because that s where sick people will be. that s common sense and have always known that. one more for you. breaking news today from the cdc on the monkeypox outbreak with updated numbers. 13,500 cases in 49 states. that s a tick up in the last couple of weeks by quite a bit. but what about how we keep the fear down, the protection and the information up? the cdc is in fix itself mode. one of the reasons cdc got it fix itself mode because they were behind on testing again and we heard it from the local doctors and hospitals here in new york where we didn t have the tests we need. we were behind the 8 ball and underestimated the number of cases like at the beginning of the covid pandemic. the way to get around the fear, your point, is to say who is at risk. is it men who have sex with men with multiple partners? that s the primary group. where are the tools we need? i talked to the governor of new york about this is other day.
xi reponds with those that play with fire will perish by it. we got the same notes. it lasted two hours and 17 minutes. xi said china will never leave space for taiwan s independence. the u.s. does not support taiwan s independence. china believes that that is changing. that whole policy is changing and that could lead to really a tick-up in the problems there. well, we do know with putin invading ukraine, you know, xi wants to invade taiwan. president xi and president putin have that compact against the west. they want to redraw the matchup for world war ii. we know taiwan is in the bulls eye of the ccp and he s taken
to work in that industry. that s good for the long-term sustainability of our economy because it was hit hard during the pandemic. many of those places had to close and having more childcare availability for parents will help us get more people back into the job market. there s about 5.6 million people on unemployment or not in the market and having good, strong childcare will help us get more people in. so we re seeing nice, steady movement here and feel really good about the report and quite honestly about where we have come from since president biden has taken office in getting people back to work. in the past couple of months, we ve seen the number of first time employment claims tick up. a sign that layoffs may be on the rise, secretary, but at the same time, there are still nearly two job openings for every unemployed worker. how does the job market seem to defy all these fears of a potential recession? as far as unemployment numbers, we saw a tick up, but
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what you are seeing right now, it s just the early vote, the early mail vote you are looking at here. what s yet to come in is the same day vote. and the really troubling thing for rice is that elsewhere in the district, fry has been doing better, about six points better on the same day vote then he has in the early and the mail vote. so, there s an opportunity for fry if what we are seeing elsewhere in the districts holds, in horry county, which is half the district to watch this number where he is up right now. we will watch this tick up, where the issue comes in the issue is simply this if he can get to 50% remember, there s a 50% rule in south carolina if he can get to 50%, he wins outright. it s all over, tom rice is out of a job. but rice right now is trying to keep fry under 50 and force this thing into a runoff. you see we have a few more votes somewhere else, but rice right now, the name of the game is to survive tonight, to somehow hold fry under 50, get this to a