How social media and messaging platforms played a role in recent political unrest in venezuela and brazil. Good morning. Buenos dias. Im glad to see that most of you survived the aztec patio last night which was very good. We have a tremendous panel this morning and a great subject. Its not news to say that the world is facing a time of change, uncertainty, the liberal, multilateral order that we were accustomed to is fraying. Nationalism and populism are on the rise. The geopolitics is back, autocracy has been on the rise, liberal democracy has been on the defensive in many ways. Latin america is no stranger to those trends. This year, last year marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the third wave, what Samuel Huntington called the third wave of democratization and latin america was a big protagonist of that, moving very swiftly from dictatorship as the predominant form of government to democracy. In the last couple of years weve had many elections in the region, and i think
Manner of death. Natural. Jeff adachi died february 22nd. So two different conclusions so different. How could that be . There were enough red flags in the autopsy report that it didnt real he reflects the truth. Reporter bob khan is the adachi family lawyer. He says the autopsy reveals the left artery was 80 clogged. His right artery 50 blocked. It also says that adachi had an abnormally enlarged heart and untreated cardiovascular disease. This chronology of the night he died. It says he and his female friend had dinner together at a restaurant. His friend says he started complaining of a stomach ache and began sweating profusely, classic symptoms of cardiac arrest. They took a ride share to a north beach apartment they borrowed from a friend for the week. His symptoms became worse, he became unresponsivunresponsive called 911. Ada adachi was taken to the hospital where he died. His family is supposed of the findings. It said jeff died of alcohol and cocaine toxicity but levels detect
Candidate for the november Mayoral Election in 2019, but now there will be a special election for interim mayor in june. He faces election much sooner. I was planning on another two years of campaigning, now it will be a mere six month. Reporter leno has already been raising money and building coalitions since he declared last may. But he may be facing board of supervisors president london breed who is now acting mayor. If she runs, you might call her sort of an incumbent. Should president breed decide to run, it will be an uphill battle for anyone thats going to be looking to challenge her. Reporter other potential candidates, state assemblyman and former supervisors president david chu who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2011. Former supervisor and assemblyman tom amiano says chu will have to roll the dice. His challenge will be the race for assembly is this year as well, so if he ran in june, he would have to give up his assembly race. Reporter also resumed, supervisor jane kim who
Future and right now the president of the board of supervisors london breed is the acting mayor. A special election will take place june 5th of next year. The winner chosen by voters will dpnch out lees term. Between now and june, the board of supervisors can meet at any time to vote on someone other than london breed to serve as acting mayor until the special election. Abc7 news vic lee is live with a look at who might be interested at taking the job. Strik . Reporter well, dan, a lot depends i guess the conventional wisdom is that a lot depends on whether london breed, the acting mayor will declare her candidacy for interim mayor in that special june election. A lot of people here at city hall with whom i spoke, mostly off record, believe she will. Now in respect to mayor lee, once hes laid to rest, the gloves should come off. There is no one like him. But because he wasnt a politician, he did things very differently. Reporter the sudden death of mayor ed lee, an earthquake thats sha
Mean . I still think im in my 20 s. Traffic wise, a lot going on, not a lot going on, as would you imagine at 4 31 in the morning. The temperatures are colds, definately not a joke. We start it off with a quick check on storm scan, totally empty yet again, see completely clear skies out there this morning, but it is cold again. So lets take a look at the numbers watch it currently feels like. Pretty harsh. Is it as harsh as yesterday . At least mount pocono it is, for most every you, no, at least a little less harsh for you, but when youre still talking at least into these lower single digit or at most it should say some of you are at least in positive territory , it is still really harsh outside. The windchill advisories we had in place, those are gone, but still again harsh to be outside for very long, a lot worse still in the northern high planes, technically in the teens, from the airport, out to Atlantic City. But, today is another day at least going to feature some sunshine. But