A year after a power sharing deal was signed. Theres gold in these hills that im standing on perhaps 3800000000 dollars worth armory chalons in Northern Ireland keep watching to find out why some people here want to stop the canadians from mining it. So were beginning in the United States with the Democratic Party is holding its National Convention to formally name joe biden as its president ial candidate of course the coronavirus pandemic is still persisting so this years event is being held virtually weve got the vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former 1st Lady Michelle obama headlining this 1st night of speeches some of which have been prerecorded. I know joe he is a profoundly decent man guided by faith he was a terrific Vice President he knows what it takes to rescue an economy beat back a pandemic and lead our country and he listens he will tell the truth and trust science he will make smart plans and manage a good team and he will govern as someone whos lived a life that the r
A terrific Vice President he knows what it takes to rescue an economy beat back a pandemic and lead our country and he doing this since he will tell the truth and trust science he will make smart plans and manage a good team and he will govern as someone whos lived a life that the rest of us can recognize with more from the white house says alan fischer it will be interesting this time around because theres going to be 15 keynote speakers all giving my course speeches all changing the way this is done because most of it will be viewed online but the networks are still giving the coverage something donald trump has talked about hes concerned that the democrats have had a lot of air time over the last few days well they better sit down and get comfortable theres 4 more days of it before joe biden gives his big speech and accepts the nomination of the Democratic Party. In other news the belorussian president has told striking state factory workers there wont be any new elections and they
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Overnight, lightning strikes off the coast as a Severe Thunderstorm Warning moves across the bay area. Were bracing for another day of intense recordbreaking heat after more rolling Power Outages affect hundreds of thousands of people. Good morning, everyone. It is sunday, august 16. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Those thunderstorms were seen off the coast of santa cruz, on the peninsula, near pacifica, and all across the bay area overnight. From the lightning to the winds to the heat to now these brush fires were tracking, were following it all. Lets get over to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at whats happening right now. Lisa . Hey, liz. You know, when we had one of these thunderstorms around fairfield, the temperature went from the 80s to 100. That was a heat burst that came down from the upper levels of the atmosphere with a thunderstorm. Just amazing whether the around here. As we go in c
Time to withhold our votes in protest or play games with candidates who have no chance of winning we have got to vote like we did in 20082012 weve got to show up with the same level of passion and hope for joe biden weve got to vote early in person if we can weve got to request our mail in ballots right now tonight and send them back immediately and follow up to make sure theyre received and then make sure our friends and families do the same we have got to grab our comfortable shoes put on our masks pack a brown bag dinner and maybe breakfast too because weve got to be willing to stand in line all night if we have to look we have already sacrificed so much this year so many of you are already going the extra mile. Even when youre exhausted youre mustering up on imaginable courage to put on those scrubs and give our loved ones a fighting chance even when youre anxious youre delivering those packages stocking those shelves and doing all that essential work so that all of us can keep mov
100 will come from the states now this is a dip from the 600 on employed americans were getting before the july 31st deadline. The other 3 actions. He signed include a moratorium or or memorandum on a payroll tax holiday for americans earning less than 100,000 a year an order on assistance to renters and homeowners and a memorandum on differing student loan payments for santorum talks with our political analyst michael yaki to learn more about the possible implications of these executive orders, he joins us now. Live in the newsroom with more hi dan. Grant vicki well right now its not clear if the president has the authority to approve this unemployment payment because congress essentially has the power of the purse. President trump signing the executive order that is almost 50 last. Then what people were given last month before the july 31st deadline. Trump says that states will have to make up a 100 out of the suggested 400 in unemployment aid. The request opponents argue might be an