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First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi ....
S soon as we receive it. We are told it will come in batches. In the first several months, our priority will be to get it out to protect the most vulnerable and protect our essential health workers. We will then be able to move to the general population. At some point after that, we hope to achieve significant immunity in ohio. Yought, i want to talk to about what we do until. Do until then. We are now at the most crucial phase of this pandemic. We are in the midst of our third wave in ohio. In the spring, as the virus first surged, we shut things down. We flattened the curve and were able to open back up. In the summer, we got hit again. The virus was heaviest in our urban areas. Some mayors issued mask orders in these hotspots. Mask wearing in those areas went up dramatically, and as a result, cases dropped dramatically. We are now seeing a third spike. But this time, things are much different. We have been warned when it got colder and drier and people are indoors more, the virus wo ....
He said he would be reissuing the mask order with additional provisions and new restrictions regarding social gatherings. This is 20 minutes. Gov. Dewine my fellow ohioans, good evening. Received, our country some very promising news regarding a Coronavirus Vaccine that pfizer is developing. The first results from p hase three, the final research phase, show it to be effective in preventing covid19. Thats great news. This should give us all great hope. Ascould be here as early december. We will be ready to get it out a s soon as we receive it. We are told it will come in batches. In the first several months, our priority will be to get it out to protect the most vulnerable and protect our essential health workers. We will then be able to move to the general population. At some point after that, we hope to achieve significant immunity in ohio. Yought, i want to talk to about what we do until. Do until then. We are now at the m ....
We were hearing the National Media talk about black folks. Vote but more importantly we wanted to build power in our community so we could have impact on policies that were impacting us. So we started black voters find and black in order to have a really robust democracy you have to do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they could chip the policies, and take a chip representation for the communities. Why did your organizing approach look like this year . With did you do at on the ground to get more black voters to not only register, but the show up and vote. A couple of things. When we did start this, year we started into thousand 16 and we never stopped. One of our things is cant, stop wont stop. Oftentimes in the black community you often see people come around election time, right, and its not like if a friend who only close when they want something, you never excited to see them. But for us t ....