Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
Most part is sitting just that right above us so visibility for most areas a little bit better than it was yesterday. You remember that low visibility you had on some of our bridges, some of her hillside yesterday things have improved a little bit we do have a foggy impact on the cloudy impact for your morning once that burns off itll be sunshine as for our air quality most of theyre good or moderates, if youre not seeing yellow on this map will you are back into that good category. Whereas if you are seeing yellow, we have returned to moderate, but we will take it air quality still good enough that i say you should get out there enjoy the comfortable temperatures and the nice start to the weekend that we do have relatively calm winds for most of us right now winds will definitely pick up into the afternoon for north bay areas has some cooler air continues to slide into the region. 60s for most of our current temperatures right now livermore morgan hill, dublin and pittsburgh. All at 6
Recent Political Trends given clues on how the state might vote in november. Today our focus is North Carolina. Were joined now by Jason Roberts university of North Carolina chapel hill professor mr. Roberts happened in 2016 in the state of North Carolina. Why is it a battleground state heading into november . 2016 was one of the least close elections. They been very evenly divided, 2008 barack obama had a very narrow victory here on president obama. President trump won by about three points heremp in 2016. The biggest change between 2008 and 2012 to 2016, we saw a sharp decline in turnout in 2016. House the ray shaping up for november . Is very, very close. If you look at the real politics average going into today, they have Vice President biden with. 5 lead. Think its the closest of any of the battleground states gradual thing ive seen a poll yet this election season that shows either candidate leading outside the pole margin of error. At this point its 50 52 close to call. And a can
Of course we all know we are preparing to vote in a huge election collecting all sorts of folks and not just the president of the United States by congress and state legislators. Fascinating new book written by our guest today takes a look at the unelected , unaccountable elite and it is amazing and along to talk about it. Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute also leader of legal policy you have read his book all over National Media and by the way he was a jd and mba from yale where he was a fellow in law and economics mba from unc chapel hill. So glad to have you with us. Thank you for joining us at the john locke society. So is an honor i said it before as a National Think tank so much policy happens on the state level and the John Locke Foundation gives the Gold Standard to help to shape North Carolina in such a positive direction and then to be in the midst of a pandemic. Thanks for having me spin thank you for those comments i appreciate that. Your book writes about federal po
Just that still to come james all right, thank you very much john quick check of the roads for you this morning. So far so good here at the bay bridge toll plaza, nice easy right here on westbound 80 no problems on the span sear oakland to San Francisco commute this morning. Is moving faster than normal because this is a nice friday and the san mateo bridge to your highway 92 ride from hayward out to foster city moving without any problems. The right hand side there those taillights that is your commute direction heading out to the peninsula and so far were doing just fine. Now we are looking here at the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza again youve got a little bit of a backup here at the toll plaza itself. No issues really being reported on the span once you lets say just maybe a quarter of a mile off the landing richmond. Youre all green making an easy ride into sandra fell this morning, shes got to get through this bit of having us and then youre good to go. Finally the Golden