Why some schools are change history books. It is friday, august 14th, early today starts right now good morning im frances rivera. Im phillip mena. The United States response to the pandemic is front and center in the race for the white house. In a sharp contrast to president trump, joe biden is calling on every governor to issue a mask mandate for three months Andrea Mitchell has the details. Reporter joe biden and Kamala Harris getting briefed by doctors on the coronavirus today. Every governor should mandate mandatory maskwearing the estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months. Reporter the president did not wear a mask publicly until last month this is america, be a patriot, protect your fellow citizens reporter the president jumped on that joe biden would allow rioters and looters and criminals and millions of illegal aliens to roam free in our country he wants the federal government to issue a sweeping new mandate to lawabiding citizens. R
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Six months after 36 people died two people were arrested today. The ghost ship fire was one of the deadliest fires to ever hit the bay area in modern times. Nbc bay areas pete suratos is live in the newsroom with more about the arrests and charges that will be announced in just a couple hours from now. Pete . Reporter good morning to you, scott and kris. Just getting information into the newsroom from the Alameda County d. A. s office and thats deric almena and max harris, the warehouse tenant of that building were arrested this morning outside of Alameda County, and they will be the ones facing charges in connection to the deadly ghost ship fire. The d. A. s office will hold the News Conference in a matter of hours to further elaborate on those charges. Now the announcement of charges against these two individuals just takes place over six months after that deadly ini didnt took place, that fire resulting in the deaths of 36 people and has put the city of oakland as well as other citi
It will start as snow, the atmosphere is plenty cold enough. But as we go through the morning hours, the warmer air will come in from the south, it will change the snow, the darker the blue, the heavier the snow. You can see that out here at 7 00 a. M. In the Lehigh Valley, in the meantime its raining, perhaps heavier rain farther south, you see the yellow areas from philadelphia to dover, cape may, by 9 30, its raining hard and its changed over from snow in allentown, over to ice. And that may be the Biggest Issue with this storm by the time its over. And thats why meteorologist Sheena Parveen is going to break that down hour by hour and place by place. And just minutes ago, penn dot gave an update on its crews brining the roads for the last in hours, salt truck also head out to try to keep the snow melting, and if it starts to pile up, plows are at the ready. The philadelphia Streets Department was loading up trucks in northeastern philadelphia. Officials tell us they hope to get roa
Reporter Alfredo Thompson juniors wife 41yearold Annemarie Francis is in Critical Condition after being attacked in her home friday night. All of this was full of blood against this wall. Reporter his 86yearold on to was also attacked but his wife took the brunt. Two arms are broken in two breasts are broken interface is completely shattered. When she came running out screaming reporter somehow she made it out the front door and her cries alerted the nextdoor neighbor. She had blood everywhere coming in this direction to me so i grabbed her like this and i laid her down. I put my finger and proud swabbed her broken pieces so she would not choke on blood. Reporter did she tell you who did this . No. She could not talk. There was blood everywhere and her eyes were popping out. You can see her hands were broken. This wmy put her in it. Reporter the suspect is a 15yearold foster child that the thompsons took in six months ago. They say they have taken in five other foster children over the