Formed bidenharris ticket, and the role of women in 2020. Professor jennifer lawless joins us to discuss the evolution of women in electoral politics. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. 14, 2020. Ay, august yesterday, the Labor Department announced thousands of americans filed new jobless claims. It is the first time weekly jobless claims have fallen below one million since march. This morning, we are spending our first hour talking directly to those whose jobs have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn. Give us a call. 202 are unemployed, 7488000. If you have had your work hours reduced, 202 7488001. If you have recently returned to work, 202 7488002. Text,n also send us a 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you are from. A very good friday morning to you. Go ahead and start calling in now as we give you more context to the weekly jobless numbers that were announced yesterday, this courtesy of u. S. Todays front page of their money sec
Professional sport. The biggest t. V. Network in the philippines ordered to shut down after a lengthy dispute with the president to turn to. Montana how much now have all the sporting kidding the n. F. L. Canceled its games in london in mexico city for the coming season because of the local pandemic. So that one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in asia is to be easy even for the hong kong chief executive carol lam says that cinemas and bars can reopen later this week or secondary schools will return later this month and many people return to work on monday be no new domestic infections for 2 weeks now elsewhere though the u. K. Is still in the grip of the pandemic it has the highest number of deaths in europe and russia has reported more than 10000 new case. Its for the 3rd day in a row and this brings the number of confirmed cases to around 155000 and worldwide to more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died you can see that figure that this is the Johns Hopkins corona virus
He didnt say that until right now and he sees whats happening to him i guess hes no longer the frontrunner. The bitter back and forth just ahead. Wild weather, a potentially historic snowstorm now under way across the midwest more than a foot already on the ground with more to come while in the northeast, millions brace for what could be a dangerous noreaster, heavy rain, flooding and high winds. Al tells us what to expect. All that, plus breaking his silence, matt lauers blistering response to rape allegations by a former colleague. Power struggle, outrage across california after hundreds of thousands are intentionally d plunged into darkness. And rally its a grand slam. The Washington Nationals storm back to stun the dodgers in epic fashion, making history with an extra innings win, bringing them one step closer to the world series today, thursday, october 10th, 2019 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza.
Leave tap city says this dystopian future. Some of you may have recently streamed on netflix a movie called the gate from new york where manhattan was going to be a penal colony. Thats how bad things were getting. They were more than 2000 people murdered in two new york city , more than 2000 the same that time that was happening with war and courts have obliterated the proper reading of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. He amendment was strong in some areas under siege and other areas. We are talking about a situation that was very serious. How did we respond to the many challenges . One of the things that happened was the crime rate. From Civic Leaders to rudy giuliani. His finest battle 9 11 or in which he is a local leader actually helps new yorks crime rate so much that a chop the National Crime rate. So you look at these challenges and American History and what you begin to see is when you have these massive challenges and increased in liberty and the energy of local go
First up to a story we are watching right now. The irs rate of reach. It is getting much bigger than we realized. We are now learning of an additional 220,000 possible victims and the total number of taxpayers to 334,000. Lets go to washington dc and Bloomberg News reported jordan roberts. What can you tell us about this new breach . It seems to be more focused. Jordan before and thing to remember is that while we are not talking huge numbers, 300, people at this point, there were highly targeted attacks and and the reason they were able to get that was because he knew about them anyway. They believed they could get a big refund from them if they committed tax refund fraud. Matt this is not a case of them going through each person will account. They have reached the irs system at large. But what they were doing is they came in over the a lot of information about their potential victims. Social security number, date of birth, things like that. They identify individuals who were High Net