Iraq imposes a maybe a blackout after deadly protests against fuel price increases. Accuses the United States of being behind the last. Im phil gal welcome to the program and hes in hong kong have sealed off the Polytechnic University after prodemocracy activists occupy the site anyone trying to leave faces arrest despite that a group of protesters to stay stay dramatic escape by climbing down from a bridge hundreds more remain trapped inside. These students are ready to go home camped out at hong kongs Polytechnic University they are wary from increasingly violent clashes with police over the weekend. But having failed to dislodge the protesters for days the police are now preventing them from leaving. To a crowd exhausted because weve been up since 5 am yesterday were desperate because the supplies are running low. Anyone leaving the university risks arrest and a lengthy prison sentence the students are worried. You know. You can you can say. Theres. No way we can get out in the 1st
The first part looks at those same injury rates and illness rates that we talked about before and they can earn up to 90 points in the procedure on that based on a good safety record. Second part is we ask them to submit their safety documents and procedures. They can get up to 50 points for having all the correct documentation. Then our expert can evaluate their documentation its all in your materials. Im not going to try well see if greg can keep up with the slides. A matrix where our expert looks at the documents or scores them as being below standards, meets standard or better than standard. What were trying to do is promote in the industry a culture that promotes workers, citizens, and city employees. The next component deelz wials osha violations, things that supervisor peskin brought up, in particular, the fatality that occurred, that contractor had a number of citation appeals that were stretching on for a period of time. And the prequalification process that we have right now
The hon. London breed it is trans Awareness Month in San Francisco. Just have a seat and ignore the reserved seats signs because everybody for the reserved seats signs are probably behind me. Happy trans Awareness Week in San Francisco. We need to do it bigger. Lets do a month, and this is where we are, celebrating so many amazing things, so many amazing accomplishments. But we also know, sadly, that our Trans Community all over the country is under attack. Just recently, sadly, we shouldnt be surprised, but the president has rolled out some new discriminatory plan against our Trans Community, trying to take away millions of dollars of federal funds from our cities throughout the country. And we are of course, in San Francisco style, going to continue to fight back time and time again against the discrimination that continues to attract attack our Trans Community here in this city. [applause] the hon. London breed we understand, more than anyplace else, despite the differences that we
Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im Justine Waldman and ongoing case thats over 20 years old continues before judge today as the fight for Scott Petersons innocence. Proceeds he los angeles Innocence Project, some of petersons family members and a skeptical private investigator are not convinced that the right man is behind bars for the deaths of Laci Peterson and her unborn son. Connor kron 4 s Charles Clifford joins us now live from redwood city with details about their efforts to try to overturn Scott Petersons conviction. Inside a mateo county courtroom tuesday morning, Scott Peterson appeared via video conference. Lawyers with the la Innocence Project. Attorneys from the Stanislaus County District Attorneys Office and members of the Peterson Family were also in the room in 2004 peterson was convicted of murdering his wife laci and their unborn son. Connor in modesto, back in 2002 at the original trial, peterson was sentenced to death, but that was later chang
Rendon. At least six people have died in those wildfires. Local hospitals treating others for injuries as more than 2000 people are now in shelters. The maui county mayor says search and rescue efforts are going to continue for those who are still unaccounted for. Fox william longinus has the latest. Flames engulfed the popular tourist town of lahaina in west maui. Reports indicate the town is completely destroyed. The fire, one of three, sparkedtuesday that quickly spread across the dora. We drove past a couple of small fires on the way down and a lot of downed trees. So a little bit of a disaster zone kind of like something from a movie. A lot of smoke. Fast moving flames forcing residents to scramble to safety. This includes 14 who were rescued by the coast guard after jumping into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames. This is not a safe place to be in certain parts of maui. We have shelters that are overrun. We have resources that are being taxed at mauis main hospital, reports