Is double checking your Voter Registration before the largest absentee ballot effort in history in the middle of a global pandemic. David levine is a constitutional law professor at uc hastings and says covid19 should not stop free and fair elections. If we managed to have elections in the civil war and we managed to have them during the panamerican war and the pandemic of 1918 and world war i into and we managed to have elections despite crises. Reporter in Contra Costa County were before the pandemic 75 of the ballots were absentee, the Registrars Office has expanded their efforts. After the election of 2018 we up graded all of our mail handing equipment and scanners and sorters. Reporter they are reaching out to 150 voters who have not requested absentee ballots to double check their registration as well and they also implemented a workaround for potential posted delays and 45 of these drop boxes around the county. You dont need to worry about whatever the transit time is. They do r
On the kurdish capitol. The key stone pipeline failed to pass the senate by a single vote. The future of the oil project. Right now, more than 225 million americans are braving the coldest november morning in 40 years. It is the result of a bitter arctic chill sweeping the country. Western new york is making up, just buried with six feet of snow. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. Even for a city that is used to lots of snow, this one for the record books. Major highways are shut down near buffalo and a lot of people cant get out of their homes. Five have died as a result of storms. The nag guard has gone called out. While not a blaze, this lake effect snow is aggressive. Yeah, it certainly is. The snow in buffalo has been falling at an incredible rate of four to fiveinch it is an hour at times, creating near whiteout conditions. Fast and furious, a wall of lake effect snow pounding western new york in a matter of hours. In buffalo, the extrem
Good evening, and we begin with that state of emergency, more than four feet of snow in 24 hours. Tonight 225 million americans dealing with frigid cold, drivers trapped on highways, part of a key interstate in upstate new york closed. Travel bans in effect as we head into the night. Look at this time lapse in buffalo, new york of the snow rolling in over that city, lake effect is not new there, but this is severe and early. Many saying the worst in memory. This image from the new york state through way covered in several feet of snow. You can see the tire tracks there. From the north in michigan, treacherous driving all the way to the south, record cold in georgia. The National Weather Service Reporting more than 1,000 records shattered with this system. Ginger zee is standing by with the forecast but we begin with gio benitez where drivers spent the day trapped. Reporter david. Good evening. This storm is dumping three to five inches of snow per hour that could take days to clean up.
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with Brian Williams. Good evening. To the First Responders who arrived, it looked like the deafen oifgs terrorism. Inside a synagogue in jerusalem two palestinians entered with cleavers, knives and a gun. Five people dead, three rabbis. Among the dead three americans. Its the deadliest single attack in six years. It comes at a time of already high tensions. Tonight israel has ordered the homes of the killers be destroyed, and in terms of retaliation, they may just be getting started. Now this has the worlds attention. We begin there with bill neely. Reporter outside a jerusalem synagogue, police are targeting two killers. Its just minutes after the men have shot and stabbed four people to death. In the exchange of fire, one policeman is shot and injured before both gunmen are killed. Inside, its a blood bath. Around two dozen men have been praying when they were attacked with axes, butchers knives and a pi
Good evening, and we begin with that state of emergency, more than four feet of snow in 24 hours. Tonight 225 million americans dealing with frigid cold, drivers trapped on highways, part of a key interstate in upstate new york closed. Travel bans in effect as we head into the night. Look at this time lapse in buffalo, new york of the snow rolling in over that city, lake effect is not new there, but this is severe and early. Many saying the worst in memory. This image from the new york state through way covered in several feet of snow. You can see the tire tracks there. From the north in michigan, treacherous driving all the way to the south, record cold in georgia. The National Weather Service Reporting more than 1,000 records shattered with this system. Ginger zee is standing by with the forecast but we begin with gio benitez where drivers spent the day trapped. Reporter david. Good evening. This storm is dumping three to five inches of snow per hour that could take days to clean up.