Me next to discuss. Final countdown. Nine days left to vote, polls favorite joe dieden but President Trump says the energy is by him. Has biden got people excited enough to get out and vote . Ill speak with congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez ahead. Im jake tapper in washington. Nine days until lex day and today a worrisome late october surprise. A new coronavirus outbreak tied to the white house and hitting Vice President pences inner circle. Mark short has now tested possible swells marty oaks and one other member of pences white house staff according to an official. Vice president pence is the head of the Coronavirus Task force and close contact of mark shorts. But according to the white house, the Vice President has tested negative for the virus and choosing to stay on the campaign trail. Here he is yesterday campaigning without a mask. The white house says its okay for him to be out there because he is quote, an essential worker but not yet clear how campaigning is essential wor
Washington. The state of the union is alarmed. Nine days to election day. Today a worrisome late october surprise. A new coronavirus outbreak tied to the white house, this time hitting Vice President pences inner circle. The Vice President s chief of staff, mark short has tested positive as well as marty obst, and at least three other members of pences white house staff. The total number of infections at least five. Vice president pence is, of course, the head of Coronavirus Task force and was a close contact of shorts. According to the white house, the Vice President has tested negative for the virus and is choosing to stay on the campaign trail. You can see him here yesterday campaigning without a mask. The white house says its okay for him to be out there because he is quote, an essential worker, though its not clear to us how campaigning is essential work as opposed to being in his office trying to get control of this pandemic. Even as the virus spreads in the white house again the
Good morning to you. Im frances rivera. Breaking news overnight on the vanished Malaysian Airlines jet. Just this past hour, interpol released an image two of iranians who were traveling with stolen passports on a missing jetliner. The image shows the two iranian men boarding the plane at the same time. Authorities say the two men traveled from malaysia on their iranian passports, then switched to their stolen austrian and italian documents. Earlier, police said one of the passengers was seeking asylum in europe. Authorities add they do not believe he has ties to a terrorist group and are in touch with his family. The search is expanding now four days later with 239 people still missing. The planes last known location is in the south china sea, about 100 miles northeast of the malaysian port city of bachok. Tom costello has the latest. Reporter off the coach of malaysia, the search for flight 370 has entered its fourth day. Dozens of ships, helicopters and planes running gridlike searc
Resource, our forests. But Carbon Pollution is not just an attack on our forests, its also an attack on our farming. Indeed, drought across the u. S. Is a huge and growing throat t to ago cull. In the state of organizer, we e had three of the worst droughts in the klamath basin. 2001, then the worstever drought of 2010, and then the worstever drought of 2013, and now were looking at the possibly of the worse of any drought in 2014. Hopefully well have a lot of precipitation and a lot of snow in the coming weeks and that wont be the case. But if you were looking right now just at the snowpack, it is possibly well have the fourth worstever in a 14year period. This is devastating to our rural farming economy. Absolutely devastating. And so lets take a look at the impact of coming from smaller snowpacks. Snowpacks are a significant piece of this puzzle. And if we were to take and look at the Pacific Northwest and we were to basically draw a circle about like this, what you see are these zo
First, my story of the week, hope and Climate Change. I will admit, as i watch the president s inaugural address on monday morning, i was definitely not expecting this. We will respond to the threat of Climate Change. Knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought. And more powerful storms. The path toward Sustainable Energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But america cannot resist this transition. We must lead it. Youll recall with the exception of a single line in his dnc speech, our current state of climate peril was barely mentioned in the campaign. In fact, it was the first time in 24 years it was never raised at any of the debates. So, i was not the only commentator who was surprised to find such a passionate, lengthy passage in his speech. A speech, of course, is just that. Often we have a tend