Pence vs. Harris, Wisconsin Outbreak Grows & Scientists Make History - Thursday, October 8th, 2020
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, October 8th, 2020!
We're talking about:
- highlights from last night's vice-presidential debate
- Hurricane Delta: what happened in Mexico and how Louisiana is preparing
- a history-making Nobel prize
- a new Instagram-like feature coming to Slack
- new rules for The Oscars
All that and more in just 10 minutes
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Sources:
VP Debate Recap: WaPo, Politico, WSJ, AP
Trump Returns to Oval Office: Reuters, CBS News, NY Times, Trump Tweet
White House Outbreak: ABC News, WaPo, USA Today, NBC News
COVID-19 Cases Rising in 39 States: USA Today, Johns Hopkins
Wisconsin to Activate Field Hospital: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, AP, Reuters
Hurricane Warning in Louisiana: Weather Channel, CNN, WaPo, AP, NHC
Hottest September on Record: NY Times, NBC News, Reuters
History-Making Nobel Prize in Chemistry: CBS News, AP, NY Times
Facebook Bans Post-Election Political Ads: The Verge, CNBC, Politico, Axios, Facebook
Slack Getting Instagram-like Stories: The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac
Drive-In Movies will now Qualify for 2021 Oscars: USA Today, Variety, Deadline
Thing to Know Thursday: What Happens if a Presidential Candidate Dies? AP, WaPo, Vox
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, October 8th. |
| 0:01.8 | We'll break down some highlights from last night's vice presidential debate. |
| 0:04.9 | Was it civil? |
| 0:05.7 | Who sidestepped what questions? |
| 0:07.5 | And about that fly? |
| 0:09.2 | Also an update on Hurricane Delta, from what happened in Mexico |
| 0:12.1 | to preps in Louisiana. |
| 0:13.8 | Plus a history-making Nobel Prize, a new |
| 0:16.1 | Instagram-like feature coming to Slack and new rules for the Oscars. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy all the days news in less than 10 minutes |
| 0:26.3 | fast fair fun and on the go I'm Erica Mandy thanks so much for being here you ready let's do this Thank you. You ready? |
| 0:33.0 | Let's do this. |
| 0:34.0 | The first and only vice presidential debate this year is now complete. |
| 0:41.0 | Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris came face to |
| 0:44.1 | face on stage in Salt Lake City, Utah. And the first takeaway, this debate was |
| 0:48.4 | mostly civil, at least more so than the presidential debate last week. |
| 0:52.5 | There wasn't the same kind of name calling, |
| 0:54.2 | and there was less interrupting. |
| 0:56.2 | But the candidates still did have a few tense moments |
| 0:58.6 | since they do disagree about a lot. |
| 1:00.6 | For starters, the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 1:03.0 | Vice President Pence defended the Trump administration's response and his role as the |
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