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General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait
Hard not to overflow right now bay well talk about the Northern California mayor now but ive been trained well. Speaking out against governor Gavin Newsoms new statewide mandate. Yes, if it were physical, id be right there with everybody else. President trump said he wanted testing slowed down. The white house now saying he was trying to be funny. Reporter without large crowds the Convention Center will be hit hard financially just as many other Convention Centers across the world are found in the garage of struggling without events taking place at their venues. Now this all comes after apple just last week announced that its only fulltime black driver. Theyre Closing Stores in states what leaders are saying ahead of such as florida and arizona. Todays rescheduled event. Coming up in about ten minutes scott mcgrew will talk about more of these upcoming changes with apple. Reporting live, im Sharon Katsuda, today in the bay. As we come up on 5 44 the President Trump is on defense this m
We are expecting Bernie Sanders in just a few minutes. There are hundreds of supporters here at guadalupe a river park to hear him speak Ernie Sanders ran for the democratic president ial nomination in 2016 against hillary clinton. He was considered a long shot but one onto minsky 23 primaries before conceding to clinton. He is running again as a democrat in 2020 even though he is an independent in terms of his party affiliation. With his Current Office as a senator from vermont. He is expected to lay out his platform including plans for expanding medicare for all. Increasing the minimum wage to 15 an hour. And free tuition at public colleges. We love bernie. We supported him in 2016. We feel like the movement is growing a little bit now. We are more confident than ever. I think it will be helpful to bernie in the long run by winning in california. It will give him a great lead for the rest of the other primary events. Reporter sanders is currently second in the most recent California
But there you go. So good for you. Stuart big deal. Neil all right, in the meantime, we are following these developments, stuart pointed out thats a what were facing now here. Because of whats going on in texas and the unusual camaraderie youve seen across all political lines ignored in this as they should be its improving the odds not only for getting emergency relief here, but also for getting that tax break which will be spelled out in the days ahead. Now, as gary cohn of the National Economic council chief, had told stuart, the broad blue prints are now known, and what we long suspected has been now virtually confirmed, and now the battle begins. To texas republican congressman Roger Williams on how that ensues. I know youve got a lot to worry about in your own state, so i know youre fixated on that, as you should be. Because of the unique camaraderie and bipartisanship thats been shown, it is actually going to improve the odds for getting something done on tax cuts. Do you buy tha