A Champions League match in paris is abandoned, with teams walking off the pitch following an alleged racist slur. And on the eve of the mobo music awards, we look at the pressures faced this year by those in the industry. Hello and welcome. The us president elect, joe biden, has outlined his plans to combat a deepening Coronavirus Health emergency which has left record numbers of americans dead or in hospital. He promised that in his first 100 days, 100 million americans would be vaccinated. He said that he would push to re open schools in some states children havent sat in a classroom for ten months. At a news conference, mr biden also repeated an appeal for everyone to wear a mask during that period. Masking, vaccinations, opening schools. These are the three key goals for my first 100 days. It will start with my signed order on day one to require a mask where i can under the law like federal buildings, interstate travel on planes, trains, and buses. 100 million Covid Vaccine shots
Addiction, or something. Police say in talking with the suspect, he gave them no indication that the killings were racially motivated, even if they did predominantly target asian women. A Police Captain in the Cherokee County sheriffs department, which is the Cherokee Countys where the first shooting took place. When he discussed the suspects explanation for the shooting, he told reporters it was because the suspect was having a, quote, bad day yesterday. Thats what he said. As if that was an explanation for why the young man apparently decided to murder eight people. The Police Captain said exactly, quote, yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. Those remarks seeming to imply that having a bad day is the explanation we need for what the murderer did. Those remarks were met with an immediate backlash, given the nature of the crime here. It was shortly thereafter discovered that that same Police Captain, himself, had promoted racist, antiasian coronavirus slogans
Thomas well start right back at 1 00. Thomas im a Research Fellow here at the cato Institutes Center for constitutional studies and managing editor of the cato review. I know how insanely cooperative and timely and patient for them to make it happen. Thanks everyone that trevor named and thanked in the First Amendment. We have a First Amendment panel at constitutional day. Its smack dab at the wheelhouse here at the levy center. This year was unusually light in one respect in i believe there was one on First Amendment speech and youll hear professor armijo speak about that. We have one case on First Amendment speech. One case on First Amendment religion clawses. And two cases on clauses. And two cases on the states doctrine which arguably touches on many of the same values as the freedom of speech and the press. Namely, the values of transparency and the open marketplace of ideas. On First Amendment speech, youll hear about a case that might have first seemed to concern municipal fine
They got the iran be the rock to qualify for the world cup, but plans to allow them to see another Major International game in march were reversed of a last minute. This concession is on a smaller scale, a domestic match rather than a Big International game. Hundreds of women instead of the thousands permitted on the previous 2 occasions. But the female football fans hope their presence will become a more permanent part of the game. Denton mullin, al jazeera. Ah, i forget check of the headlines here on out 0, the russian occupied upper region Nuclear Power plant is back online. Ukraines Nuclear Agency says it was brief, disconnected from the pal, great off to fire damaged overhead electricity lines. There growing concerns in the fighting near the complex to hes a bo has more from keith. What most people here are demanding right now is a 3rd party to visit that location to have access to get to and to know whether what type of damage has been going on. And thats why the United Nations N
Growing by 2 in the the lst quarter. That is better than most economists had had predicted. The gdp is our broadest measure of economic health, helpingo move that number forward, a boost to consumer spending, Housing Market in rovery and increased defense spending. Well have much more on this in about 15 lets talk weather now. A massive and deadly Hurricane Sandy could slam into the northeast in just a few days. Take a look from space. Sandy is so big, it would cover tennessee, to los s. Angele and its expected to mix with a powerful wer halloween monster. This could affect everyone from trickortreaters to people headed to the polls. People at the jersey shore are already filling sand bags and preparing for the worst. Meteorologist rob marciano is here. So, percentages . Will it hit . Is it likely to hit . Looks a lot more likely now than it did this time yesterday. Yesterday it was maybe 50 50. Give it greater chances than that. The question is how big and bad will it be . It will be