Even. Good to see you both. Thank you for joining us. Start with masks this evening. The mask issue became huge this weekend. Friday, 1 00 a. M. , when the president tweeted both him and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus. University of washington study projects that 160,000 more people could die by january 1. But that number could be reduced 95 of us were masks. Do you supporting mask mandate, where it is legally permissible . A mandate . Yes. I dont supporting mandate. I think there are appropriate guidelines people should follow, and certainly, within confined spaces, yes. I think it is appropriate to regulate what is going on. Guidelinesppropriate people will follow. I checked both of your twitter accounts regularly. I checked yours on thursday, october 1. There was a photograph of your shoulder to shoulder with a staffer, shoulder to shoulder and comedian, lenny clarke, inches away from five customers at the owl diner. None of them had masks. You didnt have a mask. How i
Tom francine, did you stay up and watch this . Francine i went to sleep and set an alarm to wake up. It is a bit messed up. That ist talk today, why. Tom for an international audience, to be kind, it was absolutely original. My goal today come cross the hours of surveillance, is to spin forward. Do you realize we are going to do this on october 15, in miami, with the great steve scully of cspan, in a town hall format. I cant get my head around that, but thats what we will do with Bloomberg Politics and david westin and s kevin cirilli, to recoup and prepare for the eyes of october. Francine the focus is on the polls. We had an initial post it will be interesting over the next 24 hours. We will have Leslie Vinjamuri on, polls. Leslie was tweeting last night around four clock a. M. I think she was in a pub with ferro. I dont know what she was doing. Francine lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika it was billed as the first president ial debate, b
We do have a lot to get through so please do not filibuster. We will be keeping track of speaking time to keep things relatively even. Good to see you both and thanks for joining us. Thank you for having us. We are going to start with masks this evening. The mask issue became huge this weekend when the president tweeted that both he and his wife tested positive for coronavirus. The university of washingtons study projects that 160,000 more people could die by january 1. That number could be reduced by 96,000 if 95 of us wore masks. Lets start with you, Kevin Oconnor. Do you support a mask mandate where it is legally permissible . Mr. Oconnor a mandate . Yes. Mr. Oconnor i dont support a mandate. I think there are appropriate guidelines that people should follow, and certainly within confined spaces, yes, then i think its appropriate to regulate whats going on. When you say appropriate guidelines, i check both of your twitter accounts regularly. I checked yours on thursday, october 1. T
You. Well get to the commute with mike. Take a look at the air quality laura was just mentioning, certainly a big concern for a lot of people still, kari. We are going to see the smoke come in today. Unhealthy air quality in the north bay where weve seen all of that smoke still being pushed down as fires continue to burn and so were going to have a lot for today and unhealthy for your time outside. Its also going to be hot again today with our coastal temperatures in the upper 60s. Our valley temperatures in the upper 90s. Well get a closer look at this as well as the rest of the forecast. How is it looking for the commute . Pretty good, kari. We had that construction cleared from oakland. Lets take a look at your maps and we have no real surprises or changes since the last couple of minutes. Still a little slow out of the altamont pass. There is a crash reported heading north through hayward on the nimitz just past 80 street. There may be partial onelane blocked. Maybe your slow lane.
Tom jon, get out of the sand trap, or whatever he said last night. Just absolutely extraordinary. We have been talking about it all morning. I would think the worldwide audience must be. Just extraordinary. Can we also note there is a job economy coming up, and maybe the next debate they can talk about where this unemployment factor is maybe going . Jonathan and maybe the csuite is still very strategic about when they drop bad news. The Walt Disney Company talking about dropping 28,000 jobs a few hours before debate. Tom well said. Jonathan it is amazing for me to wake up this morning, to watch back at that debate and hear the former Vice President call a sitting president a racist, and it doesnt even register. It is not even a headline this morning. That speaks to where we are at currently in the political discourse in washington, d. C. Tom some of the discussions on the white super missy issue last night are beneath the fold because of the turmoil, the emotion, the rage and the rank