With Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us, were going to begin with the first night of the Democratic National convention and what will be an unth docks political event brought on by an unprecedented pandemic. The Coronavirus Crisis is not only changed how tonights speeches will be given, but what they will focus on. Over the next four nights democrats will appear virtually without the pomp and sirks were used to seeing, where they will argue that joe biden and Kamala Harris uniquely qualified to take on President Trump and the pandemic. Tonight which will feature a speech by former First Lady Michelle Obama comes just as a new cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows gentlemen biden leading the president among likely voters. Not only who will vote this november but how they will cast their ballot will also be front and center tonight. Todays democrats hand picked postmaster general trying to slow down mail delivery and
Write to mass yeah thats the nature and to me trip to mars is an activist here in florida who raises probably awareness about the covert 900. 00 situation and he also become the center of attention if you went back when he interrupted the Governors Press conference youre going to marry were getting your act of breaking every day and youre doing nothing youre falsifying information and you are misleading the public over 4000 people have died and you are blaming the protesters you guys not to your place and youre doing nothing shame on you so to must what actually prompted you to do this state of florida is now i just asked are right were getting record cases every day yesterday we had a Record Number of i believe 186 deaths today we had 217 and we have more cases in new york and italy which were initial episode. For this pandemic and we are 45 months out from the start and its frankly because the gov refuses to do basic things like instituting a state where they refused to listen to Pub
French Economic Data. Francine if you look at the numbers, tom, it really missed estimates. It was interesting yesterday when Angela Merkel met with emmanuel macron, that they seemed to have a united front and said that they would do whatever they can to keep the economy open. It doesnt mean that they will not put in more measures, but if you look at the numbers of infected rising in germany and france, it is a lot of a problem with these leaders. Will they go back to a lockdown . They seem to suggest with more targeted measures, they do not want to go back to a lockdown, and it was interesting, they especially talked about borders, that if they can they do not want to close borders. Tom may be the border between florida and new york would be one of the selected borders of debate. On friday, an extraordinary friday. The first word news in new york city, here is ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden slams President Trump as a National Embarrassment and vowed to end what he calls the darkness.
Amendments ratification. The final section examines both the Immediate Impact and the struggles that went into modern day. And we have the curator of that exhibit. [ applause ] one of the goals is to recognize the broad diversity of suffrage activists and the many b bases which american women have been barred for voting. The exhibit looks beyond the familiar names such as susan b. Anthony and others and brings to our attention activists from a variety of backgrounds showing that the cause of suffrage was advanced by american women across race, ethnicity and class. Susan ware, a pioneer and a leading feminist biographer is the author and editor of numerous books including american womens history, still missing, Amelia Earheart and letter to the world, seven women who shaped the american century. Educated at Wellesley College and Harvard University shes taught at New York University and harvard where she served as editor of the biographical dictionary, notable american women. Since 2012,
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