It appears that a twitter employee who had access to the twitter Management Panel was compromised and that was the way they got access to all of these otherwise very well locked down accounts. The compromised twitter accounts include bill gates, kanye west and former president obama. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. The twitter hack is raising alarms about Tech Security and the potential from anything from election misinformation to stock market manipulation. Live coverage now from ktvus Jana Katsuyama and what we learned about the security breach. Reporter twitter acted quickly to remove the messages that had been placed on the hijacked accounts, but not before the hacker or hackers pulled in 100,000. Experts say its also possible they couldve had access to users direct messages and other data. The scam was a simple message, send money to an anonymous account and get double the funds back. Hacking attack hijacked dozens of highprofile twitter accounts.
Bay area, including santa cruz county, is about 41,000. Keep in mind when we give you these numbers, many of those people have already recovered. Those are total cases. The governor addressed the states response to the pandemic sharing how certain covid trends seem to be stabilizing, but as a state were really far from where we need to be t. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra joining us live now break down the latest numbers. Hi, stephanie. Reporter hey there, larry. We had learned today 91 of the states pop haitian is on watch list including all bayarea counties with the exception of san mateo. Heres where we stand today. That is my hope and antension is that we bend the curve as we did the first time in this pandemic and we do it again as were dealing with this fatherup. Reporter we hear the governor talk about the states floridaups every day, flareups as in spikes in code of cases, the positivity rates, icu admissions and hospitalizations all of which reported between a 10 to 16 i
Precinct yes, that is the same as the c. H. O. P. Protest precinct. At least two people were arrested, a dozen Police Officers were injured, one of them hospitalized. And in portland there have now been 53 straight nights of demonstrations and riots downtown. Federal officers once again had to use tear gas and force to break up the lawless mob of antifa and black lives matter rioters. President trump today vowed to send more federal officers, more federal agents to deal with the unrest and violence in the pacific northwest. Were sending Law Enforcement. Portland is totally out of control. They were ripping down for 51 days ripping down that city, destroying the city, looting it. And they really have done a fantastic job in a very short period of time. No problem. They grab em, a lot of people in jail. These are anarchists, these are not protesters. These people are anarchists. These are people that hate our country. And were not going to let it go forward. Lou portlands radical dem act
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Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off again we are about 111 points up now s p 500 looking to open about 11 points higher. Flip is around and show you we are at. 952. Still under the six handle i always wonder what the bond vigilantes are thinking now relative to our little equity world. Worth noting we are still 3 well away from the february record highs some highlights. The ceo of Tractor Supply, auto nation venture capitalist, treasury secretary mnuchin, house leader and twitter ceo. A huge lineup straight ahead thats a big show yeah. You guys always have a big show but this is particularly large. For you because you are here people said, melissa will be on book her i think they wanted to do it for you but i think they were scared if they didnt do it of me thats the feeling they got they didnt want to disappoint you. I doubt it thats nice to say but i doubt it im not a scarey person. Im not. Maybe to you nows this morning out of washington. Reaching Comm