at the height of the 2020 corona virus pandemic mass media really covered stories from africa. the world was more interested in kind of it, and africa had more less infected people in europe. but one story got people s attention. newspapers reported that can you was having an elephant baby boom journalists linked the unprecedented surge in the elephant s birth rate to tourists being restricted from the park. they said it was the whole positive side of a lot down, but kind of it had nothing to do with critical my biggest issue. okay. so say 2018. we got a pretty good train and we have a female. so 202020. yeah. tentatively tired. this baby will insult to huntington will succeed. more rains means more food for the female elephants to feed their young. extraordinary things happened in amber sally national park touches pena, a female elephant giving birth to healthy twin males. truly an extremely rare case . she fairly fitted madman a mother regarding mother there, but he has mon
plenty of blue sky tonight. so the fireworks might be visible, which you know is not always a sure thing on new year s or for that matter on the 4th of july when they light up the sky here. sometimes it lights up the insides of the clouds. stay tuned. we re going to bring you the craziness coming up in our later newscast. reporting live, joe vazquez, kpix 5. thank you, joe. here s a live look at times square in new york. the annual crystal ball drop happens in less than three hours, at midnight eastern time. security is tight. everyone who goes into times square must be scanned with metal detectors. police have deployed teams of rooftop snipers and dogs that can detect explosive particles after two recent terrorist attacks in the city. that s not the only concern. could be one of the coldest celebrations on record. the temperature at midnight in new york will be about 13 degrees and with the wind chill it will feel like 1 below. back in the bay area, it s not bad at all
own firsthand experience even something as basic as emergency radios working can still be a problem in a terror attack. i can tell you as a former commander of the s.w.a.t. team and we would do operations in and around the hilly areas of the city which are most of the city, you have problems. it s tough to communicate. that is the achilles heel for any kind of operations. but not all challenges are technical. there s also the issue of how to control the soft targets like a crowd leaving a big events. when you re in a situation where you re dealing with a large group of people, it s more difficult. reporter: beefing up security after manchester events? we do threat assessments an outline events. reporter: there are challenges. for example, shortly after donald trump became president, san francisco police opted out of the fbi joint terrorism task force. there were some concerns from various members in the community on our policies and our participation. reporter
PLUMSTEAD TWP. – As always, the effort was there from the New Egypt High softball team, but the problem was solving Haddon Township’s Jordan Strauss in the circle.The two sectional champs squared off in a state semifinal in New Egypt and behind the domination of Strauss Haddon Twp. blanked the Warriors, 6-0, to advance to […]
NEW EGYPT — It’s now three Central Jersey Group I sectional championships in a row for the New Egypt softball team.The latest came on Saturday afternoon as New Egypt easily defeated Middlesex. 9-3, in the sectional title game.Next up New Egypt will be a state semifinal home game on Tuesday against South Jersey champion Haddon […]