It's Tuesday, August 4th. I'm Kila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what a day where we are currently putting together

our offer to buy TikTok.

Yeah, I have been learning a bunch of dances and I think if I owned it maybe the kids wouldn't make

fun of me. I assume that they would make fun of me either way but I'm willing to try.

On today's show, a preview of the primary elections happening today, then some headlines.

But first, the latest. The school year is officially beginning for some students this week

in states like Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Some schools are doing in-person instruction

with the option of virtual learning. Other schools have totally moved online, at least for the

start of the year. And already there have been reports of COVID cases quite literally as the

classes began. Yeah, so we are getting the first look at how this could all go and the early

anecdotes at least aren't encouraging. Rather, they're just more confirmation that this is a

nearly impossible task without more funding and more resources for all of those involved. So,

let's start with Indiana where some classes began as early as last Thursday and we've already

seen issues to save the least. Elwood, junior high school for instance temporarily closed just two

days after the school year began because at least one staff member tested positive for COVID-19.

That's according to the Indianapolis star. So now the school is closed this week and will do remote

learning before going back to a regular schedule. The local superintendent did say that all the staff

was tested before the year started and no students ended up being in close contact with the individual

or individuals who had tested positive. But in another instance, also at an Indiana junior high,

within hours of opening the school found out a student there had tested positive. That led to

the student needing to be isolated then also a quarantine of 14 days for the people who potentially

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