we were just looking at a life house on the north shore of the detroit. river i am on an island in the middle of the. river that is detroit, believe it or not to my north. that is canada believe it or not to myself. when you are in detroit and you look at canada you re actually looking south to word windsor but i love being here partly because i can swim to my home country. it is saturday october the 22nd. that is the renaissance center, the home to general motors. from electability you re just looking at a detroit it is 9 am in the east, 6 am in the west. i m ali velshi. today 17 days before election day i am here in belle isle to state park in detroit michigan, in this crucial swing state to bring you a very special edition of velshi across america 2022. yesterday i had a fascinating and important conversation with a group of michigan but voters from across the political spectrum as election day approaches. we are going to share more of it with you in the coming hours even
To start this hour by wishing you all a safe and healthy memorial day. Start by catching up on the latest facts. Right now our country has more than 1. 6 million known coronavirus cases, were approaching another difficult milestone this morning as well, the virus has killed more than 98,000 americans so far. And on this memorial day President Trump paying his respects to americans who have died in service to their country. This hour the president will leave the white house for baltimore. He will be visiting the Fort Mchenry National monument there. Earlier he and the first lady participated in a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National cemetery. Were also expecting to hear from new York Governor Andrew Cuomo this hour, giving the Daily Briefing around 11 30 today. The governor is in new york city. We will bring that to you as soon as it happens. We start this morning in the short town of Point Pleasant beach the protest that organizers are calling the freedom march of new jersey, s
Pack barbecues. This is video from over the weekend at a lake of the ozarks pool party. Guests say there were temperature checks to get in and there was Hand Sanitizer at every turn, but you can see from the images pool goers clearly disregarding what nations Top Public Health expert should be our new standard in every day life, masks and social distancing. 50 of 50 states are partially open, not open enough in the president s view. He will lay another wreath next hour at fort mchenry, the Baltimore Mayor calls that a bad example because his citys residents are still under a stayathome order. The president is threatening to pull the Republican National convention from North Carolina because North Carolinas governor cannot commit his state will be fully open for visitors and large gatherings by august. Open faster and open for good, he says. So i was hearing millions of people and it would have been millions of people. If we didnt shut down, now would i shut it down again, no, because w
i have to raise the price of the. berger you are speaking my language in economics, and i agree with you on. that representative, i want to ask you something. the city over my shoulder is a badge already black city. that black voices in michigan have been remarkably important. this was a destination in the great migration. a place where people can get away from cher cropping and the unfairness in the south. is michigan going to lose its only black representative in congress? democratic, it appears that we will not have any democrats where we had one of the founders of the black caucus, jack conyers and digs who were from our community. they started the black caucus at the time it was ten or 12 of them. and now what we are up to almost 60 members of the black caucus. when you have a community of