Home to at least now may 3rd happening today, the Santa Clara Convention center is going to be used as a makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients kron fours will tran is there live to take a look and how its going to be seup well. Daria you justheard the numbers of fatalities from im coronavirus and that put some strain on the hospital in a preemptive move. The city of santa cla they allowed people to go inside specifally and heres video the National Guard going inside last frid it is ready to go ey spent 12 hours side the Convention Center setting up 250 cots for men and women they will be separated the whole idea ju like shelter in place is to flatten the curve take the load off the hospitals they will start accepting patients who are positivfor coronavirus and that is important cause if you are next to each other in cots you dont have that 6 feet of distance apart from each other, but the good news is since they are positive for coronavirus they do not need to social distance, th
Durham a suspect driving a stolen car leads deputies on a high speed chase. Our crew on the scene says the camry crashed into another car on avondale drive. The men jumped out. A police dog captured one. And the others are still on the loose. Also new tonight. Ballot battle. A lawyer for the gop wants the state board of elections to take a closer look at 90thousand ballots in durham. Good evening im dejuan hoggard. Heather walig this all comes after durham rejected the mccrory campaigns appeal. Tim pulliam is in the Raleigh Eyewitness News Center to break it all down for us. The state board of elections could hold a hearing on thursday this new hearing stems from a rejected appeal to recount votes in the governors race in Durham County. This week, pat mccrorys campaign and its surrogates will once again zero in on some 90,000 ballots in Durham County. Stark want them recounted. Recently. The Campaign Even hinted publicly at calling off a request for a statewide recount, if one happens
Traffic. I think would take away from the set. The main thing is the commute. Its terrible now and to have Something Else would add to the problem. Want every piece of vegetation and every sagebrush and every squirrel to have a place to reside. I always thought that, you know, it was us that, you know, we should be looking out for first. Reporter there are a lot of hoops still if this development does in fact happen. Number one, obviously, the ballot measure has to pass. Then after that the coastal commission, planning and zoning here, in pacifica. So there are still a lot of steps before this even becomes something that you can physically see as far as changes are concerned. Reporting live in pacifica, emily turner, kpix 5. The news tonight it is a potential cash cow for state lawmakers. Only on 5, we found how many are using little known accounts to spend money on everything from bubbleheads to warriors tickets. The state lawmakers are tied to some pretty strict spending rules for su
Of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. On the same day that president obama gives his inaugural address, the u. S. Drone strike kills three people in yemen. Today we look at the new documentary, dirty wars the world is a battlefield. Dimons sue was nothing like kabul. Life is defined by the war. Everything revolves around it. In yemen, there was no war, of these not officially. The film, dirty wars, follows Jeremy Scahill to afghanistan, somalia, and yemen as he chases down the hidden truth behind americas expanding covert wars. We will speak with jeremy and the films director, rick rowley. Night rates have risen to astronomical levels where there are 1000 raids a month happening. Decades after vietnam, one decade into this war, we have gone back to body counts is our only way of measuring any kind of progress in the war. Broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival in park city, utah, all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace
The u. S. Embassy, three american citizens and wounding one more. The gunman, according to afghan officials, was then himself shot by other police officers. Hes now in custody and undergoing treatment in hospital. The condition of the fourth american is described as stable. What do we understand about why this supposedly happened . Were hearing it was the Security Guard. Do you think he was an implanted insurgent or do you think this is somebody having a psychotic break . What do we understand . Well, its too early to speculate on a motive. Afghan Officials Say are saying today that the shooting was unprovoked. It just happened. And then he was himself shot. Im sure they will be investigating that more as he regains consciousness and can be questioned. But weve had a few incidents like this in recent times. And the motives have varied from either, as you mentioned, an insurgent planted into the Security Forces or someone who has had other mental or emotional issues that has forced them