need2know-morning-edition-111623

President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday for their first face to face meeting. In about a year, the two leaders are in San Francisco for the Economic Conference of Pacific Rim Nations. They discussed the importance of their relationship in the face of global challenges that includes climate change, narcotics, artificial intelligence, the COVID pandemic and of course, the world's economy. President Biden held a press conference last night right after the meeting and in the months ahead, we're going to continue to preserve and pursue high level diplomacy at the PR C in both directions to keep the lines of communication open, including between President Xi and me. He and I agreed that each one of us could pick up the phone call directly and we be heard immediately. We have disagreements. He has a different view than I have on a lot of things, but he's been straight. I don't mean that good, bad or indifferent. It's just been straight. President Ji Xi has met with several world leaders over the past several months, actively promoting his idea of establishing a quote new world order. President Biden is eager to demonstrate why an improved relationship between the US and China remains critical. The last time the two leaders spoke face to face was a year ago in Bali shifting overseas to the war between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli defense forces dropped leaflets on southern Gaza today warning residents to evacuate, signaling a possible expansion of their ground invasion. This comes after hundreds of thousands of Gaza civilians have already moved south in northern Gaza. The IDF reveals what it says are equipment and weapons recovered from Al Shifa Hospital. However, they have not yet provided evidence of a Hamas command center or an entrance to networks of tunnels that they claimed justified the military operation. Speaking yesterday at AC in California, President Biden maintained the US has evidence. Israeli claims are accurate. The first war crime is being committed by Hamas by having their headquarters, their military hidden under a hospital and that's a fact that's what's happened. Israel did not go in with a large number of troops did not raid, did not rush everything down. They've gone in and they've gone in with their soldiers carrying weapons or guns. The United Nations unanimously passed a resolution yesterday calling for extended humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza. The US UK and Russia abstained from the vote. The UN says sewage plants and water treatment plants in Gaza have both seized operating the World Health Organization says just nine hospitals in the territory are functional. Prosecutors rejected the request to drop charges against an ex marine charged with manslaughter for allegedly fatally choking a man on the New York City subway in a court filing yesterday, prosecutors argue that Daniel Penny who held Jordan Neely in a Chokehold for six minutes should have been aware his actions could turn deadly in their filing to dismiss the case. Penny's lawyers argued that he did not intend to kill Neely who they say was quote insanely threatening other passengers. Prosecutors countered that the train entered the station just 30 seconds after the Chokehold began Penny faces up to 19 years in prison if convicted, a California jury began deliberating yesterday in the case against the man accused of attacking Nancy Pelosi's husband. David Zap is charged with attempted kidnapping of a federal official, an assault on the immediate family member of a federal official for the October 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi. In closing arguments, Deap attorneys argued that while he committed the attack, it was because he believed in political conspiracies about Nancy Pelosi's beliefs not to interfere with her duties. As then Speaker of the House, prosecutors countered that there is no meaningful distinction between the two motivations. Deap faces up to 20 years for the kidnapping charge and up to 30 years for the assault. The mother of a six year old boy who shot his teacher was sentenced yesterday for owning a gun while using marijuana. Dejah Taylor's son, took her handgun to school and shot his first grade teacher Abby Zerner. This happened on January 6th in Newport News, Virginia. The shooting left the teacher with serious injuries. She had to have five surgeries. Taylor was sentenced to 21 months in prison. On these charges. Federal prosecutors say the gun used in the shooting was purchased by Taylor in July of 2022. She also faces a separate charge for felony child neglect which she pled guilty to. In August. A teenager in Iowa has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his teacher, Jeremy Goodale pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the 2021 beating death of Nahema Graber. The 18 year old could be paroled in 25 years. Goodale and his and Willard Miller used a bat to kill Graber. Their 66 year old high school Spanish teacher over bad grades. Now in July Miller was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 35 years. They were both 16 at the time of the murder. NBC News has obtained new footage of Alec Baldwin handling prop guns on the set of his film Rust. The footage was taken days before the fatal shooting of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. In two of the five videos Baldwin can be seen and heard trying to quote rearrange crew members after having expressed concerns about their safety. That's according to the outlet. Another video appears to show Baldwin repeatedly firing prop guns, asking crew members to reload quickly. Recently, New Mexico special prosecutor scheduled a grand jury hearing to determine if Baldwin should face criminal charges that hearing was set for today but was rescheduled yesterday for a later date. Another eye drop recall is pulling 27 products from retailers like Rite Aid Target CBS and Walmart. The US Food and Drug Administration cited quote, a risk of eye infections that could result in partial vision loss or blindness. End quote. Kli health care India is recalling eye drops ranging from November of 2023 to September of 2025. After FDA investigators found unsanitary conditions, the FDA recommended consumers stop using the recalled eye drops and return the product to the store. SpaceX is set to launch another Starship test flight. The Federal Aviation Administration granted the company permission to launch tomorrow at 8 a.m. eastern time after it failed to lift off in April starship received over 1000 upgrades and 63 FAA mandated corrections for flight safety improvements standing nearly 400 ft tall, 30 ft wide. This rocket is the largest and most powerful rocket built SpaceX will lift off from its test facility on the Texas Gulf coast on its trajectory around the planet before re entry in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii.