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
Across theires pacific northwhwest, including n Washington State and california. At l least 14 people have been killed. Ththousands of p people fororceo sleeeep out in the open for a third night after a fire at a refugee camp in greece. 10 states have agreed to taking the 100 minors. A warning that words are not enough to solve this crisis. This hour. Headldlines watching france 24. The french president is expected to announce new measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus amid a spike in cases here. Emmanuel macron is meeting with e afterrs at the elyse france posted a record one day total of just under 10,000 new cases. The government is reluctant to pose a new lockdown n due to the damage to the economy. The French Economy is in recession and expected to shrink further this year. Our reporter, clovis casali, is down at the elysee. We are waiting to hear what these restrictions about look like. Any idea what they might be . Well thought these would be tough measures, hard decisi
And dreaming big, the inspiring story of a man who was a Security Guard at the hospital now returning with a brand new job. Early today starts right now good monday morning im phillip mena we begin with breaking news a state of emergency curfew has been declared for wisconsin. Outraged people filling the streets after a 29yearold black man was shot by blpolice video went viral online and it may be disturbing to watch a man identified as jacob blake can be seen moving to open a car door and thats when multiple shots were fired. He was air lifted to a hospital. Our local affiliate spoke to his fiance two male officers instantly detained him like, you know, put your hands but like no questions or none of that and im just trying to get the kids out the car. Im like wait a minute he didnt do nothing wrong like you know, just ask some questions first before you pin this man up against the car. The Police Department says officers immediately began providing first aid. Blakes father told nbc n