City officials are working to make that happen. Plus commitment to change the sierra club saying sorry for its white supremacist history, particularly that of its founder john new york. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 8 im Justine Waldman in for pam moore tonight and im ken wayne thanks for joining us at 8. Our top story tonight, california has surpassed new york for the most confirmed covid19 cases in the country. There are now more than 415,000 cases in our state thats after a singleday record of 12,807 new cases yesterday. According to Johns Hopkins University Data that total is roughly 6,000 more cases than in new york which had the most cases in the country before now, but new yorks death toll is still 4 times that here of california for comparison california has about 40 million residents just shy of 40 million 1 new york has about half that amount. Governor Gavin Newsome announcing the state is extending its mask deal with the chines
Will mean then. A lot of earnings out there. Without question the ecb meeting is front and center today. A change after what chairman powell said yesterday. Absolutely stunning the difference between the u. S. Central bank in the European Central banks. Its could be a radically different press conference from lagarde today than what we saw from powell. Francine many people say its a different economy and cycle. Im excited to be talking about that. First lets get straight to new york city. Trumpbegin with president blaming chinas Coronavirus Response on politics. He says beijing would do anything to see him lose the election. The president did not provide any evidence china would liberally mishandle the outbreak. He says he is considering various ways to punish the chinese government. Chinas response, it has no interest in interfering in u. S. Internal affairs. Chairmanderal reserve jerome powell, he worries about the longterm economic damage of the coronavirus. If the economy starts to
For a russian agent whos committed sex crimes i mean everything that hes said now in strew. How theyre even having these extradition. Trial for Julian Assange is weird because its goes completely contrary as we know to u. K. Law so our law the law of this country the little that supposed to represent all wear wigs or addition treaty with the elated today has a tree superhit specifically precludes anything that could be claimed to be a political crime or a political misdemeanor which obviously this is because julian is his only crime is to speak the truth to the people and hes speaking truth though to a powerful elite to do not want the truth spoken to the people to go to serve is obviously believes that the espionage act that hacking these are crimes that you can exert i think they do i thin as 6000 the powers that be in washington d. C. Have decided that they want judean killed or at least imprisoned for the rest of his is health its extremely poll. And and they want to tell for that
Warns widespread poverty could make latin america the next pandemic hotspot. We report from inside a hospital in tehran as iran warns of a 2nd wave of covert 19 infections. We begin in the United States where the trumpet ministration is ramping up measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic President Donald Trump says the military is being deployed as many states complain that theyre ill equipped to handle the outbreak more than 300000 people learned to be infected with the virus in the u. S. Over 8000 have died trump was warned of a tough week ahead saying close there will be a lot of death were going to be adding a tremendous amount of military. To help supplement the states thousands of soldiers souses thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors. And itll be a large number itll be will be telling them over the next very short period where theyre going and theyre going into war theyre going into a battle in the u. K. The number of people dying continues to rise 708 in t
The countryside. We report from inside a hospital in teheran as iran warns of a 2nd wave of covert 19 in sanctions. And in other headlines shades of promise houses from east africa or overcoming olds to a trans global attention for the world. We begin in the United States where the trumpet ministration is ramping up measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic President Donald Trump says the military is being deployed as many states complain that they are ill equipped to handle the outbreak more than 300000 people are known to be infected with the virus in the u. S. Over 8000 have died trump has warned of a tough week ahead saying quote there will be a lot of death were going to be adding a tremendous amount of military. To help supplement the states thousands of soldiers souses thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors. And itll be a large number itll be will be telling them over the next very short period where theyre going and theyre going into war theyre going into a