Confirmed friday. Osaka has signaled its entering a local state of emergency due to the strain on the medical system. Authorities there are calling on people to avoid all nonessential outings until december 15th. Translator the number of people in serious condition will not decrease unless the number of infections falls. We need to practice selfrestraint in the shortterm to save lives. The governor of neighboring kyoto prefecture is urging people to refrain from traveling to osaka as much as possible. The death toll continues to rise in japan. Over the past three days, more than 30 people a day have died. In the week up to thursday, a total of 196 people died. Translator basically, the difference between the virus that spread in july and the virus that is spreading now is not large. I think december and january are really crucial times. Japan recorded over 1,800 infections on friday, bringing the overall tally to more than 158,500. Over 2,300 people have died. Prime minister suga i sho
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Cofounder of the black voter matters organization, and shes here with us today to talk about the black voter and the 2020 elections. Louisiana dash shah latasha, good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Vo host first, tell us what the black Voters Matter Fund is. Guest the organization started in 2016 because we wanted to shift the dynamics around how we were hearing the National Media talk about black voters. More importantly, we wanted to build more power in our communities so we could have more influence on policies impacting us. So we started the back Voters Matter Fund because what we felt is that in order to really have a robust democracy, you have to have an edge gauged electorate. And engaged electorate. And we would do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they should shape policies and representation for their communities. Host so wt did your organizing approach look like this year . What didin you do out on t ground to get mor black voters
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