Parliamentary elections a poll that could cement the president s grip on power. Remembering the victims of hiroshima japan marks 75 years since the worlds 1st atomic bomb which killed a 140000 people. To the sport go 1st major coronavirus pandemic gets on the word as the worlds greatest players compete at the p. G. A. Championship. French president emanuel macron has pledged his support during a visit to beirut 2 days after a large explosion devastated parts of the lebanese capital hes visited the harbourside blast zone where angry crowds have vented their anger the government told them that french aid would not go to corrupt hands and that hell negotiate a new political pact with lebanese traitors. Its similar to our its my duty to help you as a people to bring you medicine to make sure you are fed and to help you reconstruct i can guarantee to be transparent and i will guarantee you will not go into corrupt hands. 7 while the explosion on tuesday destroyed the citys port where more t
A number of americans filing for unemployment drops but millions face eviction after coronavirus safeguards come to an end. Counting the vote because parliamentary elections are poll that could cement the president s grip on power. French president emmanuel support during a visit to lebanons capital 2 days after it was devastated by a huge explosion a dire humanitarian situation is developing as International Relief teams arrive in the crisis hit city and 138 people died in the disaster was 80 still missing and 5000 have been injured so no one has the latest from beirut. Search and rescue teams are still digging through the rubble at beirut port the site of massive explosions that damaged or destroyed much of the lebanese capital families are desperate for news about their loved ones dozens are missing there is pain and grief zainab fears she will never see her husband allie again. Theres a still are still i dont know where he is i havent heard from him since 6 pm monday i want to know
Showing you that, and you can see, upper 60sin San Francisco. Mid70s for oakland. Mid80s for san jose. Heating up inland. Concord at 90 degrees this afternoon, and 92 for fairfield. All of us cooling significantly by the end of the week. I will let you know what to expect at the end of the week, coming up. Im anne makovec and we just got the new numbers on unemployment from the department of labor, and in the last week, 1. 5 million americans filed for firsttime benefits, and thats slowing a little the bit as we have seen progressively from the peak at the end of march. That was when the oneweek total was 6. 9 Million People reliant on government aid. The total now at 20. 9 Million People in america on unem wl see how the numbers affect the stock market in less than half an hour. Oakland is the target of a new lawsuit over police misconduct. It seeks an injunction over using nonlethal weapons against protesters. Kiet do has more on the lawsuit and the latest demonstration in the street
A series of attacks in the east. So that a strike on turkish soldiers inside syria is increasing tensions on its borders and prompting concerns about where a new escalation might all lead an emergency meeting of nato ended with it calling for syria and russia to halt their offensive take he says 33. 00 of its soldiers were killed there on thursday night to express solidarity with turkey but offered no Additional Support on the ground turkey has begun retaliatory strikes and says it struck more than 200. 00 Syrian Government positions russia denies involvement in the soldiers deaths and Vladimir Putin spoke with turkeys president had about a few hours ago and theyve decided to stick to the 2018 deescalation plan but that socalled safety zone is where most violence is taking place shelling an asteroids have displaced more than a 1000000 people since december. Well as marber reports now from cuba goes on the turkish syrian border. Turkish soldiers being evacuated from syria after being at
There Patrick Conroy issuing a prayer. I want to remind people about when the founders argued for what would call on the removal of a sitting president. They landed on treason, bribery and high crimes. One of the high crimes was the desire of foreign powers to gain an aye concern dent in our council. That is the question today did President Trump elicit foreign influence in our elections. The vote today will set up a senate trial on the charges that the president pushed ukraine to investigate his political foes. The president has been tweeting this morning calling the impeachment a terrible thing and asking supporters to say a prayer. That follows that sixpage letter he sent to nancy pelosi yesterday calling the impeachment an attempted coup. This is the first time in American History that this is happening just before an election year. The president is correct the voters will ultimately have a final say. Our cbs news team is ready to coverall cover all of todays developments. We want