Political parties . We will see what becomes of the vow to participate following the first round. Hopefully serious actors will continue to engage. But will haitis populous known as voters engage . No one is trumpeting a Voter Participation of 18 according to the cep as a step towards democracy. That would certainly be an exercise in lipstick. There are variety of reasons of course, why haitians are not engaging in political process. One of them they are frustratedy with the outcome of participation, by coups and nonresponsive officials and other factors and theyve probably become somewhat jaund ised in democratic politics. A number of prominent haitian observers and have been calling for a different solution, calling for a Transitional Government or some kind of mixed commission that would place management of the political process in more diverse objective and inclusive hands. Listening to these folks and engaging them seriously is not such a bad idea. After more than four years of hi
Im not sure how many, maybe three, four. I want was like a brawl on the train. About an hour later another rider assaulted a different motorman aboard the c line in east new york. This was then followed by another separate attack where a suspect spit on the face of an operator at g line. Police do not believe the incidents to be related, but the Subway Workers Union would like to see more protections in place. The union said quote transit workers are exposed to assaults daily. The police need to protect transit workers. District attorneys have to stop making excuses and not enforcing the law for assault on transit workers. There are several cameras that police are reviewing hoping for some leads. Live in lower manhattan, a. J. Ross, channel 7 Eyewitness News. A. J. , thank you. Another wild and gut wrenching day for wall street. The day started with a rally. Then it came to an end. The massive sell off in the last hour of trading. The do i down 204 points. The nasdaq down nearly 20. S
Carl quintanilla joining us Spark Capital quinn and roger, good morning to you both pressure continues to mount on Silicon Valley as u. N. Today, leaders from the uk, france and italy will call on social Media Companies to remove terrorist conten from their sites within two hours or be held liable for content on their platforms facebook, microsoft and alphabet are attending todays summit roger, it is sort of a continuation of the political pressure they are getting from all sides. To me its legitimate pressure facebook and google in particular take the position that they are not responsible or accountable for anything that happens on their platform. Given the things that happened over the last year, i think there is a need for the conversation about exactly what the limits ought to be i would think terrorism is only a small peaiece of the problem. Megan, is it possible with todays technology to remove the content in one to two hours. Theres all kinds of nseemly comments on social netwo
Decent amounts. The next system looks better because it is tapping in from moisture coming up from the hawaiian islands. Today, 30s, 40s and 50s on your temps to the north. A lot of clearing. So 30s. Mid40s for some. Walnut creek and blackhawk in there and out by the Concord Pavilion, 45. And also berkeley. Except for lingering clouds and fog, we have a nice day on tap. Not very warm. But the system will give us a big change for us starting tomorrow. More on that in a little bit. 7 01. Sal tells us what. You would say how is the commute and i would give you the ugh sign. It could be worse, i suppose. Weve had a lot of slowing this morning on 80 westbound towards the macarthur maze. Metering lights are on at the bay bridge. Boy, is it crowded. I was talking to mike off the air. Mike mibach, the Award Winning anchor. You may have heard of him. [applause] thank you. Thank you. He said why is it so crowded. We talked about it. Next week people have time off. This week everyone is going in.
Destination mission to the moon. And for the channel and Discovery Communications and including the widely praised modern marvels. An assistant professor and a lecturer with Johnson Space center. And tonights stories of the space age which features 20 of his favorites from the golden age of Space Exploration. Join me in welcoming him. [applause] thank you very much, normally i kind of dance around a little bit while i perform these things. Because theyre taping tonight, and we have a weird microphone ill stay with the podium and go back to my professoring days at the university of laverne. Thank you for coming here, i know its rough getting here and i use today drive to ucla when i was 18 years old and 30 minutes and it was irritating and i knew that it was two and a half hours. I appreciate you going back to what you went through. The space age has a long story behind it and i wont bore you with the whole thing, but ive been writing about different parts of the space age and Space Sci