Officers and soldiers they covered. Among the speakers were former abc news nightline anchor ted koppel and yasutsune hirashiki, author of on the frontlines of the Television War a legendary war cameraman in vietnam. This event at the National Archives in washington is about 90 minutes. Now it is time to introduce our moderator terribly irving terry irving. He went into a career in television news, spending for decades covering wartime and political disasters throughout the United States. E has one and number of awards ladies and gentlemen, please welcome terrier thing in our distinguished panelists. Terry irving and our distinguished panelists. [applause] terry good evening. I should explain that none of these people are terry irving, but i am. [laughter] younow, we have here see, this is what you come prepared with everything you have ever written. We have barry who reported on virtually every Major International event, wars, policies of seven u. S. President s. Barry covered the fal
That is right. One of the things i was told yesterday is they were is considered about people coming into the city. But a lot of people try to go to napa and Sonoma County over the weekend from San Francisco. Remember the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed all weekend starting saturday and sunday. This is a live picture. And a lot of the ramps will close this evening much earlier. Lets go to the pictures from the other side of the bridge. Beautiful bridge. Yesterday as i spoke to the chp officer, he said theyve had two jobs. Theyve had the job of informing the local people which is actually done by us and the media and some of the signs. But some of the people that come from far away. Remember this is International Icon may not get to work. They will also be doing double duty to get people who show up to the Golden Gate Bridge and let them know they cannot drive anywhere near it this weekend. This is the animation pattern for you if you will be driving toward the bridge from marin count
Im reporting in the western philippines. We will tell you why these waters are now at the forefront of a tense territorial dispute. But first the Syrian Foreign Ministry says six United Nations inspectors and drivers have been kidnapped in syria. The kidnapping is said to have taken place in the hamma province and it advised the team not to enter a village close to the area but the team did so reco recordless. One confirmed the abduction and another denied it. Of course we will bring you more information as soon as we talk to our correspondents in the region. But now lets go to egypt. It is the second day of the president ial election and its the 10th poll in four years and its expected to endorse or even confirm abdelfattah elsissi as the new leader and the former army chief abdelfattah elsissi and challenger cast their ballots on monday. And we have the european lead election observer there speaking to us earlier from cairo and says political activists and journalists remains a conce
Welcome everyone to the opcs book night with Mark Clifford to discuss his new book today hong kong tomorrow the world. What chinas crackdown reveals about its plans to end freedom everywhere. Im Patricia Kranz the executive director of the overseas press club. Im delighted to welcome mark tonight and our moderator jody schneider. Jody was based in bloombergs Hong Kong Bureau from 2016 to 2020 and served as president of the Foreign Correspondence Club in hong kong in 2019 and 2020. As soon as jody returned from hong kong to new york last year. She joined the opc and was elected to the board in the summertime. She is now political news director at Bloomberg News here in new york. I now handed over to jody. Thanks patty and i happy to welcome everybody to this book night. I only wish it were in person, but im very pleased to introduce Mark Clifford who i overlapped with in hong kong and im pleased to call a friend and very excited to discuss this new book with them. We welcome questions,
Thanks for joining us, are watching cnn newsroom. Great to have you with us this monday. The United States and around the world. The in a few hours we expect to learn the final result from the referendum in Eastern Ukraine. What is not known what moscow and ukraine will do when it is announced n one of the cities participating, 89 of the votes were in support of self rule. They say 10 voted no. Voter turn out, 75 . It was said to be chaotic at times, officials are denying allegations of voter fraud. In the eastern city. On the bottom of the screen here, on a kremlinrun tv news channel, it is clear what moscow wants. Detailed instructions for the next mornings, for locals to turn up here and vote on the referendum. Just on the road, it is busier at first. All you need say passport. If you are not on the list, fill out a form. Valdimir putin asked for the vote to be delayed. Debate beforehand, a pretty certain outcome, clear who is in charge. Results are accounted it is clear which way t