Tonight. Also breaking tonight, california has officially surpassed 1 million that is according to Johns Hopkins university. These new numbers coming just within the past hour. California is now the second state after texas to report at least 1 million covid cases and more than 18,000 people. Have died. And the Coronavirus Crisis is where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus really a reality check on a night you have coronavirus cases surging across most of the country in some spots there really exploding and here in the bay area they are rising as well many counties, locally are now faced with the possibility of having to move back another tier into a more restrictive tier in the states reopening system in some Health Officials are choosing to pause their reopening plans with the hope of slowing the spread of covid and avoiding some of the economic consequences of being forced to go back and entire tier. Yeah today Alameda County announced that it
Destruction of evidence is a criminal offense and he says that this only continues to prove that the city of les hose Police Department needs to have more oversight and more accountability. This is the police truck involved in the shooting death of 22 yearold Sean Monterrosa the windshield riddled with bullet holes was viewed as evidence in the case but it was later destroyed and replaced now of ole ho Police Union President and lieutenant is under investigation and he may have thought it was good evidence. That could be hurtful to the Police Department and the play songs about slide civil rights Attorney John Burris says the wind chill was crucial to the investigation body cam video worn by the officer involved in the shooting never shows what they were actually seeing as they opened fire monterroso was killed when a hammer was mistaken for a gun and raises real question if an officer and destroys. A piece of evidence what evidence may have been destroyed the Vallejo Police Officers A
You know the Strategic Reserves and were looking to put as much as 75000000000 barrels into the reserves themselves that would top it out that would be the 1st time in a long time its been topped out with get it for the right price well some of binge of aid has more from doha on the impacts the Oil Price Drop may have in the middle east. It has a number of repercussions for the gulf economies that predominantly for leaders such as saudi arabia which have been trying to control the way the markets have been acting to the amount of oil that it has been getting in the last few weeks youve seen saudi arabia going from the Production Cut to the glut to cut again and now you see that this massive drop in we are at a point in oil prices which wasnt seen in the last time we saw the likes of it within 146. 00 that was right after the 2nd one war is going to have an impact on economies such as bahrain and oman which do not have the kind of deep sovereign funds that other countries have it is goi
1 it is not the fed. Its not the trade talks, its demand demand for money demand for homes, demand for processing, demand for cancer drugs and programming and demand for cell phones and demand for planes and of course perhaps most important, demand for stocks yet if you listen to most of the experts you here a lot of fury about ow the Global Economy has gotten weaker because the trade war has shut down international trade. I dont want to sugar coat anything the Global Economy has absolutely taken a hit yearoveryear and the tariffs are part of that but here is the thing. Many stocks were trading like were about to get an even more stringent round of tariffs and that didnt happen instead the president started negotiating with china and that allowed a host of flailing stocks to get their mojo back. The tariff made it strong that without the averages demand would have never made it this far. Let me walk you through the places where that demand is m t most palpable first there is demand for
Now on bbc news, the week in parliament. Hello, and welcome to the week in parliament. Politicians may have been getting on with the business at hand, but theres definitely been an elephant in the chamber the conservative leadership contest. Scarcely a debate went by without some reference. For example, argy bargy when this Prime Minister faced questions about the next one. Will she finally act in the best interest of these islands, not the conservative party, and admit that neither of the candidates for office should ever be elected Prime Minister . But shes wasnt having any of that. Either of the candidates for this high office would do a darn sight better job than anybody sitting on any of those benches. Well be discussing how Prime Ministers questions might look under the new Prime Minister. Reminds me of the tale of the sort of rather extravagant eccentric young army recruit who is told by his Commanding Officer the men will follow you if only out of morbid curiosity to see whats