Next the hearing from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist party, an alleged human rights abuses against the uyghur population. A mostly Muslim Minority in a country in the northwest. The testimony from human rights advocates and people detained in prison camps in the region. Its about three hours. And the select committee will come to order. At this beginning of ramadan, as muslims around the world commemorate Prophet Muhammad receiving the first revelations of the quran, we are here to say a horrifying truth. The uyghurs, many of whom matt practice the muslim faith, are being erased. Genocide is occurring. This time, at the hands of the Chinese Communist party. We are privileged to have with us many members of the weaker community. We are deeply grateful for your bravery. We know that it comes at a great cost. We prepare to hear firsthand testimony from the ccp concentration camp. I would like to turn to alicia we sell, whose father, auschwitz survivor and Nobel Laurea
Speaking in a half hourer, and we will see if they made any headway in uniting the party. There is considerable amount of support for donald trump within the house and the senate caucuses, but paul ryan who is an unusually ideadriven and philosophydriven politician has withheld the support, and he is important, because he the highest ranking republican elected oofficial in the country right now, and we will find out in 30 minutes if he believes it is a step forward as reince priebus, the National Republican chairman said it is a good meeting and positive step forward for unity, and we will have yet to hear from others. Thank you, jop. We will see you in about 30 minutes. Thank you, john har woo. And looking at tech, while peter teal was said to be on the trump delegate list, and we will turn to karen on that, and also facebook and how they are courting the republicans. Peter teal is not a surprise. She is a libertarian, and counter to most of the silicon valley, and they are all republ
Brent a decline of 49 cents. Couple big corporate stories to tell you about. The biggest one, its final. Its here. Verizon set to announce an agreement today to buy yahoo for 5 billion. Sources telling us that yahoo will no longer an operating company after this. It will become a Holding Company for stakes . Alibaba and yahoo japan. Has a small platen portfolio to sell. Marissa mayer not expected to stay on after the deal is completed. Her severance, expected to be 57 million. Well have a lot more on the story in a couple of minutes. Other news as well. Tesla and solar city, theyre reportedly closer to a merger. No brainer. Thats a new one. One brain. Elon musk the largest share hoeflder in both companies. In the final stages of carrying out Due Diligence on both companies. The companies are carrying out due dial generals the right brain talking to the left . Elon did an interview this morning. Did you see this . Its a good piece. We dont get that paper. Its called the new york times.
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Live, from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc7 news. The ball handling fires up a three. Does it again hes back steph currys legend grows as he returns from injury to lead the warriors to an amazing win. Good evening, im dan ashley. Im all ma date. Steph curry returns for the warriors and gave fans a spectacular comeback. Larry biel is here with a game that really has become an instant classic. Inskrebl. I was looking at paul allen, before microsoft, the billionaire i never seen numbers like this before. It was absolutely unbelievable. Steph curry has hardly played in three weeks because of an ankle and then a knee injury. He went for 40 points tonight. The warriors needed every one of them. They were down by 16 in the first quarter. They were dead in the wary. Curry comes in and brings them back to life. They end up going to overtime in portland. Steph had 17 in just the o. T. 17 in overtime by himself to finish with 40 points in 37 minutes. He was only supposed to play 25 minut