It's Wednesday, November 3rd. I'm getting a lesson.

And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is What A Day, where we're reminding all of our five-year-old listeners to go get their Pfizer vaccines.

We know that you set a calendar notification, we know that you have alarms and so on like that, but just consider this a friendly reminder.

Yeah, we know you're on top of it. You know you would never forget an appointment.

On today's show, the first coronavirus vaccine is approved for kids plus world leaders in Scotland came together in a couple measures to fight climate change.

That's right, but first in the US, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McCall of In The Race to Be Virginia's next governor.

As of record time, the Associated Press had not called the race, but decision-desk did for Youngkin. It marks the first time that a Republican has been elected to statewide office in Virginia since 2009.

President Biden won the state by a 10-point margin in 2020, but in plenty of areas, McCall have vastly underperformed his margins.

Yeah, and there are a few more important local races we've been following, too. So what else do we know so far, Gideon?

Yeah, when we recorded this episode on Tuesday night, the AP had called Eric Adams as the new mayor of New York City. That was to be expected.

Plus, the Minneapolis voters appeared to reject the ballot measure that would have transformed the city's police department, which we've talked about here on this show.

But tomorrow, we are going to get into more on all of this as well as other results from across the country.

Yeah, regardless of how things turn out, we're here to remind you that election day is only the beginning.

Now, it begins with real tough work, holding the people you elected accountable.

And we don't just mean the president or your senator or even your governor.

There are also people in elected office right in your neighborhood, and we wanted to take a moment to remind you that they have a major impact on your life

in the lives of those around you.

That's right. So we've talked about some of these positions and tried to highlight the importance of local races overall.

So, Josie, let's look at this through the lens of criminal justice since that is what you're all about.

Yes, it is. It is what I'm all about. And there are a number of elected positions that have an enormous impact on how your local criminal justice system functions.

So let's talk about three of them in particular.

The first is your local prosecutor, most commonly called the district attorney.

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