The boards on the windows have come down. The holiday lights and the Christmas Tree are up. And stores are now hoping for the holiday rush they desperately need to survive. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Lets go to kpix 5s andria borba. Andria, despite the shutdowns, despite the pandemic, businesses are still hopeful . Reporter businesses are still open. Of course, on friday here in San Francisco, indoor restaurant dining will come to a halt per the mayors orders, but brick and mortar retailers and the large stores and small stores supported by them say they need this Holiday Season to be good in order to survive. Its kind of make or break. Reporter union square retailers say they need a big Holiday Season to survive after months of nearly empty streets and few shoppers. Some large chains have already filed for bankruptcy protection and the Small Businesses who feed on foot traffic from Bigger Stores say they are fighting to stay alive. We would really need them t
Invited to form israels next government. Hello governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movement of their citizens to reduce the spread of the coronavirus the number of coronavirus deaths recorded in italy has now risen 25 percent just in the past day to over 800 as europes worst outbreak of the deadly virus continues to expand italy has 25000 cases of the highest number recorded outside china and spain became the 2nd european country to impose a nationwide lockdown its confirmed 2000 new cases and the number of reported deaths has doubled iran has announced more than 100 people have died in the past 24 hours and confirmed cases there are nearing 14000 to hans says its fight is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions and then the u. S. Increased screening measures for people returning from europe have caused chaos at airports the u. S. Has imposed a ban on non americans traveling from European Countries including the u. K. And ireland or brennan is joining us
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Separatist leaders have been jailed to between 9 and 13 years for organizing an illegal secession referendum in 2017 former catalan Vice President oriel young paris was handed the longest sentence for sedition and misusing public funds the leaders were acquitted of the more serious rebellion charges spains Prime Minister says the verdicts confirm the end of a failed process for cattle and independence. Nobodys above the law nobodys have although in a democracy like a spain nobody is subject to trial for his or her ideas or politics but rather for criminal conduct as provided by the no thank the verdicts triggered violent protests in barcelona people blocked roads the main road to the citys airport and rallied elsewhere denouncing the sentences as unjust aljazeera saya gago reports now from barcelona. Hours after the sentencing of catalan lawmakers and political activists were sentence years in prison for its addition over their role in the october 27th teen illegal referendum there wer
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