Leaving todays meeting where they showed a lot of support for tim cook in his legal battle against the fbi. Apple is fighting a court order that would force the company to help the fbi hack into the iphone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. Reporter it was the topic of discussion at the Shareholders Meeting today. But what happened afterwards was also a big matter of discussion. Tim cook explaining that he understands terrorism is involved, but so is privacy. I think that apple has the constitution on their side. They have the law on their side. And the fbi is wrong about this. Thats a sample of the support apple ceo tim cook got at todays annual shareholder meeting. Cook told abc this week that wasnt going to happen. We think its bad news to write. We would never write it. We have never written it. Reporter apple says the fbi is based on an out dated law and the first amendment. We deserve better. Those that want to protect the integrity of the company and the principals of
You wont need it at all. Upper 20s and low 30s. A touch colder than the same time yesterday. By the afternoon, seasonably cool. The big warm up they were talking about is going to be coming through the course of the weekend. Hitting the details coming up in the sevenday forecast in 15 minutes. First a look at today, now, we got upper 20s to low 30s. 27 hen berson, 25 lewisburg. Rocky mount 27. Temperatures to the south. Qetville. We didnt have much in the way of cloud cover, a little bit of upper level moisture in from the northwesting see a few of the high clouds to the west. Few of those mibsed in with with sunshine. 8 00, 29 degrees. Lunchtime, sunny, 45, through and a few streaky clouds at times. 3 00 or 4 00, high 51 degrees. Most of us climbing in to the 60s for the weekend. Bracing for voter confusion, North Carolina lawmakers will continue discussions today about the possibility of two congressional elections. Mikaya thurmond joins us now with more on what it could mean for can
Hello, again everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka whitfield. We begin with the escalating battle of the president and the facts. There are more than 600,000 coronavirus deaths globally. 140,000 of those happening right here in the u. S. The startling spikes happening in two states in particular that have become the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the president of the United States downplaying the extent of the crisis. First, florida reporting another 12,478 new cases today. This as the state says hospitalizations have risen dramatically in recent days. More than 9,300 are now being treated. In texas, new cases and deaths seen a dramatic rise. Austin said a third of the citys coronavirus deaths happened in the last two weeks and the u. S. Navy is now going to south texas to help fight in the spread of the disease. Projections from the cdc say 150,000 americans will have died the virus by august 8th. But even as cases and deaths continue to rise, Presiden