Good evening from the clerk Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts and boston. Im jim of the news hour of pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90 minute debates between the democratic candidate for Vice President , president , are gore and the democratic candidate traditionally bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to buy the commission and the campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. As moderator i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular given take it another three and a half minutes. But even then those who go answer can exceed to minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements and each candidate may have up to timmins for closing statement. The questions and the subjects were ch
Mount Washington University, in st. Louis. The audience was made up of undecided voters chosen by the galaxy organization. Good evening from the field house at washington arizonian st. Louis. I am jim letter, or of the news hour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President all galore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush from texas. Lets welcome the candidates, now. [applause] before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mail karen ham, of mystery, along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night, near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue know that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The four months and the rules were worked out by the commission, and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters, who identify as being on committed by t
Smooth transfer of power. Abc news projected that biden has secured victory in arizona, it has been red since 1952, excepting bill clinton in 1996. His total is now 290, well over the 270 threshold needed to secure the presidency. Trump has won 217 electors. Michael hayden sent a letter to the Agency Responsible for providing support for the Transition Team but has yet to do so for biden. The letter warns that a delay in the transfer of power could pose a serious risk to national security, particularly during the pandemic. Meanwhile, trump has continued to claim that there was massive election fraud, without showing any evidence. Officials from multiple government organizations issued a joint statement on thursday. It said they have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections and you should too. Moving to japan where nearly 1700 new coronavirus cases have been reported so far on friday. Surpassing the record set a day earlier. The Prime Ministers calling for re
They didnt consider the tack emissions from the thousands of daily customer vehicle trips o identifies tax from Passenger Vehicles of significant sources of cancer risk in california and the only city wide health risk includes tax from gasoline power vehicles not just diesel trucks. More significantly as i inty mated a second ago, he pointed out that the applicants analysis assumes that best buy is still operating and there are still emissions from best buys delivery trucks, obviously in an effort to show that the relative contribution is pretty small. But again as we said under the guidelines you have to look at actual environmental conditions, those that exist at the time environmentally start not some hypothetical past condition. Next[aqwqd slide please. First the screening analysis show the project was likely going to exceed the air district of ten excess cancers per million. Even if it wasnt an air pollution exposure zone given it is in such a zone, the cumulative affect adding th
Others are returning back to some more strict restrictions. Health Officials Say we are very likely now seeing the beginning of a winter surge. As california joined texas as the first states with 1 million covid cases, bay area counties are tightening restrictions. The owner of delta ball decided to shut down. He says it is tough when elsewhere in the country policies allow bowling. The policies that the state is using for bowling are just way too restrictive. I think there should be a framework and that the community should be able to modify it to whats going on in the community. Weve seen substantial day over day increases in our reported cases of covid19. Alameda county is also pushing pause as the covid case numbers rise. We are not islands, we are connected to the rest of the country and the rest of the world. If there are cases circulating, our borders are not closed. People can come and go. Nationwide states are adding stricter policies, chicagos mayor has ordered a stayat home