States and because you know just very recently the u. S. Has passed the grim milestone of 200000 deaths to the coronavirus so he has every incentive just a few weeks now before an election of aiming fire at china. And he did that on many different subjects not just talking about the coronavirus but still you know we are at a moment geopolitically where chinas rise is really challenging the United States is previously the sole superpower we happened to have affectively to nationalists at the peak of both of those countries donald trump and she jinping so how these 2 powers and these 2 leaders play off each other is incredibly important for the rest of the world but im wondering so its very provocative theyre already locking horns when it comes to trade and tech but is this kind of business is usual with this administration and the chinese leadership. Well yeah i mean weve been on this path for some time now with donald trump but dont forget its not so long ago that he was trying to nego
In kinshasa and theyre mostly targeting taxis its because of a rise in kidnappings in the city. Im christine its good to have your Company West African beads is all yes to react to the appointment off the president of malis Transitional Government dole pictured here in gray has been named interim president by needs is the 70 year old former defense minister is a retired colonel now the regional body ecowas head insisted that the president of the Transitional Government must be a civilian. Last week the body threaten to step up economic sanctions and have posed a total embargo on demand caulked mali if that and other conditions were not met in mali however Public Opinion about those appointment is mixed. I would have liked the people to have chosen a politician because mali has been a democracy for almost 25 years and. Im very happy because its a purely political appointment hes also a career soldier. I think ultimately no man is suitable some and get things done a less divisive but the
Will be opened up for the homeless. The scene today reminiscent of this, the more rooms for housing protest in oakland late last year, a group of homeless mothers occupied a home for several months after being forcibly evicted in january, they were given the opportunity to buy the property. Developing news out of palo alto where smoky fire near the popular hiking area beneath the stanford dish could be seen for miles. You can see multiple patches of thick smoke coming up from the dry grass, fire crews aggressively attacked it, even cal fire joined the fight. Fortunately only vegetation burned, less than three acres per onto the other big story today, a Bay Area Company at the forefront of working to treat the virus just got fda approval from a promising experimental drug. Today the fda granted emergency use as a result authorization for Gilead Sciences remdesivir drug earlier this week, the National Institutes of health announced the results of a study showing hospitalized covid19 pati
Thats why we are here it is 7 00, not 6 00. Visit it feels like 6 00. Rain . Slight chance. It was certainly nice yesterday. We actually received a bit. We were looking at maybe a quarter of an inch. Some areas picked up more than that. We will talk about some of those totals coming up in a moment. How about that beautiful shot of lake tahoe . We have fresh snow over lake tahoe all the way down towards the lake. We have been watching that picture for some time and it has been very bare except for the tops of the mountains. Heres a look at what we are seeing today. Mostly cloudy this morning. Patchy fog. It is still dark. We have another half hour before the sun will rise. Mostly cloudy for the afternoon as well. Temperatures, mid50s to about 60 degrees. We will check out the Current Conditions and talk about the possibility of more rain, in just a few moments. There are more than 107,000 cases of the coronavirus worldwide. The number of new cases has slowed down in mainland china. Offi
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