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Caught on camera, a dramatic end to a Police Pursuit in Southern California overnight. Health alert. The new warning about some popular painkillers. What women need to know. And christmas comes early. The misfit toys from a christmas classic now going up for sale. Good friday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. Im will reeve. We begin with the race for the white house and those dueling town halls. President trump and former Vice President joe biden taking questions from voters on everything from the coronavirus to the economy. It comes as the pandemic enters a new phase. Doctors reporting a third peak in infections. Meanwhile, the number of americans applying for Unemployment Benefits has jumped to the highest level in nearly two months. We begin our coverage with abcs elizabeth schulze. Good morning, elizabeth. Reporter hey, good morning, mona and will. Trump and biden squared off in separate televised events just as bidens running mate, Kamala Harris, came off the campaign trail.
Caught on camera, a dramatic end to a Police Pursuit in Southern California overnight. Health alert. The new warning about some popular painkillers. What women need to know. And christmas comes early. The misfit toys from a christmas classic now going up for sale. Good friday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. Im will reeve. We begin with the race for the white house and those dueling town halls. President trump and former Vice President joe biden taking questions from voters on everything from the coronavirus to the economy. It comes as the pandemic enters a new phase. Doctors reporting a third peak in infections. Meanwhile, the number of americans applying for Unemployment Benefits has jumped to the highest level in nearly two months. We begin our coverage with abcs elizabeth schulze. Good morning, elizabeth. Reporter hey, good morning, mona and will. Trump and biden squared off in separate televised events just as bidens running mate, Kamala Harris, came off the campaign trail.
Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu
Women in sunnyvale faced were ought for a walk. In a region home to some of the safest cities anywhere in the country, and tonight, neighbors, understandably, are on alert. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. And im ama dates. Abc 7 news anchor, dion lim, brings us the story from sunnyvale. She got attacked. Literally, like, she got attacked. I mean, you dont know. Youre not prepared for Something Like that. Reporter the video shows two women on a walk in sunnyvale midday wednesday. Whether a man runs by, pretends to trip. One of the women pauses and her gold neck llace is ripped from r neck. Many online and in person describe their neighbor as multicultural and say theyre south asian. But say they feel they are being targeted for their gold jewelry and warning each other not to wear it out. Please, honor your cultures but when you are walking around, maybe its a good idea to cover it. Wear a scarf. Cover up the bracelets. Reporter just an hour before this incident,