Professional pause captured a nation and you heard about the ghostly sound drifting across San Francisco since early june some call it soothing. Others say its unsettling and even alien early today starts right now glad youre with us to end the week im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Hurricane laura leaves a path of death and destruction on the gulf coast hundreds of people are still without power and thousands of Louisiana Residents are waking up with their lives upside down. In the town of west lake, people had to shelter in place after an oil refinery went up in flames plumes of smoke released hazardous chlorine gas and this is what lake charles looks like boats were tossed around, roofs were peelestormravaged areas ts week our Chris Pallone has more in southwest louisiana, it was a day of taking stock and cleaning up. Theres so much damage here, youre going, this is a disaster area you know, its a literal disaster the Recovery Time from this is going to be phenomenal reporter h
In danger. These are dangerous people. These are killers. They kill a lot of people. They dont even think about it. They wake up the next morning, they dont even think about it. This is the extreme lefts agenda for america. They want to appoint radical prosecutors, judges, federal officials who will set criminals free. Their stated plan is to cut police funding, abolish cash bail, close down prisons, reeducate our children, preach leftwing social justice, establish a National Sanctuary for criminal illegal aliens and abolish the death penalty, even for cop killers. No one will be safe and in fact they want very much to let people in prison, like as an example, the boston bomber. They want to let everybody vote. If youre in prison, if youre the boston bomber, they have want you to have a vote. I dont know. I dont think that sells too well. My administration is a very different approach. We want states to work with us, to deploy the National Guard to quell the unrest. All they have to do
Years old piers the destroyer of americas jobs and if given the chance he will be the destroyer of american greatness trump presents himself as the defender of law and order and calls november so both the most important election in u. S. History will do it for all fact check on trumps speech. And the embattled president of bill roods turns to russia for help protests continue in the capital minsk despite a crackdown 20 journalists are among those detained including a d w reporter. A pianist in the ruins no longer we hear the story of my home off my flat syria and found sanctuary in germany 5 years. Welcome to the show japans longest serving Prime Minister shinzo aba has announced his resignation because of Health Problems after serving for nearly 8 consecutive years of announced he had been diagnosed with a relapse of about disease that led him to resign during his 1st since in office in the mid to 2000 during his latest tenure he oversaw japans recovery from an earthquake tsunami and
Quite unusual isnt it thats correct and another freedom which merkel spoke about was press freedom asked by a colleague attending the press Conference Call indicated that germany pushes for press freedom in the world also in belarus and that what has happened recently in belarus where journalists have been detained is that contrary to press freedom also speaking on belarus are going to clearly indicate a warned against foreign intervention and mentioning the possibility of Russian Troops she said she hoped such a force would not be deployed deployed and that there should be a respect for the countrys sovereignty indeed a very strong words by the chancellor on the situation in belarus and cant be easy for her to use those words because russias involvement of a ruse already seem to impact the already tense time is between the e. U. And moscow between germany and moscow narco also had a few words to say about russias general behavior in the region lets have another listen. Bill you know i
On the states response to the devastating wildfires and the covid19 pandemic. On wednesday newsom announced big plans to expand covid19 Testing Capacity while also cutting costs and shortening the turnaround times. All of this is part of a new plan that the state is launching to rep ahead of flu season. You can watch it live at noon on abc 7, on our news app and also on abc7news. Com. A widespread covid19 outbreak is forcing a poultry farm to shut down. Eight workers at the foster farms plant have died from the virus. 358 workers tested positive. And the Health Department says that this is the largest and most severe coronavirus outbreak in the county. The county says that it is giving the plant 48 hours to implement this closure. In california, there are more than 44 new covid19 cases from wednesday to thursday. The number of hospitalizations stands at about 4300. Coronavirus tests claimed 143 lives in the most recent 24 hour period which is still above average. Health officials at th