More than 100 Million People early inperson or absentee, shattering old records. Thats nearly three quarters of the total vote in the 2016 election. Today we look at how latinx voters could play a key role in the battleground states of florida, texas, arizona, and pennsylvania. We will speak to former Bernie Sanders advisor chuck rocha and the Award Winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Than Racial Justice, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, rank Choice Voting just some of the issues on this years ballot thrgh citizen being voted on today. Measures and in candidate races. Americans will decide how we will risk on to this moment of racial reckoning. Amy we will speak to Ronald Newman of the American Civil Liberties union. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Today is election day. Over 100 Million People have already voted a recordshattering number that is more than two thirds of the total votes cast in 2016s
There are more than 400 National Parks across america covering over 85 million acres of land with locations at every state. More than 325 Million People visited the sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland at Cayuga National park. Situated a along the river will learn how the canal system here plays a role in the expansion during the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio eerie canal is part of the two canal system. That was actually put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832, and basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river, which is part of a larger idea. A National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies also tweeted right along the atlanta seaboard. And our leaders at the time saw a problem. That problem was we needed the country to expand westward
Increase you dont have to sell your stocks to beat some kind of Capital Gains rate that is quo going to be punitive for rich people im not saying it is solely business as usual. But i am saying that if you own tech stocks, which a lot of people do, there is nothing to keep the stocks from going higher remarkable night, pollsters seem to think there would be this blue wave that got avoided if anything, there is, i think, a recognition that whatever the heck we had before election day seems to be the same after so, david, you know, i feel kind of business as usual for us. Well, it is, carl, not business as usual this morning as you say as the votes continue to be counted in important battleground states. Three you mentioned. Want to add georgia in there, potentially North Carolina, still those early votes, carl, being counted and tabulated and were paying close attention we are, guys. In fact, front and center this hour, the president ial election remains unsettled as voting continues as
A monument cost comments on islam also this hour libya is set to resume Oil Production after an 8th month located by forces loyal to wall otani fuck off tom and a 3rd attempt to uphold a cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan the us urges both sides to respect the latest troops. Im going to go with all the dates for the Los Angeles Dodgers take a new base pairs world series to move to within one win of their 1st championship since 1988. Thank you very much for joining us corona virus cases are rising sharply across europe with several countries reporting record numbers of new infections on sunday france announced more than 50000 new cases for the 1st time italy and spain are struggling with a 2nd wave. While hopes for a vaccine are growing in the u. K. The British Health secretary says the government is preparing for a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year but in the us the Trump Administration has been accused of giving up the fight against covert 19 white house chief of staff
A controversial citizenship for Investment Program after an undercover investigation by al jazeera that exposed high ranking officials expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals to obtain either citizenship in august i was a serious Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the citizen by Investment Program or Investigative Reporter David Harrison reports now from the casea what they say they said it was the current scheme is being abolished now that of course doesnt mean that may or may not be reborn in another fall that we have to see a wait and see what we do know is that they do have some previously hidden cypriot government of weakening and tweaking tweaking the scheme to get stronger toughening up the regulations only to soften them later so that is really one of the future obviously well be watching that very closely as will the cypriot people whove been venting their fury on social media at the corruption that we exposed. U. S. Presi