We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
Conversation on race in america. Barack obama was asked about this in a 60 minutes interview yesterday. We will show you that, come back, get your thoughts on it. Here he is. Is that we have a criminal Justice System in which ,e ask often times very young often times not very well to go intoicers communities and just keep a lid on things. And we dont try to get at some of the underlying causes for chronic poverty. So if we are going to actually solve this problem, there are some specific things we can do to make sure that our contracts with Police Officers to completely insulate them when they do something wrong, putting money into budgets for training. More Police Officers effectively q. Week teaching Police Officers not to escalate, but to deescalate. But it is important for us not to let ourselves off the hook and think this is just a Police Problem because those shootings, that devaluation of life is part and parcel with a legacy of discrimination and jim crow and segregation that
And state coronavirus response. Former Trump Administration Economic Advisor Casey Mulligan on President Trumps economic record heading into the final days of campaign 2020. Is the washington journal for wednesday, october 21, less than two weeks until election day. President trump campaigns in gastonia, Kamala Harris in asheville, North Carolina today. President barack obama campaigning in philadelphia. We invite you to answer this question. What is motivating you to vote this year . Perhaps it is an issue you are passionate about, you do not like the other candidate, maybe it is due to who you think will handle the pandemic better. Heres how you can let us know this our what is motivating you to vote. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump and mike pence. 202 7488000 if you support joe biden and Kamala Harris. Areare decided undecided or supporting another candidate, 202 7488002. cspanwj. Cial media pew in august, it was the organization that took a poll on those issues important
We will have some cool down again next week ill pick after today we will have a little warmup but a lot of fog and storms in the mountains erupting the last couple of days. A little overcast and breezy to just a roaring delta wind at some Higher Elevations of 30 . 50s and 60s on the temperatures and there is some sun breaks but thats a pretty decent fog wake when you get 3045 mile per hour wins out there setting the stage for cooler day today. That fog bank is large and temperatures mostly below average today. In the city, do you want to start their . We do want to start in the city. Thats for sure. We have a big problem. A couple of different crashes with one car on fire on 80 westbound right here in symphysis go. You can see that it looks like the bar may be out but the lanes are blocked here from that picture we are showing you from a caltrans camera. I can put it on the map for you here and show you what it is doing to traffic. And slowing all the way across the bay bridge. Here is
Whats being done about it. Reporter right now at san quinten, they are testing prisoners and getting immediate results in realtime. Thats why the governor gave a specific number today at noon and within a few hours, there were more cases. So they are constantly updating those numbers. We are finding out more about that 71yearold death row inmate who was found dead in his cell last wednesday. According to the marin county coroners office, the examination of the body showed he tested positive for covid19. The baseball field at san quinten has been turned into a triage because of the covid19 outbreak. Since the governor spoke this morning, the number of inmate cases has gone up by 19, to 1,030. Whats concerning is how quickly that number increased. 987 new cases in the past 14 days alone. We have formalized strategies and plans, including the protect of suiting seton hospital if we have to transfer many, many patients. Reporter several months ago, 3500 lowlevel offenders throughout the pr