Youre watching cspan2. Your unftered view of government. Created by americans Cable Television companies emma is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Acebook market zuckerberg and twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey testified about the president ial election helped erica manng misinformation online. From this in a jewish inhe judiciary committee. This is four hours. Good morning everybody. I think weave senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct. And is it okay if we moveha forward. Absolutely and thank you very much. I will make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorshipuppression in the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when i facebook. Witter and about the platforms and the decisions they make and how they make them. Can we do better. Do we need to do better. So the first thing that i want to talk about here is health risket associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 75013 17 yearolds found that 45 percent online almos
5 00 right now. Covid cases in a nationwide surge. This map shows much of the midwest covered in red meaning a widespread number of new cases. Dark orange shows a significant surge. Thats most of the east coast along with parts of texas which just hit 1 million cases. California a lighter orange but cases here are also on the rise. The cdc has put out its strongest guidance yet on mask wearing citing growing evidence a mask can help protect a person wearing it. The cdc says adopting universal mask wearing policies could help future help prevent future lockdowns. As San Francisco struggles to get ahead of rising covid cases, leaders reopening rolling back plans. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain why the city is hardly alone here when it comes to new concerns and confusion, cierra. Reporter yes, good morning. Mayor london breed made that announcement shes pausing some of that reopening, and that includes halting the reopening of indoor learning for high
Francisco and then emid 80s to 90 inland. Kumasi . Thank you, mike. Today health and Human Services secretary will provide an update on the states response to the pandemic. Last week dr. Mark ghaly indicated that recently opened schools have not contributed to an increase in covid cases so far. Dr. Ghaly will speak at noon today and well bring that to you live on abc7news. Com and the abc7 news app. Indoor businesses could get the green light to reopen in Santa Clara County today. The county is expected to move from the states red tier into the less restrictive orange tier. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover is live with the mixed reaction from business owners. Julian. Hi, good morning, kumasi. Certainly welcome news for many of those business owners. They move to the less restrictive orange tier here in Santa Clara County means many of the restaurants behind me have a chance of surviving when the rain returns to the bay area. Several changes that could happen to the move to the less res
On memorial day his death fueling outrage and anger over years of Police Violence against africanamericans while many protests have started off peaceful. Some have turned violent. Thanks for joining us tonight at 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis tonight, the former Minneapolis Police officer who was last seen on video kneeling. On the back of the neck of george floyd a handcuffed black man who died in Police Custody is arrested. Hes charged with murder officer Derek Chauvin former officer Derek Chauvin is charged with thirddegree murder and manslaughter. After the Hennepin County Attorneys Office says they have gathered enough evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, but they have not yet arrested or charged the other 3 officers who are involved they say theyre continuing to investigate those other 3. The failure to arrest those 3 officers is a major issue with the thousands of americans who are out protesting tonight the 4th night of demonstrations
Up france becomes the 3rd european country to go into lockdown the president in what about call has ordered citizens to state and side those who do not obey will face heavy fines and as the virus spreads so does fake news about misinformation creates fear and hurts efforts to fight the pandemic so what are social Media Companies doing about it. Im serious i was gonna thank you for joining us germanys Disease Control agency has raised its coronavirus Risk Assessment to high at the agencys Daily Press Briefing a spokesman for the robert costa institute said stricter measures are necessary to contain the spread of the virus citing the ongoing dynamic of the pandemic he said there were increasing warning signs from german clinics that the number of seriously ill cases is increasing. All right lets bring in our Political Correspondent hans brown for the very latest on this story hi good to see you so germany a center for Disease Control has raised the risk level now to high for this corona