Recent Political Trends given clues on how the state might vote in november. Today our focus is North Carolina. Were joined now by Jason Roberts university of North Carolina chapel hill professor mr. Roberts happened in 2016 in the state of North Carolina. Why is it a battleground state heading into november . 2016 was one of the least close elections. They been very evenly divided, 2008 barack obama had a very narrow victory here on president obama. President trump won by about three points heremp in 2016. The biggest change between 2008 and 2012 to 2016, we saw a sharp decline in turnout in 2016. House the ray shaping up for november . Is very, very close. If you look at the real politics average going into today, they have Vice President biden with. 5 lead. Think its the closest of any of the battleground states gradual thing ive seen a poll yet this election season that shows either candidate leading outside the pole margin of error. At this point its 50 52 close to call. And a can
Chapel hill. Later, Washington Post associate editor rob woodward talks about his new book rage based on a series of interviews he had with President Trump. Nationwide protests were reignited yesterday in the wake of the grand jury decision on Breonna Taylors death. We begin with your reactions this morning to the case. If you live in the easterncentral part of the country, 2027488000. Mountainpacific area, dial in at 2027488001. Text us with your thoughts with your first name, city, and state , and on488003 twitter cspanwj. A grand jury indicted one of three officers in the Breonna Taylor shooting but not for her death. Here is Kentucky Attorney general David Cameron yesterday charges. G the after hearing the evidence from our team of prosecutors, the grand jury voted to return an indictment for three counts of wanton endangerment for wantonly placing the three individuals in apartment 3 in danger of serious physical injury or death. The charge one endangerment in the first degree is
Effective, it brought down the market up the day about 39 points s p 500 had given a run for the money. We are below that 2,800 level. S p up about 4. 5 keeping in mind the treasury yields right now, the 10year seems to be yielding 0. 606 andrew, ill send it over to you. Well give you an update now on the pandemic numbers. Global cases have reached 2. 7 million with 869,000 in the United States. The death toll in the u. S. Is nearing 50,000 new york cases have hit 263,000 and new jersey over 100,000. Georgia plans to reopen. They have the most confirmed cases with over 21,000 well talk about that throughout the morning. Yesterday, new york Governor Cuomo shared early results from the study of 3,000 people that said one in five new york City Residents tested positive. That means as many as 2. 7 million in new york already encountered the virus and survived and never knew it questioning the available of the test but said new yorks test was reliable enough to determine immunity thats base
Why did thomas cooks top bosses pay themselves millions in bonuses with the company on the brink of collapse . The government wants an investigation to be fast tracked. One thomas cook worker tells us shes feeling completely lost today. I think it is too late for anything, if im honest. Like they said, it happened overnight, weve all woken up with no jobs, what do you do . I dont really know where to go from here, to be honest. And labours voted to stay neutral on brexit in a general election. But is that enough to convince the partys core northern voters to back them . Ex miners in bolsover in derbyshire tell us what they think ofjeremy corbyn. I have always been labour, ex miner, my dad was a minor, all my dads brothers were minors, so i dont really. I cant bring myself to vote tory, i could never do that, but i cant supportjeremy corbyn. Well ask the former miner and Labour Party Chairman ian lavery what he thinks of that. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this mor
I think weve made a major statement. I think we made a major statement with the way we played through such a difficult circumstance. I dont think a game has ever been stopped at this magnitude twice. What should the punishment be for bulgaria . Closing half the stadium which is what happened last night to punish a previous racist incident clearly didnt work. Do get in touch. Extinction rebellion protesters have been banned by police from demonstrating anywhere in london after a week in which more than 1,400 people have been arrested. We will talk to them live later. And this poster was sent to the editor of a polish newspaper in the east midlands. Well talk to her, along with others whove experienced hate crime. In the last half hour, new figures show thereve been a Record Number of hate crimes in england and wales in the last year. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about use the hashtag victorialive. We wi