Doctors in england say theyve discovered the first drug that dramatically reduces deaths in covid19 patients, and it turns out its already on the market. Reses inges a lowcost steroided trial, it cut deaths among the ird. Est coronavirus patients by a third. Tonight, doctors are cautiously optimistic that if the research pans out, the drug could eventually help save hundreds of thousands of lives. The new study comes as nearly half of the states in the u. S. Are struggling with spikes in cases, including in florida, where tonight, the state has its highest number of new infections since the pandemic began. Oklahoma, texas, and arizona are also reporting record highs in new cases today. And as we come on the air tonight, more than 116,000 people have been killed by the virus in the u. S. , and there are more than 2. 2 million confirmed cases nationwide. Tonight, theres also new research that says Wearing Masks could prevent hundreds of thousands of infections by stopping the spread of v
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our camera on treasure island, out on the city of San Francisco. A beautiful shot, and good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, june 17th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday morning. Right to the forecast to start the day. Mary lee . Good morning, chelle. We will heat things up starting today. With dry offshore winds, high fire danger for parts of the bay area. Red flag warning in effect for the areas highlighted in red. Thats until 00p. M. Tomorrow. That does include Solano County, and thats under the red flag warning. The high fire danger due to gusty offshore winds and relatively low humidity values. The high 77 in San Francisco. 89 in san jose, 93 for concord. 10 to 15 degrees above average for this time of the year. Hotter through the week. Details coming up. Im anne makovec at the breaking news desk. A tragedy, an suv driving off a bridge l
About his link to boogaloo, the antipolice group. Beijing on lockdown chinas capital shutting down schools, not letting anyone inhescrambo trace hundreds of thousands potentially exposed to the virus. Explosion in diplomacy north korea blows up a diplomatic building at the border. Did the last hope for a nuclear deal go up in flames . Striking out baseballs future is in serious doubt. Will there be a season . And finally, little solutions with a big impact. How mini libraries are feeding me thusthe. Wcapital. He nns odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with breaking news on what could be a breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus. Doctors in england say theyve discovered the first drug that vramatically reduces deaths in out its already on the market. The drug is a lowcost steroid called dexamethasone, and researchers say in a large trial, it cut deaths among the sickest coronavirus patients by a third. Tonight, doctors are cautiously optimist
Lets remember something theyve had wars going on there for a 1000 years the russians went in there in the late seventys and early eightys even they pulled out couldnt do nothing but the u. S. Ego isnt that way we believed even though the russians failed we could maybe succeed not true these people were war forever why because theyre religious wars and religious wars go on forever just say when and if the u. S. Pulls out of afghanistan the country is going to be left to rebuild after 20 years of conflict now the local Political Landscape will undoubtedly change but theres a long road ahead for the taliban and Afghan Government can agree on how to run the country so what do you imagine is going to happen with the future in afghanistan well unfortunately i should laugh at it but the futures going to stay the same again the wars these are religious wars theyve gone on for thousands of years they will continue to go on. Unless the religions themself change now good luck on the hoping for th
Ive just turned. 51. I want. The world according to cherish. Today we discuss why the troops are leaving afghanistan. Extremism in america and the challenges of owning a Small Business in the age of the coronavirus. The war. Issue i am frizzy to sanchez for our top story today the u. S. Has delivered a portion of its feb peace deal with the taliban by cutting troops to 8600 from 12000 previously the trumpet ministrations says it could withdraw all forces from the country by next may if the taliban meets all requirements of the deal including severing ties with al qaeda reducing violence and engaging in power sharing talks with the Afghan Government jesse its been nearly 2 decades since the us invaded afghanistan so its well beyond time for our government to end its occupation there well brigitta lets lets go back in history and look all d this came about 1st ok we were allegedly attacked by Osama Bin Laden on 911. 00 so therefore we had to go there to give him that was without question