That drive across the golden gate. It is. That is where chp issued a fog advisory. We are commuting out of marin into San Francisco, you are going to deal with limited visibility, extra careful across the span of the golden gate. You see in the live shot things are foggy. Be careful. Just north of there we are dealing with road work. Thats the usual stuff. You have slow and go conditions there. Take a look at traffic into Altamont Pass there is crash with the left lane blocked, chp arriving on scene and we have a back up ensuing because of that. Plus with the morning commuters out of tracy it is already busy, 36 minutes 205 towards 680. I am anne makovec. We are keeping an eye on this crash that happened in San Francisco involving a patrol car. Season sfpd officer hitting a fire hydrant after what appears to have been a high speed chase. Fill more and waller. What we heard from neighbos about a half hour ago on the scene, they had two cars coming very quickly. They said up to 60 miles
Welcome to Washington Post live, are program at 1 00 p. M. Eastern everyday. Today, we will hear from two leaders on the frontlines lines of the campaigns. We will hear from senator todd , ofg later in the program indiana, running all the Senate Campaigns for the republicans as they hold onto their majority. And we will hear from a representative from Washington State, the cochair of the progressive caucus in the house. One of those leaders in washington who, regardless of who wins, will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come. She is already campaigning across the country. And i will have two of my colleagues, who i have been waiting to hear from for a long emily, who will be with us later in the program. Lets go to the headlines. It is the day before election day and voters get to decide. Not anyone else, it is you who gets to decide. Here is what im hearing. Campaign, the trump republicans are concerned about my home area. The philadelphia suburbs. And have seen eros
More than 100 Million People early inperson or absentee, shattering old records. Thats nearly three quarters of the total vote in the 2016 election. Today we look at how latinx voters could play a key role in the battleground states of florida, texas, arizona, and pennsylvania. We will speak to former Bernie Sanders advisor chuck rocha and the Award Winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Than Racial Justice, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, rank Choice Voting just some of the issues on this years ballot thrgh citizen being voted on today. Measures and in candidate races. Americans will decide how we will risk on to this moment of racial reckoning. Amy we will speak to Ronald Newman of the American Civil Liberties union. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Today is election day. Over 100 Million People have already voted a recordshattering number that is more than two thirds of the total votes cast in 2016s
The east coast so its actually no longer election day there isnt its moved on to november the 4th but in other parts of the country and in fact way out in the Pacific Ocean is the state of hawaii with 4 Electoral College votes going to joe biden of course the home state of his old boss barack obama. So were just adding that to the total mostly the total later on right now though i want to talk about North Carolina 15 Electoral College votes still too close to call but when we break down the numbers we start to get a little bit more of the picture. 100 percent reporting i believe its just short of that actually at the moment and donald trump has a 75000. 00 vote difference but once again North Carolina its the story of the night in so many states that rural urban split there is maybe still a little bit of a runway left for joe biden in the urban areas but it would only be a very small amount and remember in this sort of part of the United States when it goes North Carolina you could pos
Color, young people for biden and harris. So we have been doing an amazing effort. We have had working with pennsylvania stands up, great grassroots organization, we have inn training our volunteers sevenhour deep canvassing training. Over 600 of them have participated in this effort. We have made over 140,000 phone calls in pennsylvania in the last 3. 5 weeks. Now we are focused on geo tv. In the early weeks, we were focused on persuasion, listening, and helping to move people along the scale, on addressing some of their concerns if they were either thinking about it for trump, turning them around, or if they were not sure theyre going to vote for biden, moving them along that scale. It has been an amazing effort. I am so proud of our volunteers and people who are refusing to leave anything on the line to make sure we do everything we can to elect joe biden and Kamala Harris. Looks no doubt the efforts we made, the congress woman, what about in pennsylvania or other key states, if the