Why she says a woman will face more scrutiny just days before biden is set to announce his pick. Plus, high speed crash. The pileup during an International Bike race with sticker shock, whats behind the rising prices at the supermarket and how much more you can expect to pay. Mac and cheese for breakfast . How your childhood favorite is breaking into the most important meal of the day. Good thursday morning, everyone. We begin with the growing crisis along the southern border. Were going to show you how covid19 is taking a toll in texas, but first the national numbers. Were seeing more than 1,000 deaths per day, but the increase in deaths over the last week has slowed down to 3. 6 . Facebook has now removed President Trumps post from wednesday in which he claimed children are, quote, almost immune from the virus. Children are not immune and overnight we learned one county in south texas has reported the number of babies testing positive has nearly doubled in the last two weeks. Abcs an
This morning, japan has marked 75 years since the unleashing of the worlds first atomic bomb on hiroshima. 140,000 people were killed, nearly half the citys population. A scaledback, social distancing event was held with survivors and relatives marking the 8 15 a. M. Blast anniversary with a moment of silence. This morning, were opening up the abc news vault to august 1995, the 50th anniversary, with abcs carole simpson. 4,000 americans were there the day the bomb fell. Only 1,000 of them came home. Abcs deborah amos looks at how two of them are faring today. Reporter every other year, for nearly 20 years, kay yoshioka and jack diruike spend a day in a San Francisco clinic where a team of visiting japanese specialists check for cancer, blood diseases, and anything else that might be traced to what happened 50 years ago. Kay was 8 years old then, americanborn, but living in japan because her family had moved back to care for her grandmother. That summer, with american planes firebombing
Host guest thank you, greta. Host the house is about to gavel and. In. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] he speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. February 27, 2020. I heeby appoint the honorable pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speake o the house of repsentatives. The speaker pro tempoe pursuant to thorder of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize the majorit and minority ed by eaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alernate between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders an minutes. Ut in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, thank you, mr. Fe minutes. Speaker. Highlight the importance of our Nations National heritae t
Can expect reset sounds like a big one its going to be a big one in fact we havent seen a midwinter storm like this in the bay area in quite a while weve had a few weeks storms making its way into the bay area, but this one is pretty typical for this time of year. So lets take a look at our satellite and radar from earlier tonight, very dry conditions. But now we are noticing some more light bands of rain just off the coast going to make its way inland. But this isnt even the storm that im tracking the one that is going to pack quite a punch during the overnight hours and for your thursday morning commute is right now over eureka so its just arriving into the golden state and its going to make its way into the bay area during the overnight hours and its going to wreak havoc for your thursday morning commute so the highest rain totals expected for those of you in the north bay specifically our local hills and mountains upwards of 3 inches of rain or less for the rest of us in the bay ar
Because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. And well also go to bolivia for the latest on the crisis there as the president flees to mexico. Wa nt to want to begin the programme by playing this assessment from the Hong Kong Police. Hong kongs rule of law has been pushed to the brink of law has been pushed to the brink of total colla pse. Of law has been pushed to the brink of total collapse. As master writers recklessly, recklessly escalate their violence under the false hope that they can get away with it. The Key Development has been that the clashes have moved from the centre of hong kong onto some University Campuses. These are some of the pictures coming in from the severity of the clashes. Also see that some protesters formed barricades, blocking roads within the campuses and there were clashes between the police and the protesters. It has not ended the protests in the centre of the city. Around 1000 people turned out d