Seeking justice for Briana Taylor protesters are right again in the u. S. As 3 policemen escape charges for her death. Long running protests in thailand forced parliament to delay plans to amend the constitution. And mozambique asked for help from the e. U. To find armed groups who forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. Now beginning this news hour in the United States where Senior Republicans are distancing themselves from Donald Trumps refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election in november the president was a vase of when asked about it on wednesday. Well have to see what happens you know that ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballot surges esther and the people arriving committed to making sure that theres a nice little word for all of the want to get rid of the ballots and youll have a very transfer will have a very peaceful there wont be a transfer or frankly there will be a continuation of the ballots out of
Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the eastern and central time zones can call in, 2027488000 democrats in the pacific timezone, 2027488001. You can also send us a text. Andse include your name where you are from. Also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj. Democrats only can start calling now. We hear from you about which woman should appear with joe biden on the democratic ticket this fall. Phone lines are on your screen. Cnn editor this from at large his final Vice President rankings, his top five on the most likely picks are. Numbe
Guest good morning. How are you . Host i am doing well. Could you start by reminding viewers what the America Public Health Association is. Guest sure, thank you. Youre the National Nonprofit of people who practice Public Health and quite frankly, many of our people, the ones out chasing the virus each and every day. Host what role have you sought to play in the coronavirus pandemic . Ht what is your group been doing . Guest we have been doing a lot of policymakers, the public, advocating for resources and generally trying to push in prohealth agenda based on science p. Host we found out yesterday the number of reported coronavirus cases in this country past the 5 million mark that is doubling of u. S. Cases since the end of june and the last million happening in just the last venting days paid your reaction to that milestone. Guest the challenge is that a lot of this is preventable. We are not paying attention to what we know works. When you look at other nations in the world may be a
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Least one structure is threatened. Chopper 5 on the way to the scene, we will get you more as we get it. Our meteorologists paul heggen is standing by. What can you tell us about conditions in altamont, a little breezy this afternoon . Yeah the wind picked up in the last hour or slow slightly. It was at 15 Miles Per Hour the last time we checked on the wind map and now is 18 Miles Per Hour around livermore. You go east of livermore and they had wildfire there just over a week ago and now is the same area that has a slightly heightened fire danger because the wind has to accelerate a little bit. The wind in that spot likely in the 2020 mileperhour range. It is enough to fan the flames. Also if you notice some smoke or haze overhead it is because of some larger fires down to our south. The worst of it just outside of our counties, but you can see where that smoke and that hayes is much more prevalent. Of course this is just the beginning of the fire season. Our overall fire danger is not