The low 70s. Our coolest one of what will be increasingly warm forecast talking more about that still to come. Weve interviewed is qualified and ive narrowed down youll find out shortly. Shortly could be any moment the decision coming from joe biden about who his running mate will be for Vice President all signs pointing to a woman of color. Jeff zeleny gives us the latest. 2 of the final contenders to be joe bidens running mate just happened to be alongside him at the last rally of the primary. California senator Kamala Harris and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer before he clinched the nomination and coronavirus change the campaign. His decision is coming any day now ahead of next weeks Democratic Convention every one of the women time. Weve interviewed is qualified and i narrowed it down youll find out shortly aides tell cnn hes narrowing it down from a list of at least 11 women who have undergone extensive vetting people close to the search believe Harris Whitmer and former Obama
Thoughts, i know you have a few. Guest im kind of obsessed with looking at this list. I take the bullet for the team. Im always interested and talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up on to kill a mockingbird was a prime example. And we know why the handmaids tale was there this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. This was a book that was written in 1978. He was an english professor and lost his job and was separated from his wife and got in a forward e. , line 1975 van and rode what he called the blue highways. This was before gps and before google maps here he got the map of the country and all the backroads were colored blue. Those were the road he chose to take and so, he went to 38 of the 50 states and just kind of learning america, learning a lot about himself it was a Remarkable Book on the bestseller list in for 40 or 45 weeks were some like that. That. He has written other books in that he he is best kn
Help were clear. Let them go [ applause ] reporter and now Governor Newsom has responded. A plan to battle the virus that is wreaking havoc inside california prisons, now up to 8,000 inmates could be eligible for Early Release by the end of august. I think its a good step. Reporter former inmates and advocates have been worried, especially surrounding san quentin, the site of the states largest covid19 outbreak. 7 prisoners have died. We cant afford the luxury of a slow roll out and continuing to make incremental changes in the state prison populations. We need a large scale release. We need to follow the Public Health experts leadership on this. Health experts agree. Large packed settings are a prime place for the disease to spread. Its really a chicken coop of risks for covid. Reporter ucfs doctor peter plods the governors decision to then the prison population, but remains fearful. It may not be enough. The devil is in the details. Because 8,000 inmate six only 7 of the states count
As anti racism rallies spread across europe. Has covered 19 deaths top 400000 globally scenes of desperation in some countries afghanistan is fast running out of hospital beds. And reading books is fast catching up among children in russia. Keep them indoors and on time how much now have all the sport including more teams in germany is one does he get joined the protest against a Racial Injustice. Going beginning in the United States for the u. S. President donald trump has ordered the National Guard to pull out of washington d. C. That is despite a 12th night of protests across the country demanding change after the death george. Floyd mr trump announced the order on twitter saying ive just given an order from National Guard to stop the process of withdrawing from washington d. C. Now that everything is on the perfect control they will be going home but can quickly return if need far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated exclamation mark we have 2 correspondents monit
Tonights program has been a long time in coming. David was originally scheduled to be here in february, but was grounded byebye bad weather. Kansas city library programming, its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command of general staff in ft. Leavenworth. But it also comes in the middle of the librarys partnership from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene. And its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit thats up on the second floor gallery. We had a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower. The next one is next wednesday. Tonight we focus on icen how are and George Marshall. The army chief of staff who targeted ike for advancement as a military officer, keen eye for talent. Among others with ike, he spied george patent and omar bradley. And he became one of ikes primary mentors as the army chief of staff from 1939 to 1945. Marshall, of course, went onto become the secretary of state and win a Nobel Peace Prize. David mills