The Sisterhood Of The Traveling RNC
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🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The planned site of the Republican National Convention this August is North Carolina, one of the states where coronavirus case numbers are currently on the rise. Governor Roy Cooper’s understandable concerns about this event going forward have led to a low-tier scramble, with Georgia and Florida offering to host.
Also in Florida… key American innovation Walt Disney World has announced reopening plans for July. And the NBA might finally be making its 2019-2020 season return nearby.
And in headlines: Mike Pompeo declares that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, Jennifer Carrol Foy seeks to be America’s first black woman governor, and Facebook knew it’s platform turned people into maniacs.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 28th. I'm Keely Hughes. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Gideon Resseneck and this is what a day where we are drafting our own social media |
| 0:11.6 | executive order that basically says be truthful. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, just go back to lying in real life, okay? The internet could be a good place if you guys |
| 0:18.2 | just tell the damn truth. |
| 0:25.2 | On today's show, what's next for theme parks and sports? |
| 0:27.8 | Then some headlines. |
| 0:29.0 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:31.2 | And Dragon SpaceX, unfortunately, we are not going to launch today. You are go for 5.100 launch |
| 0:38.3 | group. 5.100. It was a good effort by the team. |
| 0:44.1 | Wow. All right. So that was a clip from NASA's live stream yesterday from a now rescheduled |
| 0:48.1 | launch. If weather provides, they'll be lifting off this Saturday, May 30th. But in other news, |
| 0:53.1 | the US has now officially surpassed 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, |
| 0:56.7 | according to multiple tallies, a toll that is hard to even conceive of and is the highest in |
| 1:01.2 | the world. As the country reopens, there appears to be a kind of patchwork picture emerging of |
| 1:06.5 | where cases are rising and falling. While much of the country is remaining steady or seeing |
| 1:10.9 | decreases about a dozen or more states are seeing an uptick. |
| 1:14.5 | Right. So broadly across the country, as far as we know currently, those case numbers and deaths |
| 1:18.4 | are trending downward and in places like New York, which was an epicenter for weeks and made up |
| 1:23.1 | a lot of those totals. The daily death toll is significantly lower and at levels not seen |
| 1:28.0 | since March, which is excellent news, of course. But meanwhile, there are still other areas |
| 1:32.4 | throughout the country where cases are on the rise. And that includes California, which has now |
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