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Community. Early today starts right in the race for 2020 a watershed moment for american politics, after months of peculation, jo biden made an historic pick officially naming senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, poised to become the first woman of ever on a Major Party Ticket and her opponent wasted no time going on the attack. The president unleashing a new ad overnight claiming biden has a race problem unlike the Africanamerican Community with notable exceptions the Latino Community is incredibly diverse community. In his announcement, piden sa biden said one of the reasons he chose harris is because of her focus on disparities a tenpoint lead is shown over mr. Trump, how harris will impact the numbers remains to be seen for more, Scott Macfarlane reporter a midday event in joe bidens hometown of wilmington, delaware, hes had multiple Campaign Appearance this is summer, appear together in a virtual fundraising event tonight. The appearances come one week to the day before sena
Riot police are losing patience and clearing out the final protesters, who had ignored a request to leave. Once again officers deny they went too far. But today, tens of thousands of hong kongers were back on the street. Protesting against alleged Police Violence during whats been two angry months of unrest. They spread out across the city, streaming past sunday shoppers. This is the eighth weekend of protest in this former british colony, handed back to china 22 years ago. The police had tried to ban todays event and warned that anyone who marched through the streets could be arrested, but, as you can see, it hasnt made any difference, and you do get the feeling now that many people in this city have simply no respect for the authorities, orfor the police. This evening another stand off, with officers blocking the way to the main Chinese Government building, which was defaced in the previous demonstration. The police and the people at loggerheads in a city at a crossroads. We canjoin
discussions as they re described with some of his top allies. let s discuss now more with cnn, senior political commentator, former special advisor to president obama, van jones. and cnn legal commentator and former for trump white house lawyer jim scholtz, van guys, good morning. let me start with you first van. what do you think biden needs to do first and foremost, in this debate? well, i mean, if you re joe biden, you ve got a hill to climb here the reality is he is behind in most polls. the momentum is not with him yet. and so i think you ve got to reassure the american people that he is the commander in chief, and that he has commanded the situation when it comes, especially to the economy that s where he is struggling the most. and so number one, the contrast is going to be very clear joe biden s going to have a lot of facts and expect donald trump to have a lot of insults. so you already know that s already kinda baked in the entertainment factor is going to be on t
Bay area, all of this between 101 and san carlos. The reason, an rv camper spewing flames. Nbcs bay area, joining us live from san carlos, laura. As you can see behind me, traffic is run ng both directions. All lanes were opened around 8 00 tonight. Earlier it was about as bad as it gets. The worst jam upper traffic incident i have seen. Reporter ever . Yeah, Don Livingston describing traffic along the 101 and him and others stuck in the traffic jam. It is absolutely crazy. Reporter from our chopper, you can see traffic at a standstill. One of busiest highways in the bay shuts down in both directions during the peek of rush hour after a rocket sparked an rv fire. It is commute fire, everybody is trying to get home and you know this happens. Reporter chp says the driver were carrying the rocket back from the show. Aaron shields works near by and heard what happened. I can kind of hear an explosion. Reporter a big concern of the propane tank half full in the rv. We did not know what we h