Following news that one of his top aides hope pics had contracted the virus in a tweet sent around 1 am friday morning trump said they will begin the quote quarantine and Recovery Process immediately adding we will get through this together following reports questions were raised as to whether other Administration Officials had been exposed to the virus Devon Omalley the press secretary for Vice President mike pence issued a statement saying as has been routine for months Vice President pence is tested for coping 1000 every day this morning Vice President pence and the 2nd lady tested negative for cope at 19 Vice President pence remains in good health and wishes the troops well in recovery. So with the latest news well lets take another look at the trends and spread of virus globally with our correspondents. Start where are we right or so brian cowen 1000 has now in fact that almost 35000000 people killing over 1000000 out in the u. S. More than 7500000 current firm gait cases while de
, 10 10 marks party day in north korea. Expectations for that date and drpk relations. And mystery solved. Dprkisappearance of the ambassador to rome who is in south korea and continuing developments in the wake of the reported shooting death of the minister of fishery. The upcoming economic dialogue started by yours truly and a new vice Ministerial Alliance is possible. Frequent, our most guest and our only repeat guest, is perfectly positioned to give us critical insight into these topics and more. Hes the Deputy Assistant secretary mark mefford. A graduate of princeton. We know his bio. Office of japanese affairs. Multiple assignments throughout asia with korean language skills, korean, japanese, and vietnamese. And my favorite title, representative to the spent fool spent fuel team at the nuclear facility. The dynamos are running away with the regular season in kbo. Mark, welcome to the show. It is great to be here, thank you for having me back. Regulars, to our victor dean, the fo
Backing up beyond that 880 overpass and ki theres still a lot of brake lights southbound 880 working freeway due to road work around the oakland area. Use 580 as an alternate route. And that drive along 580 at least the portion through the Altamont Pass, still pretty as well. Westbound 580 a slow ride working your way outhe Altamont Pass, a new crash reported near dougherty. Thats coming up in the next report. Anne . Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on a couple of large fires burning right now causing evacuations near lake oroville. This is new video from overnight from plumas county. Just tearing up the hillsides there. This flared up yesterday and these new evacuations ca last night an is called the bear fire and its part of the north complex fire and it is now moving in a in plumas and yuba and butte about 1 00 morning from the and fa heard from one. And we are going to have that coming up at 6 30. We know some homes wn. Also want to let you know abo
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Pandemic is affecting a raghead towns being prepared for a life back in the wild. But 1st we head to it today where a former drug mule tells us about his time within the nigerian mafia that. Drugs Money Laundering forgery smuggling theft cyber crime when it comes to organized crime business is booming with revenues of more than 800000000000. 00 euros a year according to the latest report by the European Police authority europol the report also says there are around 5000 transnational criminal groups operating in europe one of the most lucrative criminal activities is people trafficking this particularly affects women from nigeria many of whom of forced into prostitution in europe and. In italy according to the United Nations estimates as many as 80. Percent of nigerian Migrant Women arriving in the country are at risk of sex trafficking. And those behind it are often nigerian criminals. And the nigerian mafia stronghold in europe is the small town of cost over old tourneau just outside