Been watching a lot of baseball. Im a huge dodger fan. Have you seen this . Because there are no fans, theyre letting people pay have cardboard cutouts in the stands. I noticed the other day our cardboard cut outs had vanished. We thought through every possibility. Were they stolen . Maybe the dodgers had to cover them up, because Clayton Kershaw was getting lost in my eyes. No. Turns out the dodgers had moved us, like garbage. And you know who they replaced us with . And this is, by the way, 100 real. We did not make this up. I turn on yesterdays game and in my seat was none other than guillermo dude, what the hell guillermo i didnt know rob oh, im sure you didnt know. So you get my seat. Let me ask you a question. Have you been on a Network Television show every year since 1999 . Guillermo i dont think so. Rob thats what im saying. This just isnt cool. In fact, i think this is mlbs. I dont want to be all political, but sometimes you have to take a stand, which is why im going to call
With byron pitts. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Tonight, with just 83 days left until election day, Presumptive Democratic of candidate for president , joe biden and Kamala Harris stepping out for the first time and already on the offensive. Heres janai norman. This is a moment of real consequence for america. Everything we care about, its all on the line. Reporter this afternoon in delaware, the official debut of the joe bidenKamala Harris ticket. The former Vice President and hi his historymaking choice. This morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities. But today, today just maybe theyre seeing themselves for the first time in a new way. Joe, im so proud to stand with you. And i do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me. Whose sacrifice, determination and resilience makes my presence here today even possible. Reporter the candidates walkin
Cable Television Program as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host this week on the communicators, our guest is Shirley Bloomfield from ntca, the Rural Broadband association. She is the ceo of it. Pauluest reporter is kirby. Shirley bloomfield, who do you represent at ntca . Shirley i represent around 850 communitybased Rural Broadband providers. They are the companies that traditionally were the local phone companies that had to evolve and evolve quickly. Broadband providers. About 35 of our landmass in this country. Host could you name a couple of those companies . Shirley absolutely, we could go all the way to western south dakota by matt . , we can go to wisconsin, where we have a number of Telephone Cooperatives. And if looking over here in my state of virginia, we have scott county down in the very tip of the state, the tristate area. I have 800 and 50. 850. Host so you are talking landmass, not necessarily population. Shirley absolutely, and
Suppression then the head of the upcoming20 20 election. In this moment following ongoing unconscionable tragedies of Racial Injustice in our country, i have more hope than ever that are declaration that black lives matter and our protest against support of freedom for all will be unrelenting in bringing about equitable and longoverduechange. We feel incredibly fortunate that tonights guest is one of the nations foremost experts on Voting Rights area lena abrams is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, ceo and political leader. She was the first black woman to become gubernatorial nominee for a major party of the united states. In the race for governor of georgia she won more votes than any other democrat in the states history. Stacy abrams again made history as the first black woman to deliver a response to the state of the union in 2019 and there is no doubt her history making endeavors are far from over. In her new book our time is now, power, purpose and the fight for a fair america
Glad to be with us im Frances Rivera and im philip mena millions are gearing up for a school year like any other as the country struggling the contain coronavirus. Over 5 million americans have been infected. No other country in the world has as many cases. At least 163,000 people in the u. S. Have died since this pandemic started and startling numbers at least 97,000 children have tested positive in the last two weeks of july. More than 7 out of 10 infections came from the south and the west so far, a total of 338,000 children have been infected. As unemployment lines grow, 1 in 4 americans say the pandemic has pushed them to take on more credit card date more than 60 of card holders worry they wont be able to keep making minimum payments. Another positive test for the st. Louis cardinals roster led to the mlb postponing their series against the pirates the team has not played since july 29. Thursday is the earliest theyll return to the field. With rising case numbers, there are growi