Candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. Before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to me this afternoon. My job, under the rules of the evening, was to decide the order the questions will be asked and to call on the questioners accordingly. I also have the option of asking
Welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate of president , and Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas, and lets welcome the candidates now. Hello. Hello, jim. Good to see you. Governor. Good to see you both. Nice to see you again. How are you all . Before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to m
Cases rise in the United States. Stocks plunging americans sick main street hurting. Has the economic pain finally caught up with wall street who here is voting for trump . This is not political its patriotic the message and the money whats the president ial ad war telling us in this final week of the race live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith. Hurricane zeta roaring inland it crashed ashore in Southeast Louisiana less than two hours ago as a powerful cat 2 storm, the nbc climate team expecting extensive damage zetas hammering a region still recovering from two major hurricanes this year Nbc Universal coverage coming up first tonight, from our new studios at cnbc Global Headquarters, a dire warning from the former head of thefda the pandemic is about to get much worse and were at only the beginning of a steep curve were about, you know, maybe three weeks behind europe, maybe a month at the most. See were on a trajectory to look a lot like
Main street hurting. Has the economic pain finally caught up with wall street who here is voting for trump . This is not political its patriotic the message and the money whats the president ial ad war telling us in this final week of the race live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith. Hurricane zeta roaring inland it crashed ashore in Southeast Louisiana less than two hours ago as a powerful cat 2 storm,o ago as a powerful cat 2 storm, the nbc climate team expecting disgist it is gist just one mile show of a category 3 the nbc climate team expecting extensive damage zetas hammering a region still recovering from two major hurricanes this year Nbc Universal coverage coming up first tonight, from our new studios at cnbc Global Headquarters, a dire warning from the former head of the fda, the pandemic is about to get much worse and were at only the beginning of a steep curve were about, you know, maybe three weeks behind europe, maybe a month at
Abc 7 news contributor and chronicle insider is here with his perspective. First though lets hear from abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz breaking down the debate. At least we had a debate tonight. We did. A total 180 from the debate a few weeks ago. The candidates were still as contentious and combative but did allow each other to speak in part because the mics could be muted which led to a healthy debate on several topics starting with coronavirus. The two sparred on how to reopen the country. If you have a restaurant you need plexiglas dividers so people cannot infect one another. You need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly and know whether the person is in fact infected. You need to be able to trace. These are businesses with no money. Putting a plexiglas up is unbelievably expensive and its not the answer. Youre going to sit there in a cubicle wrapped around with plastic . The candidates also sparred over health care and national security. The president went after bi