Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Contra costa county. The news at 10 00 starts right now. Thank you for joining us for this special election 2020 newscast. Its not jut about the vote count. Many high profile republicans are joining the president in claiming Election Fraud without presenting any real evidence. Lets start with the numbers. The Electoral College vote unchanged. Youll notice in the last 24 hours because the races in five states are still too close to call. And four of those states could go to recounts. Joe biden with 253 electoral votes. 214 for President Trump. 270 is the magic number. The country is hanging on the results from nevada, arizona, pennsylvania, and georgia. In all four states, both candidates are within 2 Percentage Points of each other. And two are practically in a dead heat. In georgia, President Trump has led, has the lead with less than 2,000 votes. It is 11 00 in the evening in maricopa county, arizona, where the count continues at this hour. The county intends to announce new results
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