Threats we face. Our guest is dakota wood, Heritage Foundations Defense Program Senior Research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S. National security requirements, meanin
Employees. Weve got those details. But first we start with some breaking news. The electoral vote count stands right now at 227 for mr. Biden and 213 for mr. Trump. And we still have eight uncalled races. In wisconsin, which is still too close to call, biden holds a narrow lead of just 20,000 votes. Well within the margin of error there. Well within the drift that lets the president call for a recount. The Campaign Says they will immediately do so, request a recount. Another place biden holds a narrow lead, thats michigan thats where we find Brian Sullivan in grand rapids any update on this very close race reporter yes, and no how do you like that im like an economist on the air. Im going to give it to you both ways heres where we stand right now. Heres the reason i answered that way number one, heres the count 94 of michigan has come in. Its that last 6 that is the issue. Now, youve got joe biden who is up by about 45,000 votes right now. To your point, there are far more outstanding
They created the vice presidency for two reasons, in case the president died, resigned or was incapacitated, summary can step in. That was not clarified and was indeed, controversial until the 1840s. The second reason, potentially was because of the Electoral College structure. About thew anything Electoral College, you know that one of the rules of the original design was that Electoral College electorate vote for two people. They have to be from two different states. The way it worked was that you votes perwo boats president. They had to come from two different states. The founders did that because they thought that at some level or some point, they would vote for somebody from their own state. That second vote was there to force people to vote for somebody else from another state to try to run in the region and get summary from the national reputation. Then they used those two votes to get a first and second place winner. Otherwise, it was just a placeholder. Carlisle, infessor the
Now at 11 00, pg e announcing the possibility of more power up chatops. Where thousands of bay area customers could be left in the dark. A new red flag warning just went into effect for parts of the north bay and am tracking more dangerous fire weather conditions later this week. Governor newsom is throwing cold water on hopes for a Coronavirus Vaccine before the holidays. Why the rollout will take some extra time. With many voters feeling uneasy about mailin ballots, tonight we put the system to the test. The two fake ballots you sent never show up. It is concerning. Im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 on kpix 5 news and streaming on cbsn bay area, a red flag warning just taking effect with the wind causing the potential for problems. We will break down a new round of possible power shots in just a moment, but first lets get right to chief meteorologist paul heggen for what we can expect overnight. Low humidity is the big concern tonight, not going to increase very muc
Dark. A new red flag warning just went into effect for parts of the north bay and am tracking more dangerous fire weather conditions later this week. Governor newsom is throwing cold water on hopes for a Coronavirus Vaccine before the holidays. Why the rollout will take some extra time. With many voters feeling uneasy about mailin ballots, tonight we put the system to the test. The two fake ballots you sent never show up. It is concerning. Im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 on kpix 5 news and streaming on cbsn bay area, a red flag warning just taking effect with the wind causing the potential for problems. We will break down a new round of possible power shots in just a moment, but first lets get right to chief meteorologist paul heggen for what we can expect overnight. Low humidity is the big concern tonight, not going to increase very much through the rest of the night. Winds will pick up, red flag warning just went into effect a couple minutes ago at 11 00, and this