Q were hearing and were going toe live to sacramento where gavin newsom is speaking. Were seeing a tripling of the number of icu patients in the last four days. They are long projected and we have for weeks been organizing ourselves around a surge that will require roughly twothirds increase. It requires fighting new places to put people, number two, requires having adequate supplies from personal Protection Equipments to th ventilators and requires people. Today we are announcing a ide to match individuals that may have retired in the last five getting licensed or re ess licensed. It toys incorporate and encourage them to provide for the kind of Human Capital several that well need to meet the moment over the next number of weeks as these numbers continue to rise. We couldnt be more pleased by the nurses and doctors, our professional representatives that came together across many differences and organized around a framework of providing more flexibility, more Surge Capacity within the
Worsening homeless crisis. So many folks are fleeing california, that the population growth there is at the slowest rate since 1900. Key developments tonight on the battle to fund Border Security, from the Trump Administration planning a court fight to seize private land in texas for its wall, to House Democrats demanding answers over the death of immigrants in u. S. Custody. Im Jackie Deangelis in for Elizabeth Macdonald tonight. The evening edit starts right now. Jackie a big gift for investors this holiday. China coming out and saying theyre cutting back tariffs on 389 billion worth of import. That is starting january 1st. Hillary vaughn in d. C. With the latest. Hillary . Reporter jackie, china is chopping tariffs on frozen pork and 800 other products to kick off the new year. The pork cut on u. S. Pig exports to china is really early Christmas Gift for u. S. Pig farmers who capitalize on chinas big pig demand. Who until now have been dealing with high taxes on u. S. Pork exports.
Benefit of the company. We spoke to some who wondered if this was a conflict of interest . The first thing i thought is that there should be an investigation into the validity of what was outlined. Reporter we asked mayor ferrell if he had seen the letter before it was sent . I didnt see it before it was sent. I understand why it was sent, my partner said it was to assure our investors that after i am no longer mayor returning. Traperhaps it was a poor cho of words. Reporter the letter does not look good, but it is no smoking gun. Vic lee, abc7 news. So far fayette ventures have not returned your calls requesting an interview. House leader nancy pelosi made history on the house floor today giving the longest address in that body all in the name of dreamers. Give us a chance, mr. Speaker, give us a chance, treat this house with the dignity it deserves so that we can represent pelosi took the floor just after 10 00 pacific time, to ask for a promise for a vote on daca. Reading letters wr
Black lives matter. Good morning from washington. Im jim acosta. President obama is promising a review of his administrationing Drone Program after two western hostages including an american were killed in a counterterrorism operation. Their deaths have renewed criticism of the u. S. Drone strategy. And joining me now is Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman john mccain. Senator mccain, thanks very much for joining us. Thanks for getting up so early this morning. Thank you, jim. Youve had a couple of days to mull this over. The drone strikes that resulted in the deaths of those two hostages. Were their deaths preventable in your view . I think it was probably preventable in that there was an obvious breakdown in intelligence. They didnt know they were there. And as you know all of our prayers and thoughts are with their families. So it was obviously preventable, but the question then is do we continue these drone strikes and how important are they . That raises all of those question
This is state of the union. Ohio governor kasich on other things. Good morning from washington. I am jim acosta. President obama is promising a review of his Drone Program after two were killed and their deaths brought up new criticism of the strategy. And now joining me is senator mccain. Thank you for joining us and getting up so early this morning. Thank you, jim. You have had a couple days to mull this over. The drone strikes that resulted in the deaths of those two hostages. Were their deaths preventible in your view . I think it was preventible where there was an obvious breakdown in intelligence and they didnt know they were there, and as you know all of our prayers and thoughts are with their families. It was obviously preventible, but the question then is do we continue these drone strikes and how important are they . That races all of those questions, and its clearly a subject for review by intelligence and Armed Services committees and the entire congress. I notice this week