Ah, a reminder at the top stories and al jazeera, here as president joe biden, and chinese lead a she, she paying of spoken by telephone as tensions rise over taiwan. According to Chinese State media, she warned biden against playing with fire over a possible trip to the self governing island by the u. S. How speak a next month. China considers taiwan part of its territory and has called him washington to abide by the one china principal. Nancy pelosi has yet to confirm the trip. The earth economy has contracted for a 2nd straight quarter, but the by the administration insists its not a recession. Gross domestic product, which is one measure of economic activity, fell 0. 9 percent in the 3 months from april to june or wednesday, the u. S. Federal reserve increase Interest Rates for the 4th time this year. Why didnt this urging congress to pass the inflation reduction act, saying it will lower inflation by reducing Health Care Costs and taxing the rich . This bill requires the largest c
Autonomous driving for the self driving cars to use algorithms for road hazards like pedestrians or when another car will change lanes. Google said they would build more than 100 prototype cars with testing starting this summer. A new report says hackers and iran created an elaborate game using facebook and other sites to spy on u. S. Officials. They created a Fake News Organization and attempted to interact with some 2000 officials to access their data. The report says u. S. Lawmakers, defense contractors, and a fourstar general were among those targeted. Its unclear if their government was behind it. First, to the lead story of the day, apple makes a bold statement about the Product Pipeline with Senior Vice President eddie cue proclaiming great things to come. Here he is speaking with beats cofounder jimmy iovine at the code conference. Later this year, we have the best Product Pipeline that ive seen at apple in my 25 years. The best Product Pipeline youve seen in 25 years . Includi
Will. We learned that when others are are around, we learn we wait for others to take responsibility. Scientists have attributed major explanations to the bystander affect. First, people feel the need to be hit and socially acceptable ways. They take their cues from other people. That prompts them to either act or not act. Second, and perhaps more important is the presence of other people essentially this uses responsibility. That is the essential essential problem. It can lead to extreme and action, and that is to the detriment of all of our bystanders and the whole society. This is precisely the condition we find ourselves in so many americans, in particular young people do not make it to the polls on election day. They may have an opinion about who should win, they may even feel really strongly about it, but as their dates fill up, the Good Intention to go vote goes away. They wake up maybe the wake up with the intent to vote in never make it to the polls. But what does that mean .
For this and support this and i want to use my remaining time to talk a little bit about the budget resolution the Budget Conference Committee that we are going to talk about later. I completely agree with chairman mckeon. In the spirit what i said about the ndaa, about the necessity of getting our job done, we need to pass a budget. I know it impacts all manner of other pieces of government but im most familiar with what it does to the department of defense to not have a budget, to not have Appropriations Bills, to have to go from c. R. To c. R. To Government Shutdown threat to actual Government Shutdown to another Government Shutdown threat, you simply cannot function as well as you should or as well as you would if you had a dependable budget that said heres what you have. It would never be what all of us want. It is better of the predictability of having an appropriations process. Its critical we Pass National defense authorizing act, its critical we pass the budget. We have to fun
Damage in the way it was supposed to. A tanker ship hits the bay bridge. The damage to the hull and tower and how it happened. A whole new meaning to lunchtime rush. How a simple mistake lead to this mess. He wanted to get caught cheating. The point a bay area man wants to prove with his car pool violation ticket. I am ken bastida. I am elizabeth cook. The coast guard will be out first thing in the morning checking worthiness of the tanker that hit the bay bridge. It hit echo tower the tower west of the island. Linda yee is on Treasure Island. A lot of us remember a few years ago and the environmental nightmare it was but at least this tanker was empty. Reporter yes, it was. That tanker just unloaded its cargo of fuel in martinez and then anchored off south of the bay bridge in the bay to wait for possible new cargo. None of it happened so it decided to leave empty and they left and hit the bay bridge and now the coast guard is saying tonight, preliminary findings show, it was human er