Defense secretary, christopher miller, who was only installed in the post last week by january 15th, 2021. Our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2500 troops, or 4 sides in iraq will also be 2500 by that same date. This is consistent with our established plans and strategic objectives supported by the American People and does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. Shortly after the announcement on troop withdrawals was made, several katyusha rockets landed in baghdads green zone. At least 7 rockets were fired. Some of them landing near the u. S. Embassy. The u. S. Air Defense System crime was deployed to intercept and destroy the rockets but one child was killed. Now ethiopias government is saying that troops have achieved significant victories in its conflict with forces in the north and to region. The National Army is carried out air strikes near the regions main city of mikheil. A is the primary primary base for the Peoples Liberation front ot p. L. F. Which go
David hawkings is the editor in chief. There are leadership elections. Explain how they go about the two parties electing their leaders and can we see any changes . We will see some so, they meet in caucuses, different causes. No surprise here. The things are happening a little bit differently this year because of the pandemic. The Democratic Caucus which is happening the first of the meetings is happening today. There is a virtual opportunity for members to stay home, stay in their districts and cast the votes in the upcoming leadership elections using a secure app that the democrats have come up with. We wont see any changes at the top. The republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, maybe, maybe not liz cheney, thats staying the same. Were not seeing any changes at the top there either. Remarkably long run of nancy pelosi as the leader and jim clyburn of South Carolina as number three, thats all continuing. Thats continuing for a into a 16th year. Its a remarkably long run
Opposition, politician bobby wine has been released on bail. Officials have accused a president ial candidate of violating cover 1000 restrictions while campaigning for the president ial election scheduled in january at least 28 people have been killed during protests, sparked by his arrest. Welcome web has more from nairobi, kenya, but is violence which began on wednesday continued on on thursday morning with separately, a Police Pathologist has told news agencies, the number of bodies resulting from the violence was actually 37. So the numbers in, on to time clear from Senior Security officials and police have said that they blame people for rioting and for attacking police officers. Other on the other hand, there eyewitnesses bobby wine himself when he came out of court as well as Rights Groups have complained of just an unfair and an excessive violence on the part of the security forces. U. S. Pharmaceutical Company Pfizer and its german partner biotech, are due to become the 1st w
Thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. Im in for marcus washington. In fewer than 24 hours a new overnight curfew starts for all 14 counties in the purple covid19 tier. The stayathome or covers nearly 95 of the states population. Here in the bay area, that means escalator, allameda and the counties listed here. What can and you cant do . Same for businesses. Sharon is here for. Reporter workers are trying to get prepared for the weekend and holiday diners main street kitchen and bar the owner is trying to adapt by creating a structure that will allow some in but protect outdoor diners from rain when needed and said this will cost him 30,000 and he had to lay off ten employees since Indoor Dining was shut down due to the purple tier with rising covid numbers. Restaurant owners and residents say they have to be flexible yet again. 10 00 p. M. Through 500 a. M. Curfew starts tomorrow night and goes through december 21st. Bhig thing i would do on thanksgiving we see friends afte
Well actually theres more red icons theres one runner park, theres one up in American Canyon and farther up past so masterful thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im ken wayne and i pale more pg and e says the states grid operator order the rotating Power Outages because of the excessive heat driving up electricity use and putting a strain on the power grid, it was expected to last until 11 oclock tonight, but about 9 oclock. Pg said it has stopped shutting off power and has started restoring power and just about 10 minutes ago the state agency lifted its stage 3 Emergency Declaration which ordered the rotating Power Outages in the first place is the first time the state of california has ordered rolling Power Outages since 2011. We talked to a spokeswoman from the state agency that order the outages about what led them to declare the stage 3 emergency tonight. This one completely driven by the heat. There was so much demand. We also have out cover at the same time that came with tha