Restrictions, mostly racist ones, chinese immigrants were not welcome and congress added that they endanger the good order. And then politicians do what politicians do. They added more rules including importers of prostitutes and polygamy and anarchic. By the time that immigrants came through ellis island, there were more rules. You couldnt be sick or noticeably sick, doctors were supposed to check for 60 symptoms of disease but they had only a few seconds to decide. So they asked children their names to the if they were deaf or dumb. But you cant order limped, you might be turned away or quarantine. 3000 immigrants died on ellis island while they were quarantined. In all, many were sent back. Most got in. But racism still prevails. But if you are white and from europe, you probably got in because my parents got in. Germany in 1930. Today, we have many more rules. You can come legally only if youre related to someone already here and you have a rare job skill or if you come from the co
Damaged 3 others in fairfield today started in a grassy field along i 80. That fir was reported just after 3 30 this afternoon at home on mary gold drive. Fire quickly spread throughout the neighborhood because of wednesday that were guinging 200 firefighters from 7 Department Work together to contain the fire. About 50 people forced to leave their homes because of an evacuation other. One map arrived from work just in time to watch his house go up in flames. I just got home as the fire was cresting in the back yard and watched everything go. So sad. Firefighters were able to safety homeowner dog. Animal was hiding. In the back yard dog house. Nobody was injured in the fire. Turning to the rim fire near yosemite. Grown to become the seventh largest wildfire in california state history. Still is a huge challenge for firefighters. It spread across additional 30,000 acres and flames now reach the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir inside Yosemite National park. John near the fire line tonight with mo
On sunday, 97 people in china died from the coronavirus. Thats the highest number in a single day since the crisis began. In a single day since the death toll is now over 900. In a single day since across china, more than 40,000 people are infected, and over 180,000 are under medical observation. The only better news is that the number of newly infected People Per Day has stabilised. Heres president xi at a prevention and control centre in beijing. Hes having his temperature checked like many people have done. The president says hes working to prevent large scale job losses because of the virus. But that looks harder to avoid as each day goes by. For more on how the government has been reacting to this crisis heres kerry allen from bbc monitoring. This was just really striking footage in general anyway, given that we were talking about this coronavirus back injanuary. It was very apparent that he was very much not in the public eye and very publicly, he appointed his deputy to be the k
Good morning to you. Thank you for waking up to us. I am heather nauert. I am heather childers. It is tuesday march 7th. Thank you so much for watching Fox Friends First. We start with this an extreme weather alert socalled snow quester packing a punch on the east coast. Virginia by far the hardest hit with more than 20 inches of snow in some parts. 250,000 people waking up without power. A bit further north in the capital the storm was mostly abust. Forecasters calling for 10 inches of snow. Most of it ended up actually being rain. The threat of wild weather shut down federal offices. The storm is now moving to the northeast. Bringing with it strong winds snow and coastal flooding. Janice dean is here and she is tracking the track of that storm. Good morning, janice. How are things looking . Look at some of the snow totals 2 feet of snow in the mountains of west virginia. 20 inches in fishersville. Even down to North Carolina half a foot of snow. Even though dc was mainly a rain event
Late as mid february. Nobody knows their status the threat of rid napping in peru prompted 2 east bay hay school to ns ka el student trips. Bentley school in lafayette has hosted trips to pe are you in the pas past. But two week ago they pulled the plug on the day before students were to fly ou out. School officials got this ominous warning from u. S. Embassy. We are put up travel advisory saying there is a possibility of kidnapping to the area and i asked if they would accepted their own people they said absolutely not. Thats when we cancelled the trip. I was kind of relieved we didnt end up going there with a situation like that. I was bumped we couldnt good on the trip but im glad that it was cancelled for that reason. Reporter 30 sthunts to give up the cha tons learn the culture and do community service. I know i was going to work in a hospital with kid with like mental problems to help them. Reporter also this month the head roy school in oakland cans alleged trip to peru for 25 s