Required to turn over data and information that they collect to chinese intelligence. Fccs designation comes as beijing tightens control over hong kong, putting into effect a sweeping National Security law that completes beijings takeover of hong kong. Hong kongs leader, carrie lamb, supporting that takeover and the end of civil rights in hong kong. Prodemocracy groups say this is the end of the hong kong the world once knew. On monday secretary of state mike pompeo announced the United States is stopping the exports of defense equipment to hong kong. The state Department Also imposed the same restrictions on defense and dualuse technology. Last year the United States exported more than 75 million of military equipment to hong kong, most of which was in the form of engines and turbines, 3. 5 million though marked as tanks, artillery, missiles, rockets, guns and ammunition. Secretary pompeo said, quote we cannot risk these items falling into the hands of the Peoples Liberation army whos
Gina good evening everyone. On behalf of the Edward M Kennedy institute for the United States senate, it is my pleasure to welcome you. We are going to have a conversation about the intersection of Early American History and contemporary political issues. First visit to the institute, i also want to welcome you to our fullscale replica of the United States senate chamber. We arekennedy institute, committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and in our society. That through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life, and conversation like tonight, that bring American History into focus. We are very proud to partner with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are proud together roy proud to gather and esteemed panel tonight. Wbur,overs politics at where he has been since 1998, breaking new
These guys are money, as many of you know. We are so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight, we welcome our two guests. Westra,lls, and kayla of the Minnesota West Community and technical college, the coauthors of great wartime escapes and rescues. Ill start by saying they had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape, starring Steve Mcqueen and james garner, richard. And borough, and charles bronson, among others. It quickly became a tv staple all of the guys in my class fell in martinsburg, missouri fell in love with it. We played it out in recess. All of us wanted to be mcqueen. I think i ended up with the attenborough role. Get executed at the end of the movie. Of course, mcqueen survives. What we didnt realize then and what we probably didnt care about was that the movie was based on a true story, the escape of 76 allied soldiers and in 1944. From germany the film pretty much gave us the reallife tragic ending to that s
Lets check in on your markets and see how things are doing in terms of yields. You can see the u. S. 30 year yield coming down further. 1. 96 . Yield at. 98 . R i feel like i must be seeing something wrong because that would be insane. It is actually 1. 47. Im sorry, italy, thats what got me off track. I thought i was looking at u. S. Treasurys, that would be nuts, dropping 50 basis points in minutes. That is the italian 10 year coming in below 1 . With stocks opening down and turning higher after we had some positive trade comments out of china. Lets get first word news in new york. We begin in italy, where conte will get a mandate to form a new government after the former alliance collapsed in chaos. The new administration will include the fiveStar Movement and the democratic party. Those rivals have little in common other than a desire to avoid an election. Country isa, the looking to extend maturities on over 100 billion of debt. They want to delay repayments to the imf after a col
Preparing for a wildfire before it sparks, the project in the south bay that could help protect drivers on a busy highway. Plus a birdseye view of an illegal stunt, and what sent one person to jail. The news starts right now. Good evening and thank you for joining us. A warmup on the way, and some steam coming in, too. We will take you out live to dublin, the spare the air alert and it will be in effect tomorrow. Rob mayeda. You see walnut creek, and thats where our spare the air alert will be focused, the inland east bay, and the rest of the bay seeing moderate air quality, and if you live inland contra costa valley and the trivalley, you will notice the air quality being an issue. Its after 8 00 and its still 87 degrees outside in walnut creek. The heat made a big comeback in our inland valleys today. Heres the interesting part of the forecast, weakening Tropical Storm to the south and look how the moisture is already on approach to Southern California. This will be bringing increasi