Penalties will tell you more about that in a second. Plus, with just over six weeks until Election Day, a controversial new rule from Georgia Republicans about Hand Counting balance, despite warnings for Election Officials, Poll Workers, and even some of the states republican officials. But leading this hour, the fallout spills into a second day after cnn uncovered disturbing and inflammatory comments by the republican gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina. Cnns kfile found lieutenant Governor Mark robinsons posts on a Porn Hungerfree Message board for more than a decade ago before he entered politics, robinson called himself on that board, a black nazi, whatever that is, and expressed support for reinstating slavery, even buying a few slaves himself now robinson is ignoring multiple calls for him to drop out of the race. He insists hes not the one behind the posts republicans are voicing concerns that this scandal could impact other candidates in the state. Lets go straight to cnns
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us is the end of a long week with not just americans but everyone following the count in the United States democracy can be a messy process and the particularly intricacies of u. S. Politics have played out spectacularly in asia the country with the most at stake is china given the 2 countries rocky yet close relationship so how is china viewed and responded to the events of this week we have. In the studio to tell us more hung on any official reaction from beijing yes beijing has said that the election is the u. S. Domestic affair and that it has no position on it and thats it thats it but is there any hint that beijing preferred one key. Handed it over another well i mean in the beginning chinese leaders probably one preferred mr biden because you know because of mr trump the u. S. Sino relationship has plunged to the lowest point in decades but after seeing what from is what kind of chaos magick mr trump has caused in the us
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In concord, 90 in fremont, mid80s in oakland and upper 70s in San Francisco. For the travel times, the good news is in the green including the Altamont Pass, still in the green and thats lucky for those headed out of the tracy triangle at 4 31, easy breezy and Everything Else is, as well with no problems on any of those routes. We are seeing stack ups and the cash lanes at the bay bridge but if you are a fast tracker, no problems. The eastshore freeway is moving right along with no problems. The san mateo bridge, not so busy and that will change through the morning with the westbound commute and eastbound, no problem and super easy and same thing at the an rafael bridge. Im anne makovec at the news desk and we are going to hong kong where the airport is still shut down for the second straight day with protesters taking over the terminal. All departing flights right now are canceled but we are seeing some sign of movement with the airport taking and arriving flights including those leav
The u. S. And under the obama, you know, under president obama, we reached this monumental agreement, this Bilateral Agreement between the u. S. And china to make dramatic cuts in our carbon emissions. That sort of set the stage for the very successful paris summit where nearly 200 nations from around the world made significant commitments to loring their carbon lowering their carbon emissions. If we now unilaterally back out, its going to send, obviously, the wrong message to the rest of the world. Its going to say that the u. S. Is a country that goes back on its agreement. And its really, to me, its loftier than the issue of climate change, are we willing to be a constructive and good faith partner in this larger effort to make sure that we leave behind a has habitable wod for our children and grandchildren. Ter middle east, what do you mean . Well, im talking about a very large swath of the islamic world. I could have called it americas war in the middle east but it seems to me to