This years b. E. T. Awards show featured artists gathered. As well as a performance by First Lady Michelle Obama as she presented beyonce with a humanitarian award. Those are some of our top headlines on this monday, june 29th. Happy monday, everyone. We do begin this half hour with the devastating new numbers on the pandemic. More than 500,000 lives have been lost worldwide, and more than 125,000 of them in the u. S. Alone. Some areas that reopened are now backtracking. Beaches across south florida will be closed for the july fourth weekend. The pittsburgh area is the latest to shut down bars. Cases are on the rise across much of the country with only two states reporting a decline in new infections. Abcs zohreen shah has more. Reporter this weekend, 10 Million People infected and more than 500,000 worldwide who have lost their lives to the coronavirus. In the u. S. , seven states breaking records this weekend, including florida with nearly 9,000 new infections. Broward county and mia
A possible pathway to peace in yemen how did they respond. By dropping more bombs on yemen of course local groups on the ground claim that saudi air strikes occurred not only the polling day on sunday but then again on tuesday the 22nd of september with almas were t. V. Reporting that 16 yemeni civilians died in the 2nd round of strikes including 7 children. I guess peace doesnt get a chance when there are still buildings to civilians to kill and the u. S. Military Industrial Complex to feed which is why we are always watching the whole mess. With the. Rails that we see. As a part of. What they like you know that i got. The. Guts because. Well were going to watching the entire robot and. This would be my shocked. I just cant believe you know its one of those things where its like here we are you know. Were off for a truce or offer a little peace and saudi arabia responds with us which is just seems so typical in the world today because its not as if theyre fighting something thats a th
A call for truce and peace last friday night body armor shot to head to the Supreme Political Council one donaghue to run t. V. In yemen and told viewers we declare ceasing to target their Saudi Arabian territory with military drones Ballistic Missiles and all other forms of weapons and we wait for a reciprocal move from them he added that while they do reserve the right to respond if attacked the continuation of the yemen war will not benefit any side the sentiment was then acco the next day on saturday at the Un General Assembly through the special envoy for human martin grip of those who welcomed the initiative and sudden a statement if this initiative by is implemented in good faith it can send a powerful message of the will to end the war. Now how did saudi arabia and its allies respond to this call for a truce and a possible pathway to peace in yemen how did they respond. By dropping more bombs on yemen of course local groups on the ground claim that saudi air strikes occurred no
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Affordable housing in the mission for generations to come. [applause] now we all know the sad history of rewoment in our city. The community that i grew up in the Western Addition and what happened to that community. A lot of propsses were made. A lot of housing was built. But when the time came, for example, in the Public Housing that i grew up in, 300 units torn down, 200 units built and the difficulty of so many of us being able to move back to the community. You remember this joyce armstrong, what happened in the Western Addition and how it really sadly destroyed a very vibrant African American community. And we look at this as a Lesson Learned and we have to think of the challenges that existed back then and what we have to do to change that for the future of San Francisco. And we are going to protect our diversity and our communities. We have to start making the right kinds of investments. Its why, when i was on the board of supervisors with this community, Roberto Hernandez was