Edition of Morning Joe. We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Were on tape this morning bringing you some of our best discussion from the past two months, and we start today with our conversation the morning after Kamala Harris accepted her Partys Nomination for president on the Last Night of the dnc in chicago. Willie, you obviously are in chicago. Describe the scene if you will, because it is awfully hard you know, debates, ive heard one journalist after another say never try to judge how a debate turned out, president ial debate, when you are in the room. It is quite the opposite at a convention. You could walk into a convention, you can be watching it from you know, you had the Bob Uker seats which are usually the best seats to stand in, take it all in and say, okay, what is the state of this party. What is your answer to that . Youre right. John and i sat in section 315 Last Night eating those blackhawks and bulls nachos. Yummy. A pretzel with no salt. We really had the
Announced that he will not run for reelection. Togood evening at welcome southwest texas junior college, and Sul Ross State University satellite location here and you bow they. I want to explain this is a year like no other and an election like no other. And this is a debate like no other. We are here in a mostly empty auditorium. The pandemic has required that. You might notice centerstage as an eight by 12 foot plexi glass wall. Part of what we are going to do is politics through the plexiglas. We have our photographers in this auditorium. We are following strict protocols. The three of us are on stage, the two candidates and myself, and people from southwest texas junior college. We are thrilled to wring this to from the heart of district 23. We have a timekeeper to my right who is going to keep time and she is from this area so, sandra, im glad we could cut down on your commute. Let me the candidates. Two people who want to take over the Office Currently have i urd, who chosell h n
Southwest texas juniorcollege andso the satellite location here in new valley. I am steve switzer. This is a year like no other. This is an election like no other. S ea and this is a debate like no other. We are here in a mostly empty reauditorium the pandemic is required that. And you might Notice Center stage is at eight by 12 plexiglass wall. A part of what we will do tonight is politics through the lexi glass. We only had our photographers in this auditorium we are following strict protocols the three of us are on stage. The two candidates in myself and we had people from southwest texas juniorcollege. We are thrilled to be bringing this to you as i said off the top from the heart of district 23. I also want to say we havert the time keeper who is to my right. She is going to be keeping time sheoi is from this area to send her im glad we can cut down on your commute. Two people who want to take over the Office Currently held by congressman will hard. The first democratic among her
Seek our states highest officers. Thank you to the Washington State Debate Coalition lead sponsor aarp washington. To preserve social distancing the moderators are seated at the main studio while the candidates are at home in separate rooms elsewhere in the building. This debate with a moderated by broadcast political reporters, essex porter, brandy cruise, Chris Daniels and melissa santos. Good evening from the tbw studios in olympia and to all of you watching across the state from spokane, ocean shores and from walla walla. Lets bring in our candidates for governor, the incumbent Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Republic Police chief loren culp. First of all i need an affirmative that you can hear us from the studio. Yes. Yes. We get what to let viewers know at home at the candidates are alone in those rooms you see them in. They are upstairs from us here in the studio. There are no Campaign Staffers allowed in there, no members of the production crew are in the room with them and
Practice coronavirus mitigation measures. Good afternoon. Head out to to survey the damage from hurricane delta. Before i left, i wanted to give you a brief statement, an overview of what we know. First of all, hurricane delta as forecasted made landfall last night near cleo, louisiana. Only about 12 miles east of where hurricane laura made landfall. It made landfall as a category two, and the forecast appears to have been quite accurate as it relates to the surge, the wind and rain. The highest rainfall totals were in lake charles, over 15 minutes in the last 48 hours. In baton rouge, they received over 10 inches of rain in the same time. Obviously this was a very big storm, even if it wasnt quite as powerful as hurricane laura, it was much bigger. While the impacts were evidenced across a large portion of the state, it is obvious the hardest hit areas appear to to be southwest louisiana and cameron, geoff davis, allen, vermillion and acadia parish. , larges a very serious and powerfu