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President Barack Obama sat down with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff Aug. 28 at the White House. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza PBS NewsHour co-anchor Gwen Ifill will interview President Obama on Monday at the White House. Saturday, September 7, 2013 Arlington, VA In the second interview with PBS NEWSHOUR in as many weeks, President Obama will sit down with NEWSHOUR Co-Anchor and Managing Editor Gwen Ifill on Monday, September 9, 2013.The President is expected to discuss his latest attempts to build support from the American public, Congress and the international community for a military strike against Syria in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack on August 21. The interview with President Obama airs Monday on the inaugural broadcast of the new PBS NEWSHOUR, with Ifill and Judy Woodruff as co-anchors and managing editors. It will also be available via the PBS NEWSHOUR live stream on our homepage and via the PBS NEWSHOUR Ustream channel. Ifill and Woodruff interviewed Mr. Obama at the White House on Aug. 28. Watch that interview or read the transcript here. Online, PBS NEWSHOUR offers a wealth of information about a variety of topics including:SYRIA A resource guide to the Syrian crisis How to tell Congress y stanley cup our opinion on Syria How do you want yo stanley cup ur Congressperson to vote on SyriaPOLITICS http://pbs.org/newshour/topic/politics/ WORLD AFFAIRS ht stanley cup tp://pbs.org/newshour/topic/world/ MEDIA CONTACT: Anne Bell abell@new Zazx As payment forms evolve, so do ATMs
SAN FRANCISCO AP 鈥?San Francisco and six other Bay Area counties announced Monday that they are reinstating a mask mandate for all indoor public settings as COVID-19 infections stanley cup surge because of the highly contagious delta variant.The new mandate applies to everyone, regardless of their vaccination status, and takes effect on Tuesday in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties, as well as the city of Berkeley.In a news conference announcing the new orders, Bay Areafor health officers also recommended that people gather outdoors if they have that option. It is unfortunate we have to do this at this point in the pandemic. None of us wanted to be here, said Dr. George Han, deputy health officer for Santa Clara County. But the virus has changed. The delta variant accounts for 95 percent of new coronavirus cases in the region, said Sundari Mase, the interim health officer for Sonoma County, which is north of San Francisco. We are facing a much more aggressive and contagious opponent right now, she said.The vast majority of new cases and hospitalizations are among unvaccinated people, but the Bay Area mandate affects all people because there has been an increase in the number of vaccinated people testing positive af1 and evidence that vaccinated people can transmit the virus.Mase and the other health of stanley cup ficials said the relatively low number of vaccinated people who are hospitalized now are primarily elderly or those with significant un