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Journal live at seven eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a Coronavirus Briefing in geneva, World Health Organization officials confirm theres more than one half a million positive cases. More than 20000 deaths from the virus worldwide. The director general also announce the first patients at historic drug trial to test treatments. Good evening, good morning, good afternoon. Welcome to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with this, as always the who director general dr. Tedros. Doctor michael ryan and doctor maria technical lead for covid19. Dr. Tedros will give us an update and when he has finished remarks we will hear a message about the solidarity trial, after that, ill open the meeting to questions. If you have connected via zoom, please use the ratio hand icon to get in the queue to ask your question if you are connected by phone please hit star nine on your keypad to indicate you want to ask a question i apologize now who miss out as we
Virus and efforts to develop a vaccine. They also talked about the state of the pandemic in china, italy, and the u. S. Good evening, good morning, good afternoon. Welcome to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us, as always, the , theirector general executive director of our emergencies program, and the technical lead for covid19. You will first be given an update. When opening remarks are finished, we will hear a message about the solidarity trial. After that, i will open the meeting to questions. If you have connected via zoom, please use the raise your hand icon to get in the queue to ask your question. If you have joined by phone, please hit star nine to indicate you would like to ask a question. I apologize on those who miss out as we have hundreds of people connecting already and asking questions, for which we thank you all. We need to keep this briefing to under an hour, so our speakers who are all leading this response can get back to all the
Reporter no suspects are in custody in this case to ericssons unit this turns out to be in denver in kidnapping and were to take up and now he was in the backseat of a vacuum return trip home run away means police will be treated as a kidnapping nonetheless. Pam fbi has from the search of a two yearold girl mariana has not been seen since late february. Pam her mother, 32yearold nicole fitts, was found dead in mclaren park last friday. Arianna had been staying with a babysitter in oakland. Police have not arrested any suspects in her mother nicoles death, nor in ariannas grant tends traffic tonight after a verbal directions were shot down for a time. All the cars Police Searching for robbery suspect after multicar accident on 880. Grant pareve crash scene and then a police state there was an Armed Robbery on the peninsula earlier today and military and the suspect vehicle crosses and the tail bridge into the east bay spotted by Police Believe the suspect car was involved in the crash a
Someone conditions and also a freezing temperatures. Reporter list of the view of satellite and radar. Harris a look at what is going on this is really the big weather store we have a system that is moving to the bay area of dry cold fronts from the pacific northwest. It is not asking much luster of the web the store will be the strong winds associated with the system and the freezing conditions. It is very cool ride outside given a true social out of you have not to the sierra. As you have this afternoon is will we can expect a strong warning will be in place starting at 7 00 a. M. It is set to expire russell clock winds of the third must our guest. If reporter a few 60 mark our dangers to this is down trees and power lines. And high wind advisories as we headed to the afternoon very windy images will not be warming up by much here is a look at where we are right now 374 is on the lap 38 to rosa 46 francisco 36 in pleasanton and 41 degrees in the south bay for san jose but at the weat