Balloons with propaganda into the north they believe that the South Koreans were able and should have been able to stop these defectors from doing this it doesnt raid the north but i think theyre probably using that as an excuse to almost create a crisis cycle if you like partly out of frustration i think at the way that south korea as they see it has not been able to get relief from International Sanctions to get the United States to move on their position on Nuclear Weapons they probably naive li believed that moon j. And the president of south korea was able to do more than he was able to do is hand to a certain degree are tied but i think there is a certain frustration that they have that patience has run out with the south and they are lashing out now at south korea and it remains to be seen just where the place goes but i think possibly they might believe that still the South Koreans can put pressure on the United States but also partly this could be for domestic consumption they
Both in the running of your own operations and to adequately serve the consumers you are committed to. First and foremost, like all companies and had to protect its own employees and particularly for a set of companies that run large call centers with large collections of people that technicians are sent into homes to repair and Provision Service and all of those processes had to be rapidly transformed. Now we have 90 of call centers employees working at home. Most companies have accelerated plans so they can send avoid sending technicians to the home and these are probably worth five, seven years worth of work accelerated into three months. Obviously, the country did something unheard of and it lost [inaudible] and eventually ordered people to stay home and i think one of the reasons they could safely assume that was an Effective Response to the pandemic as there was competence there wasnt infrastructure at home to allow people to continue to work and continue to get information. That
1 00 this afternoon. Were looking at some low 90s in antioch today as well as spots like clear lake and ukiah while San Francisco will stay in the upper 60s. Well get a look at the rest of our micro climates and a nice cooldown by the end of the week coming up. Mike, youve been keeping an eye on the roads. Whats going on right now . Well, right now, kari, i see another blip at the bottom of your screen as we take a look at the maps, highway 85 shows a little more out of sunnyvale, a smooth drive otherwise. Well doublecheck but we know about the slowing youll see out of the Altamont Pass through west 580 and its there. Everything is fine getting over to the bay bridge but do note if youre coming through brentwood and clayton, if youre not a local stay off marsh creek road. Marcus, you have the very big reason why. Thats right. Thats that breaking news out of Contra Costa County. Firefighters are still there at the scene of this late night grass fire that threatened a lot of homes around
Back into the wild. Welcome to the program its been called a breakthrough in the fight against the corona virus researchers in britain say theyve identified the 1st drug that significantly reduces the risk of death in some of the worst affected patients the low cost steroids cement this time was found to cut deaths by up to one 3rd doctors are now expected to stop treating people with the drug imminently. Hospital staff are struggling to help severely ill covered 9000 patients in the u. K. These images were recorded several weeks ago things like these are still being played out around the world every day brings more Death Threats now a glimmer of hope and want to country in europe is hailing a major breakthrough scientists at Oxford University thank have identified the 1st drug that can save the lives of chronic 19 patients and that is that it is a widely used steroids a randomized trial showed it reduced death rate by a 3rd in patients on ventilators and bias in patients receiving oxy
Sanctions designed to further isolate syrias president and force him to make concessions. Welcome to the program a day after north korea blew up a Liaison Office that was used to communicate with south korea its military is announcing further escalations the army says it will redeploy troops near the heavily fortified border and Demilitarized Zone it also intends to resume regular exercises and wrist obvious gob posts in frontline areas on top of this north korea has rejected souls offer to discuss reducing tensions well robert fried is live in persia thats on the south korean side of the border so talk us through the mood there in south korea after these latest threats from the north. I think generally there is a feeling of disappointment and how this all seems to be unraveling and unraveling so quickly i think also among a number of people there will be concern about just how bad this war of words will get out but also i think generally in south korea there is a feeling of we have be