Forward with a scaleddown Economic Relief bill that republicans introduced. National institutes of health orector and Surgeon General on capitol hill for a Senate Health hearing on Vaccine Research and development. They spoke about ongoing Clinical Trials for a Coronavirus Vaccine and the possibility of one being ready by the end of the year. Some of thescussed challenges of distributing a vaccine and the current drop in vaccination rates due to misinformation and public mistrust. Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. I would like to welcome everyone and go through some administrative matters that we do at the beginning after consulting with the attending physician, the sergeant at arms, cdc, health and Human Services, individuals are seated six feet apart. There is no room for the public to attend and the press is working as a pool bang and the hearing may be watched gaveltogavel online. Both of our witnesses, dr. Collins and sargent general adams are
And also tonight the reopening of businesses and several local counties. Lets start with the latest on the wildfires. New video from inside of the burn zone on the czu complex fire. Up against lots of flames. But many of the big redwoods are still standing. Containment now stands at 26 . In the last hour cal fire lifted more Evacuation Orders on the eastern edge of the fire. Were tracking two other massive fairs. The scu and it stands at 35 containment and the lnu complex in the north bay, containment stands at 35 as well. Well get back to our fire coverage in a moment. But we want to explain the new rules when it comes to the coronavirus. Today the governor introduced a new tier system when businesses can reopen. Here is how it works. It is a lot to digest. Each county is assigned to one of the four tiers. It is color coated. They are based on the rate of new cases and the Positivity Rate. You could see here the criteria each county needs to meet. They have to stay in the tier for thr
The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundati; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Latest headlines for users and tens of thousands march on washington in a civil rights demonstration. Demonstrators called for renewed htefforts to for justice. Activist al sharpton said it is time to stop the killings. Iv black matter and we wont stop until it matters to everybody. We are going toalk together. The rally comes exactly 57 years after a quarter of a Million People gathered for martin lgher s call for racial equality. We will be live inashington for the developments. Als ahead, britain empty town and city centers. The campaign to get staff back in the workplace. Hurricane laura kills at least six people in louisiana. You are watching bbc thousands of black lives matter demonstrators have gathered in washington to mark the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther e families of black americans sh
A confrontation. The officer was patrolling the area when they noticed a theft in progress involving multiple people. The officer tried to detain those suspects there was a confrontation and the officer opened fire. Still not clear this morning what caused the officer to use their gun. The officer sustained a foot injury and was taken to the hospital has also been placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation. We have breaking news from overnight. One person had to be rescued from a fire in San Francisco. Youre taking a look at video from the citizen app that was posted by the San Francisco Fire Department that fire started about 2 oclock this morning on powell street in the citys north beach neighborhood. Firefighters also had to rescue a dog. The person who was rescued was rushed to the hospital no word on that persons condition this morning. Also in the south bay clusters of covid19 positive costco workers are being treated for the virus across Santa Clara
A battle for libyas oil the government in tripoli accuses the United Arab Emirates of ordering warlord Khalifa Haftar to block petroleum exit polls but whats behind the dispute and could it scuttle attempts to end libyas civil war this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im wrong come on oil has played a major role in the years long conflict in libya most of the oil fields in the east on the wall of the hull if i have to control this means the un recognized government a National Court in tripoli has been cut off from a huge source of income on friday have to us forces allowed a tanker to transport some of the crude for the 1st time in 6 months but they really imposed a blockade a day later libyas national all corporation blamed have to the United Arab Emirates for ordering the move the u. A. E. Says although Oil Production should resume it wants what it calls safeguards in place to ensure revenues arent used to fuel the conflict mahmoud has more from tripoli. Had the Nati