Headlines for more of those stories of course you can go to our t. V. Dot com our web site and get much more there as well now stay tuned for more great programming right here on a hearty international. Hello from rhode island Home Sweet Home where we are still hunkered down dust star of that virus and if you think you are at wits end with staycation imagine how the airlines feel in a Statement United Airlines explains the obvious the reality is that united simply cannot continue at our current payroll level past october 1 and environment where travel demand is so depressed and involuntary furloughs come as a last resort. After months of company wide cost cutting and Capital Raising united is talking about cutting as many as 36000. 00 jobs American Airlines could layoff as many as 25000. 00 thats almost a 3rd of its pilots flight attendants mechanics and airport workers Virgin Atlantic has filed for bankruptcy southwest has a little breathing room after more than a quarter of its workforce volunteered for leaves of absence or took girly retirement so while were hunkered down carriers each carrier is losing millions of dollars each day how long can that go on lets ask former National Transportation safety board official jamie fan jamie almost every industry is working with a Skeleton Crew these days so beyond limiting choices to we the consumers do you feel as though airworthiness could be compromised. No i dont feel that its been compromised in the least i think thats the least of our worries as far as travel. Agencies is the f. A. A. And you are going to part of. It. And so theyre not going to compromise that you know. Because no one was to crash obviously and it is its going to be. Very very long before we get back to normal oh. Yeah and during this crisis safety takes on a secondary meaning because people transmit the virus by getting together and air travel amplifies the geography of that spread so weve heard how well scrubbed and socially distance the planes are until lately and i must say i was surprised to hear former obama press secretary. Urned United Airlines chief Communications Officer josh earnest come right out and say it his statement was when it comes to blocking middle seats thats a p. R. Strategy thats not a Safety Strategy when youre on board the aircraft if youre sitting in the aisle in the middle seat is empty the person across the aisle from you is within 6 feet of you the person at the window is within 6 feet of you are the people in the row in front of you or within 6 feet of you the people in the row behind you are within 6 feet of you so some carriers are now selling those middle seats again and others that dont are marketing accordingly jamie under these dire circumstances another comeback comes to mind have the airlines suspended orders for a new aircraft and if so is the aging fleet a concern. Well their lives are always buying new aircraft and replacing their fleet agent fleet has been one that has been really resolved in the last few years of the airlines have been very profitable over the last decade and a lot of that profit has been coming from all the things that they charged extra fees that and are installed by f. A. A. And airlines after the financial crisis in 2008 theres really a lot of. It improving their quality of their aircraft but theres not going to be a big loss its large change well yeah im glad to hear that your confidence in the equipment but what about the aging humans many of these pilots are taking early retirement now is there a concern that the crews are young. Well you know crews have always been young but it was really something thats very interesting its very crucial and critical in the industry right now and thats the age that are retiring in aging out. For decades we really depend on the military pilots who are coming out of service to go into to fly commercially for the airlines and that has been reduced over the last few years and so forth and were not having as many pilots come out of defense like he used to and so were seeing were seeing a lot of young pilots that are coming in to the industry but the scary part about the young pilots to come in its not that theyre not as trained of course that they need more experience and support the main thing is they they work so many long hours and they work so hard you know the costs upwards of one 100000. 00 to get your commercial flight a pilots license to fly commercially for airline but but the pilots make like 1520. 00. 1000. 00 a year and so theyre sharing apartments and you know their base cities and support and theyre not getting a good nights sleep theres a lot of disruption and theres a lot of anxiety that goes with that so that right there is one more concert. I got back to the equipment a couple of years ago and it doesnt seem that long ago but a couple years ago the big story you and i were talking about was the 737 max whats the latest on that well the match like al is in its the 45. 00 day review period which is where the f. A. A. Puts out for Public Comment recommendations and changes that theyve made to the aircraft and so forth in this particular situation this have been very subjects. For the next 45. 00 days it will be open for Public Comment. On the changes and adjustments that f. A. A. Has made to correction the problems or are issues that were with the plane prior from the prior crashes which could be one of those situations where some of those have been backs is going to be finally going up in the air about the middle of october in once it goes up in flight you will see the plane back in service now the main problem the airlines are going to have their flight a similar a 7 max is that the that their passengers are not going to want to fly this is they have a big boeing doesnt just have a technical problem with the 737 max they have a Public Relations issue of this of there is something max and so there its going to take them some good bit of time to get that p. R. Part of it resolved and get people comfortable with flying the plane and i dont think a lot of people are going to be running out the door to jump on some very seldom actually mean usually. Yeah i think youre right were speaking with former n. T. S. B. Official ledge amy fan and when i told jamie this story on the phone he chuckled and said i had to share it with you i want to show you a picture of tom this is the shoe shine guy at the airport here in rhode island a long time no see tom 6 months ago he said a mouthful when he shrugged ive always viewed teleconferencing as a threat jamie telecommuting and zoom meetings have obsoleted a lot of Business Travel various caribbean countries even canada wont let us in now las vegas and nicky mouse look like theyre no fun is even more Airline Consolidation possible. Sure of course i mean what were seeing right now with. Its always been known as a strong carrier but. Pockets like the the traditional legacy carriers like united american delta. Like those carriers. And the resources so youre going to see a lot of consolidation i believe in the next few years. Because its because its going to state you know 56 maybe even the better part of a decade to get airlines back to where they were prior to the pandemic thank you National Transportation safety board a former oficial jamie friendship prescience your time here in the big picture earlier we showed you tom the shoeshine guy at the Providence Airport and there is Collateral Damage at g n s foods in Arlington Texas 2 back in march American Airlines abruptly canceled its order for almost 2000000 pounds of mixed nuts the almonds cashews pecans and pistachios in that package we struggled to open g. M. s foods is literally a mom and pop business and milroy and peacock got stuck with a 1000000. 00 worth of nuts in their warehouse and then united cancelled 2. Coming up 100 years ago this week women got the right to vote how will they vote in november this is the big picture on our t. V. America. The sudden fullest and illegal takeover of a government by a small group. So rather than revolutionaries or soldiers vets small groups the cooperation when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure thats the best dont get together and take it back. These are sacrificing. Places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things like Voter Suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices were well into that world for well into the 1st world and theres no question that the coup detat. What eventually became the 19th amendment to the constitution was introduced in congress and 878 and it wasnt until august 18. 1920 when tennessee became the 36th state to ratify that women got the right to vote in those 40 years suffrage workers lectured wrote marched lobbied went on hunger strikes and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what Many Americans then considered radical change 100 years later a Major Political party chooses a woman as its candidates running mate for only the 3rd time. And the Vice President ial candidate for this election is not already in. The works. For. Governor palin since our last interview youve gotten a lot of flak some republicans have said youre not prepared youre not ready for primetime people have questioned your writing a since that interview and im curious to hear your not only am i ready but willing and able to serve as Vice President with senator mccain if americans so bless us and privilege us with the opportunity of serving them ready with my executive experience as a city mayor and manager as a governor as a commissioner a regulator of oil and gas. Will joe bidens Vice President ial pick matter more this time and will women pick the next president lets ask our own scotty no huges who like your affable ost is broadcasting remotely and welcome Claire Meyerhoff a Nonprofit Communications specialist who says she is a polish a cli active lifelong democrat shes based in washington and claire has followed bidens career since she got to d. C. In 1081 and she says shes thrilled that he has chosen comolli harris as his running mate. Weve been hearing kaamelott kamel a comma for a couple of days the story is blocked out the sun and being the big picture i like to pull back and take a wide angle shot so that particular candidate aside historically v. P. Nominee have not impacted president ial elections much but spry as joe biden looks when he bounds on stage is aged. Has become an issue scotty then clear how much does his v. P. Pick matter usually it doesnt matter and i think that just talks to the need right now on the democrat side to create some sort of energy some sort of drive that joe biden has been able to do over the past few months with this campaign comma Harris Actually has a little she has a lot of energy obviously a lot of charismatic attitude that it was hoping to bring some energy to the stage but after her 1st appearance which i bought it thats not necessarily in the fireworks they were expecting but once again it is always sad that when you have to rely on the Vice President ial ticket i dont care if its republican or democrat to motivate people to the poll of which is what they were looking for with sarah palin when it came to mccain and a very bored Republican Party we see how that turned out maybe this might be different time will tell. Yeah and obviously Walter Mondale choosing Geraldine Ferraro was a bit of a hail mary pass clear what do you think what do you make of it. Well im very excited about coming being our nominee because i feel that its not so much about her bringing out the vote or whatever its really about the team what does this new Team Look Like to us as democrats whos coming back are we going to get back on track when joe biden was Barack ObamasVice President ial nominee we saw well this is what the team is going to look like its going to be the senator with all this experience and he knows how to build coalitions and all that and so i think with senator harris as well shes an awesome pick because i want to see a really strong team come back into the white house thats whats most important to me. How about the age issue with v. P. Biden clarity do you think that this addresses that. Yeah you know hes a little old and so were a lot of people in the running like Bernie Sanders and donald trump is not a Spring Chicken either so its funny how were seeing these top candidates well in their seventys so it seems back in the days. When Ronald Reagan was running i remember thinking like wow hes so old he was like my dads age and my father was like i wouldnt so you know age doesnt seem to matter as much anymore and yeah i guess you know its an issue for some people but i look at joe biden he was right his bike the other day looking good and im pretty confident that hell be sticking around for a while. But you know my friends are growing up also because everybody. It is one quick thing that i do want to point out you brought up the idea of this Vice President its interesting when trump picked his Vice President they werent looking to bring anybody in with that in fact they picked him because he thought it would actually solidified those that were doubtful within the Republican Party thats the exact opposite tendency that youre seeing in 2020 with the democrats choice they actually need to bring back their a lecturer bring back people and get them excited which is kind of the exact opposite of what they were trying to do with republicans in 2016. Yeah especially with this pandemic which has been such an atypical campaign dynamic polling numbers are always received subjectively if your guys up you believe if not its fake news and in 2016 the polls got the answer right but they seemed to be asking the wrong question Hillary Clinton won the popular vote while donald trump played the electoral map by thin margins in key states he won michigan by fewer than 11000 votes and now the numbers show biden leading there and in florida and in arizona all states the trump one in 2016 and in all 3 states the president s disapproval ratings are 50 percent or more generally and for his handling of the corona Virus Outbreak which is a hot button issue to women voters but jimmy carter led Ronald Reagan in mid october in 1980 so dont blink scottie the polls do give biden the edge among women some polls even reliably red texas what do you think President Trumps message to women should be. Well thats the thing holland the Republican Party as a whole has had a long time trouble with the female voter i mean how low romney put us all and binders so its not just a trump eccentric problem with republican with republican or any female vote coming out to vote for him but for he himself the best thing he can do is actually focus on issues not necessarily female a sheet but everyone issues education right talking about safety those sorts of issues right there is what appeals to female also talking about Small Business as more females or Small Business owners today than any time ever before so when you talk about the economy when you talk about getting us back on working were talking about males and females i think that right there is the trigger when you start talking. Actually just to one demographic one stereotype or another i think that when the republicans start to lose because pandering does not work well believe it or not on the republican side. A couple of more numbers a majority of u. S. Adults recently surveyed by Pew Research Center say the country hasnt gone far enough when it comes to giving women equal rights with men not surprisingly women more than men democrats more than republicans and of those who do still think we have work to do 77 percent cite Sexual Harassment as a major obstacle to women having equal rights with men. Claire multiple recent polls show maine senator Susan Collins slightly trailing her opponent sarah gideon up in maine and many polls there are many who are pulled there are holding a grudge about Collins Kavanaugh vote clear how much do you think me too is going to weigh in november. Well i dont know about generalizing the meat to movement and i like that scotty said about pandering on the republican side and on the democratic side too so pandering is really i dont think a great strategy because its about people voting not specific little groups so when it comes to Susan Collins i think shes really in trouble because she always had a lot of support from prochoice Democratic Women in name who voted for her and during the cabin our hearings they looked at that and said well shes really not on our team is she so i think shes really really in trouble in maine so i think her opponent is you know in my unprofessional opinion i think shes going to take that but as far as the meat to Moment Movement thats not so much of the issue for me im really looking at this electoral map which i know that donald trump really you know worked at real well in 2016 and if you look at michigan especially where Hillary Clinton lost 51011000 votes Something Like that and so many people didnt. Show up i think that all really any democratic candidate needs to do is is just walk into michigan and probably take that back and then its pennsylvania after that and then there are all these other swing states and all the democrats need is one more so thats thats what i tell all my friends who are worried like oh i think john is going to win i say look lets look at the numbers michigan in 2016 Hillary Clinton did not run a Good Campaign in michigan i was living in North Carolina at the time which in 2008 was the state that barack obama won by his smallest margin of victory and in 2012 he lost it by his smallest margin of victory and so for some reason in 2016 the Clinton Campaign thought they could win North Carolina and they spent a lot of time there they spent a lot of money there and i dont think they were spending that time or money in michigan where they really should have been mrs clinton has nobody to blame for but herself from michigan and lets look down ballot senator collins is one of 23 senate seats republicans are defending in november 2 of those are appointees who are filling vacancies democrats are defending just 12 seats scotty how much of a factor do you think President Trump will be in congressional races where weve already seen hollande President Trump and most of his endorsements so far the 2020 primary a lot of them have been in his favor so people are obviously still happy with the president when it comes to republicans and endorsements but heres the thing that makes today our little bit hard to predict what its going to be like in november this is a virus the continuing protests going on america now we have issues going on you know continue the middle east but thats ramping up so i am actually for one its kind of being a little bit more conservative in regards to the winning story that whos going to win whos going to lose both at the congressional level as well as in the president ial level just because it is literally changing day by day in the head by that how they and these are headlines that are affecting people a few weeks from now or you know someone in d. C. These are headline. That are affecting us right now on our streets and our backyards and that right there is the number one motivator when it comes to people when they go to vote it always comes down to the price of gas how much are eggs and do my kids feel safe and do i have a way to provide for him those 4 issues when you go to the polls on in november its how you actually end up voting and sometimes that is a bigger factor than any sort of campaign commercial or slick pamphlet that you might get in your mailbox. Yeah and even in normal times coattails can wag both ways in 2016 candidate trump won the overall suburban vote by 5 Percentage Points and even after the access Hollywood Video and his marital resume many white women and working moms in the burbs were sufficiently uncomfortable with Hillary Clinton that they voted for trump anyway back to the future many mothers are uncomfortable with his eagerness to rush children back to school and with his take on the pandemic overall and after he overturned an Obama Administration an initiative the president recently tweeted his words i am happy to inform all the People Living their suburban lifestyle dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having the low Income Housing built in your neighborhood and the president has sent several other messages some on subtle to the people he calls the suburban housewives of america clear in those neighborhoods originally built for white flight theyre now increasingly diverse i got about a minute left claire are there enough june cleaver is to sustain the president s support there. Well i dont i dont think so and i think that is again back to sort of this pandering and thats like super pandering so if were going to talk about pandering that is super pandering to just say like oh you suburban white people be scared be afraid and i find it rather insulting just like the you know the birth or issue that came up yesterday with. That harris that donald trump didnt just shoot down immediately so i found that pretty insulting as well so i think its going to be a very interesting election i think the 4 issues are coded coded coded and coded and whats happening with the schools right now thats really going to be the tale of the tape i think. I dont have the time to go out again both a method that i must ask you go ahead. Im going to say i had to point out you know i mean im one of those suburban women that hes talking about and 75 percent of the kids went back to school this week on a hybrid schedule parents sending him back so its a really divided issues i think a lot of parents say women are having to work men are having to work a lot of us are going you know what lets send them back considering this virus right now does not mean seem to be expecting that to the graphic as much as others. Well lets hope they can stay back in school scott email hughes Claire Meyerhoff thank you both for stepping into the big picture and thank you for watching the big picture will be going to be back here same time next week and if thats inconvenient for you to set your d. V. R. We are on direct t. V. Channel 321 we are on dish t. V. Channel 280 if you have cut the cord we are free as a bird on pluto t. V. 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