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- Coronavirus updates for Friday March 6 - noon - KING 5
- U.S. declines to issue travel ban on S. Korea, Italy due to 'great cooperation' - ARIRANG NEWS
- Coronavirus: NBC News Medical Correspondent Answers Your COVID-19 Questions | NBC New York - NBC New York
- Prichard Water issues refunds for misbilled Mobile residents - NBC 15 WPMI
- Visionary Women honors political activist-actress Jane Fonda - Los Angeles Times
- Viral video: Students act out lynching in a boy's bathroom - FOX 5 Atlanta
- Philippines records 2 new confirmed COVID-19 cases - INQUIRER.net
- NBA, NHL owners oppose playing games without fans, NY coronavirus cases quadruple in 48 hours - CNBC
- Viral attack videos in schools could be part of motive for violence, experts say - National Post
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- Are children actually 'as likely' to get COVID-19 as adults? - Medical News Today
- Saudi Arabia: Three Members of Royal Family Are Arrested - The New York Times
- Successful Actress Returns Home To Oklahoma To Expand Local Film Industry - news9.com KWTV
- Greenpeace Activists, Including Actress Jane Fonda, Gather For Climate Change Protest In San Pedro - CBS Los Angeles
- VP Pence says 21 coronavirus cases on California Grand Princess cruise ship - CNBC
- Walmart integrates online grocery into flagship mobile app - Supermarket News
- With Italy's Coronavirus Cases Rising Fast, Rome's Streets Go Quiet - NPR
- VERIFY: Fact-checking this week's viral coronavirus claims - FOX 61
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| Coronavirus updates for Friday March 6 - noon - KING 5 Posted: 06 Mar 2020 09:56 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| U.S. declines to issue travel ban on S. Korea, Italy due to 'great cooperation' - ARIRANG NEWS Posted: 06 Mar 2020 09:56 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Visionary Women honors political activist-actress Jane Fonda - Los Angeles Times Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:58 PM PST Watch out, world. Jane Fonda is raising an army. At Visionary Women's Thursday celebration of International Women's Day, Fonda told an audience that she recently met with U.S. senators on the climate change task force in Washington, D.C., to discuss her mission to combat climate change. From onstage at Studio Beverly Hills, she said, "I said, 'Am I doing the right thing?' And they said, 'Yes. You're building an army. ... Make it big.'"  Visionary Women President Shelley Reid and honoree Jane Fonda. (Stefanie Keenan) Advertisement Visionary Women honored the activist and two-time Oscar winner with the organization's Visionary Activist Award. The presentation followed a Champagne and Petrossian caviar reception, a stirring performance by the Debbie Allen Dance Academy and the launch of the Chara Schreyer Arts Initiative (named for the art collector and philanthropist), which included the unveiling of a sculpture project by artist Rosha Yaghmai. In her introduction to Fonda, actress Patricia Arquette called the "Grace and Frankie" star "a true force of nature," "a faithful and fearless female" and "the original influencer," the latter description eliciting applause from the 500 guests, who were mostly other women.  Visionary Women President Shelley Reid, left, Jane Fonda, organization board member Angella Nazarian and Beverly Hills City Councilmember Lili Bosse. (Stefanie Keenan) "Jane has been arrested recently five times," Arquette said. "At her 82th birthday, she asked her close friends to come and celebrate her birthday by getting arrested in Washington, which we did, of course, in her honor." Advertisement And what was Fonda's response? "'This is the best birthday I've ever had,'" Arquette said, remembering the occasion. During Fonda's turn at the podium, the actress, producer, political activist and feminist icon talked about the Fire Drill Fridays protests she has been leading, along with Greenpeace, to demand action by political leaders to address climate change. "We're facing a collective crisis with the climate crisis that can only be solved with a collective response," Fonda said. "We have a decade. We are alive at a time when we have 10 years to choose to either allow things to get worse or to solve them. And we're only going to solve them if we stick together. Individually, you know, we can get rid of all single-use plastic and drive Priuses and electric cars and have solar panels … but those things can't be scaled up in time to make a real difference." As for going to jail, Fonda extolled the virtues by saying, "You know, it's interesting to engage in civil disobedience and get arrested. You're put into a police wagon and deliberately put in a position of humility, where you're kind of bent over and you've given up all control — and you feel totally empowered." Pausing for cheers, she then said, "It's very hard now to find ways to align your full body with your deepest values. And civil disobedience does that. And risk of arrest does that. And that has to become the new norm."  A dancer from the Debbie Allen Dance Academy performs. (Stefanie Keenan) After telling the group that we are losing forests and destroying oceans, she said, "There are not two sides to the story. What [scientists] are all saying is this is drastic. This is really bad, and in 10 years, we have to cut our fossil fuel emissions by 50%. ... No matter who is elected in November, we have to hold their feet to the fire. If necessary, shut down the government, and I'm not kidding." Fonda concluded with a call to join the movement. Advertisement Returning to the stage, Visionary Women President Shelley Reid announced that the organization would support Fire Drill Fridays in honor of Fonda. In addition, Reid said Visionary Women has raised more than $2 million during the last three years to fund organizations and initiatives that support women and girls locally and globally.  Hammer Director Ann Philbin and Rosha Yaghmai at the Visionary Women event. (Stefanie Keenan) "This is our great opportunity to stand up, to shout out and to tell the world we are a community," Reid said. "We are a community of women supporting other women. Our 2020 vision is to make this event the event, the epicenter of Los Angeles for everything that is International Women's Day. Our goal is to expand across generations. Our goal is to expand across the geography of Los Angeles." (International Women's Day is Sunday.) Guests at the celebration, which was sponsored by Maurice and Paul Marciano, also included Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, Beverly Hills City Councilmember Lili Bosse, former Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel, Code Pink cofounder Jodie Evans, Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin and assistant curator Erin Christovale, and, from Visionary Women's board Angella Nazarian, Thea Andrews Wolf, Karen Murphy O'Brien, Nina Kotick, Price Arana and Nadine Watt. "Actress" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 04:16PM https://ift.tt/2VO3Och Visionary Women honors political activist-actress Jane Fonda - Los Angeles Times "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Viral video: Students act out lynching in a boy's bathroom - FOX 5 Atlanta Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:54 PM PST ATLANTA - Private school students, of Hispanic and black ethnicity, were caught on camera acting out a lynching in a school bathroom. The incident took place at the Cristol Rey Atlanta Jesuit campus. President Bill Garrett labeled the mock lynching unfortunate. He quickly ordered out of school suspensions for those involved. Video shows students acting out in bathroomAtlanta school officials say a video which has recently surfaced shows students acting out a mock lynching In the video, the teens laugh throughout. Some put while cloths over their faces reminiscent of a dark chapter in the south and elsewhere in America. While FOX 5 blurred faces that were uncovered, anyone can clearly see a black teen taking part in the stunt. Neither the school administration nor parents found anything to laugh about.  Philoundashea Copeland attended a parents' meeting on Thursday. Advertisement "Some of the parents were visibly shaken, moved to the point of tears," Ms. Copeland said. She called the incident inappropriate but said she does not believe there was anything malicious. "My son told me kids hang out in the bathroom almost every day after lunch," Copeland added. "They role play. In one case, a child pretended to be a priest and conducted mass for the boys." "viral" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 05:51PM https://ift.tt/32Wn1Kk Viral video: Students act out lynching in a boy's bathroom - FOX 5 Atlanta "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Philippines records 2 new confirmed COVID-19 cases - INQUIRER.net Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:26 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| NBA, NHL owners oppose playing games without fans, NY coronavirus cases quadruple in 48 hours - CNBC Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:26 PM PST  The coverage on this live blog has ended — but for up-to-the-minute coverage on the coronavirus, visit the live blog from CNBC's Asia-Pacific team. All times below are in Eastern time.
6:41 pm: Owners of NBA, NHL teams opposed to playing games with no fans if outbreak worsensHouston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta and Florida Panthers owner Vincent Viola both told CNBC that they do not want their teams to play games without fans in attendance. "I don't think you ever want to play games in front of no audiences," Fertitta said, adding he would instead prefer to suspend play for a week. "But you don't want to play games with no fans." Viola said he did not foresee the NHL putting the season on a temporary delay, but he stressed the league and its leadership would not compromise the safety of its fans. —Young, Stankiewicz 6:18 pm: McDonald's cancels convention for worldwide franchiseesMcDonald's has canceled its in-person biennial convention for worldwide franchisees due to the coronavirus outbreak. The four-day event, scheduled for April, was supposed to take place in Orlando, Florida. CFO Kevin Ozan told analysts on the earnings call in January that the convention typically costs between $25 million to $30 million. It is unclear how much McDonald's might save by canceling the in-person convention. —Lucas 6:07 pm: 21 people on cruise ship off California coast test positive for coronavirusVice President Mike Pence on Friday said 21 people on the Grand Princess cruise ship off California tested positive for coronavirus. There are more than 3,500 people aboard the ship. Of the 21 positive tests, 19 are crew members and two are passengers, Pence said, adding that the ship will be brought to a non-commercial port and every person tested. "Those who need to be quarantined will be quarantined," Pence said. —Feuer 5:52 pm: Tilman Fertitta's restaurant empire losing about $1 million per day in salesTilman Fertitta, chairman and CEO of Landry's, said urban areas and popular tourist locations were particularly affected by the sales drop, and the decline is likely linked to business conferences being canceled across the country. Fertitta's restaurant brands include Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Morton's The Steakhouse. Fertitta said the coronavirus presents business managers with a challenge but said revenue declines of about 8% to 12% are manageable. "You don't want to go 20% off. When you get to 20% off in a same-store sales, no matter what business you're in, that's when you start getting into trouble," Fertitta said. —Stankiewicz 5:10 pm: New York state coronavirus cases quadruple to 44, thousands under 'precautionary quarantine'The number of coronavirus cases in New York state has quadrupled over the last 48 hours to 44, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday. "The number will continue to go up because it's mathematics," Cuomo said at a news briefing. "The more you test, the more you will find." Cuomo used Twitter to revise the state's case count from 33 released earlier Friday to 44. The state reported 11 cases Wednesday evening, 22 on Thursday, 33 Friday afternoon and 44 Friday evening — a fourfold increase over the previous 48 hours. There are roughly 2,700 people in New York City under 'precautionary quarantine' with more than 1,000 others also in voluntary isolation across the state, Cuomo said. —Feuer 5 pm: SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares 'local disaster'South by Southwest, the annual tech, film and music conference held in Austin, Texas, has been canceled due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Local government officials announced the update at a press conference Friday afternoon discussing the status of the outbreak and events in the city. Austin's Mayor Steve Adler said he had declared a local disaster in the city and issued an order canceling the conference. In a statement on its website, SXSW said it would "faithfully follow the City's directions." "We are devastated to share this news with you," organizers wrote in a statement on the SXSW website. — Graham 4:35 pm: Elon Musk says 'the coronavirus panic is dumb' as tech peers shift to remote workTesla CEO Elon Musk said Friday that people are overreacting about the deadly COVID-19, while health officials across the world prepare for a possible pandemic. "The coronavirus panic is dumb," Musk said on Twitter to his more than 31 million followers. Musk does not have a background in medicine or virology. Musk's comment comes as the novel coronavirus spreads rapidly across northern California, where the electric car maker is headquartered. A Tesla spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the company's policies if an outbreak occurs. Meanwhile, west coast tech companies -- including Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Google and Microsoft -- are telling employees to work from home to avoid spreading the virus. —Bursztynsky 4:00 pm: Dow falls 250 points to end a turbulent week on Wall StreetThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 250 points, or about 1%, Friday. The losses extend a deep rout in Thursday's session and end a turbulent week on Wall Street. Friday's declines came as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield tumbled below 0.7% for the first time ever. Investors continued to seek safer assets amid fears that the coronavirus will disrupt global supply chains and tip the economy into a recession. —Li 3:43 pm: Wild market swings are becoming the 'new normal' amid coronavirus concernsInvestors just witnessed the equity benchmark swinging up or down 2% for five days straight in the face of a coronavirus panic, and Wall Street strategists say get used to it. In the index's history dating back to 1927, this is the first time the S&P 500 had a week of alternating gains and losses of more than 2% from Monday through Thursday, according to Bespoke Investment Group. "The message to all investors is that they should expect this volatility to continue. This should be considered the new normal going forward," said Mike Loewengart, managing director of investment strategy at E-Trade. —Li 3:35 pm: Amazon, Apple ask employees to work from homeAn empty check-in area is seen at the United Airlines domestic check-in area at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, on Thursday, March. 5, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon and Apple are asking San Francisco-area employees to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak if they can, company spokespeople confirmed to CNBC. The update comes one day after Amazon told employees at its Seattle and Bellevue, Washington offices to work from home, and after the Santa Clara Public Health Department, where Apple is based, issued guidance for companies to make it easier to "work in ways that minimize close contact with large numbers of people." Apple stores in the area remain open. Amazon is headquartered in Seattle and has offices in Bellevue, where it employs more than 2,000 people. Earlier this week, Amazon confirmed that an employee who works in one of its Seattle offices tested positive for COVID-19. Apple has not yet reported any COVID-19 cases among its employees. —Palmer, Leswing 3:30 pm: Colombia confirms first caseColombia confirmed its first case of coronavirus on Friday, joining other South American countries which have reported cases of the fast-spreading disease. According to the World Health Organization, the disease has been reported in some 90 countries, leading to about 3,400 deaths. —Reuters 2:54 pm: Restaurants up preventative measuresCustomers wearing protective masks wait in line to enter a McDonald's restaurant during lunch time in Shanghai, on March 2, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Delivery drivers shouldn't be eating customers' fries, but as the number of virus cases rises in the U.S., restaurants are trying even harder to make sure that doesn't happen. CapitalSpring, a restaurant investment firm with about 4,000 locations nationwide in its portfolio, is deploying tamper-proof packaging for food delivery orders for its restaurants. Nationwide, restaurants are responding to the outbreak. McDonald's, Dunkin' and Starbucks are among the chains stepping up their in-store cleanliness efforts and creating crisis teams. In a time when labor costs have put pressure on profit margins, restaurants are adding more staff or extending hours to ensure that employees can keep up with increased cleaning efforts. February same-store sales, which grew by 0.3% nationally, did not show a hit from the virus, but consumer fears could mean lower restaurant traffic in March, according to industry tracker Black Box Intelligence. —Lucas 2:32 pm: Emerald City Comic Con postponed to summer 2020Organizers of the Seattle-based Emerald City Comic Con announced they are pushing the event from its March 12 start to summer 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state. "Our hearts go out to the entire Seattle community, everyone impacted by the COVID-19 virus, and all of you, the nearly 100,000 amazing human beings who look forward to this event each year," Reedpop, an offshoot of event organizer Reed Exhibitions, wrote in a statement Friday. "Our team was incredibly excited to see you at Emerald City Comic Con next week, however, fans, artists, exhibitors and the rest of the community are what make Reedpop events so special and it is our duty to make sure that your safety comes first." —Whitten 2:29 pm: Lufthansa slashes flights as virus hits bookingsDeutsche Lufthansa will slash up to half the flights across its stable of airlines from April as passengers balk at flying for fear of contracting the coronavirus, the company said on Friday. "In recent days, the Lufthansa Group has been exposed to drastic declines in bookings and numerous flight cancellations due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. All traffic areas are now affected," it said in a statement. The company, which includes Swiss International Air Lines and Austrian Airlines, also said it was considering temporarily grounding its entire fleet of 14 Airbus A380 superjumbos in Frankfurt and Munich. —Reuters 2:08 pm: France says it now has 613 confirmed casesFrance has 613 confirmed cases of coronavirus, the head of the public health service, Jerome Salomon, said on Friday, which is an increase of 190 compared to a day earlier. During a press briefing, he added the death toll from the disease was still at nine and that 39 persons were in intensive care. —Reuters Correction: Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in France rose by 190 to 613. An earlier version of this headline misstated the increase. 2:05 pm: Wall Street traders head to the suburbsA person wearing a face mask walks along Wall Street after further cases of coronavirus were confirmed in New York, March 6, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Hundreds of Wall Street traders are changing their commutes. Starting Monday, Citigroup is sending traders and salespeople from its headquarters in downtown Manhattan to a backup facility in Rutherford, New Jersey in contingency plans tied to the coronavirus, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. JPMorgan Chase told traders yesterday that some of them can expect to work from locations in New Jersey and Brooklyn, while Morgan Stanley has begun to send some employees to its Purchase, New York office, according to people with knowledge of the plans. As of Friday, there are 33 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York state, with several thousand people under precautionary quarantine. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday confirmed four cases in the city and warned against community spread. —Son 1:35 pm: General Motors tightens travel protocolsGeneral Motors is tightening its travel protocols for employees amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Domestic and international travel for GM employees effective Friday "requires senior leader approval," a company spokesman told CNBC. The Detroit automaker previously required such approval for international travel. A travel ban for GM employees remains in effect for China, South Korea, Italy and Japan, according to the company. —Wayland 1:21 pm: New York Gov. Cuomo says CDC coronavirus response is 'absurd and nonsensical'New York Gov. Cuomo criticized the federal government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak, calling it "absurd and nonsensical." Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were slow to initially test people for the virus, he said, before — "in a tardy fashion" — changing the policy to allow states to test. The Trump administration's management of the outbreak isn't just "bad government and poor planning," Cuomo said at a press conference, but will also "increase the fear." Local and state officials across the country have criticized the CDC's testing criteria, scarcity of tests and poor communication. —Feuer 1:15 pm: Coronavirus threatens live events, entertainment festivals1:01 pm: Texas reports five travel-related cases of coronavirusThe Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting four additional travel-related cases of COVID-19, bringing the state total to five. Harris County Public Health and the Houston Health Department announced four cases on Thursday, March 5 in residents of Harris County who had recently traveled abroad. The first Texas case was announced by Fort Bend County Health and Human Services on March 4. These cases are among a group that traveled overseas together and were being monitored by public health because of a possible exposure to COVID-19. Travel-related cases in Texas don't indicate spread within the state, Texas Department of State Health Services said. The immediate risk to most Texans remains low, the agency said. —Cullen 12:52 pm: Iran warns it could use 'force' to halt travel amid virusAn Iranian woman wears a protective face mask, following the coronavirus outbreak, as she walks in Tehran, Iran March 5, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee | West Asia News Agency via Reuters Iranian authorities warned they may use "force" to limit travel between cities and announced the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour did not elaborate on the threat to use force, though he acknowledged the virus now was in all of Iran's 31 provinces. The threat may be to stop people from using closed schools and universities as an excuse to go to the Caspian Sea and other Iranian vacation spots. Semiofficial news agencies in Iran posted images of long traffic lines as people tried to reach the Caspian coast from Tehran, despite authorities earlier telling people to remain in their cities. Iran on Thursday announced it would put checkpoints in place to limit travel between major cities, hoping to stem the spread of the virus. —Associated Press 12:50 pm: Adidas reports one employee in Germany tests positive for coronavirusGerman sportswear maker Adidas said it has one employee in Herzogenaurach who was tested positive for the coronavirus. "We can confirm that an Adidas employee in Herzogenaurach, Germany has been tested positive for the Coronavirus and is now receiving the appropriate medical care," the company told CNBC. "As a precautionary measure, employees who are considered to be at risk because of close contact with that individual have been informed and were sent home immediately the day before yesterday, March 4, as was the affected employee. The affected employees will stay in home-quarantine for 14 days or can return to work if the test result is negative." The company added that critical office areas at its headquarters were deep-cleaned on Wednesday evening to make the workplace safer for those that work onsite. "We continue to assess each situation on a case-by-case basis to determine what measures are necessary for our employees' safety and wellbeing," the company said. —Cullen 12:38 pm: CDC reports 213 coronavirus cases, including those under investigationThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported 65 more cases of coronavirus in the country, which includes cases reported by individual states that were yet to be confirmed by the agency. As of 4 pm on March 5, the number of confirmed and presumptive positive cases stood at 213, the agency said. Cases detected among former passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship remains at 46, while 3 cases were detected in citizens repatriated from Wuhan, China, the CDC said. —Reuters 12:35 pm: Italian coronavirus deaths jump to 197, cases climb to 4,636A cleaner wearing a protective suit adjusts a sign that reads "Attention: this zone has been sanitised" at the San Paolo stadium, ahead of the second leg of the Coppa Italia semi-final between Napoli and Inter Milan, which has since been postponed as part of measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak, in Naples, Italy, March 4, 2020. Ciro De Luca | Reuters The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 49 to 197, the Civil Protection Agency said, the largest daily increase in fatalities since the contagion was uncovered two weeks ago. The accumulative number of cases in the country, which has been hardest hit by the virus in Europe, totaled 4,636 against 3,858 on Thursday. The head of the agency said that of those originally infected, 523 had fully recovered versus 414 the day before. The contagion is focused on a handful of hotspots in the north of Italy, but cases have now been confirmed in each of the country's 20 regions, with deaths recorded in eight of them. —Reuters 12:33 pm: New York state coronavirus cases triple over 48 hours to 33The number of coronavirus cases in New York state has tripled over the last 48 hours to 33, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday. "The number will continue to go up because it's mathematics," Cuomo said at a news briefing. "The more you test, the more you will find." The state reported 11 cases on Wednesday, 22 on Thursday and 33 by Friday morning. There are roughly 2,700 people in New York City under "precautionary quarantine" with more than 1,000 others also in voluntary isolation across the state, Cuomo said. —Feuer 12:30 pm: City employees in Seattle may be required to work from home, mayor saysSeattle could implement a work-from-home policy for city employees if the coronavirus spread worsens, Mayor Jenny Durkan told CNBC on Friday. "If people don't have to come into work and can work from home, we're encouraging that and we may go to a mandatory state of that," she said on "Squawk Alley." King County, where Seattle is located, has at least 51 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. —Stankiewicz 12:28 pm: 'False hope' coronavirus will disappear in the summer like the flu, WHO saysIt's a "false hope" that coronavirus will be seasonal and subside in the summer, like the flu, the World Health Organization said Friday. "We have to assume that the virus will continue to have the capacity to spread," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's health emergencies program, said at the agency's headquarters in Geneva. "It's a false hope to say, yes, that it will disappear like the flu." Earlier in the outbreak, U.S. health officials said there was a hypothesis among mathematical modelers that the outbreak "could potentially be seasonal" and relent in warmer conditions. —Lovelace, Higgins-Dunn 12:25 pm: 'No Time to Die' box-office release delayed for coronavirus, but other films may not followOn Wednesday, MGM, Universal and "No Time to Die" producers were the first in Hollywood to delay the release of a film because of the coronavirus outbreak, leading people to wonder if more studios would move their release dates. "All the studios are considering what to do with safety and loss mitigation in mind," Schuyler Moore, an entertainment attorney at Greenberg Glusker, said in an email to CNBC. But, what might work best for MGM may not be ideal for other Hollywood studios. Even if a studio wanted to move a film's release date, there is little flexibility in the movie release schedule for the rest of 2020. —Whitten 12:14 pm: Facebook closes London offices until Monday due to coronavirusFacebook said it is closing its London offices until Monday after a visiting employee from Singapore was diagnosed with coronavirus. "An employee based in our Singapore office who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 visited our London offices February 24-26, 2020," Facebook said in a statement. "We are therefore closing our London offices until Monday for deep cleaning and employees are working from home until then." —Reuters 12:01 pm: US is considering discouraging some travelers from cruisesIn this Feb. 11, 2020 photo, the Grand Princess cruise ship passes the Golden Gate Bridge as it arrives from Hawaii in San Francisco. Scott Strazzante | San Francisco Chronicle via AP The United States is considering ways to discourage some U.S. travelers from taking cruises as part of a broader Trump administration effort to limit the spread of coronavirus, according to four officials familiar with the situation. The officials, who asked to remain anonymous, said no decision has been made. The discussions are taking place ahead of a meeting between Vice President Mike Pence, who is in charge of leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus, and the cruise industry this weekend. —Reuters 11:31 am: University of Washington to temporarily move all classes onlineThe University of Washington is moving all of its in-person classes and exams online, starting Monday, as the state deals with a large uptick in COVID-19 cases. It is among the first U.S. public universities to do so due to the flu-like virus. The Seattle-located school plans to resume in-person classes on March 30. Campus services will remain open, including dining services, resident halls, and recreation facilities according to the memo, and athletic events will be held as scheduled. —Bursztynsky 11:27 am: Cameroon, Togo confirm first cases of coronavirusCameroon and Togo confirmed their first cases of coronavirus, bringing the number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa hit by the epidemic to five. The outbreak has largely spared that part of Africa so far, but since last month cases have been detected in Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa. North African countries have registered more than two dozen cases. In the central African country of Cameroon, the health ministry said a 58-year-old French citizen who arrived in the capital Yaounde on Feb. 24 had fallen ill with the virus. It later said the man's female partner had also tested positive. Togo said its case was a 42-year-old female resident of the capital Lome who had visited Benin, Germany, France, and Turkey in late February and early March. She was in a stable condition. —Reuters 11:18 am: Airline stocks rally on hopes for federal aid to offset effects of coronavirusAirline stocks rebounded sharply after chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow said the White House is considering "targeted measures" to offset the negative impact on the industry. American Airlines jumped 4%, while United Airlines surged more than 7%. Alaska Air Group surged 8% and Southwest Airlines rose 3%. — Fitzgerald 11:13 am: Google internal emails reveal how execs are prepping employees for coronavirus responseAlphabet's top executives are urging employees to stay motivated to run Google's global infrastructure amid coronavirus fears. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's security and "resilience" teams are running a 24-hour command center to help executives monitor updates in real-time and coordinate across the company. It's "kicked off a number of workstreams to prepare for how the virus could affect the welfare of our community," Pichai said. The company told employees Thursday that all Bay Area employees would have the option to work from home on Friday "if roles allow," a company spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. The company has several offices and thousands of employees across the region. By having a mostly-remote work day, Alphabet said it hopes to test its "business continuity processes." —Elias 10:11 am: Three Biogen employees test positive for the virusThree Biogen employees have tested positive for coronavirus after attending a meeting in Boston last week, the biotech company confirmed to CNBC. "At the present time, these individuals are doing well, improving and under the care of their health-care providers," Biogen spokesman David Caouette said. He added that all meeting attendees, with or without flu-like symptoms, have been directed to work from home for two weeks out of "an abundance of caution." —Lovelace 10:02 am: Pennsylvania announces first casesPennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said the state has confirmed its first two cases. One patient is from Wayne County in northern Pennsylvania near Scranton, Wolf said in a statement. The other is from Delaware County, just outside of Philadelphia, Wolf said, adding that the patient recently returned from an area of U.S. where COVID-19 is already present. Both patients are in isolation in their respective homes, he said. "Further spread of this virus throughout the nation will likely occur," the state's health secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said in a statement. "We encourage people to prepare for potential life disruptions. The same family emergency plans and kits that we use to prepare for flu or norovirus, and even snowstorms and floods, are important now." —Feuer 9:10 am: Employee at Seattle Seahawks stadium tests positiveSeattle Seahawks Field Seats Source: Seattle Seahawks Seattle-area officials announced late Thursday an employee of a 72,000-seat stadium in the city tested positive for COVID-19. CenturyLink Field is home to the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders FC and the XFL football league's Seattle Dragons. Local officials said the employee worked a Seattle Dragons XFL game on Feb. 22, which 22,060 people attended, according to the Seattle Times. "Public Health has worked with the employee and the operator of the stadium, First and Goal, to evaluate potential exposures" at the Dragons game, King County said in a release, adding that the risk of infection to attendees was low. —Feuer 8:54 am: Coronavirus cases surpass 100,000 worldwideCOVID-19 cases surpassed 100,000 worldwide as the flu-like virus continues to spread outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak. The total number of cases now stands at 100,055 as of 8 a.m. ET on Friday, according to data compiled by John Hopkins. The majority of the cases are in mainland China, followed by South Korea, Iran and Italy. Deaths in the U.S. climbed to 14, the data shows. On Thursday, the World Health Organization called on all nations to "pull out all the stops" to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus as it continues to spread outside of China. —Lovelace 8:50 am: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accuses China of setting back coronavirus prevention effortsSecretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of putting the rest of the world "behind the curve" in trying to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Pompeo said it has proven "incredibly frustrating" to work with the Chinese government around obtaining data on the coronavirus, "which will ultimately be the solution to both getting the vaccine and attacking this risk." "Remember, this is the Wuhan coronavirus that's caused this, and the information that we got at the front end of this thing wasn't perfect and has led us now to a place where much of the challenge we face today has put us behind the curve," Pompeo said in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box." —Stankiewicz 8:21 am: Trump cancels CDC visit after Pence said he planned to sign coronavirus bill therePresident Donald Trump is no longer planning to travel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, an administration official said. Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the government's response to coronavirus, had said Thursday that Trump planned to sign an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill at the CDC. —Javers, Hirsch 7:20 am: What to do if you are boarding a planeA health worker sprays disinfectant inside a Vietnam Airlines airplane to protect from the recent coronavirus outbreak, at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, Vietnam February 21, 2020. Kham | Reuters 7:15 am: Costco gets a sales boost from the coronavirusPeople load Clorox into their car in the Costco parking lot after the first confirmed case of coronavirus was announced in New York State, in Brooklyn, New York, March 2, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Costco reported stronger sales than analysts were expecting, thanks in part to a boost from consumers stocking up at its stores to prepare for the new coronavirus. Throngs of shoppers this past weekend and into this week have flocked to Costco stores across the country to stock up on water, paper towels, sanitizing wipes and other household goods. The company told analysts Thursday it has been receiving deliveries daily. It also said that in some instances, it is placing limits on how much people can purchase. "February sales benefited from an uptick in consumer demand in the fourth week of the reporting period," the company said. "We attribute this to concerns over the coronavirus." —Thomas 7:10 am: Egypt confirms 12 new cases on a cruise shipTwelve new cases of coronavirus registered on a Nile cruise ship are all asymptomatic, the health ministry and World Health Organization said in a joint statement on Friday. The individuals are all Egyptian workers on the ship, which is heading to the southern city of Luxor, the statement said. The country had until now diagnosed three people with the virus, one of whom it said had fully recovered after receiving treatment. —Reuters 7:06 am: France's Macron urges tight limits on retirement home visitsFrench President Emmanuel Macron urged citizens to avoid visiting relatives in retirement homes to prevent exposing them to possible coronavirus infection. "We must avoid visiting our elderly relatives as much as possible," Macron said Friday during a visit to a retirement home in Paris. —Reuters 6:35 am: Iran says death toll rises by 17, to 124 peopleIran, which has one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks outside of China, reported a rise in its death toll to 124 people. A health ministry spokesman said in Tehran that there were 1,000-plus new infections, according to Reuters. —Clinch 5:35 am: Netherlands confirms first coronavirus-related deathThe Netherlands' National Health Institute on Friday confirmed the country's first fatality as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. An 86-year-old man infected with coronavirus died in the port city of Rotterdam, health authorities said. As of Thursday, the WHO reported 38 cases of the coronavirus in the Netherlands. —Meredith 5:30 am: China invokes 'force majeure' to protect businesses — but companies may be in for a 'rude awakening'Widespread disruption brought on by the coronavirus outbreak has hammered global supply chains and spurred Chinese companies to declare "force majeure" — a provision that exempts them from contractual obligations. But experts warn that such a move may not work. According to the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, a government-linked entity, China has issued 4,811 force majeure certificates as of Tuesday due to the epidemic. They covered contracts worth 373.7 billion Chinese yuan ($53.79 billion), state media Xinhua reported. —Tan 4:40 am: Vatican City reports first coronavirus caseA tourist wear a protective mask in front of the Trevi Fountain downtown Rome, on March 3, 2020. - Italy urged tourists spooked by the coronavirus not to stay away, but efforts to reassure the world it was managing the outbreak were overshadowed by confusion over case numbers. Hotel bookings in Milan have plummeted to 20 percent, compared to nearly 90 percent normally at this time of year, while in Rome, far from the northern hotspots over 50 percent of bookings have been cancelled until the end of March, hotel association Federalberghi said. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) ALBERTO PIZZOLI The Vatican on Friday confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, Reuters reported, with health authorities confirming outpatient services in Vatican City clinics had been suspended to sanitize areas. A spokesperson for the city-state added that Italian authorities had been informed of the confirmed case. As of Thursday, Italy had reported 3,089 cases of coronavirus, with 107 deaths. —Meredith Read CNBC's coverage from the Asia-Pacific overnight: Vatican reports first case; 'Impossible' to cancel Tokyo Olympics —CNBC's Yun Li, Annie Palmer, Kif Leswing, Amelia Lucas, Noah Higgins-Dunn, Jessica Bursztynsky, Maggie Fitzgerald, Hugh Son, Michael Wayland, Kevin Stankiewicz, Eamon Javers, Lauren Hirsch, Harriet Baskas, Lauren Thomas, Sam Meredith, Joanna Tan, Matthew Clinch, Jennifer Elias, Sarah Whitten, Terri Cullen, Sara Salinas, Jabari Young, Reuters, and Associated Press contributed to this report. Top stories - Google News March 06, 2020 at 03:52PM https://ift.tt/2VRnBro NBA, NHL owners oppose playing games without fans, NY coronavirus cases quadruple in 48 hours - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Viral attack videos in schools could be part of motive for violence, experts say - National Post Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:24 PM PST  HALIFAX — As police in Cape Breton investigate a video appearing to show a violent incident in a high school locker room, some experts and educators argue social media firms should act more swiftly to remove the disturbing images from their networks. A video that was circulated on social media depicts a young student being attacked by another student at Riverview High School in Sydney, N.S. The school's principal, Joe Chisholm, says the victim in the video is "OK" and suspensions have been handed out. However, Chisholm adds the school community is unsettled, both by the incident itself and the video's distribution in unedited form. He says in an interview that both the school and police have reached out to social media companies, including Facebook and Instagram, to urge them remove the video from their networks. A spokeswoman for the Cape Breton Regional Police says the incident was reported to authorities on Wednesday. "We cannot comment on any more details of an active investigation; we will provide an update once investigators have completed their work," wrote Desiree Magnus. "In the interest of the mental wellness of those involved, we ask that there please be a stop to any further sharing of the video." Wayne MacKay, the author of a report on bullying in Nova Scotia and a professor emeritus at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, says he fears such videos can play a role in motivating school violence. "One of the disturbing things about this incident is somebody decided to carefully capture the whole thing rather than intervening to help the poor young victim in the case," MacKay said. In the clip, the assailant appears at one point to lift up the victim and drop him on his head and shoulders as a group of other students watch. Aimee Morrison, a professor of literature at University of Waterloo who specializes in social media, said the video is an example of bullying images that go viral and multiply the original harm. Morrison also noted it's unclear from the clip whether those involved were unaware of being filmed, or whether the video maker was complicit in the attack. "It could be one student beating up a person and another person who has a separate idea to film it," she said. However the videos emerge, Morrison and MacKay argue that social media firms should eliminate such unedited violence from their networks as it appears. MacKay said the companies' response often "reactive and it's complaint driven…. They should have resources monitoring the kinds of images and stories that are out there." A spokesman for Facebook Canada said the company has "taken action to prevent minors from watching this video," in accordance with the company's policies against harassment and bullying. "In this case, we cover videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption with a warning screen … allowing for people to watch this content if they choose while making it unavailable to minors," David Troya-Alvarez said in an email. Chisholm said his school has clear policies against the distribution of such imagery — some of which were the result of MacKay's study and recommendations published in 2013. "Students that promote this type of violence by sharing it — we will deal with it. There's discipline for doing this," said Chisholm. He said the school encourages students to contact the province's anti-cyberbullying unit — known as Cyberscan — if violent or intimate videos or online images are being distributed. "But it's not just the students we need to educate. We need to educate people using the social networks. We need to get the social networks to take down these videos," he said. Morrison also said there is a "grey zone" where part of the video may be edited and replayed when it is newsworthy. "There may be value to having bits of it anonymized and excerpted in the news media, but there is no value in having it as a whole circulate around when the person suffering hasn't given their consent for it to be shared," she said. The professor also said there may be social media videos made where citizens show police violence or crimes occurring that "usefully shine a light" on incidents that society needs to grapple with. "Those are different from a person filming a fight in a high school locker room where the goal is to glorify the victor and humiliate the victim…. There's not much social value to that." Zach Churchill, the province's education minister, said he couldn't watch the entire video as he found it deeply disturbing. "It can hurt people for a long period of time and extend the trauma of these kinds of events," he said. The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education released a statement condemning the violence, saying it had "shaken our entire school community." This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 6, 2020. "viral" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 01:48PM https://ift.tt/2PR5cqz Viral attack videos in schools could be part of motive for violence, experts say - National Post "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| ‘Messi isn't a phenomenon anymore’ - Gatti - Goal.com Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:10 PM PST  Former Argentina goalkeeper Hugo Gatti has claimed that Barcelona's Lionel Messi is no longer phenomenal and that he "spoils" his team because of the slow tempo he plays at. The two-time Copa Libertadores winner with Boca Juniors has claimed that the 32-year-old "walks more on the pitch now" than he used to. Despite this suggestion, Messi has still scored 23 goals in 30 appearances for the Catalans this season, laying on another 16. That has not spared him from Gatti, though. "I don't care if they criticise me in Argentina," he told El Chiringuito. "I'm very Argentinian and Messi is a phenomenon, but he's not a phenomenon now "They treat him wrong because they big him up and big him up and treat him wrong. He gets used to it and walks more on the pitch. He has to be better. "Cristiano [Ronaldo] and him are the two best. "Messi has to be better, he's got used to playing at a weary rhythm, walking and those that know football think the same. Take off, kid. You have to play well. "When there's a player like Messi, like it was with Maradona and Pele, and his teammates always give the ball to him to win the game. "They spoil the team and they don't put everything they have into it. "The team get used to giving him the ball and not anyone else." Messi is regarded as one of the outstanding players of all-time, having won the Ballon d'Or on six different occasions, including the 2019 award. He holds a raft of records, having netted more often than another other player in Barcelona colours, with 437 league goals scored in 473 appearances. Although Messi was not on target in last weekend's Clasico against Real Madrid, a match his side lost 2-0, he had scored four against Eibar a week earlier to help his side to the top of the table – a position they subsequently lost at the Bernabeu. On Saturday, they tackle Real Sociedad at Camp Nou, with a win putting them to the summit of the standings for at least 24 hours as Madrid do not play Real Betis until Sunday. "Goal" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 01:16PM https://ift.tt/2InejeN 'Messi isn't a phenomenon anymore' - Gatti - Goal.com "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
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| Saudi Arabia: Three Members of Royal Family Are Arrested - The New York Times Posted: 06 Mar 2020 06:56 PM PST  In a fresh episode of Saudi palace intrigue, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has detained three members of the royal family, including a brother of the king and a former crown prince who had been potential obstacles to his power. The detentions were the latest demonstration of the crown prince's willingness to take extraordinary measures to quash any perceived rival. Crown Prince Mohammed first demonstrated his iron grip on the kingdom in 2017 by locking up hundreds of royal relatives and wealthy Saudi businessmen in a Ritz-Carlton hotel. The next year he gained international notoriety by presiding over the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul — an assassination that American intelligence agencies believe the prince ordered. And he has refused to back down from a five-year-long military intervention in Yemen that has mired the Saudis in a bloody stalemate and produced a humanitarian disaster. The detentions come at a time when fears about the impact of the coronavirus have slashed the price of oil, the main source of the kingdom's revenue, and the crown prince's celebrated plans to diversify the Saudi economy have fallen behind his promises. The detentions were not announced by the Saudi government, and it remains unclear what prompted them. An official at the Saudi Embassy in Washington declined to comment. They were disclosed Friday by a member of the royal family and a person close to the clan. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because of the danger of speaking out publicly about the crown prince. A former senior American official also confirmed the detentions. The most senior royal detained was Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, who for a time had been the great hope of family members and other critics who wished to block Crown Prince Mohammed, 34, from taking the throne. The former crown prince who was arrested, Mohammed bin Nayef, is also a former interior minister and longtime American favorite. He had developed close ties to American intelligence agencies during years of work together while he was interior minister. He was ousted from both of those roles by the current crown prince in 2017 and he has effectively been under house arrest since then. His younger brother, Prince Nawaf bin Nayef, was also detained. The crown prince, who acts as the kingdom's de facto ruler on behalf of his aging father, King Salman, has recently faced grumbling within the kingdom and the broader Muslim world over his unilateral decision to halt visits to Mecca in response to the coronavirus — a move with few, if any, precedents in Islamic history. Conservatives griped that even as he halted pilgrimages, modern entertainment venues the crown prince brought into the kingdom, like movie theaters, remained open. One possible motive for the detentions may have to do with the aging of Prince Mohammed's father, King Salman, 84. The crown prince could be seeking to lock down potential challengers to his own succession before his father dies or abdicates the throne. None of the princes he detained, however, had given any indication that they intended to challenge Crown Prince Mohammed. Prince Ahmed is a figure of special gravitas in the family because he is King Salman's only surviving full brother. Both are sons of the kingdom's modern founder, and succession had previously passed from brother to brother, until King Salman elevated his own son to crown prince in 2017. Critics of Crown Prince Mohammed adopted Prince Ahmed as a hero after he appeared to criticize the kingdom's current policies during an encounter with protesters in London in 2018. The protesters were chanting against the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and Prince Ahmed tried to distance the rest of the royal family from responsibility. "What does this have to do with the Saud?" Prince Ahmed said, naming the royal family in comments caught on video. "Those responsible are the king and his crown prince." Disgruntled Saudis began posting pledges of allegiance to Prince Ahmed on the internet. But he quickly made clear he had no intention to turn on the crown prince, issuing a statement saying that his comments had been misinterpreted. He returned to the kingdom later that fall, embraced Crown Prince Mohammed at the airport, and appeared to have maintained warm relations with his nephew since. Unlike some other members of the royal family whom Crown Prince Mohammed suspects of disloyalty, Prince Ahmed had been allowed to come and go freely from the kingdom. He returned Wednesday from a trip abroad for falconry — a popular pastime among Persian Gulf royals — and he was arrested the next day, according to the person close to the family. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince, had once been perceived as the most significant rival to the current crown prince on his path to power. As interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef controlled one of the country's three armed forces, along with the military and the national guard, giving him significant leverage in any power struggle. His closeness with Washington was also perceived as an asset within the royal family. But Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman not only ousted but also humiliated his predecessor in 2017. Aides to the current crown prince physically forced his predecessor to relinquish his roles, detaining him for a prolonged period and depriving him of needed medicines. Then aides to Crown Prince Mohammed froze Prince Mohammed bin Nayef's assets, banned him from travel and started a social media campaign charging that he had become addicted to pain killers and other drugs. Stripped of his power and freedom of movement, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef also appeared to have largely acquiesced to his successor's grip on the kingdom. A person familiar with his arrest said that on Thursday evening armed men in black uniforms and face masks had appeared at Prince Mohammed bin Nayef's desert camp outside Riyadh, a place where he often used to meet with visiting American officials. They took away the prince and his younger brother, searched the property, and cut off all lines communications from the camp. The accusation against him was treason, according to the person familiar with the arrest. Detaining family members suspected of disloyalty has become a trademark of Crown Prince Mohammed. His detention of hundreds of powerful businessmen and royal family members in 2017 at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh was portrayed as a crackdown on corruption. Critics called it a consolidation of power and a shakedown. Associates of many of those detained said they were subjected to torture and physical abuse, then coerced into turning over billions of dollars in private wealth in exchange for their release. Since the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, though, many supporters of Crown Prince Mohammed argued that the debacle had taught him to restrain his aggressive impulses. The Saudis familiar with the arrests said Friday that it was unclear where the new detainees were being held, if they might face criminal charges, or if they might soon be released. Eric Schmitt contributed reporting. Top stories - Google News March 06, 2020 at 05:36PM https://ift.tt/2Ith8Lm Saudi Arabia: Three Members of Royal Family Are Arrested - The New York Times Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Successful Actress Returns Home To Oklahoma To Expand Local Film Industry - news9.com KWTV Posted: 06 Mar 2020 05:58 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] Successful Actress Returns Home To Oklahoma To Expand Local Film Industry news9.com KWTV"Actress" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 04:53PM https://ift.tt/38rJAYp Successful Actress Returns Home To Oklahoma To Expand Local Film Industry - news9.com KWTV "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 06 Mar 2020 05:58 PM PST  WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 10: Actress Jane Fonda speaks at the Fire Drill Fridays rally to protest the climate emergency on Capitol Hill on January 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) The protest, part of what's been dubbed Fire Drill Fridays, was planned for 11 a.m. to noon. Participants included members of Greenpeace and Last Chance Alliance, which according to a news release, represents more than 700 organizations. "California politicians are letting the oil industry ruin lives in places like Wilmington right now, and they're giving the same industry free reign to lock future generations into climate catastrophe," Fonda said. "This is the crisis right here in California, and it's only going to get worse if people aren't empowered to demand change from politicians who don't seem to get it." Activists say Fire Drill Friday protests, which first launched in October, will be held "until the crisis ends." "Actress" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 12:17PM https://ift.tt/2VTEwtg Greenpeace Activists, Including Actress Jane Fonda, Gather For Climate Change Protest In San Pedro - CBS Los Angeles "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| VP Pence says 21 coronavirus cases on California Grand Princess cruise ship - CNBC Posted: 06 Mar 2020 05:56 PM PST  In this image from video, provided by the California National Guard, a helicopter carrying airmen with the 129th Rescue Wing flies over the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California Thursday, March 5, 2020. California National Guard | AP Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that 21 people aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship moored off the coast of California have tested positive for COVID-19. The ship will be brought to a non-commercial port, Pence said, and everyone aboard the ship will be tested. He did not say which port the ship will go toward or when it is expected to arrive. Of the 21 people who tested positive, he added, 19 are crew members and two are passengers. Pence said health officials tested only 46 people aboard the ship. "We are instituting the strongest testing protocols to ensure that not only those on board receive the treatment that they need, but that the American people can be confident there will be no erosion in our preventative efforts to keep the coronavirus from spreading throughout our country," Pence said Friday alongside other members of the White House COVID-19 task force at a news briefing. There are more than 3,500 people aboard the ship, the operator, Princess Cruises, which is owned by Carnival Corp., said in a statement. The ship was due to arrive in San Francisco on Wednesday, California officials said on Thursday, but was held at sea, off the coast of California while testing was conducted. The U.S. Coast Guard delivered test kits to the ship by helicopter on Thursday. The ship, which was on a two-week voyage to Hawaii, was ordered to return early to San Francisco, California, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, adding that passengers and crew developed symptoms. A spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that three passengers who were previously on the ship have tested positive, including one who has died. "46 persons were swabbed, 21 of those on the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. 24 tested negative. One test was inconclusive," Pence said alongside other members of the White House COVID-19 task force at a news briefing. "All passengers and crew will be tested for the coronavirus. Those who need to be quarantined will be quarantined." Only passengers and crew who have symptoms and people who were guests on the ship's previous voyage were tested, the company previously said in a statement, which was 46 people, Pence said Friday. Princess Cruises is also the operator of the Diamond Princess ship, which was the site of what might have been the first major COVID-19 epidemic outside of China. The Diamond Princess was quarantined at a Japanese port on Feb. 4 after a previous guest, who didn't have any symptoms while aboard the ship, tested positive for the virus. There were 3,700 passengers and crew aboard the ship, and more than 700 became infected. The Japanese government and other nations eventually evacuated their citizens from the ship. Top stories - Google News March 06, 2020 at 05:13PM https://ift.tt/39qW9EJ VP Pence says 21 coronavirus cases on California Grand Princess cruise ship - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Walmart integrates online grocery into flagship mobile app - Supermarket News Posted: 06 Mar 2020 05:32 PM PST Underscoring grocery's importance to its growth, Walmart is incorporating the Walmart Grocery app into the main Walmart mobile app. Janey Whiteside, executive vice president and chief customer officer at Walmart announced the move yesterday. Plans call for the updated Walmart app with grocery functionality to roll out in phases and for the Walmart Grocery app to be deactivated this summer, she said. Joining the two apps creates enhances the one-stop shopping experience at Walmart in the digital realm, according to Whiteside.
"For years, Walmart has had two mobile apps: the Walmart app and the Walmart Grocery app. Customers love both of our apps, but we know they would like an easier way to shop without having to switch between the two. Imagine making two trips to the store: one for groceries and one for all the other things you need. That would get really old, quite quickly," she said in a blog post. "I'm excited to announce we're adding Walmart Grocery to our flagship Walmart app. Now customers can access everything Walmart has to offer in one, definitive experience: the Walmart app." In the updated Walmart app, customers will be able to directly order fresh groceries, daily staple items and products from their local Walmart store for pickup or deliver. They also will be able to shop Walmart.com's extended assortment of merchandise, including millions of items available for free next-day and two-day delivery, and access services like Walmart Pay and Item finder, among others. "For a busy mom, this means she can do everything in one app," said Whiteside. "She can order a last-minute birthday gift along with her groceries for same-day pickup or delivery. She can browse Walmart.com for millions of items and also manage her entire family's prescriptions. All from the same app." Walmart Grocery also is being merged with Walmart's other digital properties under a more uniform identity. Whiteside said grocery functionality will be added to the Walmart.com desktop and mobile web experiences in the coming weeks. "So customers can easily shop between the two. Previously, customers shopped for groceries on our grocery website and everything else on Walmart.com. We'll also be introducing a new look for Walmart Grocery to closely match that of Walmart.com," she said in the blog. "We know customers want to shop Walmart in ways that help them save time and money, and we're committed to simplifying their shopping experience. We're excited for the experience one app will create for our customers and our business, and we look forward to introducing new features in the future." For its 2020 fiscal year ended Jan. 31, Walmart reported U.S. e-commerce sales growth of 30%, including a 35% gain in the fourth quarter. On a two-year stacked basis, Walmart U.S. comp sales were up 6% in the quarter, showing ongoing strength in food and consumables, the company said. Similarly, Walmart U.S. eCommerce generated strong growth in grocery pickup and delivery. "Grocery is essential to the customer relationship," Walmart U.S. President and CEO John Furner said in a conference call last month on Walmart's fiscal 2020 results. "We're delivering strong sales in grocery, and we're gaining market share. But to make it an even more quality experience, we're going to continue to focus on even lower prices, fresh innovation, private brands and then convenience." As of the fiscal year-end, Walmart U.S. had about 3,200 grocery pickup sites and more than 1,600 delivery locations. "The U.S. team has built an impressive business with the same-day pickup operation. They've got high NPS scores," Furner said in the call. "We're now in about 3,200 locations, and we'll be expanding to about another 500 locations this year." Delivery also is expanding, Furner added. "It's essentially the same process for delivery as it is for a pickup order; it's just the associate is putting the order in a delivery driver's truck instead of the customer's truck," he said. "We're now offering same-day delivery in 1,600 stores, and we expect that to be in about half the fleet by the end of the year. In same-day delivery, that's what a lot of customers want, and we love our position there." "Mobile" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 12:46PM https://ift.tt/2wAtFtA Walmart integrates online grocery into flagship mobile app - Supermarket News "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| With Italy's Coronavirus Cases Rising Fast, Rome's Streets Go Quiet - NPR Posted: 06 Mar 2020 05:26 PM PST  Tourists wearing respiratory masks visit the Coliseum in Rome on Friday. Italy's coronavirus cases have continued to rise, making it one of the hardest-hit countries. Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images hide caption Italy is undergoing the biggest coronavirus outbreak outside Asia. After surfacing two weeks ago in northern Italy, its economic engine, confusion and fear have spread throughout the country. Italians' new must-see TV show is at 6 p.m. for Civil Protection Agency updates on how many infections, and how many deaths. On Friday, the agency said a total of 4,636 people have tested positive and 197 have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. After China, Italy has the second-highest reported death toll and third-highest confirmed cases of infection in the world. Now even the Vatican has announced its first coronavirus patient. Although 49 people have tested positive in Rome province, it is far from the epicenter in the northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna. But you wouldn't know it walking around the capital city, which feels like a ghost town. Public gatherings are suspended, which means for Italy's secular religion, soccer, matches will be held in empty stadiums for the next month. On Wednesday, the government extended school and university shutdown nationwide, causing alarm among families and raucous talk show debates. As many as 10 million students and nearly 1 million teachers, professors and staff will have to stay home for at least two weeks, Italian media report. Italy's leading public intellectual, Massimo Cacciari, demanded clarity. "Someone has to explain the logic behind these measures: schools closed, but offices open. I need a scientific explanation," Cacciari says, "why contagion is greater in schools than in offices — or else we'll all go crazy!" But some Italian politicians have fueled conspiracy theories about the new coronavirus. For example, Luca Zaia, the governor of the virus-hit Veneto region who is a member of the hard-right populist League Party, is openly anti-immigrant and made offensive remarks explaining why the virus originated in China. "It's a cultural fact that China has paid a big price for this epidemic because we have seen them all eat living mice and things like that," Zaia told a TV interviewer. Roundly criticized, Zaia then apologized to the Chinese ambassador to Italy. The virus outbreak is hurting his party, which is Italy's most popular but has been dropping in the latest surveys. Critics are mocking the League's nationalistic slogan "Italians First" at a time when several countries, including Australia and Israel, have banned Italians from entering for fear of contagion. An immediate repercussion of the virus outbreak is the plunge in tourism to Italy. This week, Confturismo, the national tourist industry confederation, projected it could cost the country a loss of more than $8 billion just through the month of May. Rome is hit hard. On a weekday at around 11 a.m., there are two people climbing up the Spanish Steps — one of the city's top tourist attractions. It's eerily quiet, no one is sitting around the boat-shaped fountain, Fontana della Barcaccia. And nowhere to be seen are the exhausted but satisfied visitors, usually laden with shopping bags from nearby boutiques — Valentino, Armani or Prada. Rome's high-end fashion street Via Condotti is empty and forlorn. Art lovers wanting to gaze on some Caravaggio masterpieces find a sign saying the Saint Luigi dei Francesi church is closed. A 43-year-old French priest tested positive for the coronavirus after he returned to Paris from Rome in late February, Catholic News Agency reported. Emptied of tourists, Rome's piazzas and artistic monuments do shine in all their splendor. But don't say that to shopkeepers, restaurant staff or those running study abroad programs. Many have been canceled.  Rome's Spanish Steps, usually crowded with tourists, is seen almost empty. Italy's vital tourism sector has taken a hit because of fears over the coronavirus. Sylvia Poggioli/NPR hide caption Nicholas Blanco, an American who has been studying at John Cabot University, says he will be on the next flight home to New Jersey. "I'm not nervous about the virus at all," he says. "But I'm worried about the fact that if they close down the borders, we're not going to be able to go home for like a year or so." Blanco speaks to NPR at one of Rome's oldest pharmacies, Santa Maria della Scala. It is out of masks and sanitizer gel, like other pharmacies across Rome. Pharmacist Roberto Antonini says many of his customers are excessively worried about the coronavirus. "Yes, it's an aggressive kind of flu, but people should relax," he says. And he blames the authorities for causing confusion. "First they said there was no problem at all, then they went overboard, sending confusing, contradictory messages, creating a situation of total panic," Antonini says. There is no panic in the open-air Campo de' Fiori market. But it's a sad sight: large stalls laden with piles of luscious fruits and vegetables, but no one's shopping. Claudio Zampa, owner of a produce stand and supplier of some of Rome's best restaurants, is demoralized. All he has is a few home-delivery orders. He holds the invoice for one of Rome's top five-star hotels — in the last two days, all it ordered was 11 pounds of potatoes. "The world treats us like disease carriers," Zampa complains. "Many countries don't even want our products — including Parmesan cheese!" He adds, "Italy did more virus tests than other countries and now we're paying for our transparency."  Via Condotti, Rome's high-end fashion street, usually crowded with visitors carrying bags from famous clothing boutiques, is now like a ghost town. Sylvia Poggioli/NPR hide caption Italy has carried out more than 36,359 tests for coronavirus — far more than any other European country. Italy's health authorities have recommended "social distancing": People should stay at least 3 feet apart, and abstain from their quintessential greeting, exchanging kisses on each cheek. And in a city of some 900 churches, the Roman Catholic authorities have given priests specific directives. These include keeping holy water vessels empty to prevent worshippers from dipping their fingers into the water, and new instructions for taking Communion. Inside Rome's small San Giacomo church, 10 elderly people attend 7:30 a.m. Mass. A female choir sings as six priests lead the religious services. Following church orders, one of the priests puts Communion wafers on worshippers' hands, not their tongues. And he leaves out the usual call to shake hands as a sign of peace. "The Mass is over, go in peace," the priest says, and the worshippers file out morosely into empty Roman streets. Top stories - Google News March 06, 2020 at 02:14PM https://ift.tt/2PTkOtH With Italy's Coronavirus Cases Rising Fast, Rome's Streets Go Quiet - NPR Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
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| Governments Point Fingers Over Coronavirus as Death Toll Mounts - The New York Times Posted: 06 Mar 2020 04:56 PM PST  An Iranian official claimed without evidence that the epidemic could be an American bioweapon, after some U.S. officials said the same about China. Saudi Arabia said its cases were Iran's fault. South Korea lashed out at Japan over travel restrictions and responded in kind. At a time of global crisis, when the new coronavirus has infected more than 100,000 people, killed more than 3,400, and all but shut down whole industries, the world's scientists and public health officials are working together across ideological and national borders to try to stop the epidemic. But as the virus continues its rapid spread, political leaders in many countries seem to have seized on a different question: Who can be blamed? "Outbreaks take place within the context of the real world, so of course there's always some level of politics going on," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, a former assistant director general of the World Health Organization. "But I think that what we're seeing now is at a higher level of blame game than we've seen in the past." The accusations within countries and between them is often well-founded — there really have been failed quarantines, inadequate equipment and training, and attempts to deny the crisis. But even when it is justified, experts say, the criticism can hinder efforts to pull together to face down the emergency. They said the urgent problems should be aired in a way that does not threaten cooperation while those that can wait should be set aside. Public displeasure with global leaders has spread nearly as fast as the virus itself, which has reached more than 80 countries. And when those leaders look to point fingers elsewhere, they tend to point in the most predictable directions, piggybacking on old hostilities. President Trump tried to deflect criticism of his government's response by pinning testing deficiencies on former President Barack Obama's administration. Mr. Trump — whose critics note that he has cut health programs and made unrealistically rosy pronouncements about the new disease — had a rare moment of accord with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran. Both men claimed their enemies were cynically ginning up fear of the virus. Iran's government at first insisted that all was well but now admits to thousands of infections, and outbreaks in several countries have been traced to people returning from Iran. But the sharpest reaction came from its regional adversary, Saudi Arabia, which forbids its people from traveling to Iran. In a statement made through the official Saudi Press Agency, the government on Thursday accused Iran of recklessly allowing the disease to spread. It said that five Saudis had visited Iran, helped by Iranian officials who did not stamp their passports, and had returned to the kingdom infected by the virus. In Japan, more than a million posts on Twitter recently demanded that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resign over his handling of the outbreak. He was largely invisible in the early weeks of the outbreak, and the government's lax treatment of the outbreak aboard a cruise ship allowed it to spread. On Thursday, Mr. Abe imposed a 14-day quarantine on all visitors from South Korea and China. More than 90 countries have restricted travel from South Korea, which has the second-largest outbreak after China, but it was the move by Japan, historically Korea's nemesis, that struck a nerve. South Korea's government on Friday called the measures "excessive and irrational," suggested that Tokyo had "other motives than containing the outbreak," and said it would restrict Japanese visitors in return. "We cannot understand Japan's decision to take this unfair step without consulting with us in advance," South Korea's presidential National Security Council said in a statement. In Britain, opposition politicians are quick to note that a decade of austerity under Conservative governments has drained the health care system of resources, which they say leaves the country unprepared for an epidemic. Dr. Fukuda, who now heads the University of Hong Kong's school of public health, said that widespread anger in Hong Kong at the government's refusal to bar arrivals from mainland China built on months of protests against that government for being too close to Beijing. Facing a previously unknown, fast-moving virus, experts say, it is inevitable that even the best governments will be caught unprepared and make mistakes. "We shouldn't be associating, 'oh, increase in numbers' with failed government," said Dr. Devi Sridhar, a professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh. "We should see that governments can be trying their best but still find it hard to contain this virus." In China, where the virus emerged in the city of Wuhan, the authorities were slow to react at first, denying that there was a problem and even punishing those who raised the alarm. Since then, the government has responded aggressively, all but halting the spread of the virus by locking down areas with more than 50 million people. This approach won international praise, and China has been touting its strategy as a model for the rest of the world. Yet in China, anger at the government continues to fester. When Chinese officials, including the one leading the central government's response, visited Wuhan on Thursday, locked-down residents shouted complaints out their windows. "Everything is fake!" one resident yelled, according to a video shared by People's Daily, a state-run newspaper. In a sign of just how much countries have struggled to rein in the outbreak, government officials themselves have been infected in China, France, Iran and Japan. The virus has especially roiled Iran's government, with dozens of officials having fallen ill and an adviser to the supreme leader and a diplomat having died. The head of the W.H.O., Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, aired his frustration on Thursday with governments that he said have not taken the virus seriously enough, in his strongest public rebuke to date. "This is not a time for excuses," he said. "This is a time for pulling out all the stops. "In some countries, the level of political commitment and the actions that demonstrate that commitment do not match the level of the threat we all face." But mindful, as always, of political sensitivities, the W.H.O. leader was careful not to call out any countries or leaders by name. From the start of the epidemic, obfuscation has eroded government credibility. Experts fear that finger-pointing is also lowering trust in public health systems and governments, when those are essential in overcoming the crisis. "You can say, 'It's your fault, it's my fault,'" said Dr. David Heymann, a former chief of communicable diseases at the W.H.O. "I think we have to just get on with it and accept where we are now." Reporting was contributed by Russell Goldman, Choe Sang-Hun, Amy Qin, Elaine Yu, Javier C. Hernández and Ben Dooley. 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| Coronavirus: Italy says it's had 41 new COVID-19 deaths in just 24 hours - euronews (in English) Posted: 06 Mar 2020 04:56 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| With Italy's Coronavirus Cases Rising Fast, Rome's Streets Go Quiet - KPBS Posted: 06 Mar 2020 04:26 PM PST  Italy is undergoing the biggest coronavirus outbreak outside Asia. After surfacing two weeks ago in northern Italy, its economic engine, confusion and fear have spread throughout the country. Italians' new must-see TV show is at 6 p.m. for Civil Protection Agency updates on how many infections, and how many deaths. On Friday, the agency said a total of 4,636 people have tested positive and 197 have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. After China, Italy has the second-highest reported death toll and third-highest confirmed cases of infection in the world. Now even the Vatican has announced its first coronavirus patient. Although 49 people have tested positive in Rome province, it is far from the epicenter in the northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna. But you wouldn't know it walking around the capital city, which feels like a ghost town. Public gatherings are suspended, which means for Italy's secular religion, soccer, matches will be held in empty stadiums for the next month. On Wednesday, the government extended school and university shutdown nationwide, causing alarm among families and raucous talk show debates. As many as 10 million students and nearly 1 million teachers, professors and staff will have to stay home for at least two weeks, Italian media report. Italy's leading public intellectual, Massimo Cacciari, demanded clarity. "Someone has to explain the logic behind these measures: schools closed, but offices open. I need a scientific explanation," Cacciari says, "why contagion is greater in schools than in offices — or else we'll all go crazy!" But some Italian politicians have fueled conspiracy theories about the new coronavirus. For example, Luca Zaia, the governor of the virus-hit Veneto region who is a member of the hard-right populist League Party, is openly anti-immigrant and made offensive remarks explaining why the virus originated in China. "It's a cultural fact that China has paid a big price for this epidemic because we have seen them all eat living mice and things like that," Zaia told a TV interviewer. Roundly criticized, Zaia then apologized to the Chinese ambassador to Italy. The virus outbreak is hurting his party, which is Italy's most popular but has been dropping in the latest surveys. Critics are mocking the League's nationalistic slogan "Italians First" at a time when several countries, including Australia and Israel, have banned Italians from entering for fear of contagion. An immediate repercussion of the virus outbreak is the plunge in tourism to Italy. This week, Confturismo, the national tourist industry confederation, projected it could cost the country a loss of more than $8 billion just through the month of May. Rome is hit hard. On a weekday at around 11 a.m., there are two people climbing up the Spanish Steps — one of the city's top tourist attractions. It's eerily quiet, no one is sitting around the boat-shaped fountain, Fontana della Barcaccia. And nowhere to be seen are the exhausted but satisfied visitors, usually laden with shopping bags from nearby boutiques — Valentino, Armani or Prada. Rome's high-end fashion street Via Condotti is empty and forlorn. Art lovers wanting to gaze on some Caravaggio masterpieces find a sign saying the Saint Luigi dei Francesi church is closed. A 43-year-old French priest tested positive for the coronavirus after he returned to Paris from Rome in late February, Catholic News Agency reported. Emptied of tourists, Rome's piazzas and artistic monuments do shine in all their splendor. But don't say that to shopkeepers, restaurant staff or those running study abroad programs. Many have been canceled. Nicholas Blanco, an American who has been studying at John Cabot University, says he will be on the next flight home to New Jersey. "I'm not nervous about the virus at all," he says. "But I'm worried about the fact that if they close down the borders, we're not going to be able to go home for like a year or so." Blanco speaks to NPR at one of Rome's oldest pharmacies, Santa Maria della Scala. It is out of masks and sanitizer gel, like other pharmacies across Rome. Pharmacist Roberto Antonini says many of his customers are excessively worried about the coronavirus. "Yes, it's an aggressive kind of flu, but people should relax," he says. And he blames the authorities for causing confusion. "First they said there was no problem at all, then they went overboard, sending confusing, contradictory messages, creating a situation of total panic," Antonini says. There is no panic in the open-air Campo de' Fiori market. But it's a sad sight: large stalls laden with piles of luscious fruits and vegetables, but no one's shopping. Claudio Zampa, owner of a produce stand and supplier of some of Rome's best restaurants, is demoralized. All he has is a few home-delivery orders. He holds the invoice for one of Rome's top five-star hotels — in the last two days, all it ordered was 11 pounds of potatoes. "The world treats us like disease carriers," Zampa complains. "Many countries don't even want our products — including Parmesan cheese!" He adds, "Italy did more virus tests than other countries and now we're paying for our transparency." Italy has carried out more than 36,359 tests for coronavirus — far more than any other European country. Italy's health authorities have recommended "social distancing": People should stay at least 3 feet apart, and abstain from their quintessential greeting, exchanging kisses on each cheek. And in a city of some 900 churches, the Roman Catholic authorities have given priests specific directives. These include keeping holy water vessels empty to prevent worshippers from dipping their fingers into the water, and new instructions for taking Communion. Inside Rome's small San Giacomo church, 10 elderly people attend 7:30 a.m. Mass. A female choir sings as six priests lead the religious services. Following church orders, one of the priests puts Communion wafers on worshippers' hands, not their tongues. And he leaves out the usual call to shake hands as a sign of peace. "The Mass is over, go in peace," the priest says, and the worshippers file out morosely into empty Roman streets. Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. FEATURED PODCAST KPBS' daily news podcast covering local politics, education, health, environment, the border and more. New episodes are ready weekday mornings so you can listen on your morning commute.  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| Viral video shows New York City cops pouncing on man in marijuana bust - Fox News Posted: 06 Mar 2020 04:24 PM PST  Dramatic mobile phone video shows at least a half-dozen Brooklyn cops pounce on an otherwise calm man Wednesday night in what started out as a minor marijuana bust. Footage of the incident, which took place about 10 p.m. outside a Canarsie playground, was posted on Twitter Thursday by a passerby — and retweeted more than 75,000 times by midday. "I'm walking home from work and this undercover cop was holding this man," eyewitness and Twitter user @TheVelvetRope wrote. "The guy asked for the cop to identify himself, he ignore that. He asked what crime he commit, he ignore that too. I pulled out my phone." COLORADO POLICE CHIEF FIRES OFFICER CITING 'SEVERE MISCONDUCT': REPORT The man, identified by police as 20-year-old Fitzroy Gayle of Brooklyn, is speaking to the undercover cop wearing sweatpants, a black hoodie and grey sneakers — holding his hands up with his phone in his right hand. "Yo, what crime did I commit?" Gayle is heard saying. "You're trying to hurt me? You're trying to hurt me? What did I do?" "Don't move," the plainclothes officer replies. "Why would I want to hurt you?" The officer speaks over his radio as the exchange continues. ARKANSAS OFFICER ON LEAVE AFTER ACCUSED OF CHOKEHOLD ON STUDENT IN INCIDENT CAUGHT ON VIDEO "You'd like to shoot me?" Gayle asks at one point as the cop appears to point a Taser at him. "I don't have a crime. Listen to me, what crime did I commit? You're not supposed to do that. That's the law." "Stop moving!" the officer shouts back. Suddenly, at least six police officers converge on the scene and pounce on Gayle, who can be heard saying "I did not commit a crime" eight more times before he's taken down. "Help me. Oh my God," he then screams. "I am not resisting. I've never been arrested a day in my life." He is heard calling out for his mother and can be heard sobbing as the officers eventually handcuff him and pick him up. Bystanders can be heard questioning the officers' actions. "This s–t is completely unnecessary," @TheVelvetRope said on Twitter. "Yes the guy was in the park but he has a right to be in there because it closes at 9pm. This happened in Canarsie, Brooklyn." Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday he would "look for an investigation just to make sure I know everything that happened." Police said plainclothes cops saw the man and another suspect smoking marijuana in a playground on Glenwood Road East 100th Street. The two ran off but were caught. Shea noted the officers were on alert because of a recent report of a shooting nearby. "At this point in time, I have nothing to indicate that they were in any way tied to the ShotSpotter incident," Shea said of the arrested man and his friend. "I certainly don't know that the officers didn't know that as they were arriving on that scene. And when you have two people take off running: I've been in that situation myself and you don't know what you have." "We'll have to take a look at the entirety of it," the commissioner said. "The end is what concerns me. I'd love to have a different outcome." CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP Shea said Gayle was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, resisting arrest, and obstruction. His companion was issued a citation for smoking marijuana. Click here for the New York Post "viral" - Google News March 06, 2020 at 09:53AM https://ift.tt/38wa7DQ Viral video shows New York City cops pouncing on man in marijuana bust - Fox News "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
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