Daily News Article - February 5, 2026
NOTE TO STUDENTS: Before answering the questions, read the “Background” and watch the videos under “Resources.”
1. The first paragraph of a news article should answer the questions who, what, where and when. (In this article, 1st and 2nd paragraphs). List the who, what, where and when of this news item. (NOTE: The remainder of a news article provides details on the why and/or how.)
2. How did the FBI and LVPD discover the illegal alleged biolab in a house in Vegas?
3. What charges have been brought against foreign national Ori Solomon?
4. a) How did SWAT and the police approach the house?
b) What did investigators find when they went in?
5. a) How is the owner of the Las Vegas house, Jia Bei Zhi, a Chinese national linked the the Chinese Communist Party, involved?
b) What charges have been lodged against Zhu? How long has he been in federal custody?
6. What allegations has the House Select Committee on the People’s Republic of China, made against Chinese citizen Zhu?
7. A housecleaner alerted the feds to the biolab in the house in Las Vegas. How did police first learn of Zhu's biolab in California in 2023?
8. Re-watch the CBS47 video and the 2023 Fox News video under "Resources." Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba said the city and county warned the federal government
and "when we tried to raise the flag we received such a poor response from the CDC - it's almost as if they didn't want anything to do with this."
County Supervisor Nathan Magsig said "some of the items that were discovered in the Reedley lab...pointed to the fact that there may be additional labs in other parts of the United States."
She said that when she called, "the CDC hung up on her" and that the CDC never tested a single sample, even at city expense.
Why do you think the Biden administration refused to take any action on the biohazards being secretly developed by a Chinese national aligned with the Chinese Communist Party in a California warehouse?