Rebuilding a strong transatlantic partnership. Hello there welcome youre watching r. T. International where theres one story dominating today the u. S. President ial election much tighter than everybody was expecting and still no results so lets bring you what we know so far and bring you up to speed with the race is tight as you can see with biden already securing 238 electors and trump having the backing of 230 the magic number that they need is 270 that would get them into the white house and this is all down to what is called the Electoral College system in the United States because each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of People Living there and whichever candidate secures a simple majority of votes in each state does win the only exceptions of maine and nebraska which are allocated electors based on local district. Heres what it looks like so far on a state by state basis many of my old. States from pennsylvania wisconsin michigan and georgia are still cou
Between the union and the school board and the School District, it feels like from those those other entities, and i want to say that the purpose of this meeting was to figure out how the city can best support families and the School District and educators. Because i agree with the comments of Susan Sullivan that the caste that the educators have in front of them is so monumental. And it is difficult to roll out distance teaching and learning, which is what you are doing, and also at the same time to simultaneously provide for the needs of families to do what needs to be done in households to make that education work and meaningful. So what i see the role of the city is and i want to take my at off to maria sue and her staff and the mayor who stepped up and are trying to play a useful role in in the in one area of where families need help. And it is the area that is most complicated because how to provide safe child care so that theres an adult, you know, helping the teachers to teach
In this election. So, the answer is yes and regarding demographics and when people register to vote, dem demographic information is optional. But when it comes to knowing where the high turnout parts of the city are, we know that each election because we provide by default, extra support for those locations every year, every election cycle. And so, we still expect people to go to polling places and we still expect them to want to capacity a ballot, but i think covid is going to also reduce the number of people that go to polling places. And i think the ballot lanking g in peoples mailboxes are reducing the people in polling places. But having i voted sicker on the insert will reduce the number of people going to polling places. Thats one of the largest statements is that they want their i voted sticker. Thats why they go and drop off ballots. Now they can get the sticker and mail it back to us. I know a lot of voters, my family included, tend to drop off or ballot on election day and t
Between the union and the school board and the School District, it feels like from those those other entities, and i want to say that the purpose of this meeting was to figure out how the city can best support families and the School District and educators. Because i agree with the comments of Susan Sullivan that the caste that the educators have in front of them is so monumental. And it is difficult to roll out distance teaching and learning, which is what you are doing, and also at the same time to simultaneously provide for the needs of families to do what needs to be done in households to make that education work and meaningful. So what i see the role of the city is and i want to take my at off to maria sue and her staff and the mayor who stepped up and are trying to play a useful role in in the in one area of where families need help. And it is the area that is most complicated because how to provide safe child care so that theres an adult, you know, helping the teachers to teach
Expression of disdain for this city. That was oaklands interim police chief voicing apprehension after a large but peaceful protest this evening. We have ordered scores of arrests following protests in oakland, police or the crowd to disperse when a countywide curfew took effect at it a clock tonight. Officers detained 40 people for violating the curfew and the county sheriff is reporting 100 arrests. This was mostly a peaceful night. We spoke with protesters in oakland and walnut creek, they tell us they dont want looting and violence to overshadow their message. They hope that their calls for justice and equality will finally be heard. Shortly after the curfew went into effect police used smoke grenades to disperse the people still in the downtown area. Some people threw rocks at officers. Shortly after we saw Police Detained dozens of people, hours earlier a large crowd gathered at open Tech High School for what organizers described as a peaceful protest. Thousands of young people m