Attack in paris leads to a lawsuit against some of the biggest names in tech. This victims family is suing google and its media platform youtube. The accusation, the Company Provided Material Support to isis. The two sides battled it out in Oakland Federal Court this afternoon. And the iteam was there and joins us now in the studio with a story. The lawsuit says google and youtube helped promote isis agenda, by placing ads on the terror videos. An oakland federal judge heard a motion to dismiss filed by attorneys for google and media platform youtube. Theyre facing a lawsuit that says isis uses youtube as a tool and weapon of terrorism. These Companies Just simply have to do something, because they continue to allow these nefarious organizations to harm americans, to harm other people, and they do nothing. And they dont act reasonably. Reporter keith altman represents the family of amy gonzalez in paris to study. 130 people died in all. Amy gonzalez gunned down as she dined at a cafe.
Instead they say they favor what they call a merit based immigration system. The way that system works in canada, for example, people who are fluent in english and have higher educational degrees are given preference to legally enter the country. What this does is it lets everybody compete individually. What fairer way can you do than have a situation where everybody has a same level right to get into this country if they qualify . To get more analysis on this bill we spoke with the bills pen, professor at university of San Francisco. He says switching to a merit based immigration system here in the u. S. Could create more competition for jobs for College Educated americans. A proposal to put in a skills based, merit based system really is going to compete with high skilled american workers. What is being proposed, actually, is green card status, lawful status for merit systems so this does benefit silicon valley, it benefits other industries, but there is a good question that needs to
That shows where the Trump Administration goes in terms of the prioritizing of the threat. But also, in how to deal with it in the diplomatically effective manner. Reporter mattis is in Silicon Valley to get a look at Experimental Technology being developed in the Silicon Valley, one innovation a sea going autonomous drone that could be used to spy or track enemy movements in oceans around the world. Its developed in alameda. The Defense Innovation unit experimental helps the military find Hightech Solutions in other areas like artificial intelligence, life science, space and information technology. Innovation is actually apolitical and the whole point is that were saving lives, saving dollars and the generating a lot of and were generating a lot of great Economic Activity around the u. S. Reporter they started under the Obama Administration but received a very strong endorsement today from secretary of defense james mattis, one of the other advantages of whats going on in the building
Doctor. We have to be careful out there. Reporter you got that right. It feels every bit the 93 degrees glenn mentioned. We are at the singing fountain in south philadelphia. They just had their dog walking in the fountain. Its the popular destination on a day like today when the city is going to go through a sweaty steamy start to the weekend. In center city these workers struggled lifting a heavy pane of glass and struggled with the heavy, humid hot air that made working outside painful. Its steamy. I dont know its like living on the equator. Horrible. Reporter the city of brotherly love baked all day. Oh, my gosh. Reporter temperatures soared into the mid 90s prompting complaints. Its horrible. Horrible. Its really very very really close. Humid. No fun. Reporter external conditions coupled with a lack of air conditioning in many buildings prompted School District officials to send the 142,000 students home early. Fernando says the hot weather could create health complications. A lot
Doctor. We have to be careful out there. Reporter you got that right. It feels every bit the 93 degrees glenn mentioned. We are at the singing fountain in south philadelphia. They just had their dog walking in the fountain. Its the popular destination on a day like today when the city is going to go through a sweaty steamy start to the weekend. In center city these workers struggled lifting a heavy pane of glass and struggled with the heavy, humid hot air that made working outside painful. Its steamy. I dont know its like living on the equator. Horrible. Reporter the city of brotherly love baked all day. Oh, my gosh. Reporter temperatures soared into the mid 90s prompting complaints. Its horrible. Horrible. Its really very very really close. Humid. No fun. Reporter external conditions coupled with a lack of air conditioning in many buildings prompted School District officials to send the 142,000 students home early. Fernando says the hot weather could create health complications. A lot