A summer without rodeos, a mule kick to rural america. And later, the concert that covid could not cancel. This is the cbs weekend news. , washington. This week marks a milestone in the evolution of our democracy. 100 years since women obtained the right to vote. It wasnt given. They fought for it for 41 years and the 19th amendment made it so. Election day this year is 79 days away, but earlier in states that allow absentee or mailin voting. Now, voting in a pandemic means an unprecedented number of ballots will be mailed. But there are worries the post office might not deliver all ballots on time. Toy the post office announced a 90 day moratorium on the removal of collection boxes. This has been seen in several states. President trump blames democrats, not his new postmaster general for concerns hovering over the verifiable handling of more mailin ballots. But today there is another issue, a deeply personal one. Late yesterday the president s younger Brother Robert died in new york.
Democratic party ticket. The flies ravaging the amazon rainforest our ally according to president jab also narrow parts more than 10000 files by recorded so far this month and farmers are struggling to fight them with little official. Qtip president ial Election Results president Alexander Lukashenko won 80 percent of sundays ballot but the opposition and the European Union say the vote was not free and fair enough Foreign Ministers will meet on friday to discuss sanctions the main opposition candidate meanwhile has fled to lithuania saying she fears for her childrens safety well speak to the Lithuanian Foreign minister in a moment but 1st this report. I preferred night of anger and unrest in the pelosi and capitol. Protesters here are still furious about an election they say was a great kid. But as demonstrators rallied once more to voice their Outrage Police moved in to make arrests. We are all belorussians how is this possible fighting against your own people this isnt fair. Preside
Rodeos. A mule kick to rural america. And later, a concert that covid could not cancel. This is the cbs weekend news. Garrett good evening, everyone, im Major Garrett in washington. This week marks a milestone in the evolution of our dracyem. The right to vote. It wasnt given. They fought for it for 41 years and the 19th amendment made it so. Election day this year is 79 days away, but earlier in states that allow absentee or mailin voting. Now, voting in a pandemic means an unprecedented number of ballots will be mailed. But there are worries the post office might not deliver all ballots on time. Today the post office announced a 90 day moratorium on the removal of collection boxes. This has been seen in several states. President trump blames democrats, not his new postmaster general for concerns rovering over the verifiable handling of more mailin ballots. But today there is another issue, a deeply personal one. Late yesterday the president s younger Brother Robert died in new york.
Fire in Southern California continues to burn out of control. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 5. And thanks for waking up with us on a monday were all in this together at very fulsome and im James Fletcher lots to talk about from the pandemic to politics to fires burning across California Well get to all that here in just a bit just getting out of bed though is the first he is right well its going to be a lot easier getting out about this morning daria. Were not seeing the fog completely socked in like we have over the last a couple of weeks in fact look at this nice shot seizure tower camera showing a you can see a little bit of it just real patchy though this is actually the Golden Gate Bridge towers there you can in the middle of your screen. So at least we can see them right and thats a good morning, a good way to start off as the visibility a little bit to spotty in some areas but not too bad like what weve seen over the last couple of weeks temperature wise look at this ver
Three months out. If you had to pick a hand to play right now, would you rather be in the position of democrats or republicans . I think i would rather be in the position of democrats. At the moment, i think joe biden is in a better position in the president ial race. Results are not perfectly correlated but they dont have the same bearing on each other that they did a couple generations oago. Every state that had a senate race also voted for the same party for president. That is not carried guaranteed to happen this time but the democrats are probably. Oing to lose alabama they need to win currently republican current republican held seats. The good thing for democrats is in athink they look good least four senate races. Arizona and colorado. And i think they are probably better than 5050 in North Carolina and maine. The tricky thing for democrats is that once you get beyond those states, there are several other targets but none of them are as good as those first four. Thosenate Playi