Alive today. Our political power house Team Standing by to break it all down. This special edition of nightline, your voice, your vote, starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Tonight the unprecedented move by the Democratic Party, launching the political tradition held every four years and going virtual in the pandemic. The coronavirus and other tough issues taking center stage on the first night of the dnc, wrapping up moments ago and for the latest we go straight to mary bruce reporting from our nations capitol. Mary . Juju, the democrats kicked off a Convention Like none other. No packed floor or cheering or applause, instead, a series of speeches and videos, from across the country and party. The goal was to show that joe biden can speak to all americans, not just democrats. Tonight was a chance for the Democratic Party to show they were united so we heard from bidens rivals, senator Bernie Sanders and while we briefly heard from the candidate himself in a conver
The California Independent system operator extending that flex alert asking people to conserve that energy as you mention through thursday to avoid blackouts and also intermittent outage situation. Thats not what we thought we would find on this block here in milpitas. They said about 139 customers did not have power and when we got here you can see the lights are on this morning and good news for folks on this block but there are sporadic outages we want to tell you about when it comes to pg e across the bay area this morning. The good news, the rolling outages were called off last night by pg e shortly after 8 00 p. M. Because the Energy Supply would meet demand. Thats what the Energy Supplier said. Were learning two big reasons for this. The temps stayed cooler and people did conserve energy. Governor newsom also took some blame for the outages during his monday news conference. Let me just make this crystal clear, we failed to predict and plan these shortages and thats simply unacc
Happened in kenosha this week is a continuation of the president s focus on law order, wanting to bring control back to the streets of american cities. The federal government is now sending in some federal Law Enforcement personnel into kenosha to bring some peace and calm. Host it was part of the theme of the Vice President s remarks last night. What is the strategy . Guest the strategy is to say that what we are seeing now in these cities with these protests and civil unrest is what you would get if the country goes away from President Donald Trump and elects Democrat Joe Biden in november. The president and Vice President are painting themselves as the only ones who can bring calm to america, and that is the strategy you saw last night with the Vice President s speech, and you will see a little bit of that tonight when the president gives his speech. Time from thetern white house, do we know what the set up will be at the white house . Guest his speech is actually a little bit later
Im jamie colby, in ocean city, maryland, an irresistible atlantic resort town known for its golden beaches and this historic boardwalk. Now, the population may read 7,000, but more than 8 million visit every single year. And im here to meet a family that has a strange inheritance thats been an icon on this boardwalk for more than a century. Hi, doug. Hi. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. So nice to see you, too. Your family really is so well known here. Yeah, im afraid we are. Yeah, weve been here a long time. A long time, indeed since 1890, to be exact. Doug trimpers greatgrandparents daniel and Margaret Trimper purchase two city blocks of oceanfront land. They start with a pair of small hotels but in 1902 decide to risk everything on a new attraction. Daniel wants to bring in a ride unlike any seen before in maryland. He orders a massive carousel from the herschellspillman company. With a diameter of 51 feet, the merrygoround is one of the largest built up to that point. How special is the
Another man on a jet ski also helped with the rescue. Well done by them. Day one of the newlook nba playoffs is done, and all the socalled home teams came away winners in orlando. The top performance, utahs donvan mitchell, 57 points in the jazzs loss to the Denver Nuggets but thats the third best in nba playoff history. Todays schedule opens with title favorites milwaukee taking on the orlando magic. Turning to the nfl and the big announcement from the washington Football Team. The franchise is making nfl history, naming jason wright the leagues firstever black Team President. Heres abcs janai norman. Reporter as the nfl prepares to kick off its season in just a few weeks, the stakes are at an alltime high for washingtons Football Team following months of turmoil. Owner dan snyder in the hot seat facing mounting pressure to sell the team after a series of scandals shook up the franchise formerly known as the redskins. Snyder, who had once vowed to never change the controversial name,