First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
The name is eddie micah jr. Youre welcome to the program. The theme for this year as well. Aids day is hiv aids, epidemic resilience on the impact. Now, while theres been great progress in tackling the virus in recent, yes, the global aids hiv epidemic is far from over. Especially in africa. South africa is a country where one in 5 people are living with the virus. Our correspondents reports from cape town. For almost 2 decades, the Nonprofit Organization hope has been an important point of contact for those living with hiv. Like here in the cape town township of delft. 30 years ago, luis morris worked in a textile factory, but then her life took a difficult situation, and accident left her unable to work out the whole problems followed. And then she became infected with hiv. But my family didnt want to have anything to do with me. After my hiv diagnosis, they cut off contact. And even now if my neighbors knew that i had a hiv, they would only say hi from a distance. They wouldnt invit
Make up your job. Made for mines. Joe biden introduces his economic team. The president elect says, help is on the way as he nominates janet yellen delete the u. S. Treasury. So what do the pics tell us about bidens approach . Also coming up, the e. U. Has a flashy new campaign for its cloud infrastructure. But can guy x. Live up to the hype in the tech world, dominated by the u. S. And china . And say good bye bye to breaks your next house could be coming out of a different places. Do you do your business and robots in berlin . Welcome to the program. U. S. President elect joe biden has set out the top team he hopes will help guide the u. S. Economy through the economic recovery, saying he chosen a tested and experienced group of advisors. Among them is janet yellen, who becomes the 1st woman to hold the post of treasury secretary accepting the nomination. The former Federal Reserve chair painted a gloomy picture of the pandemics effect on the u. S. Law. It was Small Business struggli
I mean for the last time German Police have now confirmed that 5 people have been killed after a car plowed through a process train zone in the western city of tia. And 9 month old baby is among the dead. Several other people are seriously injured. The driver, a local man is in custody. A police havent yet been able to say what prompted him to carry out the attack. Investigators are hard at work. Im acting halfords. Earlier the suspects vehicle was taken away. True, here is a city in shock. That hastened our sorts are with the victims next of kin who have to mourn the death of a loved one. People whose lives were extinguished from one second to the next by such a heinous crime. Among them as a baby, a truly horrific thought. The parents would have to mourn the death of their child. Its just terrible. As i thought, besides the child police say 4 others were killed when the 51 year old local man drove an s. U. V. For around one kilometer through the center of tree or hitting people at ra
Grea fort bragg and oth installations and call North Carolina home, eve for a thanks to our colleague for joining us today. Madam president , thanksgiving dinner has become the single most sell grated celebrated meal of theay. With tens ofmericans gathering with family and friends to give thanks for their bleings and of course for one another. Folks, i know that this yr its a lot different. While we sti have so much to be thankful for, the covid1 paemic means folks will be traveling less and might not be celebrating in larger groups. And as a result, many will be separated from their loved ones on this very special day. Bu folks, this is a very familiar feeling for anyon who has ever served in our Nations Armed forces. Protecting our nation. Rom at any given moment, thousands of men and women,oms and dads, brothers and sisters, are stationed arnd the world standing vigilant in the defense of freedom. Those wearing the uniform arent the only ones making a sacrifice either back home ther