That fiery clash between us former President Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in their first televised debate. One of the claims made by the republican nominee is this falsehood he echoed about migrants in his attack on Carmen Harris over immigration. In springfield, theyre eating the dogs, the people that came in. They are eating the cats. Theyre eating. Theyre eating the pets of the people that live there. World leaders are laughing at Donald Trump. I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you, and they say that youre a disgrace. Us pollster Frank Luntz said the debate was not Donald Trumps finest hour. Its not that harris won, its that Donald Trump lost, that on several occasions, he spoke in language and with ideas that people who were watching were just simply shocked. The idea that some communities are eating their dogs and cats because they have no food. The idea of whos controlling the media, the concept of the corruption that trump claimed, even going back t
The two candidates vying to become the next us president have finally met and finally debated. Donald Trump And Kamala harris were on stage in the Swing State of pennsylvania, for what turned out to be a fierce clash, with claims, many of them false, hurled in each direction. Topics included the economy, abortion and immigration. It was a prime time show down, which often turned personal. And while Pollsters Crunch their data to work out how the candidates performances went down with voters, both campaigns are claiming they came out best. Moments after the debate, Donald Trump entered the spin room, insisting tojournalists that hed won the night. Our senior North America Correspondent Gary Odonoghue was watching the debate in philadelphia. The abc News President ial debate. Here now, David Muir and linsey davis. Good evening. Im David Muir, and thank you forjoining us for tonights abc News President ial debate. Not just the first debate for these two as president ial candidates, but th
Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis in the south of gaza. What it s going to involve and get under way as a series of three day, area specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are area specific, so we re not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and
In gaza have started vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child foun
Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency