Plus is affected by these changes in our world. Theres no part of the covid crisis that hits close to home for a lot of people. Thank all of you who are following online. We would love for you to tweak along at hashed out axios events, and you can follow us on twitter at axios events. I would like to thank my events Team Colleagues who pulled this off, and Caitlin Owens who writes the daily axios vitals newsletter will be joining our conversation shortly. You can sign up for her newsletter. Thanks again to aarp. Lets plunge into earlier today i got to catch up with snort bill casey. Heres our conversation. Would like to thank arb for making this conversation possible. Our next guest is senator bob casey of pennsylvania coming to us one of the countrys most fascinating places, scranton. Senator casey a lawyer is on the finance committee and on my favorite named senate committee, help, Health Education live and pensions. Senator casey, thank you for joining this axios virtual event. Mike
Casey pennsylvania and bill cassidy of louisiana discussing the impact of coronavirus in Nursing Homes. They look at the need for increased testing and adequate medical supplies for longterm care facilities. Hello and welcome to an axios Virtual Event. I mike allen, cofounder of axios, and welcome to my home in arlington, virginia. Im right across the bridge from georgetown and at 76 degrees in here because i dont know how to fix my thermostat. Todays axios Virtual Event is on a topic that hits very close to home to me, and a no for a lot of people in the audience. Id like to thank aarp for making this conversation possible. We are going to talk about Nursing Homes in this covid moment, and more broadly, how longterm care for people 65 plus is affected by these changes in our world. Theres no part of the covid crisis that its closer to home for a lot of people. Thank all of you who are following online. We would love for you to tweet along at hashtag axios events, and you can follow us
Right now locally temperatures are quite warm indeed were talking about 70s through most of the region with 60s through the Lehigh Valley and heading toward the poconos. The big story locally is the heat. Thats what everyone is talking about. Its not going to last long. Highs approaching 90 degrees and you can see theres Tropical Storm julia in the deep south. The good news is that front moving our way will help to kick that storm out to sea and it continues over land it will be dissipating and just become wawa can he call remnant low. The winds tonight very strong out of the south bringing in heat and humidity. Lock at that. 22 miles an hour win from the south overnight tonight in philadelphia. During the day tomorrow the winds become northerly thats a cool wind for us a rapid change in temperature with these strong northerly winds by tomorrow night. Overnight in the city 68. 61 in the suburbs with clear skies. Noticeably warmer and more humid tomorrow. 91 degrees with a spotty shower
We love you. I love you, too. I gotta we gotta we got some business to do here. We got some business to do. In fact some of the folks who gave up most of their day to attend this rally seemed just as happy to see the president as they would have been to see his would be successor. Your level of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton versus your level of enthusiasm for barack obama . Barack obama. More enthused for mr. Obama. Yes. Reporter four years ago on his way to reelection mr. Barack obama crushed mitt romney by 465,000 votes in philadelphia. A margin big enough to overcome losses around the rest of pennsylvania. Hillary clinton can keep pa in the blue if she can duplicate that formula. Within big in philly and hang on in the rest of the state. But can she match the president s popularity . Maybe. I am registering voters for her canvassing for her. Shell be the first woman. He was our first africanamerican. I love it all. Reporter youre as excited about her as you were about him. Yes, i a
Right now at 11, we are on top of several big stories right here. Major political power players are in our area just weeks ahead of the election. Also, a barricade has kept people out of their homes for hours now and locked down schools and decade Long Community tradition in jeopardy tonight from Delaware County to Montgomery County and south jersey we have crews live all over tonight. We begin though with meteorologist kathy orr here with your first forecast at 11. Kathy . Thats right, lucy much this just in. Tropical storm julia has formed along the east coast of florida and it will bring some heavy rain along the coast of in order and also through georgia and south carolina. Keeping a careful eye on this. We will be watching the storm as it continues to move inn land over the next 24 hours maximum winds at about 40 miles an hour. Right now locally temperatures are quite warm indeed were talking about 70s through most of the region with 60s through the Lehigh Valley and heading towar