Boston anchor latoya edwards. Welcome, everyone, to this primary debate. Were at the nbcu Boston Media Center home of nbc 10, telemundo and nbc boston. Well d wed like to thank you for taking part of tonights event. Lets go to ed marky. He served in 2013 in the senate. Before that he served massachusettss seventh district in the house of representatives since 1976. We welcome congressman joe kennedy he served massachusettss Fourth District since 2013. Before that he served as an assistant District Attorney. We are following social distancing guidelines. Everyone is spread out more than six feet apart. And our panelists are not in 2 studio with us. Theyre in different locations. Grace gomez, news anchor for lemundo boston, tim kaputo news anchor for nbcn. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Both candidates will get one minute for questions directed to the both of them and that will be at my discretion. They will get 40 seconds with a 30second rebuttal. At the end of the evening and
The record about the issues that matter to you from covid and classrooms, to Police Reform and emigration. Its the chance to speak directly to you now your moderator nbc ten boston anchor latoyia edwards. Moderator welcome to the shias Democratic Senate debate. Were at the center. We like to thank our guests particular into nights event. Well start with the incumbent senator ed markey. He starred messages is in the ascendant since 2013. Before the he served massachusetts seventh district in the house of representatives 1976. We also welcome congressman joe kennedy. He served massachusetts Fourth District ten story 13. Before that he served as an assistant District Attorney in the das office and Middlesex Das office. Where following social distance a guideline to jacuzzi drank to nights debate. Everyone including the candidates are spread out more than six feet apart and our panelists are not in the studio with us. Here they are. They are in different locations in the boston be deceptiv
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Let me introduce the people here with us today. , melissa. Diate right thank all of you, smiling faces, for being here today. Today is day 100. It is a day that new york city begins to reopen, and it is a day that i am so glad to see finally come. Day 100. Day 100 since we had the first case in new york. The first coronavirus case. That is when we started counting. Day 100. When we first started, all of the experts people who studied this across the world. I said, where are we going to go . Nobody knew. How fast you could control the spread of the virus. It will depend on what people do. Whether or noton people take it seriously. If people except the warnings, understand the virus and understand how serious it is. I am so proud of how new yorkers have responded. I can say this. I am a born and bred new yorkers. New yorker. New yorkers heard the message and they did what they had to do. They did it with discipline. If you told me 100 days ago that we would be reopening, when we did not
This was about half an hour. Governor cuomo good morning, thank you for being here. To my right is new york city police. To my left is melissa derosa. To her left is the budget director. It is another long and ugly night in the United States of america. Last night, as it was in new york state. Day 97 of the coronavirus crisis, day 12 of the civil unrest dealing with the aftermath of mr. Floyds murder, and this is a dangerous combination, colliding crises, compounding each other. But, our job is to address what is presented, and this is the reality presented, and this is what we will deal with. On the coronavirus situation, there is a lot to learn from what we just went through, and i believe it is a transformative situation for society, and something that we can really learn from going forward. Coronavirus was a medical issue, and economic issue, but more than anything, it was a social issue. It was about how people behave, and to address coronavirus, what we had to do was to change so