Every 8 days concerns growing over a sharp increase in cope with 19 cases in the u. K. And the u. S. Justice department pushes prosecutors to charge protesters in portland and the rarely used law. And sport Justin Thomas head to courts rather to take a 1st round lead at the u. S. Out then american is a shot clear of the 2nd major championship here. So visit to taiwan by a high ranking u. S. Official has led to fighter jets being scrambled and it seemed china launch Major Military drills Taiwans Defense Ministry says it had to send up jets to track approaching Chinese Air Force planes if they cross the sensitive mid line of the Taiwan Strait which lies between china and the island chinas mistreated. Justified fridays new drills saying they were necessary to protect what it calls National Sovereignty and territorial integrity it accuses United States and taiwans ruling party of colluding to stir up trouble. Me with recently the United States and the Democratic Progressive Party authoriti
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. N cbsn y area, were looking from our transamerica pyramid. It is friday, and i said friday. It is september 18th and i am michelle griego. It is friday. Good morning, i am len kiese. Glad to have you with us. I am sure mary lee is happy this friday. We have the weekend in view. How is it looking . We are so thankful it is friday. We are looking atity inueday but some changes for the weekend. I will get to that in just a moment but lets talk about the air quality. Looking at good air quality, that clean and fresh air across the bay area. Great to see all of that green indicating the good air across our region. Now lets show you a live look outside with our Treasure Island camera. It is a cloudy and foggy starting even some patchy drizzle because of that strong onshore flow. Temperatures are running in the upper 50s to low to mid 60s at this hour. Through the day, we
And trying to keep the lessons going to meet the pandemic the lengths theyre going to remote areas of indians. And foreign belgians Thomas Peters is new to the lead on day 2 at the u. S. Open hes overtaken Justin Thomas who had a course record in his helping round on their estate. So then taiwan has scrambled 18 fighter jets to track nearby Chinese Military planes in an escalation of tension over the visit of a u. S. Official china says the drills were necessary accusing the United States and taiwan of colluding to stir up trouble from abroad explains. Taiwan scrambling gets jets after 18 Chinese Military aircraft entered its Defense Identification Zone before turning back. As its done previously in the Taiwan Strait this military exercise by china was its way of showing displeasure at increased diplomatic exchanges between the u. S. And taiwan it comes as u. S. Undersecretary keith crock the most Senior State Department official in decades continues his visit to the island that follow
A new home thousands of refugees in greece weave into their camp but there are growing concerns about conditions that. What we fear is the before all that it will be a 2nd border to work at the same of europe. And we have all the schools scouring sparrow edges closer to return to English Premier League title tut tut known all to 7 trophy laden years and real madrid. In corona virus cases across the United Kingdom has forced the government to announce more restrictions as infections wild wide now topped 30000000 official estimates showed the number of new daily cases in england has nearly doubled to around 6000 in just the past week and leaders are warning they could be another full scale lockdown if the situation doesnt improve on new measures to stop the virus from spreading also being rolled out in parts of france and spain it comes a day after the w. H. O. Warned of an alarming rise in cases across europe and israel has now entered a nationwide lockdown for a 2nd time as infections
Protesters. And increasing disharmony we meets chile this indigenous approach a people who are embroiled in a land dispute thats getting more dangerous. And in sport matthew wolf will take it to show late into the final round of golf u. S. Open the 21 year old could become the 1st time since a win the title more than a 100 yes. Iran is accusing the u. S. Of bullying by trying to unilaterally reimpose International Sanctions against us its urging the world to defy the u. S. Which is threatening to punish countries opposing its actions the sanctions were lifted as part of the nuclear deal signed in 2015 that washington has since pulled out all of its move to reimpose sanctions goes against the United Nations. Ruling out a return to economic and diplomatic penalties on tax ron well have more reaction out of iran shortly but 1st a report from our diplomatic editor james bass. Its aroud its even pitted the u. S. Against some of its closest allies and its now over 5 years since the Iran Nucl