Good evening. Tonight, were reporting on two big stories heading into night two of the rnc. Continuing protests overnight in wisconsin amidst these grizzly new details about Controversial Police shooting. Wisconsin police repeatedly firing at an unarmed black man as he walked away from him and into a car where his children were inside. Tonight, there is news on this front. His family saying he is paralyzed. New calls for accountability and justice. Issues that collide directly with what republicans are try ing to tackle at this rnc. On the first night there, discussions of race, of policing. Donald trump jr. Saying he condemns the Police Killing of george floyd and trying to highlight several of the parties most visible minority leaders. Tonight, civil rights leaders are disstressing at systemic problems on display are not fully addressed, let alone even mentioned on that stage. Indeed, donald trump jr. Did mention mr. Floyd who was killed in may, but this new shooting, mr. Jacob blake
When he was caught, he didnt express regret or even admit to it, of course he didnt. He dispatched the useable suspects to defend the defensible on television. Think of what would have happened if he had gone out and said, this is awful, we should all be afraid, it would have been a run on the banks, the hospitals, the grocery stores. Yes, yes, yes. Imagine what would have happened if the American People knew team trump had no plan . And then on the same day, the nfls Opening Sunday kicked off with empty stadiums. Well, except Jackson Field because florida has florida. Trump hosted an indoor valley in atlanta that violated the states mandate. This was not one of those half inside, half outside airport hangar rallies. This was indoors, a maskless crowd was packed in like sardines. Time and time again, weve witnessed trumps corruption, his incompetence and his lies. Trump isnt endangering americans by himself. His supporters are eagerly joining right in. People who attended trumps latest
Many people found the first train wreck to be bid basically unwatchable, its actually this final debate that shed some viewers down about 9 malcolm pa million compared to the last outing but 63 million watched last night. Team biden says thats good news for them as early voting shows trump trailing. Any time people are paying attention in the fundamentals of race dont change they believe is a bad time for donald trump. He was back breaking cdc rules today with this packed gathering inside the snug oval office where even in his spin, the president did elude to the reality that he had to change gears after his first debate performance. The first one i thought i did great. There are certain groups of very aggressive people that love the first debate. But i think this was better, this is obviously a more popular way of doing it. Across the nation, covid meanwhile surging. The u. S. Is hitting the highest daily covid19 infection rate ever. Something you obviously need to know and thats on m
Us. He will not be able to stop us at all. We are going to win mofour me great years in the white house. Tracking one of the biggest stories. Exclusion in early voting numbers. More than 87 million have already voted. If you havent sent in your ballot, walk it in and drop it off. You dont have an excuse at this point for not being able to vote. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. The chill is in the air in atlanta but the lights are on. It does look pretty nice, doesnt it . Were hoping you have a good saturday as youre waking up on this saturday morning which is just three days from election day. We know that millions of votes have already been cast. Didnt know if you were one who got out there early. Today we know both candidates are zeroing in on the rust belt states because these are key battleground states that pushed President Trump to victory back in 2016. We got the total overnight. The United States has set a new world record for coronavirus cases re
Through police barricades, and scale the iconic red fort. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Almost a year after the first cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in the uk, the number of people whove died with the disease has passed 100,000. It is a grim moment in the countrys struggle against the pandemic, and britain is the first european nation to pass that landmark. Only the us, brazil, india and mexico have reported greater loss of life. In downing street, borisjohnson promised lessons would be learned. He said it was hard to compute the sorrow felt by the nation as a whole. On this day, i should just really repeat that i am deeply sorry for every life that has been lost and, of course, as Prime Minister, i take full responsibility for everything that the government has done. What i can tell you is that we truly did everything we could and continue to do everything we can to minimise loss of life and minimise suffering and what has been a very, very diffic