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Groups say the kremlin is using illegal tactics to influence this weekends local elections meets one politician challenging partys grip on power. But im terry march and welcome to the program governments all racing against the clock and the weather to find shelter for thousands of displaced migrants from greeces morea camp a massive fire destroyed the camp on tuesday night leaving some 12000 people homeless greece has provided a ferry to house thousands of refugees to more ships will be sent in the coming days for the past 3 nights most have slept in the open and are struggling to get enough food and water. There. 3rd night in the open in the parking lot of a supermarket people who thought they had nothing left to lose have lost what little remained some bear the injuries sustained in trying to rescue their meager possessions from the flames and now autumn is coming and the nights are getting colder. That it was that night that was that it was fair that there was a night there but he w
Reports more than 4000 new Coronavirus Infections in just one day. Plus of all options open the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexina bunny has germany weighing economic sanctions against russia at least theyre joined with their choice pipeline project or stream 2 in limbo. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us governments are racing against the clock and the weather to find shelter for thousands of displaced migrants from greeces morea camp a massive fire destroyed the camp on tuesday night leaving some 12000 people homeless greece has provided a ferry to house some of the refugees to more ships will be sent in the coming days for the past 3 nights most have slept in the. Open and are struggling to get enough food and water. A 3rd night in the open in the parking lot of a supermarket people who thought they had nothing left to lose have lost what little remained some bear the injuries sustained in trying to rescue their meager possessions from the flames and now autu
The sheep now over 70 contained. These are some of the larger fires. The one remaining one is the fire that may not be as large as scale in scope as the lnu or scu but is precious in terms of the impact. This is some of the worlds most majestic sequoias. We are at 1 . 17 is progress. Were monitoring it. Thats it. Broad stroke updates. Let me update you quickly. In the last week weve seen a reduction in the total number of cases 4,708. The new numbers came in yesterday. 4,255 and thats based upon over 110,000 tests that came in. 255 individuals tested positive. We always look at the 14day positivity rate. Its now down to 5. 1 in the state of california. Interesting, and i think importantly the sevenday, this is the 14day positivity. The sevenday positivity is 4. 4 . So 4. 4 positivity in the state of california over the last seven day, 5. 1 over the last 14 days. You can see the average number of daily tests have started to go up again, the impact. Well get those testing numbers back up
Information about the events coming to you shortly. In the interim i am so pleased to welcome Douglas Murray to the event this afternoon. Also in author most recently the 2019 books demint mess of crowds and he was with us in person at the Manhattan Institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book the strange death of europe. Douglas is a Formidable Political critic and im not sure that he knew the subjects of both his most recent book and this one would come into play during this particular moment in time and for that reason and many others it is my pleasure to welcome you to the event this afternoon. Guest thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be with you and all of your members. Host we will talk for the next 20 minutes or so at which point we will turn over the qanda to the audience. If you look at the righthand side of the screen, there is a little triangle with the word question. You can type question anytime you like. And when we turn over to