Underway in the philippines after a super typhoon go and he killed 20 people and caused widespread destruction. Well now across the United States verses are going to the polls to decide if donald trump will get a 2nd term or if joe biden will become president voting has been open for a couple of hours now but already long lines have been forming now already nearly 100000000 people have cost their ballots an early voting levels that have never been seen before in a u. S. Election now this hour 12 g. M. T. Polls have opened in a number of states including delaware washington d. C. And pennsylvania. Well lets introduce you to our team on the ground for this hour. Is monitoring developments from new york christensen amy is in philadelphia and pennsylvania one of the big battleground states where as we had very saying has already begun to mollify al is in wellington delaware thats bidens home state and from washington d. C. Weve got alan fischer well get the latest more of them in a moment
Coney barrett. I rise in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of an election process in which over 50 million americans have already voted, to speak with a simple call that we should wait, we should not be doing this as a body. Now, thats not a radical statement. Its a statement thats been said by pretty much every member on the democratic side. But its also a as i said statement thats made by many people in the Republican Party before we got to this juncture. It was said around the time that Merrick Garland was up for nomination by president barack obama, 269 days before an election, and people said that we were in an election season, that we should wait. But this is not a typical election season. This is an election that is going on where the people are coming out to speak on an array of issues. There is a profound urgency in the air, not a partisan urgency. America has seen record turnout because they know whats at stake in this election. There are issues that are driving people to
Political branches and might not have. Any county barretts is sworn into the u. S. Supreme court a boost for the courts conservative majority and a political victory for President Trump. I would take a look at whats being called theyve gained changing discovery thats put transform space travel nasa scientists come from theres more water on the moon than anyone previously thought. Im down to earth as welcome to the program italy has been hit by a wave of protests against a new round of government restrictions and containing the coronavirus clashes broke out in milan serene and several other cities monday evening the unrest comes after italian a thought. Has ordered bars and restaurants to shots at 6 pm and closed theaters cinemas and gyms for a months Prime Minister says that the conti is now promising new Financial Aid to try and calm the tensions. Here. It began as an angry protest they chanted for freedom in turin. But it quickly descended into a violent game of cat and mouse local m
He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
In the growing does weve already done in the past. The peaceful gathering in sharp contrast to scenes elsewhere but as italy tightens restrictions the sense of anxiety here every british strong. Journalist in milan so there can you give us an idea of the scope of these protests and why they got so violent. Well 1st of all we have to understand that these protests have been going on for a few days now. In naples especially they have been the head of the region the government region and its been regions they look at been very strict with measure and thats where the protests started and then the spread around 80 from rome to palermo and all milan and sure hundreds of people ive been going to the streets to demonstrate against these new measures that are very strict some of them stricter in europe to be honest and. At the same time we have Peaceful Demonstrations demonstrators who are talking to taking the street to demonstrate against the fact that it they have to close at 6 pm from for e