Mr. Lehrer good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs, and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight, well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another threeandahalf minutes. Even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates, under their rules, may not question each other directly. There will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The
We appreciate the candidates participation during the coronavirus pandemic this year for the first time to protect everyone as much as possible, we are holding debate virtually. The candidates are online from their own locations and we, here in the studio, have been following all precautions prescribed by Health Officials and the university. Because of the pandemic, there is no Live Audience and in the studio. As we all have learned in the pandemic, technology can be challenging so i ask you for your patience if we do experience some glitches. The debate we just candidates in the race for dolores governor. Joining me, Sophia Schmidt who covers the popular county court over public media and include questions recorded by students and delaware citizens. The democratic partys nominee for governor is john carney, incumbent republican candidate for governor is julian mary. Welcome to both of you. Both have rules for the debate, ill begin with the question for each of them and they have agree
On behalf of delaware public media and center for political communication, talking to telework debates 2020. Delaware debate is supported by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and we appreciate the backing of the university of delawares college of arts and sciences and universally present. We appreciate the candidates participation during the coronavirus pandemic this year for the first time to protect everyone as much as possible, we are holding debate virtually. The candidates are online from their own locations and we, here in the studio, have been following all precautions prescribed by Health Officials and the university. Because of the pandemic, there is no Live Audience and in the studio. As we all have learned in the pandemic, technology can be challenging so i ask you for your patience if we do experience some glitches. The debate we just candidates in the race for dolores governor. Joining me, Sophia Schmidt who covers the popular county court over public media
As much as possible we are holding the debates virtually. Candidates are online from their own locations and we in studio have been following all precautions prescribed by Public Health officials and the university. Because of the pandemic there is no Live Audience in the studio. As we have all learned during the Pandemic Technology can be challenging so i ask for your patience if we experience some glitches. This debate features candidate in the race for delawares governor. Joining me to question them is journalist Sophia Schmidt who covers the states most popular county, newcastle, for the lower public media. We will include questions recorded by students and delaware citizens. The Democratic Party nominee for governor is john carney, the incumbent. The republican candidate is julianne murray. Welcome to both of you. Both candidates have agreed in advance to rules for this debate. I will begin with a question for each of them and they have agreed to hold themselves to time limits. Al
Right, thank you john for checking in on the bridges summer packed with traffic others are just foggy. The golden gate were checking in on one on one a dense fog advisory issued early this morning and we can see why were at that hours you can see it right now so going to be dealing with that from the north bay to San Francisco. But youre averaging 20 minutes. So thats really good for your drive here in the bay bridge toll plaza it looks like the morning commute is already thinning out. Yes, we have a line thats feels back be on west graham but about 20 minutes ago it was really packed it was much heavier so its already improving 13 minutes off to fremont street and ill give you one more highway for west slow from right around the pittsburg bay point bart station up and over the hill into conquered no crashes theyre averaging 24 minutes up to 2. 42 daria. Thanks a lot rob and lets get to the breaking news which are the fires in sonoma and napa counties and what has been devastated, you