Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the ineq
I think thats why were here. [applause] mayor lyles but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists do. So i want to recognize dammit wesley. Is dammit around . Okay. Gianna mccantz. Wheres gianna . Gianna . Marcus,w as, garrison, frank, and john harrison. They have done a mural that says camp north in charlotte, north , carolina build back better. And we all know whose plan that is. So thank you very much for being here this morning. I am going to say that i would like to int
Make the American People see why this is a gigantic mistake. Mayor lyles good afternoon. Or good morning. Its still good morning, i believe. I want to say thank you for coming out on this fabulous charlotte fall day to have a very important conversation with a very important person that we will hope to see in january, on a stage, being inaugurated as the next president of the United States. I think thats why were here. [applause] but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists
Joyce we are in the deep freeze tonight. Patrick a wind chill advisory is in effect. Mark, it is frigid out there. Mark frigid is a good it. A winter advisory tonight, a winter storm watch friday into saturday, then it gets colder on sunday before we catch a break next week. You can see temperatures with many areas below zero, and the wind is still a problem, the wind chills running 1025 below zero across the badger state. Windchill advisory through 10 00 a. M. Thursday. Bus top, terrible. Windchills the 25 below. High temperatures hitting nine, thats it, and then we focus on the snow after the cold tomorrow. Patrick the city of milwaukee unveils its plan to keep people safe during the dangerous cold. Joyce the city plans to keep all its warming shelters open this weekend, including the library. Its also contacted the Police Department to make sure its Homeless Outreach team is out looking to take people to warming locations. According to the city, there are 1400 people homeless in mil
Have interacted with someone who was infected. The coronavirus could be here in the United States undetected. Now the white house was aware of this information just before the president held this News Conference on coronavirus. He knew, we are told, he knew about it but did not bring it up. At times the president seemed to be at odds with his own Health Expert who is say it is very likely that coronavirus will spread here in the United States. Just the course of the last couple of minutes you have disputed some of what the officials that are working in your administration behind you have said about the risk of coronavirus and its spread. Do you trust your Health Officials to give you good information or do you trust your own instincts more. I dont think i have. They said it could be worse and i said it could be worse too. No, i dont think its inevitable. The Coronavirus Crisis also escalating around the world. Japans Prime Minister is now calling on all Public Schools nationwide to shu