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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
Their vaccination strategy. The governor said young girl younger adults accounted for most of the new positive cases at 20 . This is 30 minutes. Gov. Reynolds good morning. In the last seven days, more than 113,000 iowans were tested and the state recorded more than 16,600 new cases with a statewide average Positivity Rate of 14. 7 . Than 16,600 new cases with a statewide average Positivity Rate of 14. 7 . While these numbers are not where we need them to be, they are lower than the week prior when nearly 28,000 new cases and a Positivity Rate of more than 24 was recorded. 1829tly, younger adults account for most of the positive cases. 20 overall. The cases remain fairly evenly spread against most age groups. We have also seen a decrease in the overall number of iowans hospitalized due to covid19 with the exception of yesterday which was a slight increase. When week ago, on november 17, we reached our peak of inpitalizations at 1527 and the five days that followed, we of asytoday decre
Spirit this debate will not be like others. Our candidates join us remotely. After several days of confirmation hearings, miss greenfield is live from altoona. Matt breen anchors the evening news, the chief politics reporter for the Des Moines Register and ron steele is evening news anchor in waterloo. Senator joni ernst running for her second term in u. S. Senate, native of iowa answer for 23 years, normally the first woman in iowa to serve in federal office but the first female veteran elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Teresa greenfield, raised on a small harmon soda, moved to iowa to attend college, has a background in planning and real estate and development in iowa. In 2018 she briefly ran for congress, she was in the morning with her husband. For the rules of the debate, candidates get 50 seconds to answer a question. Of the candidate is mentioned by name she will get 30 seconds to respond. The yellow light indicates 10 seconds remain. Candidates get 60 seconds for closing st
Plan right now, not losing any of the abilities that we have under San Franciscos rules right now but just pumping the brakes a little bit. We are taking a live look at the city downtown. San francisco is in the yellow tier of californias reopening system but the city is keeping some of its orange tier restrictions and pausing reopenings. Reopenings of indoor pools, ow thats on hold. Ker rooms, it was supposed to happen next week. Restaurants and offices have to stay at 25 capacity as well as churches and museums. They were going to go up to 50 next week. We are tired of covid19 but covid19 is not tired of us just because we are tired of it. So it is still here. It is still present. We see it increased number of cases every day. We see it in the number of people who are sadly hospital eyed and we definitely feel it when someone loses their life. Reporter there are some concerns of course about halloween gatherings. This is video from freer times. There is usually a big party every year