hello there i'm karen franz like you're watching in question broadcasting from r.c.a. where it is national headquarters in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and around the world here's the stories that we're working on for you today surveillance planes begin flying over the city of baltimore maryland after a court ruling allowing for this controversial program could this be the testing ground for an america on their watch plus like most industries during this pandemic hollywood is taking a hard look at changes it must make so that workers and staff remain healthy and safe on the job and finally we'll take a deep dive into america's bare acing failed plot to overthrow that as well as nicolas maduro and analyze what those american mercenaries are confessing to all

right so tight it's time to boost your news i.q. . but do privacy advocates have legitimate concerns about this technology and will it spread to other cities potentially across the nation while i am joined by artie's rachel blevins to discuss more of these details rachel this is pretty shocking what do we know about this program so far right now that's launching in baltimore rise of a baltimore police department has started this 6 month program to test out this aerial surveillance technology that covers 90 percent of the city employees are saying this could be a great tool to help crack down on criminals but this service is being provided by a private company based in ohio and it's being funded by a private donor now i had a chance earlier to talk with retired baltimore supervisor dr michael wood jr and he said baltimore likely isn't the only city that is considering this take a listen. company has quite an orwellian name for assistance surveillance kind of

sets the stage for what we're talking about that this is not new to baltimore and it's not confined to baltimore this is been going on back and forth between baltimore and the chicago p.d. these 2 agencies continue to advise them on each other it's like the blind leading the blind. now we actually found out that baltimore was already using aerial surveillance back in 2016 and at the time they were working with that same company persistent surveillance so there is a chance that as they start this pilot program it could be used as a blueprint to sell the cities across the country great and i just heard my hometown of chicago so what do you do now one of the ongoing concerns about the surveillance one of the most glaring concern is that this is technology that gives police the power to record citizens across the city just living their normal daily lives even if they are not being suspected of having committed a crime now doctor would also said that when it comes to technology about that it's all about the accountability that these police departments have to face take us

into his explanation of how to control the tool body chambres or traffic cameras or warrants or anything else police do sure it will catch criminals and that is great but what about when we are using is to hunt down your social justice in violations or monitor your political rivals or tracking down everyone who wants your backyard barbecue. now we're at a time where most americans are still under stay at home order so there's a lot of concerns about what happens if police suddenly have the ability to record every time you leave your home or maker into the grocery store and what kind of issues will arise out of that and he makes a lot of excellent points like you just heard there so for baltimore specifically though rachel is there anything being done by the legislators there to pursue this police accountability right well baltimore their police department has seen a lot of issues of transparency and accountability that we have seen echoed across the country so i also had a chance to talk to maryland state senator corey mcrae and he said that one of the

issues that they are working on right now is making sure that the police department is required to submit to audits regularly to take a listen to what he said we put in the bill that basically said that this state of maryland has to can. the baltimore city police department in a set number of years. here you're looking at things like over time looking at things like the confiscation of missouri he was looking at the different checks and balances that bit of that not just the city of baltimore but. now senator mcrae also so the legislatures have come together in support of a bill that would require hiring police officials to live within city limits something other city agencies already require so there is some hope that maybe we could see some reforms coming out of the baltimore police department within the next year but at the same time now that we're talking about aerial surveillance and transparency there that's likely just another issue that will be added to the list

always as always rachel blevins great reporting on this one will continue to follow the story thanks thank you. the u.s. now reaching a record unemployment rate as new data shows some $20000000.00 american jobs have been lost in april this sends the unemployment rate up to 14.7 percent representing both the largest one month jump and highest level on record ultimately creating long unemployment lines across the country however these numbers are considered unreal as it does not include the millions who either had their hours slashed or received a pay cut due to the pandemic. one area hit hard by the pandemic is the hospitality industry in florida alone hotels both big and small were forced to close their doors while others are slowly starting to open up again as the sunshine state enters phase one of its reopening plan are to correspondent john honey has more now from miami. as coronavirus restrictions are easing in some states part of a phase one approach to a gradual reopening occupancy rates at some hotels are going up as t.r.

a company that tracks supply and demand data for the hotel industry reports a jump in demand for hotel rooms at quote warm weather leisure spots like texas and florida but that said it's still a grim financial outlook for the us hospitality and restaurant industry as a whole us hotel profits fell by 101.7 percent in march the miami herald reports the kobe 1000 crisis has shuttered more than 236 of the 473 hotel properties in miami dade county and $24.00 of $284.00 in broward county and several major hotels are reportedly renegotiating their commercial contracts perhaps a sign of a financial struggle to come those properties that continue to operate are doing so with skeleton crews and minimal guests here in the city of miami and miami dade county a region of south florida relying heavily upon the hospitality industry thousands

of hotel restaurant and convention employees have been laid off or furloughed and tongue clear when or if they'll get their jobs back. of the more than 39000 coded 1000 cases reported in the state the bulk are in miami dade county close 214000 with almost 500 deaths the good news is that the number of cases overall in florida appears to be decreasing according to the florida department of health in fort myers meanwhile some hotels are gearing up for a reopening like the sea gypsy in which is lost an estimated quarter $1000000.00 since closing in march we're starting to climb a bit depending on the panel the start of swing back so i don't think it's going to get any worse now i'm not 100 percent sure it might but at least we can see where we're headed and if that was the worst that we came we survived it and let's let's move forward moving forward after being 6 so far back for our t.

john hardy. meantime hollywood has announced some major changes before stars and crew members alike can actually get back to work or to correspondent atocha sweet has more on the adjustments and the work to do this pandemic. the movie an entertainment capital of the world is taking the covert $1000.00 pandemic seriously but just like the rest of the economy hollywood is struggling with reopening business well keeping the safety of its employees front and center after nearly 2 months out of work during a time when people are watching movies and shows more than ever industry executives are looking for ways to slowly pick production back up the stakes are even higher for some companies like walt disney and warner brothers as their new streaming platform is in dire need of new content by your name poppy you know who are you guys the movie trolls hit theaters just before the pen demick broke out universal pictures released the video on demand calling the digital release a success but movie theaters like amc disagree some movie insiders say the release

was perfect for movie like trolls when families had nothing else to watch but believes it won't work for every film the price point is $1.00 where it irrevocably could and apparently has made most of its budget from home entertainment dollars that doesn't work with a movie like say an avengers movie where they need to throw over a 1000000000 for them to be profitable over studio but regardless of how movies are released in the future production might look a little different than before instead of having some 300 people on set at once for a large movie producers will be looking for ways to have the same type of scene with only $75.00 people or so groups may be staggered and some could work remotely smaller crews tightly controlled sets and minimal travel are to be expected in the beginning in person wardrobe departments may be temporarily phased out make up and hair artists who touch up in between sets may watch the actors with an i pad or monitor executives say they expect to have sanitation crews disinfecting sets

throughout the day hollywood is seen a 22 year low an industry leaders are predicting the impact of coke in $1000.00 could result in the loss of 20 $1000000000.00 for film and television according to film l.a. president paul oddly the film industry. it has always been a massive piece of the economy of this region so figuring out a safe way to bring filming back is going to be critical to recovery film l.a. the nonprofit group that handles film permits for the city and county of los angeles so it is expecting a 1st planning meeting with public officials early this month they're expected to discuss safety standards and a timeline of when they can safely resume work in the meantime insiders believe hollywood will get back to filming by september but places like georgia are looking at set construction as early as june that's for. sure. i want to go to dreamland netflix is serious about getting back in the game already laying out specifics to reboot its production they've already begun filming in south korea

japan and iceland the streaming platform plans to pick up filming in sweden this month and norway in july that flexes chief content officer same temperature checks box lunches and disposable makeup applicators are a must scripts may need to be rewritten or technology may be used to recreate a scene but without knowing the specifics of government guidelines sag aftra one of the biggest unions for hollywood says production what we're turn to normal until a vaccine regular testing entry scene are all in place and others say while proper sanitation is obvious filming may require cast insurance as something that might be key into getting things rolling again the directors guild of america are working with other industry leaders from around the world and they're putting together what they're calling a comprehensive guide so that they can all be on the same page reporting and los angeles the toughest suites are to. overseas now are hundreds of protesters took to the streets and kenya after the government demolished homes and shops that had

allegedly been built on government land the protesters were setting cars on fire burning tires and erecting barricades throughout the impoverished neighborhoods police responded with tear gas and live bullets injuring at least one person. russian president vladimir putin gave an address to austria in celebration of victory day and said that their victory over the nazis save humanity and helped revive an independent and democratic austrian state now he also paid tribute to the soviet soldiers who served in world war 2 and gave thanks to the austrian citizens and authorities who take proper care of the burials. i would like to wish the people of well being prosperity and of course you can use the overcoming of our common virus and we are all fighting this pandemic and that is vital during these hard times thank you for your attention. you know that saying try try

again well that appears to be america's motto when it comes to their attempts at overthrowing by the swale is elected president by next guest will fill us in on the latest botched invasion then in sports regina hampshire is what happened when one n.b.a. star social media got him in some hot water stay with us are back into. you cannot be both with the yeah you like.

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as they are. no matter what for instance. you know me 'd i'm famous for my views. yours truly scottie 'd nell hughes. i'm holland cook i invite you to climb with me both of the mainstream media buyers and from that hire fantasia to glimpse the big picture question more. i. to american mercenaries captured after a failed attempt to overthrow but as well as nicolas maduro claim that they were on a mission to seize control of the country's main airport in order to abducted leader now released video from venezuela details some of this plot but it's unclear

whether the taped confession reveals accurately the facts of that plot now secretary of state micron peo is flexing his muscle about a swale a saying that the u.s. will use every tool to rescue the 2 americans and moments ago president i will trump denied any involvement in the failed coup attempt so joining me now for more analysis on this is former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter scott thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us about this today thursday the state department released this statement writing quote the united states government was not involved in recent events in venice whaler including mr grig drone now there is a major dissent from ation campaign underway by the federal regime making it difficult to separate facts from papa ganda but then you have this confession from one of the mercenaries captured listen here. this culture was. similar. but it was. 'd a larger group. one

group of. so scott who is telling the truth here and are there any dead give away as to who actually is telling the truth. right now i will tell you that the 2 captured americans. are telling the truth to their best of their ability. they understand that their their treatment and their future a relies on them being as forthcoming as possible but there are some a hints here for instance they say they were tasked with seizing would dural that would be done by venezuelan elements their job was to secure an airfield and then call jordan good dro who within dispatch an aircraft into venezuela where madeira would be placed on this aircraft and then flown to a destination presumably the united states that's kidnapping that's

a crime under any circumstances unless it's sanctioned by the united states and so there's there's an element here that's not being fully disclosed the united states claims to be hands off but the fact of the matter is this is an elaborate. scheme to kidnap a a leader of an sovereign nation and take them into custody but there has to be a legal reason for that that is authorized by the united states or else this case will be thrown out. they won in any court in the united states and so there's there's a lot not being said that's being alluded to now i want to show you one more piece from the tape of the other mercenary luke denman take a listen and take a look here at him. you were my don't try.

to believe jordan too soon we're going to. get through the contract he consults you. know it's something. we're. all right so i don't know if you saw it but as soon as he says donald trump his eyes through this little roll up thing many analysts say that this is a sign that he could be under duress almost like a code if you will that he's being forced to say donald trump's name what say you. well 1st of all we know that jordan goudreau his boss was throwing around his connections to donald trump in colombia to gin up support for this effort he jordan goudreau made no secret of the fact that he had high level contacts in the trumpet ministration how many people believe that this is a gross exaggeration on an jordan's part she didn't meet with keith

schiller who was the bodyguard of the president trump at one time but according to mr schiller this meeting which took place in may of last year ended with schiller walking away in disgust and that there was no more contact that he had no shape in jordan good drove. seems to have used this connection plus the fact that he provided his company provides purity for a rally and present trump in charlotte north carolina in november of 2018 as evidence of his high level connection with trump so that i role could be a signal or also just could be. a sign of the of how ridiculous that it actually sounds to say that who has control and control a man of this donald trump don't trump would never be in command of such a mickey mouse operation this was a merger our 101. you know the united says as you know far better tools to do

something like this in avoid the embarrassment that it now faces with the 2 american a former green beret special forces soldiers in the custody of the venezuelan government and really quickly got about 30 seconds for those out there you have an op ed on this at r.t. that cadmus actually excellent to read a kind of on the whole back story the dro and his whole company but i do want to say one thing donald trump did say this afternoon that you know they were again solidify that they were the united states was not part of this but he also says but if i were to do this i would go in secretly as this kind of like showing that's what we were doing but we just kind of got caught. yes and no i there's no doubt that don't trump has signed a finding that authorizes the cia to undertake a covert action designed to get rid of material whether or not this is a lethal finding which is what would be required to a kidnap him in a situation where lethal force could be used is another question but the bottom

line is i think what happened here is we have we have anarchy we have a lack of guidance and we have people who thought they were working for donald trump trying to fill this fill a need that wasn't being fulfilled we talk the language the rhetoric of regime change and yet the united states government isn't doing anything want to i don't know and other venezuelan military defectors were frustrated and jordan boudreau came in and filled what he thought was a a neat fields project your early in the united states is left eating crow all right former intelligence officer scott ritter scott thank you so much for analysis we appreciate it thank you and. meantime in indianapolis indiana angry protesters have gathered at the scene where a police officer fatally shot an african-american man now according to police officers police say an altercation occurred followed by an exchange of gunfire. if you ever get information indicating the officer to lay his face there which

appeared to be ineffective and exchanging gunfire between the officer and assess to all the suspect. sure but. now the officer has been placed on administrative leave firefighters in california are battling a brush fire that's already destroyed 150 acres of land officials say the blaze erupted on thursday along a ridge near los angeles fire crews are also dealing with hot and dry weather down in florida in the panhandle wildfires there forced an evacuation of nearly 500 people authorities have named it the 5 mile swamp fire as high winds and low humidity caused that fire to expand 10 times its size take a look at this spectacular new images from jupiter look at it right there researchers they're revealing the most detailed images ever captured of the gas giant exposing the truly bizarre nature of it's all true of violent planet wide

storms now jupiter is mostly covered by ferocious storms including the famous red spot storm which is larger than earth itself while the images were created through a year long project using the gemini observatory and the hubble space telescope. and we had over now to regina hamm sitting in our sports h.q. regina athletes are always under the microscope and social media can either good or bad thing it's a double edged sword social media is really an athlete's best tool or sometimes their worst nightmare and the reading n.b.a. m.v.p. milwaukee bucks our john is. paid to well found that out the hard way as i did pronouncing his name when he found himself tweeting when he wasn't yanis confirmed in an apology that he was indeed a victim of a hacker attack involving his a twitter account he said he felt terrible for players that were included and the quote malicious and untrue tweets the tweets contained expletive language as well as racial slurs attacks on other players including gold curry and comments toward

kobe bryant's family and claimed he even had coronavirus the dozen or so tweets popped up the nuances feed in the span of 5 minutes and clearly isn't the work of league. valuable player the ford also claimed his phone and bank account were hacked and the tweets they were immediately taken down. and for all you'll cool cats and kittens it was a battle of the big cats in the korean baseball league between the kid tigers and santa lions and it was abundantly clear early on which team was king of the jungle 1st bottom of the 1st one on lions outfielder with the ground or down the 1st baseline for an r.b.i. single ball held it 1st in him going to opens up scoring lions one nothing 2nd lions get your can use men with another ground or the shortstop to leave one so comes home to the tag line out the 2 nothing leave that's those sound most of the game 4th former chicago white sox infielder keller sell a dino with his 1st solo homer of the season to give his team the 3 nothing

advantage in the here he pictured former new york mets drew going you know with a rough night bombs hit a pop up from cujo to shalem center field there's a miscommunication is actually going to get it dropped or came in makes it home wind or nothing leave now and i'm a 7 runner leading off 1st salad you know sends a curveball back to the warning track for the r.b.i. double and the lions have a 5 nothing advantage and that would be all she wrote they come away with a shout out when. major league soccer has been on hold since march 12th due to the coronavirus pandemic now there is a small silver lining as a league is allowing players to return to facilities for individual workouts teams like l.a.'s see in and i am a have c. and sporting k.c. allowed players to return to the pitch with very strict safety measures a league wide moratorium on team and group training is still in place until may 15th teams did need to get your approval before allowing individual workouts and actually majority of them having completed the process protocols include restricting facilities only to essential staff disinfection of all equipment after

each use and screening measures and social distance parking players can't use locker rooms that many are actually grateful for the chance to start preparing for the season whenever it may be. turn the league is setting a precedent for other major leagues in the u.s. as baseball's actually expected to send a proposal for a potential start time in the coming week i said this hour off camera to you i was going to get that name right and i didn't get to ball there you know i got a little 3rd time's a charm right i got to tell you i i couldn't even think of a better way to start those baseball highlights with all your old cow think it how else tiger king is very i mean right or it's all right that's all part of everything and question i all times that all the portable t.v. after you can watch us now 247 it's a cool app you have to check it out and all you cool cats and kittens you can follow me on twitter a fair and balanced we'll see you back there next week have a good one.

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