Came to do this show you heard about the hacking of twitter, the fact that trump asked out onto facebook get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years, and actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Tell us your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house, between facebook and free speech . Im going to throw you a big question to launch you off track you first, thank you for doing this. It is good to connect with you again to some virtual see. Like a lot of things you cant just keys out in the one problem of facebook from its dna and its origins. In the case of trump, obviously he wasnt a factor in the early days. It wasnt something they talked about in the dorm room when they started it up by the time Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook. It was lathered on top of sort of the messy way they dealt with controversial content.
So concerned tonight. 358 new cases of covid19 were reported here in the county just yesterday. Im here to share some sobering news. Our case count in saint claire are starting to surge. Chief Health Officer sounding the alarm about the growing numb of covid19 cases and the number of hospitalizations is up in the county too. Climbing nearly 10 sunday. It could be tied to halloween and pandemic fatigue. Similar to the up tick that we saw in the summer, this is also largely younger adults. Between ages 18 and 34. A large number of new cases have been reported in gilroy. And east san jose. The surge which began in midoctober could mean a return of business restrictions or a new round of forced khloe shushes. Were trending ourselves into the red and potentially the purple tier. Which means more restrictions. Health leaders and the governor are urging everyone to keep wearing mask and remain six feet apart. Do not take your guard down. Businesses are urged to do the same. You can look for t
A live report from washington and south koreas name is lebanons Prime Minister for the 4th time promising to rescue the very country that rejected him. Lets start with coronavirus updates from the european governments on the continent and in the u. K. Are finding they have no choice in some cases but to impose more restrictions to get a handle on the situation frances Prime Minister has Just Announced curfews that extend further than before and it goes into overseas french territories as well. Weve got spain with the Health Ministers warning more drastic measures are coming spain reach the 1000000 infection mark on wednesday the government is accused of mishandling the crisis survived a no confidence vote in parliament germanys also seeing a rise in infections the daily count there is up about 10000 for the 1st time which is well above the numbers seen during the 1st wave in march but testing has increased significantly must be said the Governments Health Ministry Says the situation is
Congress. Congressman, we continue to watch the western states burn this week and you went to the floor yesterday to talk about the importance of forest esmanagement. Could you walk through what that means and what we are and arent doing for our western forests right now. Guest good morning, great to be with you. Forest management is something i love to talk about being a forrester and love to practice for history. A scene how it works. What we are talking about is applying science to make the forest healthy and resilient. In the life of climate effects is more important now than ever to apply these concepts to Management Practices to the forest and i am proposing in the trillion trees act as part of that bill i filed, for areas on public plans and these are also crossed over into private lands that we really need to focus on, especially in these fire prone areas where we are seeing higher weve got all the physics and youve got fuel, oxygen and heat and what we can do is manage the fue
Bruce westerman discusses the western wildfires, Climate Change, and other news of the day. Good morning. It is thursday, september 17, 2020, Constitution Day in the United States. This morning on the washington journal we will begin by asking you how you would amend the constitution if it were up to you today. Give us your ideas on how you think we the people may benefit on a change from the founding documents dating back to september 17. If youre in the mountain are pacific time zone, the number to call is 202 7488001. You can send us a text, 202 7488003. If you do come include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on twitter or on facebook. To you. Rsday morning officially known as Constitution Day and citizenship day in the United States. We are talking this morning about the u. S. Constitution. Some history is your calling in 1787, delegates opened their Constitutional Convention on may 25, 1787 in philadelphia to begin discussions on how to create a consti