Because there is nothing more powerful than the unified voice of the american people. Passengers are getting ready to leave on the last direct flight to china for weeks. From Silicon Valley, a wuhan native banding together volunteers to send much needed aid to his hometown. In San Francisco there are calls for mayor london breed to resign after she admitted to receiving a gift from former public works director arrested two weeks ago. Ill break down the water coming up. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Now from abc 7, live breaking news. And that breaking news, u. S. Officials say they will evacuate american citizens aboard the diamond princess cruise ship. Its been docked under quarantine off the coast of japan after an outbreak of coronavirus. 380 americans will be flown on two chartered flights back to the u. S. As early as this sunday. The wll street journal reports they will be flown to Travis Air Force base in fairfield in the bay area and then to san antonio. A new minutes a
Our team covering every angle of the fallout this morning. We do say good morning, america. Its great to have david here, and once again on this wednesday morning, the firestorm over president Trumps Press Conference is growing. More protests erupting at trump tower overnight. And robin, the comments sparking so much backlash. President trump saying both sides of the protesters at that charlottesville rally were to blame for the conflict and also saying, quote, there were very fine people in both groups. Also this morning, the movement to take down confederate statues and monuments across the country is growing and more of them came down yesterday in baltimore. Both republicans and democrats this morning calling out the president saying this is not about sharing blame, that parsing the blame is actually a victory for the White Supremacists and the president losing the backing of business leaders, six executives have now resigned from trumps Manufacturing Council over his comments about
We do say good morning, america. Its great to have david here and once again on this wednesday morning, the firestorm over president Trumps Press Conference is growing. More protests erupting at trump tower overnight. Robin, the comments sparking so much backlash. President trump saying both sides of the protesters, of that charlottesville rally were to blame for the conflict and saying, quote, there were very fine people in both groups. Also this morning, the movement to take down confederate statues and monuments across the country is growing and more of them came down yesterday in baltimore. Both republicans and democrats this morning calling out the president saying this is not about sharing blame, that parsing the blame is a victory for the White Supremacists and six executives have resigned from his Manufacturing Council over his comments about charlottesville. Our coverage begins with abcs mary bruce at that press conference at trump tower. Shes back there this morning for us. M
As metro began first monday morning on Safetrack Program. Train malfunction slowed things down during the commute. From now until next thursday trains are single tracking between East Falls Church and ballston for metros Safetrack Program. Orange line trains between vienna and new carroll operating every 18 minutes instead of six minutes. Lets get to molette green how things are going from the boston station. Reporter barbara, good morning. Things have really calmed down, the morning rush is over just this morning though, we heard again from the general manager an urgent call to passengers who can take other means of transportation to do so. In fact, one cabbie drove up to us where we were standing and said basically people are not using their services, theyre not surcharging, so that is an option. But we can tell you as far as on the train we really saw the impact of reduced right hand side of the platform, next train to downtown d. C. Reporter at 7 30 a. M. Crowds build. A mad rush t
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