In person. Nothing was going to stop us. These players deserve support and that is why we are here. Right now, Health Officials in San Francisco tonight are launching a new strategy to keep cases under control, and like many other things these days, it involves your phone. Good evening. Andria borba is live in San Francisco, with the hope behind this new plan. It takes advantage of the fact that people are used to doing things via text message. Perhaps the readiness to answer a phone call but they can still get the Contact Tracing done to help spread the help control the spread of this disease. The fight to trace the spread of covid19 is moving to text message. The more people that answer the call or text the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and beating up the reopening of our city. Reporter it is called a Virtual Assistant and after a positive test you could get a text message to your cell phone, where you fill in the blanks for contact t
Tried to celebrate of the belfast good friday agreement from 1988 so perhaps some of these initiatives you seem to be trying to build a center of global and or politics between the s. T. O. P. Nose to Unionist Party to be a rival to the should unfeigned d u p jew or pally. Would you be more amenable now in the present circumstances than perhaps there were a few years ago i think perhaps and i judge that on the evidence of the surge for the Alliance Party the middle ground Party Last Year in the european and the local government elections where they did incredibly well what i was trying to say back and back in 2017 was that youve had 10 years and i of the deep ancient fane running our Coalition Government of storm and castle. You dont need any more evidence that they cant get on that they cant cooperate that they cannot deliver for you so lets have an alternative and the alternative has to be not one party but one Unionist Party and one nationalist party so that was ourselves and the s.
Other thanks for joining us this is. Julian assange is slowly dying in a u. K. Jail as hes regularly tranquilized and kept in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in a phone call to his friend on Christmas Eve the wiki leaks cofounder made those disturbing revelations sons was arrested in april and since then medics and un observers of warned about his the climbing physical and Mental Health hearing in february will decide on his extradition to the United States where hes accused of publishing classified documents and could face up to a 175 year sentence. Will smith an independent video journalist also a friend of julian a science in canada joins me on the line now very good evening to you. Imagine Julian Assange has got too many phone calls he could make but he did make one of them to you i believe on Christmas Eve what did he say about how he feels his mental physical condition and the conditions of belmarsh prison where he is. And to be honest he didnt talk too much about his conditi
It right here live. And we are looking for more market records today. The dow and s p and the nasdaq, all expected to make records. It was a year ago today that the market was in freefall. Remember that . It was about 6,000 points lower on the dow. That is very much not the case today. Varney company is about to begin. David and there is news overseas. We are watching hong kong this morning. Monthslong protests are flaring up once again. Riot police fired tear gas at protesters this morning. We are going to be monitoring this throughout the morning right here. But lets focus on some positive news at home. A brand new sales record, Super Saturday sales hit 34. 4 billion, the biggest single day of retail sales in u. S. History. The figures coming from Customer Growth partners. Joining us is retail watcher michael zacore. Ive got to think this is all about the economy. We have fatter wallets because people are making more. Weve had increase in wages and we have jobs galore. Is that why pe
Northern ireland, wales and the south west later, where well see the highest temperatures. Pretty chilly in parts of Northern England and scotland. This evening we see the back of that first area of rain from eastern areas of england but look at the showers come rattling in with the Winds Continuing to strengthen, gaels into the south west overnight as well. Generally temperatures will be li sd. When we have lighter winds and clearer skies developing in western scotla nd clearer skies developing in western scotland there may be a touch of frost and icy patches. We still have the area of low pressure bringing wet weather into eastern scotland for tomorrow. Otherwise this fairly brisk west to north west wind will bring in some showers. Probably the best of the sunshine will be across south west scotland after that cold start, east and particularly North Eastern scotland think the more rain. Elsewhere some sunshine and showers but some some sunshine at times but some showers, really linin