And suppression during this event hosted by the Washington Post. Its about working minutes. Good afternoon. Im bob costa, reporter from the Washington Post. Welcome back to the post lives daily show. We launched this show yesterday so you could have uptotheminute election news every day at 1 p. M. Eastern. Today, i will be joined by former House Speaker, newt gingrich, who is a strong supporter of President Trump. In just a minute, i will be joined by former attorney general eric holder, who has been working on redistricting for years now with president obama and he has been advocating for democratic nominee emma joe biden. Two great guests today. First, i wanted to run through my notebook with the headlines im paying attention to in these final days. Number one, florida remember tim russert 20 years ago in 2000 said that was the focus for that election. It seems to be the focus once again. Biden andPresident Trump in florida today. They know that that corridor is vote rich. You see th
In red that is a red flag warning for the north bay mountains. Currently in effect until 8 00 a. M. On wednesday and then our second burst of off shore winds, that will arrive for wednesday evening through friday. That will be for all of our bay area hills and mountains and that second burst could be even stronger. We will talk more about that coming up. Lets again in for a look at traffic. If you plan to stake 580 into the pass that is the slowest spot. Thats how we are starting the drive for the super commuters working on to the 580 connector. Have you brake lights almost to greenville. A slow ride for your Tuesday Morning commute. Thats the good news. 32 minute drive time to go from 205 to 680. East shore freeway off to a good start. They wrapped construction on the freeway. 88o clear. No delays south of there if you are going into heyward and they just cleared road work on 280. Thousands of households and businesses could loose power. This as pg e prepares for potential high winds
The university of florida as of this morning where than 79 million valid seven casts and that includes 27 million early ballots and 52 absentee ballots and 39 million absentee ballots outstanding. In some counties and states we are nearing the point where the more ballots are cast for election day 2020 than during the entire 2016 voting time. It also mean this will be the First National election were more than half of the ballots are cast prior to election day and the shift occurred in a once in a century pandemic working with electric show officials to adapt. Election administrators deserve all our respect and admiration in voting is happening right now and processing is happening right now weve decided to symbol a group of voting experts with men Election Officials who been studying it for their entire careers to discuss what to affect in its unprecedented elections years and hopefully. Before i introduce them i ask the questions throughout this event either through facebook or youtu
Missing ballots. This is about what were talking about. Reporter how many is there . 40. Reporter voters dropped those ballots into this box at Richmond City hall on october 12th. Among them Zachary Adams noticed the county website never registered receiving it. Im a little disappointed. Reporter same for daniel. When i ballot came in the mail, i held it as a holy thing. Reporter when ballots arrive, the county runs it through a sorting machine that addresses and logs them into the system. Other votes from the box did show up from october 12th. This is our status board. Reporter but the total for that richmond drop box was low that day. A ballot makes it on this board after it goes through this sorting machine on the other side. Reporter at this point, the county has absolutely no idea what p hahappened to those ball but taking the lose very seriously. If there is a silver lining, consider this, its the first time people to voted early have been able to track their ballots. The county
The economy, the Supreme Court, the big issues affecting americans were addressed tonight by both men hoping to be our next president. They appeared at separate events but took aim at each other. The president always takes his eye off the ball. The whole ball game changed when i saw the way they treated justice kavanaugh. I have never seen any human being and im not just talking about Supreme Court. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Glad youre with us tonight. Joe biden and President Trump were originally scheduled to hold a town hall together in person tonight. But after President Trump was diagnosed with coronavirus, the nonpartisan commission that organized the debate announced the event would be held remotely. Well, the president refused to attend, resulting in two separate events at the same time. We brought in a team to cover what happened tonight. Abc7 news contributor phil matier is in the newsroom with his unique insight. That in just a m