they shouldn't just ask us to shorten our business hours, but rath take drastic steps to tackle the virus. otherwise this will happen again. >> the measures come just a day after the central government temporarily excluded sapporo and osaka city from a domestic tourism campaign aimed at the stimulating the economy. despite the spike in tokyo, it will remain part of the campaign. so far on wednesday there's been 1,900 cases reported nationwide. 135,000 people have tested positive since the outbreak began with the death toll exceeding 2,000. >>> in the united states, an expert panel at the food and drug administration is set to meet to discuss plans to rollout a coronavirus vaccine. a senior health official says distribution could start within weeks. alex azar told reporters that the panel will convene on december 10 to review an application for emergency use of the vaccine. he said if approved by the fda the vaccine can be distributed nationwide within 24 hours. >> we expect by the end of december to have enough vaccine to vaccinate those who are most vulnerable just by way of sizing and s

i think the key point is, even if rathe death is about .6 percent, all comers, that's a decently high g.ance of dy it's not like walkine across street. there's a lot of risks that we take in life, we get in the car and drive somewhere, get the plane and drive somewhere. and none of those risks, and less you are hang gliding are an.6here remotely a percent chance which is one in 150 that you would dieat. a big deal. >> what is your response for overnight counties in purple tier. intended for people to gather together in e night and to bars. why is that segment of the population targeted? >> he's trying to dim the switch a little more without going all the way. iftuthings don't around, the case rates are going pretty steeply high right now. if things don't turn around quickly, we wi. see mo it's a reasonable idea to say we're not going to shut down all gatherings, we won't go back h mad stay home. we are going to say if you are going over to a friends house to drink, that's a risky thing to do. as we try thto move dimmer switch to the right place, let's do this and see how thin y go. me

rath rather than reactive. i'm trusting we will at least slow the inevitable increase down. it's not going to prevent it. >> how is this surge that we'll see and experiencing different from the one we saw in the beginning of the pandemic. then the summer and now this one. >> this third surge is probably the biggest surge. unfortunately. three reasons. the first reason is it's colder. a lot of people inside. the second reason is of course pandemic fatigue. we have been almost a year into this. around the holiday people will let guard down. myself included hopefully not. the third is that we have not seen this level of covid in the surrounding states. we have increasingly henched in by the activity around california and the bay area. >> it is so difficult. just last month we thought we were turning a corner. things were looking good. the positive rate was 2.5%. and we were hopeful. we're just like regular people. i don't know what you and your folks have been going through. the first month you were exhausted. mentally. physically. you're still going. it's been like seven month

who live here to have this kind of remark from a health official, you know, not only does it raise rathinst our state government and our governor in particular, but it's reckless and dangerous given the fact we have had this plot against her to kidnap and execute her. it spurs noncompliance amongst our residents and makes this into a political issue. covid never should have been a political issue to begin with. what it's going to do is just result in more people dying in our state. and that is the last thing that a so-called public health adviser should want to see happen. >> yeah. i mean, look, dr. at lan is a radiologist and radiologists do incredibly important. we rely on them for reading of scans. but they spend a lot of time in dark little rooms. maybe dr. atlas is excited to be outside and have the president listening to him and his name is now known. but it is impossible to read this guy's tweet and not be reminded of the president's own language throughout the course of the pandemic calling for michigan to lib rat michigan, praising people who showed up with, you know, automatic

all of these things don't bode well for us to have decreased number of cases but rath yerks increasing. i think also as you rightly point out, the crowded areas oft times for travel is in the security lines, things like this. it's not necessarily on the plane itself which have very good air filtration and quick turn arounds of air in the space. they have the flow of the air, this directed such that it's not just spreading all over the cabin. actually, probably the actually getting to the airport is of more concern than the flight itself. >> we have to hang in there until the vaccine is available. experts have been drawing that distinct, a vaccine is one thing. vaccinations, quite another. you supervised l.a. county's immunization program. what is the key to a successful rollout, and if we agree that health care workers should get it first, who gets it next? how do you decide? >> yes. so i think firstly, as you point out, we need to realize that is coming. there is a light at the end of this tunnel. so that pandemic fatigue, if everybody could double down and hang in there, keeping mask

so when a voter shouted out what he's going to do about it, he wants secretary of state brad rath sburgerat else he had to say. >> we're doing a lot because right now every ballot, every legal vote should be counted for donald trump. and you know what? they should be counted for me, too. >> reporter: and republicans here in georgia, senator kelly loeffler, and senator david perdue are stuck in a tough spot because their whole message here is to hold the line in the u.s. senate, keep that gop majority as a check on president-elect joe biden. but in order to really lay down that messaging they have to acknowledge that biden is in fact the president-elect. and both speakers today kind of came close to that. you had senator jodi ernst talking about what a potential president biden would do in washington. and you had senator david perdue talk about how important it is because if they lose the senate then they obviously have to deal with biden as president. and if they keep it, you know, it's high stakes here and voters know that. they all say that the key point is holding the gop majority in t

interest to do our best, to try and get out of this with a deal we can liv with, rathe than simply failure. >>hank you. dr. jones? >> i tnk to follow on what my two colleues noted. i would say three thin, one is, i wouldn't go down any further. think i would ask nong other issues, i would ask the commanding general. u.s. general in ahanistan and xarm of the joi chiefs of staff f their advice on what the 4500 or the 2500 gives us. do w need more than just a counterterrorism rce? do we need to continu to provide trainin advice and asstance? and i think that's going to be an analytical judgment from our senior military leadership is where to . the second is, i think we do need to show commitment to the afghan government. some of this will be financia some of thiss just a political cmitment that we wi remai an ally against an extreme islamic emirates. and third, i think we have got to be able to tell the taliban, onef our majoring bgaining chips, forces, they're not going to ce down with without a peace settlement. he think we've got to example up pressure along those lines. >> thank you, i'll

their attempts to flood the streets certainly received the rath of city government. we put in a process to allow for at least a temporary permit process. that has gone on for some time. i think there are good actors, companies that met the spirit what we intend to do, but thinking about employees, people that work for their companies, how and which and what areas of san francisco will be served. when this was originally envisioned there were parts of san francisco the outer mission, bayview hunters point that were being ignored by scooters. i work with supervisor walton and others to ensure that and chair peskin to ensure the scooters would be distributed ex equitably in san francisco. we are thinking about the people works for the companies, are they treated as employees, are we respecting the labor harmony process in place for these new technologies and modes of transportation in san francisco. i call for the hearing today to hear an update in the process from when i called for the hearing until now, one company has had temporary permit expanded. more scooters will

they're not necessarily lost generation references to the war but rath irthey're about the flu. we of on import into the perspective it must be the war. i succumb to that to myself sometimes. it's there, and it's not totally forgotten. but unlike the war, there are not memorials built. in '20s, you see sports -- i bet like dallas, a memorial that probably had origins in world war i for playing football or sports. we see a lot of that coming out of the flu in the closure policies, memorializing the war but actually doing that was lost because of the pandemic, not the war. those warm memorials sometimes have a direct reference to the pandemic, and we just need to look for it. why else didn't we talk about it? some of the things you said there, you heard my historian-to-historian qualified lapg. are they more attributable to the pandemic or conflict it skfl? how do you aggregate the two? the answer is you can't so the simple, easier answer is it's always the war. but it may not be the right one. it's the reason you have to say flu even when you say readjustment, demobilization or t