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Why she says a woman will face more scrutiny just days before biden is set to announce his pick. Plus, high speed crash. The pileup during an International Bike race with sticker shock, whats behind the rising prices at the supermarket and how much more you can expect to pay. Mac and cheese for breakfast . How your childhood favorite is breaking into the most important meal of the day. Good thursday morning, everyone. We begin with the growing crisis along the southern border. Were going to show you how covid19 is taking a toll in texas, but first the national numbers. Were seeing more than 1,000 deaths per day, but the increase in deaths over the last week has slowed down to 3. 6 . Facebook has now removed President Trumps post from wednesday in which he claimed children are, quote, almost immune from the virus. Children are not immune and overnight we learned one county in south texas has reported the number of babies testing positive has nearly doubled in the last two weeks. Abcs an
This morning, japan has marked 75 years since the unleashing of the worlds first atomic bomb on hiroshima. 140,000 people were killed, nearly half the citys population. A scaledback, social distancing event was held with survivors and relatives marking the 8 15 a. M. Blast anniversary with a moment of silence. This morning, were opening up the abc news vault to august 1995, the 50th anniversary, with abcs carole simpson. 4,000 americans were there the day the bomb fell. Only 1,000 of them came home. Abcs deborah amos looks at how two of them are faring today. Reporter every other year, for nearly 20 years, kay yoshioka and jack diruike spend a day in a San Francisco clinic where a team of visiting japanese specialists check for cancer, blood diseases, and anything else that might be traced to what happened 50 years ago. Kay was 8 years old then, americanborn, but living in japan because her family had moved back to care for her grandmother. That summer, with american planes firebombing
Infrastructure. Live coverage on cspan. Watch at cspan. Org and listen on the cspan radio app. A number of the 2020 president ial candidates were added clark county Nevada Democratic party event last night in las vegas. The states caucus will be held on february 22. [applause] donna, we have got to show everyone our shoes. Dorothy, you are not in the iowa anymore. You are in nevada. Ok, that is not what i thought was going to happen this evening. Thank you so much for this award. It is in honor of a lifetime to serve as the Clark County Party chair. Hello, clark county democrats. Wow. How good friend nancy used to talk about, there is Nothing Better than being in a room full of democrats. Spiritnow she is here in with us tonight. She would love an event like this. So, good evening and welcome to the clark county Democratic Partys kick off to caucus. [applause] and thank you so much for joining us to celebrate the thirdinthenation, but the firstinthewest nevada 2020 caucus. The nevada s
Everyone our shoes. Dorothy, you are not in iowa anymore. You are in nevada. Thank you. Ok, that is not what i thought was going to happen this evening. [laughter] thank you so much for this award. It means a great deal to me. It is an honor of a lifetime to serve as the Clark County Party chair. So with that hello clark county , democrats [applause] wow. Our good friend nancy used to talk about there is Nothing Better than being in a room full of democrats. I know she is here in spirit with us tonight. She would love an event like this. So good evening and welcome to the clark county Democratic Partys kick off to caucus. [cheers and applause] and thank you so much for joining us to celebrate the thirdinthenation, but the firstinthewest nevada 2020 caucus. The Nevada State Democratic Party has worked hard to create the most transparent, expansive, and accessible caucus process yet. Part of the 2020 nevada caucus is the first early caucus voting anywhere in our country. Nevada leads the