Hello and welcome to nhk newsline. Im Yoshi Ogasawara in tokyo. We start this hour in new york where the United Nations is canceling all inperson General Assembly Committee Meetings scheduled for tuesday. It comes after five people of a mission of a member state tested positive for the coronavirus. Its not immediately clear which member state is involved but the u. N. Said it is conducting contact tracing. The cancelations likely mean the Committee Vote on a japansponsored resolution to abolish Nuclear Weapons will be postponed. Most u. N. Staff that operate out of the new york headquarters have been working remotely since march. But more people have been returning to the office since july. Meanwhile, a top official at the World Health Organization is expressing concern about the latest surge of infections sweeping across europe. We are seeing very, very high positivity rates and an increasing lack of capacity to do any effective form of contact tracing. The two countries with the high
Democrats boycotted the vote, she will become the next justice of the u. S. Supreme court with about taking place in just about a halfhour. She is the former clerk for the late justice anthonys scalia, she will fill the seat left vacant by the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, she served on the Supreme Court for 27 years, she passed away last month after a long battle with cancer. Judge barrett was voted out of the Senate Committee last thursday just ten days after hearings for her senate her Supreme Court confirmation in the senate began, despite the radical dems effort to discredit her judge barrett displayed the temperament, the scholarship in the brilliant legal mind necessary for a seat on the high court. For the latest on what we can expect to see we turn to fox news Congressional Correspondent chad program in washington, d. C. Good evening, you are right at about a half hours time they will start the confirmation process for Amy Coney Barrett, we will have a procedural vote to t
Much out. For many in the bay area, this is what they woke up to this money, if there wasnt a downed tree, many found leaves and branches scattered all over the ground, on the left, a tree fell on Market Street in san jose, damaged some Electrical Equipment and knocked out power, in the middle, those strong winds knocked a tree on 103rd avenue in oakland, it also took out power lines. On the right, city crews were busy cleaning up a downed tree in san leandro this morning. In orinda, we saw downtown banks and businesses in the dark this afternoon, the neighboring cities of moraga and lafayette were also affected, pg e turned off power in a large part of the east bay holes and contra costa and alameda counties today, including parts of berkeley, oakland, and san leandro. You can see the widespread outages indicated by the purple triangles, power was cut all across the bay area, including in sonoma, napa, solano, and marin counties, customers in san mateo and santa clara counties are als
The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
Ethiopian egypt are expected to restart talks on the controversial nile dam project the President Donald Trump warns could lead to military. So with exactly a week to go now before the u. S. Election theres been a surge in early voting in part due to end in spite of the coronavirus pandemic more than 63000000 americans have voted by monday night already 4000000 more than all the early votes cast in 2016 the National Polls are giving democratic contender joe biden a solid lead although its a lot tighter in some battleground states the coronavirus pandemic continues to cast this shadow over proceedings infections is surging with some states concerned about the lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week alone with more than 225000 deaths since the pandemic began stop. Markets in the u. S. Saw their biggest day one day drop in a month as concern grows that failure to contain the outbreak will hurt the economic recovery a rescue package remains he