on research and the most stringent man on facial recognition is about to go into effect and a major us city. but is this a move about privacy rights or public security? we are going to discuss plus a what is being accomplished by a local reporters outing. their own employers, is it honest with the blowing or just self seeking publicity stunts this, in the latest from bars as a new economic sanctions are being issued from the e u and the u. s. high school, you know, use, and all of these stories on today's edition of news use use right here on our t america. ah, thanks for joining us. you know, there's been progress against covert 19. it's been made and states are continuing to open back up. the white house, however, is now investing in something other than the vaccine. according to dr. anthony found, she anti virus hills are also important to treat potential variance. artic responded

. natasha suite has more on why the u. s. is now investing billions into it. well, no vaccine on the market is 100 percent effective. many who decided to take it seemed to have confidence in its effect so much that math mandates are dropping all across the country. however, now the u. s. is funding in antiviral medication steady costs, more than $3000000000.00. and according to doctor anthony found, she, one of the main reasons is to fight against new variance. the united states is allocating $3200000000.00 on what's being called the anti viral program for pandemic. se, according to doctor anthony felt she had accelerates the development of antiviral pills for cope with 19. the main goal is to establish drugs to address symptoms caused by potentially dangerous viruses. like the corona virus, the pills made to minimize symptoms after infection are currently being developed a visual say they could make their way to shelter by the end of the year if

clinical trials are completed on track. well, the white house and dr. anthony felt she had been pushing the need for vaccines found she says, these pills could help those who become infected with any covered variance. identifying the delta variant as the greatest threat to the nations efforts against coven vaccines clearly remain the centerpiece of our arsenal against colbert 19. however, anti why rules can and are an important compliment to existing vaccines, especially for individuals with certain conditions that might put them at a greater risk for those whom vaccines may not be as protective. now this has already been something in the making, and this program helps to fund it and move it along at a much faster pace. several companies including pfizer and asked resent cur, our testing antivirals and pill form. though she says these pills as a line of defense against other unexpected emergency things like the variance of concern. most recently the delta formerly known as the india variant has been

getting global attention. now it says this program is being modeled after one created decades ago for special h i v treatment drugs. but critics are questioning if this is worth the investment, as opposed to finding a more effective vaccine reporting for news you choose and sweet r t. there has been multiple conversations about what exactly is the red line regarding privacy as technology continues to be developed. now, currently in baltimore, maryland, there is a measure wait in the mayor signature, which would make private use of facial recognition technology illegal. now in this council built 21 dash 001 reads residence would be prohibited from obtaining, retaining, accessing, or using certain face surveillance technology, or any information obtained from certain face surveillance technology. now the ordinance does provide an exemption, however, for biometric access control systems,

the bill which will only be for a year, what exempt the police department. however, the fraternal order of police and the baltimore place apartment actually oppose the order thing, rather than a prohibition against the acquisition of any new facial recognition technology. it would be more prudent to establish safeguards. so to get the inside take as well as why this is important to other cities. we bring on local w b. a. talk, talk later. has andrew langer. andrew, thank you so much for joining me. always a pleasure to be here. once again, baltimore's and making ways in this way, they're trying to start something new. so i just have to ask you as the, as you look at this also from yours, yours point, but also your listeners who exactly is having a problem with this technology being used today as it stands? well, generally, it seems that the political ruling class and baltimore seems to have a problem with any kind of technology that actually could serve to prevent crime and baltimore. this at a time when baltimore is once again, al, casing

a prior year in terms of violent crime and other forms of crime. at a time when the baltimore states attorney has herself thrown up her hands and says, she's not going to prosecute level crimes. this comes on the heels of the mayor and senior members of the city council deciding that they didn't want access to a free airborne surveillance technology that could be used to track criminals. this is, this is just one more in a, in a series of situations in which the baltimore city government is turning its back on technological solutions to fighting crap. well, and i think our, i see where, because i didn't realize this until i started looking at this. the police department is actually set up a little different from other cities. so it's fine with my audience. what this is. and the possibility there are saying there's going to be changes in the near future of how the police department is connected to the city. so for many years, the baltimore city police department has been managed in certain respects by the state government. now the, the baltimore city government can the mayor can appoint a police commission and they do some oversight in terms of how the police department operates. but

a substantial amount of operational control still falls under the state generally. and there have been moves in the last few years to return control of to the state to the city of baltimore. and i've long said that this would be a huge mistake that given what we know about baltimore's political class and how against the police, they already are. it would be a mistake to turn it over at a time when baltimore is already facing a real crisis in terms of policing. there's a gap between the number of police that are needed in the number of police they have. they're operating under consent decree, which ties our hands in terms of how they fight crime. and as i just mentioned, with the baltimore states attorney saying, she's not going to prosecute a level crimes morales that are real low with the baltimore city police force. but what's clear about this bill is that it is alternately designed when the city does gain greater control over its police force that they will in turn ban the police department from being able to use this kind of facial recognition technology. but let's be really clear, scotty, you know right now is the bill stands. you can be prosecuted criminally as

a private citizen if you use this technology. which means that if you are engaging for someone, is engaging in a low price and baltimore, you want to be prosecuted by the states attorney. but if you're someone who is filming that crime and using that technology to try to recognize somebody, identify someone through technology, you could be criminal prosecutor. this is the kafka s situation that we have in baltimore. you know, that's interesting that you bring that up because once again, it could actually be the person i had on the bice are filming the wrong, actually being held accountable. more of the person is actually committing the act itself. but this also speaks to a bigger issue, and i think this is where a lot of people use some concern comes, you know, my eyes. what do you feel like is the or line which separates an invasion of ones privacy like said, much advanced technology right now versus the overall good insecurity of the community. i mean, nobody wants big brother watching in a community at the same time. we also want to feel safe where we live. well, right, and this gets into these issues of where you have your expectation of privacy.

right, right now, especially when we're talking about private businesses that may have security cameras. it may have that see those security cameras hooked up to some kind of a software. this is no different than a business. having a regular security camera around their business is just they have software that might be able to identify who might be perpetrating a crime. whether it's a property, crime or trespassing crime, or what have you. this is no different than that. and this was the big debate over the airport surveillance and baltimore. right. at what level do you have some expectation of privacy in the backyard of your home? and the supreme court has laid out a pretty good rule for this, right? you don't have an expectation of privacy from a plane flying it say 10000 feet or 5000 feet above a 1000 b. whatever it is. the supreme court is enunciated a line, but this gets into the issue of the expectation of privacy. if you are behind a fence in your backyard, someone should not be able to pop over with a camera and start taking pictures of you. because you have this expectation of privacy. if you're in your house, you have this expectation of privacy. and in terms of the police accessing this

kind of data or using this kind of data, there are procedures that you can put in place baltimore wants none of that. they want this blanket prohibition. and while other cities have started to do this, baltimore is that the leading edge of trying to make this a criminal act for you to engage in the surveillance for you to take steps to protect yourself and your business and your property well and real quick before i let you know you're right. this is actually about the business owners, which seems like they have no right now. so are we hearing from the small business association or the chamber of commerce? are they getting involved? say, are our owners, i need to protect themselves. and one probably their property investment as well. well, listen to the business owners in baltimore dealing with a whole host of issues right now. not to sort of derail the stagnant we have. we have business owners in a segment of baltimore called fells. point that have just said that they're no longer going to pay their taxes or their permanent fees to the city because the city is not adequately protecting their businesses or engaging and just dealer services. so the businesses are starting to push back. this is not one,

but i think it's because a lot of folks simply didn't know about it. and you know, we're going to continue to make sure that people are aware that this is what's happening. once again, a lot of things happen when no one's paying attention, which sadly is i think what a lot of politicians look forward to. andrew, thank you so much for continuing to cover this. happy, belated birthday scottie hanks, andrew. so after the break, there are more sanctions for boris issued by the european union and of the u. s. this time targeting their commie. but what are they exactly hoping to accomplish? well, we're going to bring you the latest. and if this time it might work the aah! we're witnessing a very disturbing media trend serving an ideology and scoring political points trumps informing citizens. we have the rush gate hoax, the impeachment hoax, and the suppression of any debate on the origin of coven now front and center is

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canada with a slew of those sections. bowers is looking for the government of ours. the effort to be aimed at is force in the landing of the ryan air passenger jet and the subsequent arrest on opposition journalist last month or dr. hellish has more on the story from brothers. it's a joint response from the west against bella roofs. today, the united states and coordination with our allies and partners in canada. the european union and the united kingdom has taken a number of actions to impose costs on the lucas shank over geem and belarus for a variety of agree just acts. according to the us, the former soviet state is being punished for ongoing abuses of human rights corruption. the falsification of the 2020 election and the horse diversion of a ryan air flight on may 23rd. the ryan air passenger jet was on its way to lithuania from greece, both

u member states and was forced to land in minsk following a reported bomb threat opposition journalists, rum on per casa, which and his companion, sophia pago, were detained on site by bellow. bruce authorities, the incident seems to be a tipping point for western nations, which promised to react. and now they have the coordinated actions aimed at the lucas single government include a multitude of international sanctions. the us has imposed sanctions against 60 to individuals from below, bruce and 5 entities. the european union announced sanctions on 78th, baylor, russian individuals and 8 entities. the canadian foreign ministry and outstations on 17 individuals and 5 entities. and the u. k. input sanctions on 7 bill, russian individuals and one entity at a meeting in luxembourg. you foreign minister is also prepared a series of other economic measures that are aimed at minutes while continuing to put pressure on lucas shinkel government by supporting atlanta c. adams. gaia, an opposition leader in exile, was conveyed to me. you can know sky, you did the

a union remain ready to support a future, the lucrative arose with a comprehensive plan of economic support of up to 3 billions for democrats burrows. this reporting it who net help right now through the sanctions person has decided today economic to really cited sean and continue putting pressure on the location as regime russia has called the efforts against bella luce, methods of hybrid war can accuse the west of one sided sanctions and in dirty information campaigns, national switchover, taking into account the aggressive actions of our western colleagues, we've agreed to coordinate efforts to strengthen the state sovereignty of the russian federation and the republic of bella roost. and to ensure the national

security of our 2 countries through joint efforts on the basis of existing international legal agreements. according to moscow, the situation around russian citizens, they tend to bellows, including sophia, such a guy will be resolved soon. that said what other nations and the us are continuing with pressure against the lucas central government. while you are saying that the human rights situation is deteriorating. laross for r t. i'm alex, mileage to reporters haven't now come out on air against the ownership of their station saying they are being censored and forced to push a carefully crafted narrative. first there was, i re hecker who declared during a live hit should being suppressed by her network from telling the audience the truth. fox 26 reporter i re, hacker is live in montgomery county to take a look at that aspect. thanks guys. that's right, before we get to that story, i want to let you,

the viewers know that fox corps has been muslim to me to keep certain information from you, the viewers, and from what i'm gathering. i am not the only reporter thing to subjected to this . i am going to be releasing some recording about what goes on behind the scenes out fox, because it applies to you the viewers. well, i re hecker, she was actually a local reporter at fox 26 there in houston, texas and supplied audiotapes of the stations v p, and the news director ordering her to cease and desist her social media post on her private account about a controversial kobe treatment that's you know, that's a great question and the answer is yes, we have use it. i mean, we know that the struggle that has been pull it up to that was all we use it. we use it with good success. i asked that question because i was getting those tips from the viewers. and that was, that was a story by the way. but susan and we sent me there to cover the coven treatments at that hospital. i just wasn't supposed to ask that question to. she said,

just posting her drug clerkly in my opinion, you know, as a reporter, then there was a 3rd time that was released by hacker talking about one of the stories she was covering. i made a african american audience, the only real choice. what does she mean by that? research is done to study who, who, what sort of demographic groups, watch each newscast. and it was found that according to her, that some of our biggest audience at 5 is poor black people. and she has decided that poor black people don't care about bitcoin. that seems sort of a racially charged statement to make. so then, justice, week, april moss, a meteorologist as c, b. s a 62 in detroit. who on aaron out she was going to be sitting down as well. but james o'keefe and project veritas was showers moving in around

a and speaking of a brand new week, i will be sitting down this week with project bare cost to discuss the discrimination that cps is enforcing upon its employees to in to project bird top for my full story. now later monday we will see those showers continuing through late morning. i mean that wasn't a forecast at all big, even her news her was expecting. but you know, her complaints actually have more to do with internal actions going on at the company as well. as what they're wanting their employees to do regarding the vaccine. but there's a bigger question is, what is all of this going to accomplish? so to help me with this discussion, i bring a steve miles berg, host of the price here on our t america. and john, how do you normally see holding down or miami bureau, but it's joining us now. pin do see this week filling in for rick on their news with rick sanchez, dom and they for join me. and i hate to do this right out about if my map is right combine sitting at this table,

we have over 60 years of tv news experience. wow. i didn't think about it. i'm not sure what ages who's eldest, who's youngest, but from everywhere from the local, all the way up to the network. so this is about as expert panel as you can get. i think between the 3 of us in the tv news system, we know the system. we know how it works. john. yeah, everyone gets frustrated their job and no one. i don't care what the industry works in a place where they are 100 percent, agree with everything going on. sure. that being said, those in this industry, we do have the power to reach a larger, larger audience. so i want to ask a simple question, what are your feelings about what these young reporters probably in their 1st or 2nd jobs, what they did? well, 1st of all, i was laughing with the meteorologist say, with showers moving at m. and by the way, what was that, what was the control room doing? what was the producer doing type i might go back to the acres. you know, it's incredible. look, i don't agree with it. whether the accusations in the allocations that these 2

reporters are putting out there, whether it's true or not, remains to be seen. but there's a way to handle it. you handle it internally with your news directors with your gm's. and if that doesn't work, you're free to leave, leave lawyer file a suit or go public, go to project veritas, go on like start your own youtube channel. but, but doing that live on air in the middle of a winter segment. or at the top of i guess in houston, the houston reporters case a live shot having to do with power problems in the houston area. that's just bad for me. and now if, if either one of these reporters want to continue in their career, they're radioactive. if i'm a news director, if i'm a news director and i have a 100 applicants for a job and right now you know this, the local news industry is taking, it's a tough industry. companies are downsizing, they're cutting jobs are not hiring. so there's a lot of competition. if i'm news director, do you think i'm going to hire either one of these reporters for fears that there

they possibly will sabotaged my show? like they did in those segments? absolutely not. i think it was a bad move. it was bad form and they're not going to, they're not going to further their careers and it certainly doesn't lend any credibility, whether the allegations are true or not. it doesn't lend any credibility to what they're talking about. i thought it was a terrible decision and laughable frankly. well, and i think we all know that a lot of people don't realize that when you watch your local news station or might have fox cbs abc, that doesn't necessarily who owns that. there's actually other conglomerates of these media groups that are owned by different groups that have nothing to do with the call letters at the bottom. that being said, steve, we are taught, we are taught all the time the news visits cover. the news don't become it. therefore, do you think the actions of these reporters are actually justified? if it turns out it's true? no, i'm not. well, you know, only they can determine in the long run whether it was justified or in their own minds. when they look back on it. i would say that i agree with mr. hardy,

this is ridiculous. they're never good to get another job. they shouldn't get another job. how could they be trusted? this isn't the way to handle it. we have all been told at one point over our, you know, you say 60, i'd say because of me, it's more of up to 70. but over the course of our various careers we've all been told don't do this or do this. and there are added tauriel decisions that are made for various reasons. and i don't like it. i mean, if you quit, you don't, you don't say it in the middle of a weather forecast or the middle of a report on the scene. and by the way, i mean just now, or if you're going to do that, rip the microphone off and leave, don't continue with the weather and continue with the report as if you didn't do anything that was ridiculous of noxious. and i'm not, i got to say as much as i admired to a large extent, james though, keeping project barrett. i'm not a big fan of people wearing mikes in cameras and you know,

in the course of business and getting, getting them putting. gotcha. i just, i just don't think that that's what the workplace should be. i mean people say things and i won't like it when the left does it. so i so i shouldn't like it when the right does that. i like some of the things we found out about cnn and others, but we've already known that this just verifies it. but this is, this is not the way to go about it and these women did, they'll never work again. and then they'll probably super sexual harassment say nobody hire them well and that's something you know, and there's, i think another picture that i was concerned when i saw the steve, we go in this industry. we it's, it's hard to think that we don't have our opinions. we love the news. it's a reason why we go into it. but what i'm concerned about, and i'm going to get this back to you, steve, real quick. should it be some concern? know that now networks are going to go look before they hire anybody out of college, if they, their social media post. if there's any political leaning, there it is because they know, could this actually backfire? and whether you're a conservative liberal, even in college,

they're not going to hire you just because they're afraid they're hiring a stick of dynamite. i gotta feel that the liberal networks do that already. i mean, you know, some of them may not be as good at it as others because sometimes we find out now that way back something was posted. but i think going forward or in the it, not because of these women, but i think it's been practice in all the industry. so i don't think the media is any exception. people are getting checked out well and that check out it's not a bad thing. john. in your history of working at the local news or it's and i think the big question is the control room. how should the control room of handle the handle the situation? and that's kind of also blew up. and now we have tape of them actually saying it, what would be the right way to do it? well, 1st of all, i think that it, it's the news director the, the g and they need to know what's going on with their reporters. and if there is a potential problem, they need to recognize that and it sounds like with these 2 reporters, i'm not sure about the c b s. affiliate reporter, but with the houston reporter,

clearly there was an issue. you know, clearly there's history there and there's a problem and i agree with steve, look, it's the news director if they don't want to cover a particular story, that's their call. you know, they have the right to make that decision or the a t, or even the e p. they have that right. and if, and you can either accept it or you don't and but going on, aaron doing that. it's just that's, that's a very juvenile way to handle it. they're not the 1st, by the way, reporters to do that. they probably won't be the last, but it's, it's really not. it's not a good idea as far as what the control room should have done. look, if i'm, if i'm the director or find the p or the producer in there, probably cut the mike, go back to the go back to the anchor. say, sorry about that we, we lost connection, whatever, but more so again, going back to my, my main points there, there clearly was a problem with both reporters. now whether you make a decision not to put the millionaire or have them do take packages, you know, possibly that maybe that should have been done. i don't know. i wasn't there. i'm

not working at either station, so i can't make that call. but clearly there was an to and it's really up to management, their news directors, their assistant news directors to know what's going on. and if there is a potential problem to headed off. and steve, before i like to go this idea of activists in the news, as we know about it, the networks opinions exist there's and does it show that activists are actually involved in the local as well? yeah, absolutely. i mean, that's exactly what they're doing and they're doing it from the right. presumably look quite this, a little, quite crazy way to call and capture nick. you know, when you're on the clock, you can't, you can't protest and make your political statement and not expect to be fired. well, i appreciate both of you for joining on this conversation. thanks for joining us. you bet. thanks, scottie. and that you all for today. she went by quick follow me on twitter as scottie and hughes, and thanks for watching. we'll catch you next time. ah

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