Eating. To seattle where the homicide rate is soaring to a 10year high just as the city plans to cut a big chunk of its Police Department budget. Mounting fallout over the assassination after Iranian Nuclear scientist. Iran says israel was behind it and pulled it off with some hightech and remote weapons. The balance of the power in the senate in the balance itself, hanging on two Key Senate Races in georgia. Also tonight well tell you why President Trump made significant progress in attracting hispanic voters to the Republican Party despite liberals saying he is antiiimmigrant. Im gerry baker in for elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Gerry we begin with the latest on that cdc meeting over who will get the covid19 vaccine first and when. Blake burman is at the white house for us. Blake what is the latest . Reporter gerry, this is an Advisory Group that helps out the cdc, acip, Advisory Committee for immunization practices. After a lengthy discussion a short while a
Stunning launch. And liftoff of sentinel 6. The Spacex Falcon 9 rocket roaring into space. The billion dollar project mission. What it will monitor from space to help us learn more about the earth. And musics big night. Were live in los angeles as we look ahead to tonights American Music awards. No ones around to judge me your sneak peek at the performances, the host not letting the pandemic stop them. Were creative people. Were still going to give you a big, big show. And the new awards being handed out tonight. Good morning. Since we gave you the numbers last sunday, the u. S. Has seen 1 million new coronavirus cases, and the death toll has surpassed 255,000. In only one state, hawaii, are cases low and staying that way. Here in new york state we are now seeing the highest level of cases since april. In california the surge is threatening to swamp hospitals, and the state has now put in place a nighttime curfew. Overnight, the food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authoriza
Numbers. We close in on counties beginning the certification process. I know there were questions mainly concerning the military ballots, which were the last ones to come in on friday. With that, at the end of the were 18,407 military votes that were accepted and outstanding, which means they cannot come in now, but those were the out there available and ones could have come in but did not, 7786. Separate from that was regular absentee ballots. So with that, the ballots cast were 1,303,749 absentee ballots, and then theres 126,400 that were not cast. You will see that the lower number than the original request because we literally had hundreds of thousands of people show up to vote in person that had absentee ballots canceled, which is a process legal in in the state of georgia. So far, weve seen a little over 7000 provisionals had been a part of the reports that if have come in from the counties. We know at least 7300 provisionals have been accepted already and continue to work with c
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House of representatives. And im a historian, has going. And we want to talk today about the history of African American representation in the 20th century. And we have a lot of artifacts, from house collection, they have to do with that in a lot of history to cover. In the last African American sort of to be elected in the 19th century leaves a 1901, george white of North Carolina. And then its a long time before another African American comes into the house, and that is oscar to priest from illinois. And we have a couple of really rare artifacts from this man, from the 19 twenties and thirties. But before a legit because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about oscar, and how he got into congress . So theres a long period, almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress, where there is no African Americans who served in either house or the senate. And that has everything to do with a gym crow laws that go in the books in the south. In the way that changes o