The frontline workers of this pandemic. A powerful tribute. You cant say enough as time passes and their work continues on the front lines. We join them in thanking all of those First Responders. We sure do. Song captures it better. They certainly are the champi s champions. We are back on this saturday morning, may 2nd. Lets check the headlines. There is hope for a new potential coronavirus treatment. The fda granted emergency approval for the drug remdesivir to treat patients severely ill with the virus. This comes as states start getting back to business this weekend with malls and restaurants all across the country opening their doors. 34 states now have partial reopening plans in place with 15 still under strict stayathome orders. Prime minister Justin Trudeau announced a nationwide ban on assaultstyle weapons in canada. The move comes less than two weeks after the countrys deadliest mass shooting in history. A gunman killed 23 people in nova scotia. It includes 1500 models of the
Thank you so much and welcome. A few housekeeping notes if you could take a minute and silence your cell phones so that we are not interrupted that would be great. We are recording the event and you will have an urge to shout your question but we have a microphone here if you could get up and use the microphone it gets recorded and everyone can hear the question and answer, so thank you in advance. So sometimes we ask you to fold up your chairs but if you could nonot fault them up today that would be awesome. If you enjoyed this event we have about 500 a year or so check out our november and december calendar of the information desk for the emails and also we opened up a bookstore so if you havent been down there its been three weeks i think. We have author events and its a wonderful space so it is worth a visit. Thats all the boring stuff. Areas of research include black families in white communities, identity and the role of race in the classroom. A nationally recognized authority on
Safety. We do not believe this to be a randothe latest update we have gotten from police. They say they expect the investigation to lead them well into the night, we have much more coming up tonight at 5 00. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. Get breaking news first on your phone with text alerts from abc7 news. Sign up at wjla. Com. Because of all of you and the many thousands who stand with us in marches like this all across the nation, life is winning again. [applause] q History Today as a Vice President addressed the march for life for the first time. Right now the marchers are wrapping up the time on the steps of the u. S. Supreme court. We have Team Coverage of the annual march marking the high courts roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Carterconneen at the court. Mike q, we have seen tens of thousands of marchers come through this location outside the court. Many of them still gathered here. A very, very large crowd. Expecting hundreds of thousands here tod
I thought it was powerful. Eo in a high powered position to come in with the march. Michelle it started at the National Malibu it ended where the National Debate ended 44 years ago and still today, the u. S. Supreme court. Mike carterconneen joins outside the court on what is happening on the location now. Michelle a couple of hours ago where i stand now with a swarm of people. Tens of thousands of protesters and the marchers gather here to discuss and debate the issue of abortion. The cr dramatically. There are abortion here engaging with them. There is media as well. Always for the march for life. There were some hire in favor of the abortion rights who gathered. A hundred or so here along first street. They were outnumbered by the antiabortion protesters. A lot of the signs and the chants were focused on the overturning roe v. Wade. Many are feeling optimist eck about that. I dont know if they will get a total ban on abortion pend lum the other way. Lets wait and see. We have been r
Ere 44 years rkroe versus wade case legalized abortion. Many headed to the capitol to meet with their lawmakers inform and we have Team Coverage of the march. Ileana diaz is talking to activists who say they are prolife and pro women. We are live with debra alfarone. She is listening to pro life supporters. Deb . Lesli, thousands of people came here today. They marched and we talked to lots of people. When we asked them why it was so important to them, some of them actually cried. Here are three personal stories for being here. When i was 19, i got pregnant. And i had to go to planned parenthood and kalamazoo, michigan. And they closed early, the day was january 2000. And because they were closed, i ended up at a crisis pregna center. And they gave me hope, which is a prgift. And my daughter is alive today. Her name is liberty. Shes actually marching with her friends today. I was adopted. And my birth mother was really young when she first had me. So then my lovely parents adopted me.