Good morning. Im pam cook and its thursday morning, july 23. Thank you for waking up with us. Lets check with Steve Paulson as we lead into the weekend. Any changes . Just daytoday changes, no screaming message that says a big pattern change. Temperatures have been below average. Thunderstorm activity firing up with a logo going through but it didnt chew up the fog. Everyone says quality including concord and livermore and it does look warmer today after cool readings. 60 degrees and 2987 on the pressure. South at concord, 13 with temperatures on the mild side and 73 on the streets of bakersfield. That is for sale. 73 on the streets of bakersfield. Thunderstorms over the mountains, highs, 60s and 70s and close to average and then slightly below. Speaking of sale, there is a buck owens live in San Francisco recording and he sings that, of course. Perfect. You know, everything is on youtube these days. Lets look at the commute. The bay bridge has traffic moving along well with no major p
On the news. Imagine. Are you threatening him . Yes, he is. This is what i tell you, we live in fear, and nobody cares. Reporter they live in condominiums above willow alley. This is the shelter in place slum. Reporter what is it like living here day to day . Its unrelenting. I cant sleep at night. I cant work during the day. I wear noisecanceling headphones when i have to work from home. And i have to have the volume on full blast. Reporter they dont feel safe in their neighborhood. People have broken into their building and drug dealing and drug use is rampant. In the last ten days, i myself have witnessed from my window two overdoses right by our garage door. We are under siege. And this is blocks away from city hall. Reporter but the people who live on this street say they dont feel safe either. They say residents in the nearby buildings have acted outpouring water on them from the windows above and running over their tents with cars. And they pulled in and started yelling the fact
With byron pitts. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Tonight the wide ranging abc news investigation into this countrys response to covid19. Now some of the nations top doctors and experts on why they say a series of missteps and ignored warnings created the crisis were facing we are always at threat for the next pandemic. A mysterious new virus appearing in china. Chinese Health Authorities are still working to identify the virus behind a pneumonia outbreak in the central city of wuhan. You have a brandnew virus that jumped species from animal to human. Concern rising. There were a number of people raising red flags. As covid19 rapidly spread around the world and arrived in the u. S. It is the perfect storm and my worst nightmare. Tonight we go in ic catastro puic health flure in our naon history. How did we get ever t covid pandemic hit were trying to determine if any one knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last year. Everybody at the state, local, theres a lo
Actually, if people are lawabiding, they never think about endangering National Security, there is no cause for concern whatsoever. Is if therelegation is a National Security law in hong kong, the law should be enacted in hong kong by the Legislative Council. It should not be happening in beijing. The Hong Kong Government has been kept in the dark and the process. Again, this is wrong. Firstly, this is a national law. Of course if it is International Law it will have to be decided how to enact the law. Now, basic law states clearly that for matters of national , thise or Foreign Affairs is a matter for the cbg. No one would question that National Security is something outside the high degree of autonomy. Its a matter of sovereignty of the country. 18 after basic law, theres a process that allows National Laws to be added for implementation through hong kong through a specified procedure. The third point is the political reality. If you believe given the current political reality, given
The conditions for bringing a lawsuit against a foreign state. The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing is chaired by senator Lindsey Graham of south carolina. Generally speaking, we have a foreign sovereign immunities act , basically shutting off lawsuits against other nations because whatever we do to them, they can do to us. We made exceptions to it. We have amended the act regarding terrorist activities. This is not an issue i take lightly. Ive thought ang lot about. My colleagues have worked to put together legislation, they have reconciled the legislation. Want to have a hearing about what it would mean if we amended the act to allow suits against china. And why would we take this unprecedented step . This is the third pandemic to come out of china. The coronavirus came from hunan province, but it was a mistake in a lab or spread at a wet market, i dont know, but we do know where it came from. We know china failed to inform the world about the nature of the virus that did restrict