Next a house hearing on Sexual Assault in the military after the death of private first class Vanessa Guillen. They reviewed how Sexual Assault is reported. Victims advocates recommended changing the process. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am the chair, jackie speier, we will have a hearing entitled hashtag me too moment, an examination of Sexual Harassment and perceived retaliation in his apartment of defense at fort hood. The hearing will come to order. We are here to discuss the pernicious military culture, time and time again, report after report exposes an environment ripe for sexual veracity where women are afraid to report their harassers because of fear of retaliation, ostracism or worse, fear that they wont be believed in the harassers wont be held accountable. By declaring hashtag i am vanessa gillen, thousands of taken to the streets and social media demanding respect. Demanding the rules of the, quote, old boys love and locker room talk are no longer the price of adm
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Coronavirus cases continues to rise even here at home kron fours gayle ong joins us live in galle he talked to invent Infectious Disease expert who says that these numbers that hard to understand exactly what they mean. Yeah i can among the experts weve been hearing from a lot saying that these cases and deaths are under reported and thats due to limited testing early on and asymptomatic people. Testing capacity has grown in the bay area and beyond to perhaps the reason why were seeing a rise in covid19 cases and deaths that the case counts are going in the right direction that is down thats good that theyre going up. Well maybe its because were casting but more likely theyre going up because the acres have changed in more people have gotten on wednesday. John Hopkins University reports the nations death toll surpassed 100,000 people since the first u. S. Recorded death from covid19 less than 4 months ago 100 thousands are real watermark this epidemic in the country doctor George Ruthe
Than 4 months ago on february 6th and since then an average of almost 900 americans. Have lost their battle with the virus every single day. The new number may not be complete because some victims may have died without ever being tested and therefore were not counted. The death toll from coronavirus is higher than our military losses in the vietnam. And korean wars combined. We passed another unfortunate milestone on the global scale as well today the number of reported deaths from covid19 has surpassed 350,000 worldwide and theyre now. 5. 6 million cases overall in the u. S. There are nearly 1. 7 million cases and in california there are now more than 100,000 cases and over 3800 people have died. After keeping the state largely lockdown since march 19th the governor newsome has quickly allowed as many as 47 counties to move further into the reopening faces and one local Health Official says that he could be moving too fast. Santa clara county Public Health director doctor sara cody to
Passed another unfortunate milestone on the global scale as well the number of reported deaths from covid19 has surpassed 350,000 worldwide. And there are now more than 5. 6 million confirmed cases overall in the u. S. There are nearly 1. 7 million cases and in california there are now more than 100,000 cases and over 3800 people have died. Today governor Gavin Newsome told leaders in the gym and Fitness Industries that that new guidelines on reopening gyms and Fitness Centers in california will be coming soon. Those comments came during a round table he held via zoom. The governor did not give a specific timeline and said he is not even ready to have gyms reopen as soon as next week, but that the guidelines could be out by that. Now we hope to put out in the very very near future and i say very near future because i dont want to say next week but but with in a week or so we believe will be in a position make public the in your sector. This comes a day after the governor announced the