Increases sanctions pressure on bill rusin warns russia against intervening in support of president bush. And the u. S also threatening sanctions on turkey if no progress is made in the Eastern Mediterranean dispute with greets flash flooding triggered landslides in afghanistan killing at least 150. 00 people its also a swamp parts of karate in neighboring pakistan. And in school the n. B. A. Playoffs will resume on saturday the players have agreed to end a boycott that was aimed at highlighting social injustice. In the afternoon in washington where tens of thousands of people have gathered to a renewed drive for criminal Justice Reform and racial equality theyre calling it another march on washington because it falls on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther king jr i have a dream speech which happened in the same place the u. S. Has been gripped by racial protests and breasts since george floyd was killed in Police Custody in may strong comparisons to the anger in the violence that fl
A dream speech lawyers for jacob blake the black man paralyzed after being shot by police say he is no longer handcuffed to his hospital bed. And there are all the top story the batteries president is saying hes ordered hoffas army to be ready for combat is the e. U. Draws up sanctions against bad a russian officials. Down in school the n. B. A. Playoffs will resume on saturday the players agree to end the boycott aimed at highlighting issues of social injustice in the United States. Hello welcome to the program tens of thousands of people have filled washington d. C. s National Mall to rally for racial equality and criminal Justice Reform a march on washington also commemorates the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther king jr as i have a dream speech the demonstration was dubbed the get your knee off found next march echoing how george floyd was killed by police in may the u. S. Has been gripped by racial protest since his death and the outrage fled again this week after another black ma
Moves its way to the northeast, live to the gulf this morning. Markets this morning trading up, take a look at futures, wild week with triple digit gains for the dow industrials in record territory. Nasdaq up right now is lower but the s p 500 scored a fifth Straight Record high close yesterday and continues higher this morning up another 11 points. Airlines getting turbulence, United Airlines warning 3,000 pilots could be grounded by october. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets are mixed, take a look at european indices. The cac quarante is up 3 points but the dax index in germany is lower by 17, in asian markets big news, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe announcing hes resigning. He announced resignation overnight and the news weighing on japans stock. The nikkei average down 1 and a half percent over night. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump wrapping up the rnc last night officially accepting the gop nomination for president m
Protests grow in cities in belarus theres more trouble for president lukashenko his support in rural areas is beginning to weigh. U. S. President donald trump says the National Guard is on its way to suppress a black lives matter of protest and can osha that been 3 nights of unrest in wisconsin after police shot a black man jacob blake 7 times in the back a 17 year old has been arrested accused of shooting 2 people dead during the demonstrations video footage showed a young white man opening fire in the middle of the street with a semiautomatic rifle the local sheriff has extended a nightly curfew were not going to put up with what we saw monday night were not going to is that mean were going to stop it all. Yeah it comes on numbers they come not to be able to stop at all but were going to be assertive in helping to protect the city if you know shit you know if you county in our neighbors from around the county state and country are here to help too well within the past hour there was
About to collide with coronavirus overwhelming hospitals. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman and we have lots of news to get to tonight. Well start with the wildfires that are still burning around the bay area and threatening thousands of homes. The czu lightning complex fires have now burned more than 80,000 acres in the mountains of santa cruz and san mateo counties more than 500 structures have been destroyed 51 damaged. One person has died. Containment did go up slightly overnight us now at 19 . Many structures are still threatened and there are several Evacuation Orders in place and for more right now we go to kron fours rob fladeboe he joins us now live from felton which is about 7 miles from santa cruz. He has the very latest on the firefight good evening drop. Good evening just seen thats right out here in the Santa Cruz Mountains once again firefighters are quite literally a fighting fire with fire as you say i am here in felto