A 3rd term but the opposition says thats unconstitutional and its boycotting the vote. Among the local glad to have you with us the death toll from an earthquake off the coast of turkey is rising as rescuers rushed to find survivors in the rubble at least 27. 00 people are now confirmed dead and 800 others injured the magnitude 7 quake struck in the aegean sea between the greek island of some of us and the Turkish Coast much of the damage is in the Turkish Coastal city of izmir where several buildings were brought to the ground. Its a race against time rescue workers in izmir are trying to find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building suddenly cheers from the crowd. Someone was found. But others were unable to escape. I thought that the ground had shattered you cant think in that moment all you can try to do is get out everything was collapsing around us our building stayed intact but we were really panicked and managed to get out at the last minute. This is a family home on the
University North Carolina chapel hill. My parents earnest jones and mom pertis jones. Dad, a farmer born and raised on a farm. That was his life. Thats what he loved to do. Im a member of a family of ten children, 6 boys and 4 girls. And the first five children was born as routen because their dad was routen and he was killed cutting logs in the wood. So that first five were very young when he died, and then my dad, earnest jones married my mama and has five more children. But my dad raised all ten of us because they were very, very young when their dad got killed. And basically what he did was we were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, brilliant people. And one of the ambition they had and they gave us as we were little kids he had two goals for us. He wanted all of us educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven. And so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school. So i had the pleasure of going
Here are the latest numbers broken down by county. This week. There have been nearly 400 new cases about a 4 jump. Santa clara and alameda counties both have more than 2200 cases reported the complete list of local covid19 cases can be found at our website kron 4 dot com. Tonight only 3 bay area counties have entered phase 2 in reopening their economies thats napa solano and sonoma counties. Starting monday, San Francisco and san mateo counties will begin easing into phase 2 and today marin county announced it will also move into phase 2 on monday may 18th the details on what that means will be released tomorrow. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties remain in phase, one as the bay area begins to slowly reopen Infectious Disease experts are warning the coronavirus is not gone and people should continue to practice a Public Health directives that got us to phase 2. Kron fours gayle ong joins us now live with that part of the story gayle. And medical experts are cautiously optimi
Set them back years as anything like it was in 2008 and its going to be horrible. I mean we lost 33 thousands of teachers for students, California Teachers Association president ito be boyd says the cuts will result in layoffs furloughs an increased class sizes ultimately the students will suffer any loss to our classrooms who are for students to benefit. Well be devastation. The governors proposed cuts include a 10 reduction in the States School funding formula and a 10 cut to both the usi and California State University systems. The School Funding is less than what the governor and vision earlier this year, but it may be enough to maintain current Academic Year services, the proposal, however is still a significant setback for schools everyone is going to feel the pain and its unfortunate that. Our students our children that we actually educate have to feel that pain again hasnt been that long ago that occurred before. Governor newsome says hes trying to soften the blow and avoid wha
In iran, several hundred students have broken into the American Embassy in tehran and are holding a number of staff hostage. Revolutionary guards and police did nothing to stop the student takeover. The last week has seen a series of strong verbal attacks on the united states, including several statements from the ayatollah khomeini. Today, the ayatollah voiced support for the students action. I was attending classes at the university when i was approached by some of the students, who told me that the students inside the embassy, they need you, and they are asking for you tojoin them. We were young people. Personally, i was a young student. I had no military experience, no experience in dealing with reporters, or dealing with such a serious responsibility. The students started making contact with their friends in the states. Other iranian students who were there. They started constructing a delegation of american people. They would be invited to visit iran for about a week. Directly, t