often unplanned boycotts because of their styles on the israel palestine conflict. this includes mcdonald s. the burger chamber came a target chain became a target after giving away thousands of free meals to the members of the israeli military. this resulted in boycotts of the brand. 0wners boycotts of the brand. owners and muslim majority countries such as kuwait and pakistan put out statements distancing themselves. in a message on linkedin, mcdonald s ceo wrote that the burger chain is experiencing a meaningful business impacted due to the war and associated misinformation. all of this in the middle east and beyond because of the war in gaza. he added, this is disheartening and ill founded, pointing that many of the restaurants are operated by local owners. he didn t elaborate on the scale of the impact, but mcdonald s has around 2000 restaurants in the region. it isn t the only global brand to face controversy over its response. others include starbucks, showing how
from new york, the bbc s michelle fleury reports. major western brands have found themselves hit by a grassroots often unplanned boycotts because of their stance on the israel palestine conflict. this includes mcdonald s. the burger chain came a target became a target after videos online showing them giving away thousands of free meals to the members of the israeli military. this resulted in boycotts of the brand. owners and muslim majority countries such as kuwait and pakistan put out statements distancing themselves. in a message on linkedin, mcdonald s ceo wrote that the burger chain is experiencing a meaningful business impacted due to the war and associated misinformation. all of this in the middle east and beyond because of the war in gaza. he added, this is disheartening and ill founded, pointing that many of the restaurants are operated by local owners. he didn t elaborate on the scale of the impact, but mcdonald s has around 2,000 restaurants in the region. it isn
Those stories in a moment. Well begin here in herndon in Fairfax County. Sky 9 as you can see is over the scene of a violent looking crash at the intersection of centreville road and frying pan road. A lot of police on the scene, as you can see. We arent clear why at this point. Lets get down to the ground and to our pete muntean who is leave for us. Reporter i just got this update from Fairfax County police. We now know eight people were taken to the hospital. 1 was flown by medevac here with serious injuries. Seven were taken by ground including one Fairfax County Police Officer. The exact circumstances of this crash are still not clear. Heres what i can tell you from what ive seen. This crash involved two cars it appears, the first a chevy pickup truck. It looks like it was towing a utility trailer of some kind. The second is a red honda minivan, both cars seriously damaged, both about a few hundred feet apart. Police say this crash happened at ago. Police have not moved the cars si
Take a look at this. This is the radar at lunchtime in gilroy and what the rain and storm produced around gilroy. That was widespread hail in the Santa Clara Valley down highway 101. Look at that red there, the intense echo on our radar was where the hail fell around the lunch hour today in gilroy. What do we have for rainfall . We got about a 1 2 inch for vallejo and san ramon, nearly that for union city, san jose and windsor. The rain is finished it looks like by 11 00 tonight leading to a clear and chilly night in the bay area, but very active. So what comes next as were getting close to a weekend . Well talk more about that coming up. Thank you. Lets go back outside now, chopper 5 with a live view of the sunset and clouds. That is so pretty on the horizon. Well have more on our wild weather coming up including fresh snow in the sierra. California setting the pace for america, that was the overarching message from governor jerry brown today as he delivered his 16th and final state o
I think we need to make sure the cost estimates are correct, but theres always going to be a certain level of unpredictability with high speed rail. Reporter what level is tolerable . I mean if its 1 trillion, is there a limit . Absolutely. Thats why i think, you know, we have this one leg going to san jose. We have the electrification of caltrain. Those seem like very obvious legs to complete, but youre right. I mean were building it right now. At some point is there too much . I dont know exactly when that points going to come. But east bay republican Katherine Baker said this project is not a good use of taxpayer money. I think californians deserve so much better. She said the high speed rail needs more oversight. We cant ignore the cost overruns, the contractual lawsuits and lack of private funding and its not high speed the way theyve shown the project and its seven years over time. We cannot ignore those facts. Even bay area democrats who support high speed rail agree that more o