And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to these numbers and the reason is that only 50 percent of the cases are actually confirmed caray corona cases the other ones of possible cases that have not been confirmed whether coronavirus test and the reason is that in the 1st wave of the pandemic here in belgium the country was so hard hits that they wanted an easy way to to count deaths and that is why they installed the system that now makes the numbers of the death rate look really bad on the other hand youre right of course numbers here i stream the high with belgium having a small population extremely high numbers 2 possible explanations one is that the tracking system has been rather weak its not been running smoothly
18 structures have been damaged. More than 10,000 structures are still threatened. Currently we have multiple priority on this incident, not only over in the napa valley area. Trying to keep it out of the Populated Areas as well as trying to protect the city of santa rosa the best we can. This no reports of deaths or major injuries from the glass fire. We have Team Coverage of the fire for you. Ktvu meteorologist Rosemary Orozco is monitoring the weather conditions. Lets start with allie rasmus reporting live. Reporter although the fire did grow about 6,000 aches are overnight, it is still zero percent contained. The weather conditions have made the situation slightly less dire. Before sunrise, an ominous glow lit up the skies in the hills above downtown kal stowing a the fire line snaked down the hillside. This is part of the reason the entire city of 5,000 people in kal calistoga was ordered to evacuate. By this more than, there was no damage to the downtown buildings. It was a simil
The latest campaign 2020 initiative. And Oakland University Political Science professor will talk about michigan is a key battleground state in november. Good morning. Its friday, september 20 fifth. We begin with your reaction to President Trumps remarks this week about a peaceful transfer of power. Supporting the biden harris ticket dial in at 202 7488000. If youre supporting the president and Vice President pence, bite dial in at 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate, 202 7488002. ,lso text us with your comments first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Or join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Call,we wait for your heres a question and answer from the president on a peaceful transfer of power from wednesday evening. Inits win, lose, or draw this election, will you commit today for a peaceful transferral of power after the election. There has been rioting in many cities across this country, and your socalled red and blue states. Will you commit
Joining joining us from washington at the Washington National Committee Headquarters is ronna mcdaniel, rnc. Its your job to make sure that voters get to the polls, and in key states like michigan where youre from, how are you dealing with that. We went virtual as states were shutting down coming up with protocols and making sure that ppe is available and weve switched back to a fully in force ground game and knocking doors in all the Battle Ground states. We had the infrastructure in place already and now were knocking about a million doors a week. Are you worried about covid19 . Are you taking precautions . Were taking the safety and Health Precautions necessary, we went completely virtual at first, so that we made sure that there was ppe available, that all the procedures are being put in place and now weve gone to the full ground game. We feel really good about it. We obviously are cognizant of the home owners and making sure were putting their safety first, but so far, theres been
Battleground states, looking at the key states that could play a crucial role in this years election. We turn our attention to the state of michigan, and we begin with Detroit Free Press washington correspondent Todd Spangler. Where do things stand right now in the state of michigan . s leadlooks like riding in michigan is still pretty solid looks like bidens lead in michigan is still pretty solid. The last one had him at eight points up. Looks like he is doing well. Not as big a lead as it was a month or so ago. Host why has he lost that edge . Guest frankly, as we get closer to the election, we always expected a tightening of the race. During the summer, the height of the black lives matter protests and some of the actions being taken by the administration, that number balloons, at one point as high as 16. We expected it to come down. Considering an election the four years ago trump won michigan by. 2 , eight is still a pretty big number. We expect it to come back down and narrow eve