And be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily washington journal program, or through our social media feed. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television hot provider. Jacob of inside elections joins us via zoom for a deep sive on the senate battlefield. F inside elections on friday demor released its updated race rankings of every senate race and the headline take away, democrats poised to take contro. Of the senate. Jacob, explain why. Good morning, john. So like you said last week, we shifted eight of our senate races, all were democrats. And like you said, what this indicates is that democrats are now in very good position to retake control of the senate for the First Time Since they lost it in 2014. Now, there are a lot of different reasons. A race by race basis, why the senate is looking so much bettew for democrats this cycle. But the main reason why were in this position now starts at the ve
I want to lead with several important announcements. Of 2020, ihe class am proud to say that you will have your opportunity to join with your classmates and families to celebrate your graduation. The department of education and the office of the secretary of Higher Education will both release guidance on this tomorrow, wednesday. It will allow for outdoor graduation ceremonies to celebrate our students accomplishments starting july 6. This guidance will include social distancing requirements and other Necessary Health and safety measures. Additionally, given that some graduating classes may be too large to accommodate a crowd within the restrictions in place for outdoor gatherings, this guidance may require multiple ceremonies to be held across different times and even different days to ensure proper social distancing. Our goal is to ensure our students are given the sendoff they richly deserve and in which they have been working toward. We want them to celebrate and be celebrated by t
Generations. Indulge on the margins, but we dont systemically, foundationally address the root of the issues. We dont tear out the institutional racism from all of our institutions large and small. We dont. We know that, and the Community Knows that. You are seeing that manifested in the streets the last five days. We know that. Deeplystion is, do we understand that . Are we prepared to do something differently about it . Each and every one of us watching, what are we going to do differently in the long run to do justice to this moment . People have lost patience because they have not seen progress. If you are out there saying ,eople need to be patient people have lost patience for a reason. They have been told that over and over again just in the 52 years i have been around. My grandparents generation heard the same, just be patient. Quoted dr. King ad nauseam. The arc of history bends toward justice. We have made progress. But this is a manifestation of everything we have been promot
Make Hand Sanitizers taste worse. Today the fda asked companies to make it taste bitter. Jimmy who would even think to drink it . You would have to be very thirsty to wash a couple of tide pods down with that. But calls to poison control about ingesting Hand Sanitizer have spiked dramatically. Maybe people just need something to do. A lot of people are out of work. In every state. The governor of kentucky, andy beshear, has been giving regular updates to his constituents. On television. On monday, he addressed unemployment claims in his state, and some of the issues theyve been facing related to those claims. I understand unfortunately, its going to take a little bit of time because a couple of bad apples can make this challenge that much more difficult. For instance, we had somebody apply for unemployment for tupac shakur here in kentucky. Jimmy of course, tupac is filing for unemployment, he hasnt put out an album in years. Two things we learned this week, ufos are real and tupac is
Net change, down. Thats good news. Intubation is down, thats good news. Covid hospitalizations, new ones, flat, up to a tick, not good news. What we are watching right now is how fast it climbs and how low it goes. We would like to see it in the low hundreds, ideally, of new cases every day. Death rate, terrible news. 330. You see the decline has been slow at best. And still disgustingly high. So, we are making progress for sure, but we are not out of the woods yet and we are proceeding with caution. There are signs of caution out there that we should Pay Attention to. Singapore is talking about a second wave, with 900 new cases. This is after they controlled the beast. They were on the decline. They are now looking at new cases. Germany is a situation we should also watch and learn from. They relaxed and started to reopen and they are now seeing an increase. These are interesting. The rate of infection, which is what we watch, was at. 7. One person infecting. 7 . Obviously less than o