More Civilized Debate, Late-Season Wildfires & Rivals Team Up- Friday, October 23rd, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, October 23rd, 2020!
What to know about:
- the final face-to-face showdown between President Trump and Joe Biden and where they're taking their campaigns next
- the first medicine approved to treat COVID-19
- another Colorado wildfire forcing hundreds of people from their homes and breaking records
- popular sporting events that were just canceled
- how a famous missing painting showed up after six decades
- a unique political ad you may actually want to watch
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
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Sources:
Final Presidential Debate Recap: WSJ, NBC News, FOX News, Politico
Russian Hackers Target State, Local Networks: AP, NY Times, NPR
CO Wildfire Grows, Breaks Records: Denver Post, Reuters, Axios, AP, InciWeb
FDA Approves Remdesivir to Treat COVID-19: AP, Reuters, NBC News
Blood Donations Needed: USA Today, Red Cross
Drivers Sue Uber: Reuters, WaPo, Axios
NHL Events Canceled: AP, ESPN, NHL
Target Shoppers can Make Reservations: WaPo, Fortune, Target
Jacob Lawrence Painting Found After 60 Years: AP, NY Times
Black Entrepreneurs Day Saturday: CNBC, USA Today, Black Entrepreneurs Day
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, October 23rd. |
| 0:02.0 | What to know about the final face-to-face showdown between President Trump and Joe Biden, |
| 0:06.0 | and where they're taking their campaigns next. |
| 0:08.0 | Also, the very first medicine approved to treat COVID-19. |
| 0:11.0 | And another Colorado wildfire is forcing hundreds from their homes and breaking records. |
| 0:16.0 | Plus which popular sporting events were just cancelled. How a famous missing painting showed up after six decades |
| 0:22.0 | and the type of political ad you may actually |
| 0:24.2 | want to watch. Welcome welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than |
| 0:30.9 | 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy, thanks so much for being here. You |
| 0:37.2 | ready? Let's do this. The presidential race is now really in a final sprint to the finish. |
| 0:46.0 | President Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden came face to face for the last time |
| 0:50.2 | before election day and made their final pitches to voters. |
| 0:53.2 | Last night's debate was a little calmer than the one three weeks ago. |
| 0:56.4 | It seems the new muted microphone policy and or agreements worked because there were |
| 1:01.4 | definitely fewer interruptions this time around and you got to hear more from each candidate. |
| 1:05.2 | Still there were a lot of tense moments as the candidates clashed on several key issues. |
| 1:09.9 | First of all, coronavirus. President Trump said we're rounding a corner with the help of treatments, |
| 1:14.8 | a vaccine is coming soon, and that Americans have learned to live with COVID-19. |
| 1:19.3 | He emphasized the importance of not shutting down the country and cited mental health issues |
| 1:23.4 | and job losses caused by lockdowns. Former Vice President Biden argued that |
| 1:27.7 | people have not learned to live with it, they've learned to die with it, since the |
| 1:31.2 | pandemic has claimed more than 223,000 American lives so far. |
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