The most wellknown captives having been featured in multiple Hostage Videos put out by hamas. In the wake of his capture his parents were outspoken in their efforts to bring home their son and the other hostages, even taking the stage at the Democratic National Convention roughly 2 weeks ago urging for the immediate release of the hostages were pleading for The End of the bloodshed in gaza. Protesting unfolding across israel. Thousands of people out as temperatures try to pressure the government to close a Cease Fire Deal that would likely see the return of the reading hostages. Also the largest Trade Union in israel has called for a general strike to take Place Tomorrow which so far we have learned will close the airport in tel aviv. Joining me now is an independent journalist with over 20 years of experience covering the israeli palestinian conflict. Tell me about what is happening today in israel as a result of this. Reporter there is a lot of term old tumbled israeli society all th
Produce, and we put a lot of effort into it together with lots of governor gavin newsom says that is why he is considering more stringent measures. If these trends continue, then well need to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic actions. The governor says if the current search continues, 78 of the hospital beds will be occupied by christmas eve. Icu beds could be at capacity by the end of the year. In order to change that trajectory, he is thinking about issuing a stayathome order for the purple tier more than 90 of the population of california. Were assessing this in real time over the next day or two to make determination of the deep purple moves more in line with the stayathome order that folks were familiar with in the beginning of this year. This is bad. We are in a bad space right now. It will get worse in the short term says dr. George rutherford. Even in the bay area, which is doing better than the rest of the state. We all need patients and to listen to the experts. We ne
Just moments ago we spoke with california lawmakers as tension is shifting from the state and now the focus is on bank of america which distributes most of the money. At last count 105 billion through debit cards we discovered were vulnerable to hacks. Kenny choi has been following the story and joins us with the very latest. Reporter bank of america has finally responded to a letter that was sent by lawmakers a couple of weeks ago and confirmed that approximately 200 million were stolen so far. Many questions we have asked are still unanswered. This is a very sad situation, we are talking about innocent people seeing their accounts frozen and they cant access their funds. And as weve been reported on, victims that have had everything taken from their accounts by fraudsters. It is just absolutely unacceptable that we have a bank that is not responding. Not responding to you, to me or to the people they serve. That was the Assembly Members first reaction after watching our reports about
Up on the other side of the atlantic anticipation grows for about saying roll out the outgoing u. S. President touts Americas Group Speed Development but how much cooperation has trump offered to his successor will be rolling out the actual vaccination program. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed for tougher restrictions to bring down stubbornly high coronavirus numbers this is germanys death toll from covert 9 tain has hit a record daily high of 590 state as a considering a Strict Lockdown over the holidays to curb infection right addressing the German Parliament just moments ago merkel urged the public to recognize the seriousness of germany situation. Well this right now isnt does not fill us in and 14 days until Christmas Day and we must do everything we can to ensure that we get away from exponential growth and we have set the teachers and to everyone all of the contact that isnt necessary must be restricted and as hard as that is a
Intensive care unit around the state your capacity. Good evening im julie haener. I am frank somerville. This new three week stay at home order would be triggered if hospital intensive Care Capacity drops below 15 in any of the five regions of california. Right now, none of the regions is affected. The governor says he expects it could happen for all regions except the bay area within days. The governor also says the bay area could see the order by the middle of the month. Governor newsom tried to reassure people in california that there is hope ahead as vaccines are rolled out. We do not anticipate having to do this once again. We really only to step up. We need to meet this moment had on. We need to do everything we can to stem the tide, bend the curve. Under the order, schools could stay open but ours, wineries, and hair salons would close. Is an retail and Grocery Stores would be limited to 20 capacity. Restaurants would only be able to offer takeout or delivery. The Team Coverage