County remains in the yellow tier tonight but that may be changing soon meantime Contra Costa County has moved from the orange tier to the more restrictive red tier an increase in cases and hospitalizations is the cause for both instances for the first time in weeks not a single california county is moving forward in the states reopening system. Contra costa counties actually moved from the orange here back to the more restrictive red tier kron fours dan kerman has more on the restrictions there everything from Retail Stores to Fitness Centers will be impacted by contra costa. Countys latest round of rollbacks and its all due to an increase in covid19 weve seen or cases go up about 25 over the last couple weeks and our test go up as well and most concerning weve seen our hospital numbers of patients in the hospital due to covid. More than double from less than 20 patients to more than 40 the move from orange back to red means beginning this friday Retail Stores will be limited to 50 ca
Thank you to the federal society for hosting this debate at. Im delighted to be here for the question, should the Electoral College be abrogated . Electoral college choosing a president. In their respective states electors choose wedding for president and Vice President. Electoral college would provide Vice President Alexander Hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College would provide a practicable obstacle to cabal intrigue and corruption. He said that it would interpose capable men of discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Moreover, hamilton thought the system best designed to prevent tumult and disorder. Debates about the Electoral College once again emerged over the desirability of our constitutions method for selecting the president. So this debate is an important one about our republic. And about our constitutional form of government. It raises questions of principle. What are the values to be promoted in a democratic republic . In a feder
Means that we probably wont have a decisive result this evening we all tend to forget that although weve been going with the results in the past its always taken weeks for official results to be published and were all in the habit of not having that kind of patience and not having to wait for those final results so it was a very tense moment here in washington apologies and i just want to jump in and ask you because you know donald trump essentially saying that he wants to kick this now to the Supreme Court what does that mean what could we be looking at and what sort of timeline. Well this is the republican majority in the. Highest court in the Supreme Court and that is one of his biggest achievements as president that he positioned 3 new judges that as a legal that is all according to democratic legitimacy but hes now playing with fire more than that he is amazing the democratic process here in the United States the timeline will be that were a couple of days at least a week away fro
Can make the big prize of the night as always is california with 55 Electoral College votes joe biden has got those further north the state of washington with 12 goes to the blue column as well and oregon as well all of these west coast blue states another 7 which we can add to joe bidens tally there and well put in idaho as well which is also closing the south thats a red state that goes to dont trump with 4 so as i said this gives us some shape now because weve now managing to fill in the states which we knew so 209112 right now that looks very strong in favor of joe biden but lets think about this texas 38 florida 29 pennsylvania which we havent talked about for a while will do that in maybe will 10 or 15 minutes well have a little talk about pennsylvania. Not even in the too close to call of the moment but this 20. Heigho a chain North Carolina 16 there are a lot of states and its all the ones which we thought it would come down to of course so whilst that number all just pop out t
U. S. Democratic system. Oh mr noise you know. You go to whats good at putting people to people you trust is a direct threat to i looked at my machine from hes right and he needs to find out what hes fighting for because there is some kind of fronts in this country. Youre watching are to International Special election coverage my name is donald quarter and ill be joining you for the program now its now 5 days since the u. S. Election and it might it looks like we might finally have a result a number of media are projecting that joe biden has been elected the 46 president of america having secured 219 Electoral College votes just a reminder 270 are needed for victory the former v. P. Is win in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that threshold meanwhile stands at 214 we now cross live to atlanta and our tees ben swan so ben the race is being called for joe biden where do we stand now. Yeah the race is being projected uncover joe biden by the a. P. In a couple of states