The Coronavirus Crisis that has upended our country, claimed more than 170,000 american lives, has completely transformed this campaign tradition weve all come to know. Were not coming to you from a packed Convention Hall jammed with networking politicians, that convention is canceled. That single stage is all that remains in milwaukee. The headline speakers including joe biden and Kamala Harris wont even appear there. The real nerve center, a high tech control room that will draw in video fields from all over the country. The speeches and live reaction, crowd sourced videos from delegates and every day americans. It is truly a virtual convention. But the president tom line has not changed. Conventions are about unifying parties and electing president s. As we come on the air tonight, our brand new poll shows joe biden and Kamala Harris holding a doubledigit lead over President Trump. But democrats sn s know this eln is not about the popular vote. Hillary clinton won the popular vote i
Doing here . I am a lifelong republican. About republicans and democrats. Its about the person, a person decent enough, stable enough, Strong Enough to get our economy back on track, a person who will work with everyone, democrats and republicans to get things done. Donald trump isnt that person. Joe biden is. Whitman i am meg whitman. Donald trump has no clue how to run a business, let alone an economy. Joe biden has a plan to strengthen our economy for workingclass voters. Im with joe. Susan im a farmer republican member of comair former republican member of congress from new york city and i have known donald trump for most of my career, so disappointing and disturbing. I have gotten to work with joe biden on issues regarding women. That is why i am so proud to call him my friend and support his candidacy for president. He is a really good man and exactly what this nation needs. Now, i am delighted and honored to introduce a former colleague of mine, the former congressman of ohio, t
Alive today. Our political power house Team Standing by to break it all down. This special edition of nightline, your voice, your vote, starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Tonight the unprecedented move by the Democratic Party, launching the political tradition held every four years and going virtual in the pandemic. The coronavirus and other tough issues taking center stage on the first night of the dnc, wrapping up moments ago and for the latest we go straight to mary bruce reporting from our nations capitol. Mary . Juju, the democrats kicked off a Convention Like none other. No packed floor or cheering or applause, instead, a series of speeches and videos, from across the country and party. The goal was to show that joe biden can speak to all americans, not just democrats. Tonight was a chance for the Democratic Party to show they were united so we heard from bidens rivals, senator Bernie Sanders and while we briefly heard from the candidate himself in a conver
Lisa and in the meantime, preparing for that washington d. C. Ceremony for july 4. David and if you dont want to watch that, you can watch the boston pops. Lisa right now we have a rather muted tone in markets. Nasdaq futures indicated slightly lower. In europe, a little bit of a gain. The euro gaining over the dollar. Cave on the part of italian leaders to European Union leaders on the part of their budget. David leaders getting something done. Lisa maybe. For now. David we are joined by lananh n guyen and michael mckee. Even as we are speaking, we have European Union Leadership Meeting once again in brussels. Michael well, they are supposed to start meeting, but they may be watching our show. Lisa but slightly. [laughter] michael they are struggling to come up with a compromise. Germans and french seem to be working well with the dutch to come up with leadership for the various commissioned posts, but the italians and others in the periphery havent cooperated. They dont want to just
Look outside. Sun coming up. Pretty nice day on tap. It is 18th. Ignore the morn part on the screen. Its tuesday. Threw us all for a loop. Not just everybody at home were in it with you. Update on weather and traffic, tucker and erin tappeding by. Tuck youre up first on this tuesday. Steve, cool out here this morning. Overnight lows in 40s and 50s beautiful afternoon. 70 this afternoon. Ill have the details on the weather. Airport, traffic. Tucker we hit the 7 00 hour. Heavy volume by duke street cloudsing problems and crash 50 inbound at Columbia Park road and if taking metro were talking about safe track surge 19 and well look at that with the next look at traffic. Investigators have alabama will arrive in maryland following that deadly black hawk helicopter crash. U. S. Army Officials Say one crew members on board the black hawk was killed and two others were hurt and are treated at baltimore. No word yesterday on why the helicopter crashed. Well have more on the story in a few minu