Alert to its highest level. Translator we will up the mobilization of the military operation from 3,000 to 7,000 soldiers on the ground. Macron visited the scene of the attack at notre dame basilica on thursday. He pledged to protect freedom of religion. The attacker was detained after being shot and wounded by police. One woman was a victim in her 60s who had been praying in the basilica. The others are a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s. The alleged tacker is a 21yearold tunisian national. He said the suspect repeatedly shouted god is great in arabic while being treated at the scene. The bloodshed comes less than two weeks after a teacher in a paris suburb was attacked with a knife. The teacher had shown his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a class of freedom of expression. European Union Leaders condemned the attacks, calling on the International Community to work towards dialogue and understanding among communities and religions, rather than division. Chinas com
Votes shy of victory. Votes are still being tallied Spectrum Campaign is already demanding a recount and one crucial battleground states. And in other news ethiopias Prime Minister or his troops into the 2 brain regions on an attack on a military base. And its 4 hours into the football hero Diego Maradona has Successful Surgery to remove a lot of calls from his brain. Just gone 800. 00 g. M. T. Thats 1 pm in the eastern United States and there is still uncertainty about who the next president will be the country is awaiting for a few key results with 43. 00 states counted results a neck and neck that leaves 7 states to decide the direction of the country and most could go either way while other states paused for the night counting continued in wisconsin we are expecting to have that result soon in the last few minutes the trunk Campaign Says it will request a recount there. And we have correspondents across the United States the seller john hendren is in lansing in the battleground sta
Roy discusses the herd immunity approach. With the new school year beginning in schools and colleges across the country, the acrostic candidate joe biden said if he is elected help is on the way. To School Systems and parents. Good morning, this is washington journal. We start the program asking you about your experience so far. How is it going back either remotely or in person, is it working . Four those of you in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific. For educators, our number is 2027488002. If you want to send us a text, that line is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. And ontter or twitter. It was his Second Campaign appearance after his convention, biden in delaware yesterday. You can find it at cspan. Org. The Washington Post, biden blames trump because the education gap a national emergency. Joe biden sought to channel the frustrations of students, parents, and teachers around the country i blaming trump for School Districtss inab
Lets start off with a topic we talked about earlier in the program. Wrote, why its mostly safe to reopen the schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classroom and the evidence from europe shows no wider harms. As you see the schools opening across the country, has your opinion changed on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . I would say the reopening experience we had thus far confirms and is consistent with the evidence weve had around the world and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12. For reasons we dont fully understand, younger children dont appear to not only are they actually themselves at very serious illness or death from covid19 but they also appear to not transmit the virus to adults and this is counterintuitive for a lot of people. Most of us have been parents are used to our kids picking up whatever bug is going around at school and bring it back to us. The idea that coronavirus doesnt wo
Schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classrooms. The evidence from europe shows no wider harms. Its more complicated with older students. Has your opinion changed any on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . Guest i would say that the reopening experience we have had thus far in the United States actually confirms and is consistent with the evidence that we have had around the world, and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12 that for reasons we obviously do not yet fully understand, younger children, particularly preadolescent children, do not appear not only are they themselves are very low risk of serious death from covid19 but they also appear to virus tomit the adults. This is counterintuitive to a lot of people. Most of us are used to our kids going to school, picking up whatever bug is going around school, and bringing it back to us. The idea that covid19 does not work that way, you know, its