Today and always. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Anchor welcome to bbc world news america. I am katty kay in washington. Anger in minneapolis as protesters take he streets over the killing of a black man in police custody. Clashes in hong kong and a warning from washington. The u. S. Secretary of state says the territory has lost its autonomy, and that could impacted its special trade status. An failure to launch, for now. The spacex bound for the International Space station. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the world. The mayor of minneapolis says that being a black man in america should not be a death sentence. But for 46yearold george floyd, it was just that. I unarmed, he died on monday after a white officer held him down with a knee on his neck. Floyd could be heard saying he could not breathe. There are prote
More than 36 million have lost their jobs because of coronavirus. While congress has taken significant action, we must do more. On wednesday, Federal Reserve chairman jay powell urged congress to think big, address this crisis. The heroes act is a bold step to provide that support and ensure our nation meets the challenge of the pandemic and the ensuing economic recession. Within the appropriations division, this bill deploys more than 1. 5 trillion in federal funds to address this health and economic crisis. First, the bill delivers nearly 1 trillion to states and local governments so that they can keep our heroes, First Responders, health workers, teachers, and other Public Servants paid and working for the American People. I am proud that this bill will provide 67 billion to my home state of new york. Which has been hit so hard by this crisis. Second, we will only beat this disease with a Robust National strategy for testing, tracing, and treatment. Yesterday, dr. Rick bright, one o
You are not alone today. Abc7 presents from anger to action, a bay area conversation. And we thank you for joining us for this special edition of abc7 news. Im eric thomas along with kumasi aaron and jobina fortson. And for everyone, it has been a challenging and difficult week. To say the least, eric. Weve all seen the video of george floyd being killed, the marches, the protests and the calls for change. So now the question is whats next. Today, instead of our traditional 4 00 p. M. Newscast, we are talking with a panel of experts in an abc7 listens conversation from anger to action. So over the next hour are having a frank and honest conversation about race, equality and the path forward with a panel of experts and also with questions from you. Yes, exactly, kumasi. This is an important onehour conversation airing on tv, on abc7news. Com, youtube, and facebook. In minneapolis today, mourners paid their respects to george floyd, who was killed after a Minneapolis Police officer plant
Days, weve seen the dow up over 1,000 points a gain of 553 yesterday and 529 points on tuesday. Looking this morning at the dow futures indicated up another 105 points we are back above 25,000 for the First Time Since march when watching the dow s p is up just under a point the nasdaq down around 54 points both of those indexed were hire yesterday as well. The 10year looks like it has been yielding around where weve been around 0. 677 we will continue to watch this this morning we have a lot of big guests coming up. Now to the moment weve all been waiting for. Joe and andrew, ill send it over to you. What moment would that be well be in a twoshot we are good we spoke yesterday we are good. You didnt have much time. We made the news. A few comments. People seem to have differing opinions he wasnt able to talk much. We were moving on. He had zuckerberg. We dont have time to dwell. Weve been together 10 years longer than many marriages we have our moments but we will disagree but not be d
Committee heard from the president of urdu and lane college, they talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Hearing of the Senate Health Prevention Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about 5 minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We