Now on bbc news. Click talks exclusively with legendary uk rapper stormzy about his appearance in the upcoming watch dogs legion videogame. This week. Fact checking the president ial contenders. Stormzy takes us for a ride through a ride on his hometown. And chris takes us for a ride through his kitchen. Welcome to click. I hope youre well. As we head into autumn, the world has some pretty big milestones ahead of us. In the short term, the biggest is the us election. The election of the moment always feels like the biggest yet. But this comes at a time when trust in politics and politicians is at a real low. The final president ial debate has now taken place and the idea, of course, is that these debates should tell voters about the candidates policies, and help them to make an informed decision at the ballot box. But as well as becoming big, mudslinging, shouty arguments, the rallies and debates have also been riddled with untruths. We live in a time when disinformation is dividing us
Back on march, 1620 20 the bay area was the first region in the country to issue a shelterinplace order in response to the covid19 pandemic. But this is written. A 100 years from now everybody is going to remember that day that the that the 6 perry counties plus the city of berkeley lock things down it stopped. Literally thousands of deaths, although california is trending in the right direction for slowing the spread of the coronavirus doctor George Rutherford professor of epidemiology at the university of california San Francisco says now is not the time to stop being vigilant. I mean you can catch yourself on the back a little bit. I mean we clearly did a great job in march and april and into may. Little away from us in june as you know he is referring to the pandemic surging in the wake of the memorial day weekend. He cautions the return of that behavior could prompt another surge over the next 6 months which has some major holidays. We have a very clear example of how we can mess
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