Unfortunately, theres still desperate for testing kits. Illinois has about 5000 more kits that were provided yesterday by private company at the urging of our governor, but weve never seen a number of test kits that we believe are necessary to measure the current state of this coronavirus in her home state of illinois. The official count, and i might add that word official, is that we have had 288 illinoisans affected, and one fatality. I believe the number of infections in the official report grossly understate the exposure and in my home state f illinois. And once more tests are administered and we received the results come unafraid we are going to see a dramatic increase in that number of reported infections in the state. These cases yesterday, 128 new cases were announced yesterday in our state. It is the largest single oneday increase since weve been reporting. We have two additional counties that have now been touched out of 100 you, we are not up to 17 counties with infections.
Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its shift from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. The Hong Kong Government has since suspended the plan, but protesters want it to be scrapped altogether. This is obviously the scene that you see as protesters are outside Government Assembly buildings. Lets go live now to our correspondent Karishma Vaswani whos in hong kong for us. In the last few minutes we have seen protesters arriving from the march that began at victoria street. The scenes behind me, people chanting. This is the group of pro democracy protesters that have been marching from Victoria Park annually. This is what they do but this year it has taken a special what they do but this year it has ta ken a special symbolism what they do b
More than a decade after ba naz mahmods death in a so called honour killing, her sister speaks out for the first time. The moment you choose to ignore actually what happened and not talk about it, you will never get past it. And 13 years on, we still havent had that conversation. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its handover from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. Lets have a look at the live pictures from the streets of hong kong. You can see the numbers are building, there is always a dispute on at that between the protesters and the police. This is the third enormous demonstration weve seen in hong kong in the past month. The organisers typically say the figures are aroundi organisers typically say the figures are around 1 million. Th
Alley. Back to you. Thank you very much its 8 00 a. M. At our headquarters in sunnyvale, california, 11 00 on wall street and squawk is live. Were going to start the hour with breaking news on target for that well go to Courtney Reagan back at hq. Hi, court. The same big delivery wars rage on. Target buying personal shopping and Delivery Platform shipt for 550 million. Target says delivery option for shoppers will begin in early 2018 it pulls inventory from stores to deliver same day. By summer it will be available in half of its 1800 stores to start, though, its going to be done through the shipt app and network of personal shoppers personal shoppers are in direct communication with the consumer that places the order for questions and timing updates at least to start, get this, you will need a shipt membership 99 per year for unlimited deliveries on the platform from target and other retailers like costco and kroger. Target says its working on how it might eventually be integrated int
Our cities tour visits tacoma, washington, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For six years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. You can read more at cspan. Org citiestour. Years before the arrival of the Transcontinental Railroad, tacoma was not dissimilar from most of the other small communities around puget sound, and really in the Pacific Northwest. The population presence was predominantly native american. By the end of the 19th century, coming over the oregon trail and some by sea, small little villages really of europeans had theved, that mostly along shoreline, and that was because the primary purpose here for people settling was cutting timber and milling timber that was then sent down to San Francisco. That prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventurers to come up and begin to build cities. So, seattle, bellingham, wereetown, olympia all ofll, smallish communities 50 to a