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Welcome to Washington Post live. Our program election daily 1 00 p. M. Eastern every day. Well welcome representative jaapal from Washington State. The cochair of the progressive caucus in the house. One of those leaders in washington who regardless of who wins will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come. She is already campaigning across the country. I have two of my colleagues i have been waiting to hear from a long time. Steve, whost the news letter and emily. Lets go to the program. Voters finally get to decide. It is the voters, you who get to decide. Here is what im hearing. Number one, the Trump Campaign, republicans are concerned about my home area. The philadelphia suburbs. They have seen rogues there. Because of that erosion in the philadelphia suburbs so critical, you heard the chant of fire fauci last night at the trump rally. He is turning to his base. Running against the doctors stoking that base in central pennsylvania and other parts of the country. It
You sound like oprah. Well be celebrating in cooler weather, too, what were expecting today, a calming wind as we go into the next couple of hours and throughout this afternoon as our temperatures continue to drop. But, unfortunately, there is another high wind event well be watching by sunday into early next week as our temperatures today reach mostly into the 70s across the bay area. Well talk about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning drive . Kari, its looking like friday. Im not going to sing it like marcus because what i do is not called singing. Over to the bay bridge where your traffic is humming along through the area with no metering lights. A little brake tapping earlier. It started itself out. Green sensors and the approach. Over to the maze and the upper east shore freeway. The north bay without any problems. The south bay and hayward, 880 south showing slowing just building a bit. Thats about it. Back to you. All right, thanks, mike. Pg e this morning is
Closing early is not good. It is extraordinary. The difference versus what we have got here is absolutely extraordinary. Francine on the lockdown, it basically gives you a kind of a benchmark, code red, code rain, code yellow, to get a sense of what you code green, code yellow, to get a sense of what you need to do. They are trying to make it simple, but we are not even 24 hours until forest johnson made that announcement. Tom Jacob Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins, we talk to him two times a week, the lead quote today in the Washington Post be inoat it is real simple the Washington Post. It is real simple. Were just waiting for a vaccine. Leighann President Trump says he feels so powerful after recovering from coronavirus. He wants to walk into a crowd and kiss everybody. The president spoke at a rally in florida. His first stop since his return to the campaign trail. There was little social distancing at the event, although some spectators wore masks. Supreme Court Nominee amy coney onret
Christiane there were no has tested positive for the coronavirus he has spent the past week with the Portuguese National team he was supposed to play. On wednesday night and drill it now they say. There are several one. Back on the campaign trail boasting bragging about testing negative for code 19 his democratic challenger joe biden is also on the attack with just 3 weeks to go until election day. Its good to have you with us we begin tonight with the pandemic here in Europe European Union countries have agreed to a common strategy. Restricting travel from coronavirus hotspots e. U. Ministers meeting in what some burg want a traffic light system showing regions as green orange or red depending on the number of corona virus cases the ministers have to avoid the kind of confusion that disrupted travel across the e. U. At the height of the initial outbreak earlier this year. Lets take this story now. She joins me from brussels good evening to youve barbara so talk us through these europe