Welcome to do double news isha glad you could join us the United States says there is no reason for tensions between china and taiwan to escalate to confrontation the remarks come as a senior chinese official warned that any moves towards Taiwan Independence could mean war the sharpened rhetoric from beijing matches increased military activity by its forces against taiwan the aim analysts believe is to place a new u. S. Administration and taiwan on track. Taiwanese air force pilots are on high alert this may be just a simulated thrill to show how fast they can take to the skies parts of recent months theyve been doing it for real the president laid bare the threat from their nearest neighbor. Who are in the past year our radar stations have detected the incursions of nearly 2000 Chinese Military aircrafts and over 400 vessels this allowed us to intercept and drive them away and secure our maritime an airspace. A Record Number of incursions came on january 23rd china sent 13 warplanes i
These children are dying because society has yet to decide that their lives are worth saving. Woodruff and, its friday. Mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede, and what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Fidelity wealth management. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff covid19 set all kinds of records in the u. S. This week, and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. R
Judy and its friday, mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede. And what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Announcer major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by [music] moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf. The engine that connects us. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. Announcer and with the ongoing support of these institutions. Announcer and friends of the newshour. Announcer this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy covid19 set all kinds of recordin the u. S. This week and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. Reported 153,000 yesterday, more than 67,000 people are hospitalized. A record for a third raight day. The country has averaged near
Gate doesnt show much the way of fog certain the marine layer has taken the day off again today is going to be quite hot across the bay area for today. Bay bridge toll plaza shot again when the sun come up over the east bay hills Temperature Check for you a pretty mild to start things off on the east bay shoreline the lower 60s got 50s off to the east bay, 48 for santa rosa 61, meanwhile for san jose for comparisons sake actually were much cooler going from fairfield all the way down to Half Moon Bay. Elsewhere across the bay still trailing all those stills still feels a little bit on the warm side. Back to that red flag warning you can see its still covering some of those Higher Elevations here going on and up to the north bay as well so its not total coverage. Its basically focusing on the Higher Elevations Going Forward until 08 00am this morning. The breakdown for you is 8111 by 2 were talking 92 to the will be a bigger change with temperatures tomorrow. And a little bit into next
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what the markets are doing, focused on the lack of stimulus coming from the u. S. They are also focused on the earnings. I see a bit of zigzagging. The other thing i am watching for is the pound. A lot going on, you know, in the next 12 hours, when Boris Johnson needs to decide whether to abandon talks with it eu, giving the clear signal of what he wants in order to remain at the table. We have a pack show today. Talk top at 9 30, we the irish finance minister that wedonohoe, and speak with ignazio visco, the Banca Ditalia governor. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. The boeing 787 has been deemed safe to fly. The news comes besides a software upgrade, not being done it for up to two years. The max was founded in 2019 grounded in 2019 after two fatal crashes. President trump and joe biden held separate town halls last night, 1000 miles ap