Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Campaign crunch time. T minus two days until Election Night results. But more than 90 million americans have already cast their ballot. Both President Trump and joe biden are pulling out their final punches in battleground states, coming down to the wire if they want to win the white house for the next four years. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, november 1. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Well have much more on how the candidates are making their final push in battleground states in just a moment. But first, as always, lets start with a quick look at the weather. Heres meteorologist Frances Dinglasan. Good morning, frances. Good morning, liz, good morning, everyone. Hope you enjoyed that extra hour asleep. We have a gorgeous day ahead. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s right now. Oakland already up to 63 degrees. Its just so pretty outside. Here is a live view of santa cruz. You may want to head to
Make up your own minds are. Made for minds. Germany is celebrating its 30th anniversary of reunification in 1900 west germany and east germany reunited to become one nation what was it like joining us in a shift today to take a virtual journey through time. This is what the building walls look like and unbreachable stone obstacle and a close god dividing the city for most citizens of the g. D. Are leaving the country for west germany was not possible you had to go to extremes. Lengths to flee like digging underground tunnels using Virtual Reality its now possible to experience what it was like when people try to escape and on from khosla got to experience what it was like for his grandfather who dug a tunnel underneath the berlin wall. This man in this picture is els measure from cause that hes my grandfather and in this picture you see him building a tunnel under the burden wall losing of your car goes on to live on coast and social historian emma the beery time traveling back to the
Am in adams and, the Vice President of policy at freedom, the organizer of this event, we are a non profit, non partisan technology think tank, and we tend to work on charting the path forward for policymakers towards our Bright Future where Technology Enhances freedom and freedom enhances technology. We are delighted to have you here today for our event. A just a couple of housekeeping matters. Were going to go right through the various panels and presentations or if you have to get up please just do so. The will not be a break in the middle but i would urge you to try to avoid the camera shot to the extent possible and doubly urge you to not trip on the wires because thats no good. And so with that i i suppose the only other thing is hashtag is coppa and if you need to log into the wifi, the password is constituent at the moment. With that we will turn to our first panel which is creators in this space, and this produced some introductory videos which we will play to start off with.
President of policy at freedom, the organizer of this event, we are a non profit, non partisan technology think tank, and we tend to work on charting the path forward for policymakers towards our Bright Future where Technology Enhances freedom and freedom enhances technology. We are delighted to have you here today for our event. A just a couple of housekeeping matters. Were going to go right through the various panels and presentations or if you have to get up please just do so. The will not be a break in the middle but i would urge you to try to avoid the camera shot to the extent possible and doubly urge you to not trip on the wires because thats no good. And so with that i i suppose the only other thing is hashtag is coppa and if you need to log into the wifi, the password is constituent at the moment. With that we will turn to our first panel which is creators in this space, and this produced some introductory videos which we will play to start off with. So enjoy. Thank you for co
I have any ok and your in the stream today as bushfires and that this information campaigns that are surrounding them as always we want you to join the discussion if you have questions for i guess you can also will twitter or on youtube. As a stray as wildfires continue to spread so does this information there has been fake news conspiracy theories on social media and even claims that the fires were the work of 200 arsonists while trolls have been behind much of this Mainstream Media outlets such as Rupert Murdoch sky news and the australian newspaper have also been criticised for their coverage all of this is especially contentious in a country where Climate Change has long been a controversial topic that often figures as an election issue to help us understand more about this in Central Victoria than bottom shes a writer activist weekly columnist for Guardian Australia and in also norway the time hes an energy and Climate Science communicator its good to have you 2 with us i just wan