A milestone for sudan and its something that means a lot to Sudanese Government because the country has been cut off from Foreign Investment largely because of being on the list of states sponsoring terrorism and this has resulted in a shortage of hard currency which makes it very hard for the country to import basic commodities such as fuel and weeks and that has resulted in shortages in a petrol stations and bakeries its also lead to inflation of more than 200 percent making many from families many of them who live below the poverty line struggle to get 3 meals a day. Countries across europe are taking Emergency Action in a desperate effort to stop the rapid spread of coronavirus poland is transforming its national seem into a Field Hospital while both highland and wales are heading back into short periods of lock down in the us new gold in 1000 infections of reach your highest level since late july most of the cesa showing a rise in the number of new cases the us is a wells was affe
At 9 00 a. M. , headed tonights debate, university of missouris Mitchell Mckinney talks about the history of president ial debates. Host good morning, it is the washington journal for september 29 and your look looking at video at case western reserve theersity, that the site of first president ial debate between President Trump and joe biden. Cspans coverage of that event starts at 8 00. We want to hear from you in this first hour on when it comes to president ial debates, do they matter . Weathering helping you decide or perhaps hearing about candidates positions on policy issues. Heres how to call to let us know. If you support President Trump, 2027488000, if you support joe biden, 2027488001. If you are undecided or support others, it is 2027488002. If you want to text us, do so at 2027488003. cspanwj. Itter pollingeet journal to on president ial debates asking the questions on if they matter. Some of what they found saying more than 70 of americans say the debates wont matter much
Tonight, and we expect a large assume those debates even increase in their viewership where a lot of the political campaigning conventions, other forms of political communication, has waned over the past several years. Not so with debates. We actually set a record four years ago. Brought theey largest crowd, but that first debate was almost 82 Million Viewers. The alltime record. Most of those viewers tuning in, what we have learned, as high as 90 plus percent of those are there to cheer on their candidate and to root for the candidate that they already are committed to. Typically a small slice of viewers and voters who have not been following the race very closely, who are uncommitted, and what we found that small slice, they use the debates to make a candidate choice, a voting commitment. That number, typically in our studies, has been anywhere from 2 to 4 , never more than 5 . And yet, in terms of a race where the dynamic is affected, particularly bad around states, that slice of de
General assembly gets underway in new york tension between the u. S. And iran is set to dominate. Mali it marks 60 years of independence a day after a former defense minister was appointed interim president by the military job plus. When we receive lets say a dollar only 0. 25 maximum is what were able to use it by inflation aid agencies helping flood victims in sudan say their work is being hampered by an economic crisis. The anger on the colombian in the colombian capital as a march against Police Brutality turns violent. The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is accel raising globally but fewer people who get. Dying a 2nd look at the global picture focusing on the 5 countries that have seen the most deaths from the virus the u. K. Is 5th in the world more than 41000 people have died but its curve is going the wrong way the u. K. s Health Minister says that hospital admissions are doubling every 8 days across the atlantic nearly 200000 americans have d
This was the 26th consecutive sparetheair day. Tomorrow and monday are, also, sparetheair days. Abc 7 news meteorologist is here with a look at when things will clear up. Frances. Yeah, eric, its going to take a couple more days and want to show you why it looked like that today. Here is a look at the visible satellite image from today and look at all the smoke just blowing over the bay area. Coming from our south and, also, our east. And we have High Pressure in place, right now, but i am tracking a system thats going to move towards oregon. And thats going to bring us an increased onshore flow. Even though tonight we have some very thick smoke, notice, tomorrow, with the smoke, we will see less smoke in the bay area and even decreases into monday. And the bayarea management district. But look at tuesday and wednesday. We can expect moderate air quality then and finally get outdoors. Eric. All right. Frances, thank you very much. This is what the air looked like in oakland today near