Legal attack. A new report published in the journal of pediatrics finds a threefold increase in dog bites during the pandemic. Well tell you why. Wildfires raging in california as temperatures soar and Power Outages grow throughout the states. Early today starts right now good wednesday morning im phillip mena. And im frances rivera. Covid19 is now the third leading cause of death in the united states. The news comes as over 5. 4 million americans have now been infected and over 1712,000 people have died from the virus. The virus is also sweeping through College Campuses across the nation just as the fall semester begins. Students attending Notre Dame University will go online for at least two weeks and students at chapel hill are headed home. Reporter notre dame going virt you for at least two weeks after 19 of students tested positive for covid19. The surge attributed to at least two offcampus parties according to University Officials who say they may be forced to send students home.
[inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody, todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant house rules some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Since some members are appearing in person let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. You will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when youre speaking in what is known in webex as active speaker view. At time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely i know you are all familiar with webex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webex set to
At least 16 people have been killed. And hong kong chief executive carrie lam and 10 otherr officials s are sanctiononed bye u. S. Over a contntroversial securityty law. A familiar setting and a familiar story for World Champion lewis hamilton. He set the pace for the 70th anniversary grand prix. Anchor the u. S. State department has called a former top saudi intelligence official a valued partner. It comes a day after he filed a lawsuit in washington, accusing the Saudi Crown Prince of sending a hit squad to kill him. They say they are concerned s allegations and persecution of his family members are unacceptable. An extraditioned request because they said it was politically motivated. The state department comments were made in a letter to a democratic senator, who requested a formal update on the case. The department praises dr. Aljabris work with the embassy in riyadh, saying he is someone who responded aroundtheclock to threats to u. S. Interests in the kingdom. It adds, the depart
Its my honor to introduce three people to you this evening. First is Roger Rosenblatt whose work has been published in 14 languages. Roger is the author of five New York Times notable books of the year and three times bestseller. The story the story i am mad about the writing life came out in april and a cool moon a life love and responsibility will be in october. Rogers written seven off broadway plays notably the one person free speech in america that he performed at the American Theater which was the times 10 best plays of 1991. Last spring he performed them play piano in his play living in the basement is nothing which would go to the Stoller Center for the arts at stony brook and the theater in new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for a bestselling novel rapid rising which is currently in production. Roger is distinguished repressor at english and writing at stony brook. He formerly held the copeland appointment to creative writing at harvard where he got his ph. D. Am
Distancing that led to a serious outbreak of covid in california prisons. San quentin and marin county have 1100 active cases including 800 in the past two weeks. That outbreak was precipitated by a transfer of more than 100 prisoners from chino and almost a quarter of them tested positive once they arrived at san quentin. Now the transfer of inmates from san quentin to a prison has triggered an outbreak there. The facility houses inmate wild Fire Fighting teams. We are now at a point of crisis. And Crisis Management must step in. Reporter the plan for san quentin Going Forward is tense will be used for clinics and some housing. They will set up a field hospitalen seton medical ce in daly city. Another part of the problem has been a lack of testing. At first there were enough tests available, one refung to be screened. Back to you. To the weather and a live look outside across the bay. We see a cooldown. Here is meteorologist mary lee. Good afternoon to you, len. Temperatures are coole