THREAD: Been working on this story for well over 6 months w/
@TimListerCNN
@FlorenceDAttlee
and
@KochaOlarn
. We looked at one single Thai company that had successfully exported well over 100 million substandard, or USED medical gloves to the US.
Whitney, the first person you see in the story, told me that she took some Christmas presents back to the store to save money. On Christmas morning, her kids wondered if Santa had gotten their letters.
@jaketapper
@CNN
#Ogden
#Utah
#GovtShutdown
"I pay my taxes. I do what I'm supposed to do. I shouldn't have to be without a job."
Workers who suddenly find themselves without pay are turning to loans, food banks, and unemployment offices for help during partial gov't shutdown:
@scottmclean
reports
A tent-city has popped up outside of the WalMart in Chico, CA housing people displaced from Paradise. I met a grandmother staying in a tent with her 9 year old grandson who told me what he missed about his house: “Just Being in a bed... Being under a ceiling”
#Paradise
#Campfire
Even after spending the longest day of their lives getting to the Poland/Ukraine border and then several hours in the freezing cold waiting to cross it, I didn’t hear any children crying or complaining. It was remarkable to see how tough these kids were at the border, even at 5am
There’s “Bernie bros,” and then there’s Bernie Sanders’ actual brother Larry, who looks and sounds remarkably similar. This is him voting in his hometown of Oxford, in the Democrats abroad primary.
@cnn
cc:
@ryanobles
You don’t have to understand the language to understand this woman’s pain. This is the mother of
#PS752
Pilot Captain Volodymyr Gaponenko. “Oh my son, why did you leave me?” she wails.
@CNN
You know when you get a press release to cover a Guinness world record attempt for tallest stack of waffles & expect it to be some big commercial thing & then it's just a guy's house? This is SO MUCH BETTER. Follow along,
#Denver
! Things might get weird!
In late April the Spanish PM appeared to misattribute int'l Covid-19 testing rankings. They weren't from
@JohnsHopkins
as he said, they were from a site called Worldometer. We wondered, 'what's Worldometer?' Here's what our investigation found-->
@LauraCNN
Massive American flag raised by El Paso firefighters in front of the church where the funeral service for fallen Border Patrol Agent Rogelio Martinez will be held.
A handful of old fissures have re-activated, and joined together over the past few days. Lava is pouring out like a fountain... feeding a fast-moving lava stream that’s now reached the ocean. The pics will never do it justice though.
#KilaueaVolcano
#KilaueaErupts
#Hawaii
@cnn
I didn’t know Pierre Zakrzewski well, but I was lucky enough to meet him on two occasions. This was the first time in Kyiv two years ago. He seemed to be universally loved and admired — and was an absolute pleasure to spend time with. What a loss.
"I don't usually drink a lot when I'm on the road because we're busy, but... we were three sheets to the wind because he was just a lovely guy to hang out with."
CNN's
@scottmclean
remembered the "extremely popular" Fox cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, who was killed in Ukraine.
"It's certainly theoretically possible that some people even who have antibodies may not be protected," Dr. Ania Wajnberg tells CNN outside her lab in New York.
"But I think the majority of people that test positive for antibodies will be protected for some time."
Hungary and Iceland have lifted quarantine restrictions for travelers who have recovered from Covid-19. While this could help kickstart the global economy ahead of vaccinations, some say there are serious risks.
Took a real serious whiff of sulphur dioxide today near a vent and lava flow at Leilani Estates. The sensor in my hand was beeping and reached 66ppm. I couldn’t breathe, and eyes and lungs burned momentarily. It may have actually been the worst 10 seconds of my life.
#Kilauea
“I wasn’t being as attentive as I should have been… it set me on fire… I thought I was going to die”
Hawaiian man describes his near-death encounter with a flaming lava bomb that struck his leg, nearly severing it
Just touched down in Madrid. The flight was almost empty, so was passport control and baggage claim. The taxi driver sanitized his hands after touching my bags and offered me some too. Pretty unusual experience.
#COVID
ー19
@CNN
Most important
#COVID19
story my team has done. A lack of ventilators means doctors are choosing who will get the ones they do have, based on age, life expectancy. Doctors with coronavirus symptoms are still showing up to work - they have no choice.
@LauraCNN
@CNN
#QuedateEnCasa
Spain’s health care system has been pushed to the brink in the coronavirus pandemic.
One Spanish ICU nurse describes using garbage bags as medical gowns due to a shortage of protective equipment.
@scottmclean
reports.
$25 per hour, healthcare benefits and free childcare – inside the American factory that says it can compete with ‘even the dirtiest user of slave labor’... But here's the real twist: it's all run by a former cable news anchor.
The CEO of Ukrainian Railways has no prior military experience, but now, he commands his 231,000 employees like his country depends on it. 33 rail employees have died since the war began.
#Ukraine
US Medical Glove Company CEO
@DylanRatigan
thinks his startup will be profitable thanks to new automation technology. He says if his company can pay American workers a decent wage, then so too can the multinational giants producing shoes and phones in low-wage countries.
If you’re Canadian, you grew up admiring Terry Fox, a national hero who used his limited time on earth to do something meaningful. Last month I met Krista Bose, a Canadian with the same type of deadly cancer, who is doing the same.
The FBI has been investigating several possibilities, including an accident, an attack, or an altercation between the two agents, according to a Department of Justice official with knowledge of the investigation.
Wildfire as seen from outside my hotel in Agoura Hills, CA. These two photos were taken within 3 minutes of each other. It is moving amazingly fast — wind gusts are 50+ mph and won’t die down until tomorrow morning.
#WoolseyFire
#CAwx
#cnn
How wonderfully weird to run into my former work wife
@scottmclean
at the Warsaw Airport Renaissance Hotel. Neither of us knew the other was even in Poland. I recognized him from the back of his head and I tried to mess with him, but failed because he recognized my voice.
Good morning from Hawaii... those aren’t city lights... it’s the glow of new lava on a lava field that hasn’t been active for a week+.
#KilaueaVolcano
#Pahoa
#BigIsland
We had to get a Coronavirus test before we were allowed on the ferry to Formentera. Quick finger prick, 12 minutes later we got the result. All 3 of us, negative. Today was the first day a test was required. It delayed the ship by more than an hour.
#quedatencasa
#CNN
@LauraCNN
Where the lava meets the ocean at Kapoho bay. Between the lava flow half a mile wide and the ocean there’s an entire community that’s being destroyed right now. You can see fissure 8 that’s feeding the flow off to the left, miles away.
#Kilauea
#BigIsland
#Hawaii
@CNN
The experts say the splattering lava at Kilauea fissure
#17
continues to die down. While that seems to be true, my crew and I have been watching it for four nights now and tonight we’ve seen some of the loudest and most intense explosions yet.
#KilaueaVolcano
#HI
#KilaueaErupts
Ex-NYT Editor, now Harvard journalism prof Jill Abramson on her students: "They mostly want to write first-person, highly personal narratives about themselves... But I think there’s too much of that in journalism. It’s not about us. It’s about the world"
Ibiza 6am. Heading to Formentera Island — one of four Spanish islands getting a new set of freedoms today. Restaurants terraces and churches will be open, and gatherings of up to 10 people are allowed. After 7 weeks of strict lockdown, it’s a big deal
#QuedateEnCasa
#COVID19
#CNN
As promised to
@IsaCNN
— here is the video I mentioned on TV. Spaniards cheering/applauding healthcare workers on the front lines. Here, they’re chanting “the health service is public and good quality” (it rhymes in Spanish)
#covid19ESP
#quedateencasa
@LauraCNN
Haunted by the possibility that a young life might have been saved, the rightful land owners of that squalid New Mexico compound question why police waited so long (months) to search it.
#newmexico
#TaosCompound
#cnn
2,600 federal workers in Utah have applied for unemployment benefits. It takes 2-3 weeks to get a check, and it’s for less than half your usual pay. If congress votes to pay employees retroactively, they’ll have to pay back their unemployment checks.
#GovtShutdown
Laura, the woman who went to the food bank for the first time, told me the experience was “demoralizing,” and wondered how other people did it regularly. She also takes medication that costs $250. She’s not sure where she will get the cash from.
#GovtShutdown
Spain’s coronavirus outbreak has left hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, millions furloughed and many, who had never seen the inside of a food bank, suddenly asking for help. We met some of them this week —>
#quedatencasa
#COVID19
#CNN
@LauraCNN
Good morning from Redding, California where there are 800+ homes just like this one: completely destroyed. It’s hard to even tell what was what before the flames. The good news, today the fire is moving away from Redding towards more sparsely populated areas.
#CarrFire
Ekrem Imamoglu (
@imamoglu_int
) was reelected Mayor of Istanbul 3 weeks ago, cementing his position as one of Turkey’s main opposition leaders.
@scottmclean
caught up with him for a wide-ranging conversation on
@RTErdogan
, democracy, his upcoming trial, and the Israel-Gaza war.
The shutdown hasn’t affected everyone equally though. Salons in downtown Ogden say they’re doing fine. A knitting supply store near the federal building is actually seeing more customers thanks to federal employees who need something to do while they’re off work.
#GovtShutdown
Spain’s stunning Formentera island, a short ferry from Ibiza, had only 7 Coronavirus cases. It’s been cleared to start re-opening... though we found plenty of businesses there choosing to stay closed...
#QuedateEnCasa
#covid19espa
ña
@LauraCNN
#CNN
@CTVchrisepp
Chris, you’ve gotta let this go... it’s been YEARS since you lost the ‘hottest man in the office’ title... and you have to accept that you’re probably never getting it back. But look on the bright side, I bet your wife still finds you kind of somewhat mildly attractive...ish.