Complete repeat of the 2016 map. All the big battleground states are all in play. And one of the key ones, this could be a new state in play for 2020, is the state of arizona. Its been a longtime republican state, but right now, with 75 of the expected vote in, joe biden has a lead over donald trump. Tom llamas. Yeah, so, george, the first thing i want to show our viewers is on the early vote. We have talked so much about the early vote. But you need to talk about this number if you talk about arizona. Joe biden with a tenpoint lead in the early vote, and thats so important because if you look at his lead its by ten points an as well. Hes winning in the biggest county. Threefourths of the vote going to come from here. One of the things joe biden did here, he spent big. Went to maricopa and spent 17 million. Democrats looked at the map, saw donald trump underperformed. Kristen cinema comes in, she wins. We have to talk about tucson. Pima county. Joe biden on top. Overperforming there. W
Weve heard in the previous sessions today about Fact Checking political news, a Law Enforcement is preparing for potential post election violence. Weve also discussed the impact of disinformation about covid19 and communities of color. Our next panel will focus on covid19 political mobilization and digital platforms. Weve seen the power of information and disinformation in the era of coronavirus but how can people cut through the sea of claims and counter claims on the internet and social media and make sense of the sheer volume of information out there . And what is the responsibility of those who oversee social media platforms to make sure that information out there is actually correct and accurate . So today we have a distinguished group joining us. Im going to start with you, first, david. Dr. David is an associate professor in the school of engineering and applied sciences at the George Washington university. Hes the associate director of institute for data, democracy, and politic
A note. This country has seen a rise by white supremacist. We are now seeing information of new groups that recruit aggressively and openly celebrate violence as there ammo. This this is the build up foa long time. That terrible moment. Thats probably our main objective. Something official of the cues and teeth of being a major cause of violence in the nationwide protest following the killing of george floyd. Arrested after prosecutors said he was stockpiling weapons for an attack to fuel race wars. In the u. S. Rightwing extremist willing to at least 15 mers last year. Thats a 35 increase over 2017. The 17 your faces felony homicide charges for shooting three people during tuesday nights protest in kenosha. The alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was a classic case of terrorism and violence in the country could get worse. Rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns. U. S. Security officials are warning that violent domestic extrem
We have nice bit of an orange glow over the bay ahead of what will be a hot and pretty breezy afternoon. Were already in the midst of red flag warnings those take effect this morning at 05 00am for the Santa Cruz Mountains. Inland east bay and all across the north bay as winds are now beginning to pick up these will remain in effect all the way through friday at 11 00am so really the remainder of your workweek we are impacted by this high or higher fire danger. North bay areas starting to see increased winds not near a breezy us just yet though that will be tonight into tomorrow morning. This is 04 30pm today outlets peak vacaville, callous toga sonoma even down to Livermore Hayward and san jose really seeing wind speeds picking up here by the time we work into early tomorrow morning vacaville regularly seeing wind gusting to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour range areas like out was p calistoga even upper elevations, the east bay right there with you. Now into thursday evening and into friday m
Childhood elementary and secondary education will come to order. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is present, and i note for the subcommittee that mr. Courtney from connecticut, ms. Mcbath of georgia, ms. Underwood of illinois, ms. Lee of nevada, ms. Trahan of massachusetts, mr. Walberg of michigan. Mr. Johnson of south dakota and dr. Murphy, north carolina. They are permitted to participate in todays hearing with an understanding that there questions will come after all members of the early childhood, elementary and secondary education subcommittee on both sides of the aisle who are present, have had an opportunity to question the witnesses. The committee is meeting today for a hearing to hear testimony on underfunded and unprepared examining how to overcome obstacles to safely reopen Public Schools. As this is a hybrid hearing with members participating both here in the hearing room and remotely i would ask all microphones for participants remotely be kept muted to eliminate b