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Good evening. Thank you for joining us. That breaking news is about twitter now trying to contain a major security breach. In the past few hours we have seen accounts belonging to elon musk, bill gates, joe biden, barack obama, kanye west, and Mike Bloomberg all hacked in an apparent bit coin scam. The tweets like what you see here on Barack Obamas feed asked people to send a thousand dollars and in return theyd receive 2,000 back. Many of the tweets were taken down immediately but there are reports that more than 100,000 had already been sent. Over the course of just an hour or so everyone was talking about it. So many big accounts accessed for this bit coin scam that is apparently already pulling in a bunch of money. I havent seen anything like this before and everyone is really still mystified as to the root cause of this. Twitter posted a tweet saying they are aware of the security incident and are taking steps to fix it. Now to another record shattered for coronavirus. The state l
Ghost town. How bad is it for cal train . Its devastating. Were facing a fiscal cliff in october and the rail lane may simply cease to exist. Reporter rumming between San Francisco and san jose faces shutdown after the San Francisco board of supervisors failed to support a sales tax measure for the november ballot. The supervisor says there are bigger priorities. Our cities is facing a 1. 7 billion deficit right now. Our own Transportation Agency is suffering. Reporter muni facing its own financial crisis. Its director tweeting some sobering facts. Muni eliminating 40 bus lines. Golden gate transit cut half the service to San Francisco. B. A. R. T. Facing a billiondollar loss. Cal train may end service completely. This is public transit, reality in america. I think were now in a fast crisis. Reporter austin brown from the uc davis policy ins Institution Says transit may depends on a Covid Vaccine for riders to come back. Justbly needing to see good data and then get people comfortable
Warning that millions of people in latin america could go hungry this year because of covert 90. Johnny cash must go with the sports including shut out of Major League Baseball now the Miami Marlins have an Upcoming Games because the team battles the crane Virus Outbreak. So that hes alone accused germany of not pulling its weight in the Nato Alliance and now President Trump is taking action hes ordered a major scaling down of the u. S. Military presence there nearly 12000. 00 troops a 3rd of those based in germany will be withdrawn around hoff will be sent to other bases in europe the rest will head back to the United States now the european command and special operations h. Q. Would also be moved from germany to belgium and the changes are expected to cost the u. S. Billions of dollars as anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n. D. S. And consistent with other adjustments to the United States
Were going to hear updates from the Controllers Office, Public Integrity assessment process and from the City Attorneys investigations and reports. On monday, the office of the controller released their first Public Integrity review report, focused on contracting procedures that the department of public works, in that report and its findings are the focus of this hearing. There are a myriad, concurrent investigations connected to the scandal. Both locally and federally. Our focus today is not on criminal charge or the fbis work specifically. Our focus here is less on individual bad actors and more on the systems and structures that enabled and empowered them to commit bad acts. And failed to provide oversight, accountability and transparency. And today were looking at public works. How the behavior in the complaints and the structures that allowed them to allowed for them to demonstrate the need for structural reform to preempt and prevent the potential for criminal and unethical actio