The trends are in the direction globally in zero emission vehicles. Reporter the governor would like the phase out the sale of new gas powered cars by 2035, to reduce the states emissions. Hes driving this change forward with the help of californias air Resources Board. We know we have an obligation to keep on working to clean up the air and to make it as clean as it can be. He said it is for other states to follow. Already the state has 34 electric vehicle manufacturers. The difference is with a zero emission vehicle, you have lower maintenance costs, lower operating costs. If you want to protect impoverished communities, then pull away from the gas pumps. Reporter the California New Car Dealers Association released this statement. Bypassing the elected legislature and directing the California Air Resources Board to adopt rules to prohibit the sale of nonzero emission vehicles to enact the significant transportation policy change is deeply troubling and deprives californians of a dire
Grand jury decision to clear two of three Police Officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylors apartment. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Breonna taylor was shot and killed by police in march as officers served a no knock warrant at her boyfriends apartment. Thinking it was an intruder the boyfriend fired a warning shot that struck an officer in the leg. Brett hankison was fired as a ruflt the incident. He is the lone officer charged and is out on bail tonight. He wantonly shot a gun. Reporter those words would be repeated two more times as a grand jury chose to indict former Police Officer Brett Hankison in the Breonna Taylor case. He was not charged for her death but for shooting into a neighboring apartment. As for two other Police Officers under investigation there was no mention of them today. Kentuckys attorney general says they why justified in their use of force. The decision took a personal tone as he answered questions i understand that as a black man. How p
Since the election of brazils farright president Jair Bolsonaro last year. We will go to brazil for the latest. Then we look at the homeless crisis in San Francisco. Absolutely a national responsibility. First and foremost, federal responsibility to make sure our basics tove the thrive, not only survive. Homeless people are victimized are poor decisions at multiple levels in the government. Amy then people gather in greensboro, north carolina, this week and to mark the 40th anniversary of the greensboro massacre, when Ku Klux Klans attackedric and nazis, a group of antiracist protesters in broad daylight in 191979, killing fifive people e and injg 10. I wish that mike and jim ad caesar hads sandy and in 1979 s sacrificed because of their intense believe wage ande and a livining dignity. Amy the greensboro massacre 40 years later. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from washington, all four white h
A slew of other auto manufactururers, includingng fo, honda, and volkswagen, have sided with california in this battle. The ongoing dispute has left auto giants grappling with which fuel efficiency standards to follow over the coming decade. The New York Times is reporting the United States and russia may be left without a single nuclear armslimitation treaty, which would allow the two countries to expand their Nuclear Arsenals without limits. President trump pulled the United States out of the inf agreement, that is the intermediate Nuclear Forces agreement. Now a russian arms official says there may not be enough time to renegotiate and replace another more important nuclear agreement, the new start treaty, before it expires in early 2021. In northern mali, over 50 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military post friday in one of the deadliest attacks on malis military in recent years. The army called it a terrorist attack. Isis has claimed responsibility. In a separate attack, a
Chief diplomat. Secretary of state mike pompeo expected to push the Mexican Foreign minister toward a safe third country agreement, but with 45 days left in the window in which mexico is supposed to curb illegal immigration at the southern border, they are signaling they may not actually be onboard. And breaking news tonight from the strait of hormuz, President Trump labeling iran as nothing but trouble as u. S. Officials say Iranian Forces seized two oil tankers. In the meantime, iran is denying a claim by President Trump and the pentagon that an american warship destroyed one of their drones yesterday above the strait. All of this coming as the u. S. Says hundreds more sends hundreds more troops to the volatile region. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has more tonight from the pentagon. Reporter gregg, iran says it has seized two oil tankers today; one british, the other liberian. The National Security council issued the following statement after initial reports of th