where we're not trying to reinvent the whole vehicle. when we looked that shift towards electricfication it's in the power train. so we're staying focused on revolutionizing that and taking an approach. we know we have to reduce the operating cost for fleets. we know we need to reduce emissions and taking natural gases our way to recharge the battery pack and so with that, we don't need to build out all new infrastructure there is natural gas recharging

that's why when you look at auto nation, group one, penske auto group, look at all of the dealership're closer to their 52-week high and remains hs red hot. we expect sales to top likely where they were last year, joe, and last year, 31 million used vehicles told. and just like on the new side, used are record highs. >> preowned. preowned >> okay. >> where are we on e.v. percent? still small, right >> oh, low, low. pure evs are about 1.5 2% of total sales. and electrified are a little higher >> and major players i keep getting on my twitter about, you know, the new porsche, you know, put it in your garage every morning. >> right >> you've got a full tank. >> sure. >> so, everybody is chasing that dollar, but it's still a little small. i don't know how that shakes out. >> right where we are right now, joe, commitments are being made by all of the automakers to dramatically ramp-up ev production but it's not there. we're in what i call a valley of commitment and excitement by investors of electric vehicles, we're not seeing those vehicles yet. you see the ford mustang rolling out and b