Joe biden good afternoon, everyone. Let me say to the press, im going to make a short statement here and going over to vote with my wife. I will be happy to take your questions after i vote. I just completed another Public Health briefing with my team of Public Health experts. We looked at the latest reported data and how it indicates that we are on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than anything we experienced to date. We talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by the administrations declaration of surrender to the virus. We discussed the vital importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbors, and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political. Its patriotic. Wearing a mask. Wear one. Period. We focused on the way this virus is hitting communities of color much harder, particular black, latino and native american commun
But its reported one of the lowest death rates and politicians say the rise in new cases is slowing aid workers in vietnam say that at least 50 people have been killed and dozens of missing after a powerful typhoon triggered landslides in some remote areas at least 12 fisherman have also been killed Florence Louis reports from kuala lumpur the 2 villages where the worst of the landslides took place is in a coastal province in Central Vietnam and this is a region that still recovering from floods earlier this month that killed about 130 people and destroyed hundreds of homes the government says this typhoon that hit has damaged 50000 homes and left millions of people without electricity and heavy rain is forecast to continue until at least saturday. U. S. Secretary of state mike pump aoe has described the Chinese Communist party is the biggest threat to religious freedom he was speaking during a visit to indonesia he said the party had tried to justify its brutalization of muslims as ne
Text message. 2027488903. Again, the text number only. 488903. Please include your first name and your city on that text message. Here this evening looking at some of the reaction to tonights debate. Lets start with reporters take on it. Susan page moderated the one and only Vice President ial debate. She writes, this isnt the first time an incumbent president had a disastrous first debate, then seemed to learn some lessons for the second. She said witness reagan in 1984 and president obama in 2012. Someone who covers politics for the Washington Post notes the Vice President looked at his watch toward the end of the debate. Didotes that george w. Bush the same thing during one of his debates. He said the gaffe wasnt that bush looked at his watch, it was that he did so at a town hall debate where voters were asking him a question. He said it looked like an insult to those voters. Minutessays it took 41 to get a malarkey reference tonight. , a tweet that the 1988 Vice President ial debat
In georgia, senator perdue is running for reelection. We will show you a debate where he squares off with democratic candidate jon ossoff. The georgia Great Television station presents republican incumbent david perdue and democratic challenger jon ossoff in the 2020 georgia u. S. Senatorial debate. Now, here is your moderator, mike cihla. Moderator good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im mike cihla. Wtoc is hosting a debate for the senatorial race with candidates republican incumbent david perdue and jon ossoff. In addition to wtoc, this debate is also airing in acosta, columbus, albany, thomasville. The candidates are eight feet apart and as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 for opening and closing statements, 1 15 to answer a question when it is posed to both. Candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the candidate in their answer.
Highly contested races in u. S. History. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after the boaters went to the polls, when the u. S. Supreme court stopped the florida recount. This awarded the states electoral votes to president bush. Mr. Lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who , along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the comm