It appears that a twitter employee who had access to the twitter Management Panel was compromised and that was the way they got access to all of these otherwise very well locked down accounts. The compromised twitter accounts include bill gates, kanye west and former president obama. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. The twitter hack is raising alarms about Tech Security and the potential from anything from election misinformation to stock market manipulation. Live coverage now from ktvus Jana Katsuyama and what we learned about the security breach. Reporter twitter acted quickly to remove the messages that had been placed on the hijacked accounts, but not before the hacker or hackers pulled in 100,000. Experts say its also possible they couldve had access to users direct messages and other data. The scam was a simple message, send money to an anonymous account and get double the funds back. Hacking attack hijacked dozens of highprofile twitter accounts.
An oakland and traffic is moving along well, heading south or north on 80. We can also look at south bound 880 between hayward and fremont. That is nice looking drive, all the way through the bay. Checking the pass, we dont see a lot of traffic here that is going to be slow. Lots of times we have that. We dont have anything to talk about there, or on san ramon and pleasanton. And on north barry north bend 280, the entire silkfor 101. Lets go back to the headlines. The Supreme Court approved a second federal execution. 68 yearold wesley ira purkey, scheduled for last night, was removed. The claims that he has progressive dementia and severe Mental Illness needs to be evaluated. But the department of justice appealed it to the u. S. Supreme court, and they voted 54 to allow the execution. Wesley ira purkey was accused of killing a 16yearold girl and an elderly woman. This will be the first case of this type since 2003. Here in california, 355,000 people have tested positive for the virus
Today. Temperatures are close to 80s near 90 degrees. Any change for the weekend . 18 a bit, i will have that in 10 minutes or so. Lets see if theres anything new on the screen. Good morning, im glad you did not go for a limerick. Okay. Lets go look at the commute on the westbound bay bridge. It is light. I can show it to you. Traffic is moving along just fine. Moving into San Francisco, there is no major problems. Traffic on interstate 880 looks good in both directions, and oakland. It is 5 01 am. Lets go back to the headlines. We start with the breaking news this hour, the Supreme Court has approved a second federal education, the order that blocks the execution of Wesley Purkey scheduled for last night was removed. A claim that purkey has dementia needs to be evaluated, the Justice Department appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, which voted 54 to uphold the execution. He was convicted of killing a 16yearold girl, and an 80 yearold woman. Daniel lewis was executed and the First
I want to make sure to note some important requirements. Let me begin by saying that standing house and Committee Rules and practice will continue to apply during hybrid proceedings. House regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the proceedings. So please keep your cameras on. Remember to remain muted until you are recognized to minimize background noise. In accordance with the rules established under hr 965, staff has been advised to mute participants only in the event there is inadvertent background noise. For those members here in the room, i urge members and staff to wear masks while in the hearing room. I thank you in advance for your commitment to a safe environment for all here today. Secretary mnuchin, administrator carranza, thank you for being here today. Let me start by saying, i want to give a sincere thank you of to all of the staff of both of your agencies who have worked tirelessly over the last few months responding to the crisis.
La which claims the networks controlled by someone on the block even though he actually has a different news agency as we explain. Your training in from right across the globe welcome to R T International my names union. Its the final day of a week of voting thats been taking place across russia on proposed changes to the countrys constitution while many have already had their say by voting online president putin the 3rd today a National Holiday to voters who havent yet done so the chance to cast their ballot. Lets go through its a package of more than 140. 00 amendments many things social legal and economic guarantees to the constitution one ensures the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures a new will adjustment to maintain the value of pensions allowance has also tougher requirements for Civil Servants such as bombing key officials from having foreign citizenship or Bank Accounts are brought also some proposal seen by some controversial more age would