Is the appropriate sentence. Today former mams Police Officer zerk Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1 2 years in prison for the Nurd R Murder Last May of george floyd. Hes been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on George Floyds neck until mr. Floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis Street Corner. He was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against statebased snepsing guidelines. Considering the fact that mr. Chauvin had no criminal history, the Minnesota State guidelines for a sneps in this case actually recommended a sort of presumptive sentence of about 12 1 2 years. Judges can depart from those Sentencing Guidelines and in particularly they can depart upward if there are aggravating faeblgts that make the crime worse than that source of base level offense. The judge in this case had ruled that there were four di
Distance between them, Vice President mike pence and senators Kamala Harris went head to head. They tablgd several issues, including Climate Change, covid, and the economy. He tassed a tax bill benefitting the biggest corporations of america leading to a two trillion dollar deficit that the American People will have to pay for. President trump and i will keep america growing. The the. We have Team Coverage tonight with a local look at the matchup between pence and harris. Abc7news contributor phil mather is here. Good evening. This was a 90minute debate that truly felt like a deekt unlike last weeks chaotic deekt. The debate covered a range of topics as you mentioned, starting with the issue of coronavirus. This debate is happening amid an outbreak at the white house. The two opponents sparred over the approach to handling this pandemic. President donald trump did what no other american president had ever done. That was he suspended all travel from china. Whatever the Vice President s
Here in the bay area by this power safety public shut off. Thats just coming from pg e because of the high fire danger thats coming our way this week. Cities impacted include ag win calistoga deer park. Pope valley saint helene and also unincorporated parts of napa county. The estimated shut off time is anywhere on the 7th which would be monday between 10 00pm and 02 00am with power not being turned back on. I assume this means the earliest on the 9th which would be 2 days later at 07 00pm this will impact about 2700 customers that just for napa Sonoma County only has about 3 customers are saying impacted in cloverdale were still working on getting all the information about this a p s p s people who are impacted should be getting an alert at some point tonight that this is coming. Meanwhile earlier this evening cal iso the state Energy Monitoring agency declaring a stage 2 emergency. Which meant rotating Power Outages were possible. But once again that flex alert that we were under end
Unshakeable. Woodruff and to denounce President Trump. Today we are a country divided and we have a president doing everything in his power to make it that way. At the time like this the oval office should be a command center. Woodruff tonight former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former president barack obama and this years Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris. Day three of the Democratic National convention. Woodruff again, im Judy Woodruff and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the Democratic National convention. Were now on night three of this virtual event. Tonight, we will hear from Hillary Clinton, the partys nominee four years ago. Well hear from former president barack obama and then we will hear from Kamala Harris, a historymaking Vice President ial nominee. Im here in our studio with political analyst amy walter and right around the corner our senior correspondence amna nawaz. Both socially distanced. And we have reported and guests across the coun
States. So were talking about italy, france, germany, all the places we want to go. Amy hollyfield is live at sfo this morning with the reasoning behind the move and what you should know if you have a trip planned. Reporter europe doesnt want us because of all our coronavirus cases. And from the looks of things, International Travel is pretty much on ice anyway here at sfo. Look at the empty International Terminal that we saw this morning. And it sounds like it will continue to look this way. Europe banned us from visiting in mid march when it all started, but now were planning that europe is planning to reopen its borders july 1 but not to us. The word is that the ban on americans will be extended, they consider us too risky. Elippinesce the lockdown, he just landed here and he couldnt believe what we told him. From what i heard about us handling the coronavirus, from what ive been able to read and see from trump, weve handled it much better than anybody else. Granted some our states