It's Wednesday, August 12th. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what today where we are sending love to New Zealand as they battle four COVID cases.

Yeah, I mean, it's a lot, but I would be willing to move there if they would have me still.

Yeah, I mean, there are probably four COVID cases in the room that I'm in right now.

So, you know, that like, this seems marginally better if not the same.

On stage show, the Big Ten and Pack 12 conferences postponed their fall sports seasons, then some headlines.

But first, the latest. At long last, there is a vice presidential pick and it is Senator Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden's selection of Harris makes for the first black woman and first Asian American,

specifically Jamaican and Indian selected to be on a major party ticket.

If elected, Harris will be the first woman vice president.

Biden made the announcement in a message to supporters yesterday and it came after weeks of reporting,

various women that were in the mix. A lot of that reporting was gross and sexist.

You might remember that comparison to the bachelor with the rows and a variety of other things,

like women being ambitious. I don't know. But the two have a joint event in Delaware later today,

and many more events to come along with the DNC happening next week.

So Harris ran for president this cycle and is pretty well known, but let's do a quick refresher

on her personal and political biography. Yeah. So Harris, of course, has a prosecutorial background

serving as sister's attorney of San Francisco in the early to mid-2000s before going on to be the

Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017. And it was actually during that time that she got

to know Biden's son, Bo, when he served as the AG in Delaware. And that little bit of history

between the families was brought up yesterday during all the conversations about their relationship.

And finally enough, during Harris's reelection campaign for AG in 2014, none other than Donald Trump,

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