Rst, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Clouds will be racing back in from the north as the day goes on. As the clouds increase, temperatures will level off, and many areas will probably see highs rehed around noon with mid30s common. Tonight into friday, it t es appeaeathe clouds may break up a bititleading to a partly cloudy finish to the work week. Late saturday into sunday is our next area of low pressure, and that should bring a light mix of rain and snow into the area. The system following this continues to look substantial with a risk of heavy snow in part of the midwest, including iowa. Its important to understand this system is closer to japan than the united states, which means we are way too far out for any kind of detail. Any kind of snowfall numbers could not be broadcast with confidence until around sunday, and even that could be pushing it. Bottom line is, stay tuned today mostly cloudy high 3238 winds nw 1 120 alo 33 dbq 34 iow 36tonight mostly
Youre government is still not doing anything about it. So these wise finally start organizing all across the country before the enough, before they had cell phones. They would spend hours and days on the telephone talking with one another. Virginia beach, in san diego, in jacksonville, organizing and starting to put pressure on the politicians honor government, on the press to talk about this issue to bring their husbands home. They created an obsolete extraordinarily that we still recognize today, and i expect a bunch of you all wore pow mia bracelets at one point. There were over 5 million of these things printed or amended. And people from all sides of the political spectrum or them. Remember, vietnam was a tremendously divisive or. But because of these women and this pow mia movement, the country came together around the pow. And around the men that were fighting. For the first time our nation was in a position where we had to differentiate between the Political Goals of the war an
Exactly three months to the election, christine. America could have another opportunity to slow the pandemic in the meantime. Biggest question, will citizens get it right. New cases down or steady. The twoweek average is down about 8 . Cases only rising in a handful of states. The number of americans in hospital beds is trending lower. A big part of this is numbers heading down in states that desperately needed to turn a corner. Covidrelated deaths very much a lagging indicator. They are still up in 30 states. The cdc is now forecasting 173,000 deaths by august 22nd. Thats 1,000 deaths per day for almost three weeks. White House Coronavirus Task force coordinator dr. Deborah birx says the fight against the pandemic has now entered a new phase. I think the federal government reset five to six weeks ago when we saw this starting to happen across the south. This epidemic right now is different and its more widespread and its both rural and urban. We have gone to very specific state, city
North carolina this evening. Meanwhile, Vice President pence and senator Kamala Harris also hit the campaign trail this holiday weekend. Both talking to voters in the state of wisconsin. Coronavirus clearly taking center stage as the two campaigns clash over a potential vaccine. The president again linking a vaccine to election day. But both Health Experts and senator harris say not so fast. I think that we have learned since this pandemic started, but really before that, that theres very little that we can trust that comes out of Donald Trumps mouth. Our team is on the ground with the latest. Mike memoli in d. C. , Josh Lederman in jupiter, florida and Shannon Pettypiece standing nearby the white house. Joe biden says postlabor day, thats now, he plans on doing a lot more traveling. Whats in store . Yeah, steph. In fact, even President Trump taking note of joe bidens busier campaign itinerary tweeting about it this morning. In fact, what did we see yesterday, steph . Joe biden though
Cohen says about racism and mr. Trump. Well begin with Steve Kornacki at the big board, youre going to be a busy guy in the next two months, steve. Lets talk about all of that, the battleground states, and the somewhat confusing difference between National Polls and battleground state polls which is what were focusing on, polls of likely voters. Yeah, and i think thats a key point to keep in mind as we get into the home stretch of the campaign. What youre looking at right here, this is the National Polling average right now. You take all the different National Polls that are out there, you average them together, and what youve got is a joe biden lead of basically seven points nationally, a sevenpoint advantage for biden nationally. Keep in mind, as we saw in 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 by two points, and lost in the electoral college. What that means was that in 2016, the key states that decided the election were closer than the national race. All indications are