. ♪ >> champaign-urbana is in the heart of champaign county.e're a square county right in the middle of east central illinois. >> people here are what i would call salt of the earth people. people who work hard, have strong values. >> the university of illinois straddles both cities, champaign and urbana. >> the story itself plays out essentially on the u of i campus, from beginning to end. >> it's a beautiful campus. it's sprawling. >> youtube was developed by two of our alums. soybean was developed as a cash crop here at the university of illinois. so the ag roots are, no pun intended, very deep. >> i'm a graduate of the university of illinois. it has the largest chinese student population in the country. there's no other college in the u.s. that has more chinese students. >> and now if you went around campus about this time, i swear to god, you'd think you were in beijing because there are so many asian students. >> in the spring of 2016, a new person flies from china, joining thousands of other chinese students. a brilliant visiting scholar

response and give us greater flexibility, i have today issued a disaster proclamation for cook, champaign, dupage, kendall, madison, macon, sangamen and will counties to coordinate resources as we work to assist local governments with their disaster response and recovery operations. it is difficult to put into words the damage that has happened to our communities over the weekend because there are small incidences and lives and jobs and public property to think of on top of the economic strife that we're living in. 40 million people are unemployed in this country. in time, property can be rebuilt. but the pain will fall disproportionately on the backs of our small business owners, our working families and our communities of color. and it has to stop. we have to take care of our people, and for that reason, we will continue to flexibility deploy illinois state police and the national guard strategically as we work with the dual purpose of protecting illinoisans as well as the first amendment rights of peaceful protestors. i know there are people in this country including some elected offic

any drink there is your wall or your like you know champaign he was a wild radical right but you know he had an affair with printers right. that's what happened well you know your journalism has stood as a shining star in a lot of big moments you know you were against the iraq war from the start and continue to put forward the crazy idea that there were no weapons of mass destruction there and more recently your previous outlet truthdig was one of the few progressive outlets to stand up against the rush again hysteria and question the the mainstream neil mccarthy s narrative which has now completely collapsed how hard is it to push back against those narratives when you're really the entire national security state and they're still not refers in the corporate media are trumpeting that viewpoint nonstop. well they're going to lose you know we cross it's totally irrational and now it is shifting to china putin doesn't make a good target and so hard to do red baiting without a read you know and then you buy just was reading the i need to view a lot of people in russia i was there for the

abruptly pulled out of talks to tax digital companies could mean prices rising for some cheese and champaignday, june 18, 2020 "squawk box" begins right now.

he is also the fire chief of champaign, illinois fire department. prior to his service, chief ludwig served in the city of st. louis for 25 years and retired as chief paramedic of the st. louis fire department. he has also served 10 years as deputy fire chief of another fire department. after chief ludwig, mr. roy sanders. 27,000epresenting over firefighters in the state of oklahoma, texas, and the panama canal zone. and was his fourth term first elected in 2004. president, he provides , withtations on resources --r 300 thirdly, steve hirsch. he currently serves as chair of the national fire council. also the training officer of the sheridan county fire 1, and glendale fire department, all of which are 100% volunteer fire departments. currently serves as vice chair of the kansas state firefighters association after serving as secretary from 2000 to 2018. know, witnesses should you will each have five minutes for open testimony. includedimony will be for the hearing. appropriatethe testimony, we will begin with questions and each will have five minut

high school in san jose and he's going to be a proud fighting ally knife university of illinois, champaign he's going to go in as a computer science major in the fall and you can let us know about a graduate in your life all you have to do is go to kron 4 dot com and find the salute to grads 2020 it's there under the news tab. then submit a picture of your graduate let us know the high school the graduate attended and what's next in line for them. what's next in line for us is to the lowdown on the foreca as far as going to do that for us. hi dave. >>ok we're looking at a warm up going on for today. i here's a look at the breakdown that we have coming in from the bay bridge toll plaza so the car start to line up a little bit 78 going on by 10 at 1 o'clock we're talking at 90. although the heat advisory doesn't kick in today, it will kick in tomorrow. it's still going to feel very plenty hoptak in those inland valleys going on for today, i'll have a look at your 4 zone forecast coming up in just a bit back to you. >>i thank you dave. coming up in the next hour tear gas fired at protesters w

joel kentis was a church deacon and restaurant worker in champaign, illinois. nephew tells wcia he was only 39 years old. he had no underlying health problems. the nephew says the whole family got sick, but his uncle, unfortunately, quote, got the bad end of it. he leaves behind a wife and two sons. we'll be right back. . announcer: this july fourth join us for a special fortieth anniversary presentation of a capitol fourth! with your hosts john stamos and vanessa williams and performances from coast to coast. featuring: patti labelle, john fogerty, the temptations, andy grammer yolanda adams, renée fleming, trace adkins brian stokes mitchell, chrissy metz, mandy gonzalez, and a tribute to our frontline workers. it's the fortieth anniversary of a capitol fourth. saturday july fourth, eight- seven central. only on pbs. >>> a breaking news police in riot gear clashing with protesters. these pictures from outside city hall in new york city and it comes ahead of a vote today on the mayor's proposal to cut $1 billion from the nypd's budget. cnn's brynn gingras has m

threatened to retaliate with 100% tariffs on french champaign, cheese and hand bags. the uk, italy and spain have all developed their own digital tax approaches in case the international deal failed. >> why are you laughing, joe >> i don't want to be an ugly american i'm just hesitant to step out there. you are in europe. let's see, what can we do? when is the last time we developed a really great new tech company we haven't developed any why don't we tax big tech companies that are all based in the united states where they've developed things we have sap, i think that's about it. it is typical. a great way to do it we are taxing everybody. every digital company of a certain size it is just that there aren't any. >> you realize your people are spending their time and money trying to advertise on those things you are right. if you intentionally set out to tax something that hurts somebody else and not you, they are going to retaliate >> disruptors, are they any domestic companies does it matter >> no. we've had international companies on the list. >> there is one from

caller: as a former policeman -- i was a policeman for four years here in champaign urbana.uoyed by the advent of the body camera, hoping that things would be recorded and we would see exactly what happened. now i think it would be a good suggestion to upload whatever footage they have to a central location and technically not allow them to be able to turn off the cameras. it is one thing to talk about training, and there is another thing to talk about which you start out with. if you start out with a person who is deeply prejudiced, no amount of training is going to do any good. as a matter fact, i was involved in the social service system after my p stent, and i can tell you one of my colleagues, social workers, complained bitterly about multicultural training. i think you have to consider what you are starting out with. but i think you need surveillance on the police. i think they have shown that they need to be surveilled, and they should not be able to turn off those cameras. host: melvin with his ideas for police reform. that is our question for all of you this morning