In about ten minutes well have newswatch, but first on bbc news its time for click. This week marks three months since the world first heard about a newly identified disease. I am of of course talking about covid i9, which is caused by a new type of coronavirus. To date there have been over 3,000 deaths from nearly 100,000 confirmed cases in 81 countries. And this is how i know that. This is Thejohns Hopkins University covid i9 dashboard. And since it went live injanuary, it has gone. Viral, in a good way, by demystifying the stats and the numbers behind the spread of this disease. It is amalgamation data from many of the Worlds Health agencies, and so for example right now i can see the total number of confirmed cases isjust over 93,000, these are the countries where they have confirmed cases by numbers, and just as importantly i think, this is the total number of people who have already recovered completely from the disease. And this is just one of the pop up projects that have appea
He worked at Merrill Lynch 15 years where he developed his management skills and later left corporate life to pursue his calling in pastoral ministry. He leaves behind to cherish his memory his best friend and his loving wife tamara hall man jackson, his parents of washington, d. C. , and ruth jackson, also affectionately known as polly. Shes a leader right here in our own Visitacion Valley community. He left behind four brothers, brian, drew, james, and lorenzo and one brotherinlaw, raphael who resides in hollywood, california. So, please join me in lifting up our dear friend and sister ruth jackson as she mourns the loss of one of her children. On another note, another sad note, i also want to lift up another mother of the Bayview Community that has lost her son. Many of you know ms. Espinola jackson. She recently lost her daughter to a battle of cancer. Ms. Yvonne Jackson Harris was born february 9, 1956. She attended San Francisco Public Schools and in the fourth grade she had alre
And our minds were opened. We were able to support, learn, and be educated in how to stand up for the right things in life. One thing that i can say about the roth family, they didnt stand up for bull s. , that whenever an issue was right, thats what they stood for. Whether it was popular or not popular. A lot of times they caught a lot of heat for it but it didnt matter to them because they believed in doing what was right for the people that were in need of that. It was just again great to see that that name is being honored today. Thank you. applause fred, let me just say that we have a number of africanamerican or black History Month honor aloees in a month coming up in ray moment. I want to acknowledge labor president mike casey in the audience. applause i want to thank you for [speaker not understood] to our doors. We have this coming up on our for a vote. Your oscar time is up. A [laughter] i want to say supervisor avalos and campos are cosponsoring this commendation with me and
Fred roth, senior, was an inspiration to many of us, especially those that have been Community Organizers like myself. He trained an army of organizers, not just for the united farm workers, but for many different struggles historically. And its really an honor for me to stand here before you with fred roth, junior, and others to urge your support to join hundreds of other labor and community and civic organizationses and groups in urging president obama to bestow the president ial medal of honor post hume usly on fred senior. His entire life work was spirited and defiant in the struggle for freedom and dignity, especially for lower income workers, not just farmers, but disinfran hiesed and depressed communities not just the state of california, but nation wood. A more proactive struggle for equity and Human Dignity for everyone. I wanted to also say that a little bit of history is important. In the 50s mr. Roth worked in the latino communities and barrios of los angeles, san jose, and
We really like watching all the wilderness and the animals. And, yeah, its fun. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Brown good evening. Scott is on assignment. Im james brown, and this is our western edition. The president ial campaign may have hit a low point today, and there are still 75 days to go. The two major party candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and republican donald trump, accused each other of bigotry. We have two reports, beginning with Major Garrett covering the trump campaign. Reporter donald trump met today with preselected minority supporters, many brought to new york by the republican party. Ive always had great relationships with the African American community. Reporter continuing a pattern of taking a minority outreach message to largely white audiences, trump went to New Hampshire to turn the tables on democratic critics. Ol when democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one, tired argument youre racist, youre racist. Reporter it was an a