Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser
Of the 10s of thousands of people who fled killings and kidnappings by an armed group in north. And in sport african football bosses will be making some Big Decisions in the coming hours next years cup of nations in cameroon may have to be postponed due to the impact of coronavirus. So then china is about to impose a new security law in hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy the controversial law was passed unanimously in beijing just 40 days after it was proposed anything it defines as acts of secession subversion terrorism or collusion with Foreign Forces could lead to life in prison and critics say the law will be used to stamp out all forms of dissent that have already been spontaneous protests in hong kong and some opposition parties or theyve announced that they are going to disband the u. K. The e. U. Japan taiwan theyve all criticized the law but china has dismissed their concerns as interference in internal affairs while were
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cause its root, root, root for the home team if they dont win its a shame for its one, two, three strikes youre out ballgamed mr. Raffertyosaki good how is everyone . Good. Good. We have talked about a lot of things. We have talked about religion, we have talked about gender, we started going into sports. It is no lie, my favorite happens to be baseball. That is probably why i signed this deal. But we are talking about social forces. And baseball happens to be one of the greatest social forces, in my opinion, in american society. The institution of baseball, the game, what it represents for instance, when people see the number 42, what did they think . What do they feel . What do they believe . Why was it retired throughout baseball in 1997 . No man will wear this number again. What did it mean for Jackie Robinson, for blacks across the the 1955 world series . This was against the great battery, to future hall of famers. He stole home. To put this in perspective, during the 2000 majorl
cause its root, root, root for the home team if they dont win its a shame for its one, two, three strikes youre out ballgamed mr. Raffertyosaki good how is everyone . Good. Good. We have talked about a lot of things. We have talked about religion, we have talked about gender, we started going into sports. It is no lie, my favorite happens to be baseball. That is probably why i signed this deal. But we are talking about social forces. And baseball happens to be one of the greatest social forces, in my opinion, in american society. The institution of baseball, the game, what it represents for instance, when people see the number 42, what did they think . What do they feel . What do they believe . Why was it retired throughout baseball in 1997 . No man will wear this number again. What did it mean for Jackie Robinson, for blacks across the the 1955 world series . This was against the great battery, to future hall of famers. He stole home. To put this in perspective, during the 2000 majorl