Killing of a top soldier the fallout in azerbaijan after a new border battles with. Surging coronavirus cases growing crowns the risks and potential consequences of mexicos new normal. In china is vying retaliation after moves by the governments of the u. S. And the u. K. On 2 different fronts President Donald Trump has announced sanctions against chinese officials over the new National Security law imposed on hong kong signing an executive order to hold beijing accountable hong kong is being stripped of its special trade and economic status and banks that deal with some chinese officials they would also face sanctions. The hong kong or tanami act which i signed this afternoon passed unanimously through congress this law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing hong kongs freedom weve all watch what happened not a good situation their freedoms been taken away their rights have been taken away and whether i
Breaking overnight, one person known dead and at least two others injured after more than a dozen tornados tore across the upper midwest. Western minnesota was hit especially hard. Several homes there have been destroyed or damaged. Forecasters say a system off the coast of North Carolina is likely to become Tropical Storm fay. Its expected to move up the coast today and tomorrow. Turning now to a very different kind of summertime threat that may be lurking right in your own backyard. Its a story we report practically every summer. Its sad that we have to report it with so many parents now distracted with working from home, the government is sounding a new alarm about swimming pools. Heres abcs diane macedo. Reporter ashley considers herself lucky. With camps closing because of covid19, this pennsylvania mother of two managed to buy an aboveground pool. Im pretty sure we got the last aboveground pool available in north america. Reporter according to industry estimates, pool sales have
Enforce many. But also, we have, and ive mentioned this, and in prior public comments. We have conditioned 2. 5 billion in our state budget on applying the spirit and the letter of the law as it relates to Health Directives at the county level. If local officials are unwilling to enforce and are being dismissive of those orders, we will condition it. The governor held the briefing in pittsburgh. It is being used in project room key which supports people during the paem. More than 14,000 people have been placed in hotel rooms across the state. We can get people off the streets, out of encampments, out of homeless shelters, out of their cashes, win baggos or maybe their neighbors couch. We can give them a key and a lock in a place to call home and begin to support them and their opportunity to transfer back with more independence by providing support services. The state budget that was signed yesterday provides money for cities and counties to fully acquire rooms to house the homeless an
My prayers go out to the floyd family and the other families of a long list of other victims and loved ones. I stand in solidarity with all those who have peacefully patriotically challenging the status quo. Are about the treatment of africanamericans at the hands of police. They are also about the systemic racial inequities that have festered in our society for years. They are now magnified by the coronavirus that we are here to talk about. Inequity is particularly stark in health bare by has been laid this pandemic. Latinos,mericans, native americans, and other people of color have tested positive, been hospitalized, and died from covid19 at alarming rates. , african are dying at a rate that is double what would be expected given their share of the population. Infectedhat have been ina disproportionate rate every state that report these data. And native americans, who represent just 4 of the are 21 ofin arizona the coronavirus deaths in that state. Subcommittees briefing, we heard fr
Communities of color including africanamericans, latinos, asians and pacific americans and native americans. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Right now across the country, citizens are coming together to protest racial injustices. These protests began in response to a public lynching of george floyd by Minneapolis Police and the recent killings of other americans at the hands of those who are supposed to protect them. My prayers go out to the floyd family and other families, a long list of other victims and their loved ones. I stand in solidarity with all those who are protesting and patriotically challenging the status quo. These protests are about more than the pigment of africanamericans at the hands of police. There about the systemic changes or gears. They are now magnified by the coronavirus that we are here to talk about. This racial inequity in healthcare, it has been laid out by this pandemic. Africanamericans, latinos, native americans and other people of color have tested pos