Warning that germany could be heading for an uncontrollable spread of the. Chancellor Angela Merkel says she does not want a repeat of the countrys spring lockdown. Plus living in fear of the next bombing. Hoping that the ceasefire in syria will hold. A michael ok welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the American Writer and poet in the. Swedish Nobel Academy said she had one for her unmistakable unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. Debut collection of poetry 1st born was published in 1. 1968 she is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor of English Literature at Yale University the Swedish Nobel Committee described her as one of the most prominent poets in american contemporary literature because to be announced the award after several years of controversy and scandal for the worlds preeminent literary accolade lets bring in Karen Hempstead from arts and culture karen its good to see you so gli
Experiment with offflabel use of ent drugs in hope of combating covid19. We havent had a situation like this. People are used to saying ive got this disease, where is the drug . Evyone is starting to learn a little bit more about what Drug Discovery is like. Judy l that and more tonight. Major funding forws the pbs nehour has been provided by Consumer Cellular. Johnson johnson. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Supporting social tentrepreneurs andir solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. Committed to improving lives through invention in the u. S. And developing countries. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. More information at macfoun d. Org. And with t ongoing support of these institutions. Mthis program we possible by the corporation for public abroadcasti by contributions from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy the u. S. Death from th covid19 pandemic has now topped 127,000 people the epicenter has shifted to the west and the south, where cas
Area Lgbtq Community this as a San Francisco landmark gets ready to shine bright. Plus covid19 nightmare, the United States setting a record for most infections over a 24 hour period. How states hit the hardest are reacting this weekend. Good evening, im ken wayne and i pale more thank you for joining us for kron 4 news tonight at 8 our top story tonight accused of making racist remarks San Jose Police officers under investigation tonight, the mayor of san jose not now calling for them to be fired. The Investigation Centers around racist posts made on a closed Facebook Page for active officers have been placed on administrative leave kron fours dan thorn is getting reaction from the mayor tonight, he joins us now live from san jose with the latest well can alleged posts ended coming from former and current Police Officers. The mayor has been calling comments disturbing hes asking for a full investigation. Well the police chief is asking for help from the feds. A handful of San Jose Pol
India 414 does seem really low for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 that was a was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns of the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases and so indians a bracing themselves as the government has now expanded testing criteria and doubled the number of Testing Centers brought in the private sector private hospitals so there was Something Like 52 Testing Center the government Testing Centers and not all of them were operational its double that people are really bracing themselves to see what the real number of cases are and there has been an exponential rise just on saturday and sunday both days saw saw the biggest jump so again you know unprecedented times here like like many other places in the world but for now most indians do understand the need for the for the lock down for the number of dead has
Within 2 weeks one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly the u. S. President though is more optimistic saying he hopes to have the virus under control by east. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but will when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make it a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony felt she has downplayed the president s timeline. Thats really very flexible we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day reply week basis you need to ev