Good evening from the Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston, im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic. Candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed toby the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator i have the option to followup and extend any particular give and take another three and a half minutes. Even then no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects we
Sorry, you cant do that. Youve already voted by mail. In seven counties democratleaning counties, if they received your ballot in advance, its illegal to open those ballots until election day, the mailin ballots. But somehow they were determining which ballots were not accurate, which was not properly done and telling voters to fix them. And, again lou the Trump Campaign today also telling us that their Main Objective is for states not to certify fraudulent results. You would think that that would be transparently obvious and an Immediate Response on the part of election boards, but it is not. One of the campaigns legal challenges heads today a detroit judge tomorrow in which the campaign demands certification of detroit s vote be halted altogether and an entire audit be done on detroits entire vote. And today a judge in arizona is hearing now another of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges. The campaign claiming poll workers in Maricopa County wrong lu rejected votes wrongly rejected
From San Francisco. Our breezy as to various vacaville atlas peak Fairfield Napa sonoma calistoga in petaluma even danville in the east bay looking at some steady winds right now Oakland Haywards in san jose as well San Francisco, all backing off the strongest winds winds will remain steady across her upper elevations and through the north bay through the morning. But by the time we work our way into the afternoon a bit of a calmer situation, this is 02 00pm here and starting to show signs of calming down red flag warnings that still hold on in her upper elevations of the east bay north bay in all of solano and napa counties will remain until 05 00pm after which point well see them expiring in some improving conditions for the next few days and hopefully the return to power for a lot of us that are in the midst of those Power Outages right now right now novato youre at 46 degrees happening bay of 48 to avert coolest of spots while napa one of our breezier areas is also one of our. Warm
Is your drive time to fremont no other big trouble spots out there and its going to move well across the upper deck all the way through downtown San Francisco so coming up well check in on the san mateo bridge and well also take a look at the Golden Gate Bridge as well and well see if the conditions have changed at all out there. Ill have another traffic check coming up for you in just a bit back to you thanks a lot rob and 5 o y. The votes are far from in a lot of people early voting still and then tomorrow is actually election and were counting down 24 hours from now. The votes will start to be processed in some places with the chase center for instance, early voting is available the warriors made it easy for voters to drop off their ballots off just outside the arena we talk about that on friday, yeah looks like is working well, i was just steve kerr out there over the live right now with the is details i will. Good morning darrius death steve kerr made a fast break all the way to t
Win this election. [applause] our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this nation. Maria the president went on to say yesterday process deserves look from the highest court. This is a very big moment. This is a major fraud in our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So well be going to the u. S. Supreme court. Joe biden also speaking to his supporters over the outcome of election. Watch. Take a little longer as ive said all along it is not my place or Donald Trumps place to declare who is won this election. Thats a decision of the American People. But im optimistic about this outcome. Maria so here is where we are, six states are still too close to call. One of the ones were watching this morning pennsylvania, which has now stopped the ballot counting process until later this morning. Markets this morning are lower. Take a look at futures indicating we will see weakness at start of trading taking a hit after the overnight speech showing strength on nas