Town Halls Recap, First Ebola Treatment & Tony Nominations- Friday, October 16th, 2020
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, October 16th, 2020!
What to know about:
- President Trump and Joe Biden going head-to-head from 1,200 miles away: the takeaways from their competing town halls.
- why Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, has canceled weekend travel
- the first Ebola treatment approved
- new diversity goals at Starbucks
- Tony nominations celebrating the best of Broadway, even as theaters stay shut down
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
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Sources:
Trump/Biden Town Halls Recap: AP, WSJ, Reuters, CNN, CDC
Kamala Harris Suspends Travel: AP, WaPo, SF Chronicle
New COVID-19 Cases Surge: WSJ, Reuters, Johns Hopkins
NY Post on Controversial Email: NY Post, Politico, WaPo, WSJ, PolitiFact
CA Power Outages: AP, FOX News, SF Chronicle
FDA Approves First Ebola Treatment: AP, The Hill, Fox News, FDA
Women's March This Saturday: WaPo, The Hill, Forbes, Women's March
YouTube QAnon Crackdown: NY Times, AP, YouTube, The Verge
Starbucks Ties Executive Pay to Diversity: WSJ, USA Today, CNN
Tony Nominations Announced: WaPo, NY Times, Variety, Deadline
Feel Good Friday- Books Donated for Hurricane Laura Victims: KSTP
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, October 16th. |
| 0:02.0 | What to know today about President Trump and Joe Biden going head to head |
| 0:05.0 | from 1,200 miles away, some of the takeaways |
| 0:07.4 | from their competing town halls, |
| 0:09.1 | and why Biden's running mate Kamala Harris |
| 0:11.1 | has canceled weekend travel to be safe. |
| 0:13.8 | Plus the first Ebola treatment approved, new diversity goals at Starbucks and Tony nominations |
| 0:18.9 | celebrating the best of Broadway even while theaters are shut down. Welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:26.8 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:29.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:37.0 | For President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden squared off last night, sort of. |
| 0:44.6 | They answered different questions in different town halls, Trump from Miami, and Biden from Philadelphia, |
| 0:50.0 | but at the same time. First, let's get into some of the details from the Trump event. |
| 0:54.0 | It was a pretty tense one since the president was challenged on a lot of contentious issues. |
| 0:58.8 | On COVID-19 a voter asked Trump whether getting COVID-19 changed his mind on effectiveness of masks, |
| 1:05.2 | since Trump has raised doubts about them in the past. |
| 1:08.0 | Trump said it had not. |
| 1:09.3 | He also said a recent study |
| 1:13.4 | found 85% of people who wear masks still get the virus. |
| 1:14.0 | But that's not quite right. |
| 1:15.4 | The CDC study Trump was referring to only looked at people who had already gotten |
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