Drop them in the chat room. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment in with the coronavirus especially more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots are voting early and as we are talking about our usual voting methods so many things have moved to on line and people are asking will voting become digital as well . I want to start the conversation by asking why would you even want to on line voting and i will say im coming from Seattle Washington where we have a robust mailin ballots system and its quite easy. I think the appeal is enormous. In theory its largely been attempted in this country for military servicemembers and it could be used for people with disabilities who f dont have a lot of access to the polls. I think if we somehow had a robust on line Voting System that would drastically increase participation and the bigger question than how we would get there. This country doesnt have great numbers of people who show up on election day and many people are so engaged. They are
Front of his mother while he was having a Mental Health crisis. The National Guard has been ordered into the streets. We will go to philadelphia to speak with professor Marc Lamont Hill about the Police Killing and President Trumps call to four poll watchers to pennsylvania. Is the president sanctioning voter intimidation . Then we go to chile, where voters have overwhelming approved rewriting chiles pinochet dictatorshipera constitution following a year of mass protests. This is the beginning and the end. We are giving birth to a new constitution and leaving behind the constitution of pinochet and his entourage. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 75,000 coronavirus cases on tuesday as the confirmed death toll from covid19 neared 227,000. The u. S. Has recorded over a halfmillion new coronavirus cases over just the last week. More than half of states are at or near reco
Its happening after the social media. Censorship. Police in the u. K. Urged the public to report violations of the new coronavirus rule theyre ready to crack. This reaction. If. It does. Then the family and see if they come pick it might go back to the story. Around the clock across the world this is R T International from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome. We start with breaking news from the french city. An orthodox priest who has been. Shot and injured id signed his church and the suspect we believe at this stage is large lets cross live to our correspondent in front Charlotte Dubin ski what are we learning what is known to bite this incident at this stage well this is still a pretty fresh incident it took place at all pm local time here in france and it took place in the 7th arab decent of leon in the center of the country now we understand the rules the docs priest was injured in what appears to be a shooting just outside the church we understand that the priest
Our temperatures are in the 40s for santa rosa. Upper 50s for the rest of the area. As you go through our afternoon, sunshine inland warming up to the mid to upper 80s and around the bay, low to mid 70s with a mix of sun and clouds. The clouds will stick around. A fire weather watch for the north bay and that goes into effect at 11 00 tonight until 8 00 a. M. Wednesday due to gusty, offshore winds. Some extreme fire danger and i will talk more about this coming up in a few minutes. But it is definitely a foggy start on the bay this morning. It sure is that is reflected in our goldengate camera. Just kind of hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge as you work your way into San Francisco. It is not affecting traffic too much. Just keep that in mind. 15 minutes ago from Richmond San Rafael bridge down into San Francisco. It is bearable but foggy and we are seeing some fog at the bay bridge, as well. Chp mentioned it, as well. Be careful out there, this morning. Today is the deadline to regis
Nonstop on cable news. Not just on cable news. We are hearing the very same thing from elected officials including some republican elected officials. We are hearing it from the leaders of federal Law Enforcement agencies and of the intelligence agencies. We are hearing it from the pentagon. Just this week the new Secretary Of Defense ordered the entire u. S. Military to, quote, stand down while investigators cleanse the ranks of political extremists. And of course we are hearing it from the Business Establishment from wall street from the Tech Monopolies from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the contours of american life. All of them are now on the hunt for political extremists. And at one level that does not sound bad. Because no sane person is for political extremism, especially violent extremism. We are against it. Were for moderation. We are for incremental change. We are for the consent of the governed. We said that every day for four years and we m