Notes today:

• Among California’s likely voters, 54% of respondents support keeping Newsom and 41 % want to see him replaced, according to a SurveyUSA poll released Thursday.
• 41% would evidently prefer Elder – astonishing! 

• Hospitals in California’s Central Valley (the extra RED part of CA) have been increasingly overwhelmed by the fourth surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, with officials scrambling to transfer some critically ill patients more than 100 miles away because local intensive care units are full.

• Conab sees Brazil’s corn output at 4-year low on 'most challenging crop' 
• USDA is expected to raise its estimate for the U.S. corn crop by about 1.3% from a previous forecast, to 14.94 billion bu., based on a Reuters survey of analysts.