Ensuring the autonomy of hong kong. The United States wants an open and constructive relationship with china but its even that relationship requires us to vigorously defend our National Interests the Chinese Government has continually violated its promises to us and so many other nations. These plain facts could not be overlooked or swept aside the Minneapolis Police officer who nailed on the neck of an unarmed black man who died has been charged with his murder derek children handed himself in to Police Officer 3 days of violent protests over the death of george floyd the entrance to a Police Station in minneapolis was set on fire arson loosing and vandalism was seen across the city a small crowd of demonstrators also gathered near a home belonging to the Police Officer in florida minnesotas governor has pleaded for calm and promised justice will be served Alison Herrera is a journalist in minneapolis shes described the mood in the city. People were cleaning up were going blasts a lot
Part of californias phase 2 those decisions and announcements have led to a little bit of confusion and some frustration by this time next week just about all the bay area counties could move into phase 2 of reopening sonoma napa and solano counties are already in phase 2 on monday, the 18th San Francisco marin and san mateo counties will join in phase 2. And today we learned alameda and contra costa counties are in the process of deciding when phase 2 will start Alameda County says it anticipates moving into earlystage to next week. Contra costa county will decide on monday so while San Francisco marin and san mateo counties are starting face to monday for now contra costa and alameda counties are holding back. Health officers and both of those counties say they will likely reopen early next week but they have not set a date just yet kron fours michelle kingston has more. Its pretty difficult to her side story as early as her theres no sidewalk jim and sandy rowdy on a small yarn shop
Very popular spot for wineries and restaurants and she has more for a scale. Sonoma county not met all criteria to move past the states, not timeline but county leaders here they believe the science proves otherwise. 18 counties in california got the green light from governor Gavin Newsome to further ease covid19 restrictions Sonoma County is hoping to make that list the criteria is not the ballot by a u. S. Scientist or a doctor in the cdc. Developed by the state according to the governor to of the criteria to pass the states timeline must have no deaths from covid19 in 2 weeks and just one new case per 10,000 people for 2 weeks while the county has not met those criteria. They believe a request to further relax restrictions is reasonable because sonoma counties infection rate remains low youve been so conservative. In terms of our approach and keeping sheltering in place and froing down or businesses and then we very few infections because of that last week phase 2 of the states guid
Development department promises it is listening thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne kron fours dan thorn talks with the edd tonight to learn more about what theyre doing to help people he joins us now live in the city with more dan. Well ken and pam this has been really frustrating time for people across the bay area and in the state of california the edd says that they are working on employment recovery efforts, including cutting down on frustrating wait times for people and right now theyre just asking people to help them help you. The covid19 pandemic and shelterinplace orders are forcing california into unprecedented unemployment numbers in february the state was at a record low of just under 4 . Now 2 and a half months later its a much different story know want to plan for the anti avalanche that we got it will probably going to be looking at a record high Unemployment Rate henri levy with the Employment Development department or edd says theyve been deal
Citys new curfew beginning 8 pm some protesters responded by setting buildings on fire hundreds of others continued to peacefully protest the death of a black man george floyd after his arrest by a white policeman. Also severely children who was fired shortly after floyds arrest on monday d has now been charged with his murder but its made little difference on the citys turbulent south sunne demonstrators defied the curfew and a large deployment of the National Guard some took out their anger on businesses such as the Department Store and occasionally journalists. Others lined up to challenge police who answered with tear gas that failed to control the unrest these National Guard troops have been blocking roads and theyve been protecting firefighters as theyve been putting out the many fires you can see one of them back there but the governor says there simply arent been enough of them and thats why hes sending in more 1000 more to join the 500 already in minneapolis in nearby st paul