Good morning. A lot of Business Owners say they know people are stressed out, anxious or emotional. They dont want that taken out on them. Look behind me at some of the measures being taken. There are businesses boarded up in the financial district around San Francisco. This is the 24hour fitness and the fedex office at davis and sacramento. This is happening all over the country. This is in preparation for the election. The fbi in San Francisco says they set up a command post so they can better work with local officials election night. The concern is that there will be violent protests from extremist groups. Law enforcement officers around the bay area are on high alert. When we have protests, if they get large, there is always an element within that group that will try to do destruction or harm. Were worried about those extreme elements that want to do violence and harm people, especially Law Enforcement officers doing their job. Officials say one of the biggest problems this year ha
Camera cell phone video shows a man brandishing a back moments before he was shot dead by San Leandro Police during the detention. Boy that hasan. A taser was in effect. The same officer then fired one shot at the suspect striking him in the torso. At the same time simultaneously the second officer for their taste. The incident happened just before 3. 15 saturday afternoon inside the walmart on his spear in boulevard we spoke to a customer off camera who was inside the store and i heard. People ran towards. The back from the front of the store saying there was someone with a gun and then there was someone shooting. This video shows the chaos inside then more people started to come towards them. And thats when everybody kind of started getting in panic mode and everybody kind of just wanted to find an exit and everybody was scared everybody huddled together San Leandro Police initially responded to a robbery but that was not the case when they arrived police say the officers attempted t
World Health Organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3. 12 . But right now in the u. S. , its about 20 . This comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u. S. Last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but its sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. And over 4500 people died on friday alone. Last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and thats more than the number of people who died in the korean war. For weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms cant get tested. Well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u. S. Karen caifa has more. President trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. The virus has passed its peak. The president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopen
Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk
Teenager. Shooting happened when she was just 16 years old but she was tried as an adult. The after years of protest, she was granted clemency by former tennessee governor bill haslam. She was released just two months ago at the age of 31 and has now published her memoir free cyntoia my search for redemption in the american prison system. To any young women and girls who find themselves in the situation i was in, i would say that there are people that hear you. There are people who understand what youre going through. I understand. I have been through it myself. And there were times i did not think i was going to make it, but the lord brought me through it and he can bring you through it as well. Just keep faith and keep fighting. Amy we will speak with cyntoia brownlong in one of her first interviews after prison. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Shelling is continuing in Northern Syria one day after