>> ...the new president-elect joe biden faces... >> ...america has decided to go another way... >> ...trump campaign is sang hold on we're fighting the legal battle... >> narrator: a bitterly contested election ou in a cry on edge. not in my country! narrator: over the past year, a team of filmmakers across the united states has been documenting the hopes and fears americans. >> (chanting) >> ...keep going... >> ...engage... >> their right are being taken away... >> narrator: from the earliest

days of the pandemic-- the impact on health... >> i love you so much. >> it's just kind of a blur what happened after i got intubated. >> narrator: and the economy.e >>ied putting in for the small business loan, unfortunately, we weren't approved. >> we are the free people of america. su >> narrator: to er of protest-- >> as long as thh catce dirty cop at a time, i'm happy. one at a t >> narrator: the backlash-- >> (shouting) >> narrator: and ultimately, the election that roused a eply divided nation-- and the aftermath. >> (chanting) trump 2020! trp 2020! (cars honking) >> narrator: now, a frontline special presentation-- >> we want to live! >> narrator: "american voices: a nation in turmoil"

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>> how can i love america? i cat... i don't think i can love america, i can't put that into words. >> we don't know when it's nna pass. >> i feel a revolution coming, g itting closer every day. >> i have learnt to love being alone. ♪ >> narrator: these are the voices of americans. (overlapping vces) >> people are getting angrier and angrier. >> i wanna be in charge of my own life! >> nrator: gathered from >> we're just going too far in opposite directions. >> just set the scene for us, how are you feeling? give us a clap, first. >> narrator: in this film, americans reflect on a year of turmoil... >> it's never gonna be the same after this. >> i wish there wasn't as much hate in this world as what we have. (rt guns) >> we're scared to death of this thing and nobody wants to die. >> we have no reason to trust

the state. >> i'm not going to tolerate somebody telling me how i needif to live my le. an activist, a mother, a barber, a retiree, the owners of a nail salon, and of a construction company, and a flower shop, a doctor,an d patient. their stories begin in march 2020, as covid was spreading, and the country was shutting down. >> cdc says there are now more than 4,200 cases of coronavirus. >> in iowa, governor kim reynolds has recommended... >> mass gatherings are restricted to less than ten people... (radio fading) >> who so falleth not down andet worshishall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. all the people, the nations and

the languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. my ame is cary gordon. i'm the senior pastor of cornerstone world outreach in sioux city, iowa. how do i water baptize someone in a virtual service? how do i bury the dead? how do i have a wedding? how are people have me lay my hands upon them and aloint them with oil and pray over them to be in the midst of a pandemic when i'm told that i can't have physical contact? ♪ last sunday morning, i drove past menards.

hundreds of cars.eryard, and only a quarter mile away my church in contrast, i know e ty, because they've said, "the church is not essential." the church is not essential. in a time of crisis with imminent death and pandemic, the church is not essential, but menards can stay open, someone might need to buy a screwdriver. it's o. >> new numbers show the damage coronavirus has inflicted upon oreg's economy. 266,000 oregonians are without a job...ym >> unempt is at a record high in oregon... >> people are spooked because of covid. they're scared to death of this thing and nobody wants to die going out the house getting a haircut.♪ ♪ my name is bryant moore. i'm a barber from portland, oregon. ck the bills keep sg up...

with no money coming in. scared to look at the bills from our business, 'cause i can't pay. so i'll survive by just doing what i have to do to make it, man, you know, it's... if i would go to a senior's house or go to a bus stop, i couldn't do anything else, i had to make do. >> so i'm having a get together at my house. so i escaped, came here. i gotta get my hair done.o he got tget his money. gonna go back looking fly. >> my business is one of those things where it makes you feel good. which we really all need to be feeling good right now. (chuckles) you know? it's jusa common human thing to do, it's human to make people feelood. >> oh, yeah, go for a queen. that part. >> i'm hopeful. this may be the right thing to stop all this fighting amon

each other. you know, democrat, republican, independent, black, white, yellow, whatever. so this might be the right ing. because what i've been seeing is folkseen sticking together. it doesn't matter what color they are. i mean, seeing it in person. >> ♪ack and forth, and in an out, and bk and forth again... ♪ for we are strong people, and we will come out of this and be on top again. ♪ i do believe. >> the coronavirus pandemic is putting an end to the longest economic expansion in u.s. history. >> we are going into a global recession. >> entire parts of the u.s. c economy are atplete standstill. >> people are afraid to go out.p are afraid even to call and have something delivered. it's jusa total different...

>> half the businesses are broke. or they're out of business. >> when i started my flower shop, i started with two used cooler boxes, and a piece of plyboard across the top of the boxein our yard. that's how i started.a do you neeceipt? >> um, sure. >> thank you so much. keep me posted on that wedding. >> i will for sure. >> all right... bye bye! >> bye! >> i've been here in this one, probably 24 years in this one spot, so i'm kind of a staple here. but it's kind of sad to only see this many orders on my board. because normally should be about 50 to 60 orders on my board for easter. and i have one, two,hree,.. four, fisix.

so i better do a pray dance tonight. (cckles) oh, i don't know. it is what it is. is what it is... okayit's done. >> which one's that? >> this is your st one to auburn. >> where's sharon's? >> i haven't done it yet, but it's too early to take hers. gonna take it now.ouaid i was >> no. >> i didn't see... >> my husband does my deliveries as much as he can do.st we're two-man team just trying to survive. >> we got married when we were 18. we dated in high school. from the first time we met we were each other's best friends, because everybody knows rosie. she's a pretty special woman. i personally have a problem with a mask at times because of

my congestive heart failure. there's times i'm fighting for air. hello, deliverfor pat. "but you don't want to wear a mask because it's not going to save you," well, no, it's not going to save you, but you might ve somebody else's life. >> governor ralph northam and his vid-19 response team... >> see another spike in cases... >> repeal the state's stay-at- home order... >> social distancing guidelines are going to be with us... >> my immune system is weakened. so i have learnt to love being alone. i have learned to be pretty darn comfortable. ♪ oh, lord, technology... just not my thing. my name is carran lewis, i live in north chesterfield, virginia. yeah, good morning second baptist, praise the lord,y. everyb i drive close to an hour from my he to church.

i got a heavy foot, but if i followed the law, it would be clearly an hour drive. >> welcome to the seco baptist church of south richmond, a bringing you the w god.ch en i have enjoyed the comfort of waking up and lig to it online. >> wre now goi to have a virtual peter verse selectionoi from the mass .. >> i miss the environment of the building. building, because the people, we are the church. the church.l human beings are >> what's going on in the white house, or the state house, the mayor's house ofttimes is not based on... >> i've still helpede, even in this virus, i've picked up groceries for a couple of friends, older people that could not go out, didn't have the means to go out. and they know my number. >> our seniors, amen, because of covid-19, should not be out and about... >> that's right.

that's part of what god wants you to do, you know. just help people. ♪ for all you've done ♪ for me this is the part that's scary. i think some people are getting too comfortable being at home watching the service.al ♪ thebelong to you ♪ thank y, jesus ♪ for blessing me >> president trump appears to be stoking unrest in states around the u.s... >> where long-term damage from a shuttered economy... >> signs urging leaders tope reutah... >> you can't do one size fitsl. you can't shut everybody in, you can't make healthy peoe wear masks. oh, that's looking ne. you look so happy about it. i am amy garner. and i am a mom of six kids.

okay, where did you want the bow? we say, likeeconomy, sometimes we just think of finances as a whole of society, but instead i see my brother, whose business was going down.at riggered the stress, which triggered his health issues, which triggered his mentals, health issnd he was gone in 60 days. three years ago, he took his life. this is myrother, brian. yeah. (sighs)ed i wao save other families from going through what we went through. (voice cracking): so so that's why i became so passionate about not shutting things down, letting people choose. >> are we sheep or are we people? >> people! >> let's go to work! >> that doesn't mean that we don't lieve there are people at extra risk, or that we don't love them or accept their concerns. i'm like, mine says, my... our

deonnition, oh, "your defini of essential is not the same as mine." so, i'm like, they really are missing out on the hardworking ople who can't earn money for their family, like... i think the rate of suicide is going to go way higher. you take away people's connections, their hobbies, their friends, their worsh, their work, and everyone's gonna be depressed! and i am so blessed to have a family of children and a husband. what about the people who don't? it's heartbreaking. >> small business is theli blood of this country, and we cannot kill it any longer we are open for business today! >> this is my first rally, so i'm really happy to be here with all of you gu, all of you patriots, all of you activists! >> i really hope people will let go of wh we're stuck in, what we're stressed out about right now, and take into consideration the long-term impact of what's going on. >> ♪ god bless ameriee

my home home ♪ (cheers and applause) >> mr. trump is now insisting the states have step up their testing. fewer than than one percent of all texans have been tested... in making sure texans are healthy enough to fully reopen the economy. >> clearly, we're in the middle of a pandemic, and we're suffering much worse than we would have had we had a competent, science-based head of state. my name is dr. christine edy mann, i am a family practice doctor in cedar park. when the covid-19 pandemic started, we were left without any guidance. individual clinics likmine, doctors like me, weren't really given any information about how to manage the pandemic, and so we kind of all

had to make it up on the fly. kn we didn'ow the processes that we needed to use at able to managents as they came in. it takes between one and three days to get result. sorry... (patient coughing) >> i'm one of thcovid-19 testers at my workplace. this is a deep nasal swab, it's very uncomfortable. pull your mask down, i think you've had this before so you know what's coming... we didn't have equipment, we didn't have test kits, and it was very stressful. (indistinct chatter) it was just a mess for months and months and months. ♪ deaths in the united states has now reached >> had at least onrlying health issue... >> a new effort to keep chicagoans safe ring the coivd-19 pandemic... >> in early april was when i started feeling lightheaded, dizzy, um... i was coughing. i lost my sense of taste and

smell. yibecause i have an underlng symptoms were related to that. >> you're wearing your mask wrong. you have to cover your nose. my name is mayra ramir. i am 28 years old. (chuckling) one day i woke up, i was so weak, i just fell over.re (bhing deeply and rapidly) everything was, like, dark. and i remember calling out for my boyfriend, i was like, "george, george," like, and he would, like, run and, like, help me, and i was like, "okay, i really need to go to theergen" diey, like, immediately, like, put me in a room't even ask me my name or anything. (medical equipment beeping) i remember a doctor came in and told me that, "we're pretty intubate you, do you have someone that can make medical decisions r you?" then, um... it's just kind of a

blur, what happened after i got intubated. ♪ >> the day they told us that mayra, um, it was her last day, we're all on the trampoline, just... my mom was crying, um, my sisters, all my aunts were there, they were crying. they didn't know what to do. and we were just planning, um, u to go pia corpse. i was trying to avoid it. >> i love you so much.>> h-oh (chuckles). >> medical people are wonderful people, ey're heroes. but they're not omniscient. and they make mistakes and they contradict one another. everyone's going to die at some

point. as a christianwe believe that we're set free from the fear of death. >> do you have any hand sanitizer?do >> w >> we're spiritual beings and we require fellowship. it's a beautiful day! >> i know, it's gorgeous! >> if it's okay to take a risk and go to stores, i think it's okay to take a risk and go to chur. >> 99.6. >> phew! >> try to keep families together!eo e chatting) >> welcome back into the church building! (cheers and applause) (chuckles) whoo-hoo! (cheers and applause) praise the lord! we're going to teach you a new -esong this morning as we er the church, you can stand with us. ♪ ♪ oh, christ be magnified ♪ just let his prayers arise

♪ christ be magnified in me hallelujah! i said hallelujah! (oveapping chatter) >> the attemptedrrest was caught on camera. the video of last night's confrontation shows a white police officer with his ee pinning down the neck... ng his name was george floyd, he's on video sa"please, please, i can't breathe" as a minneapolipolice officer.. >> we're just like, man, this is crazy... we're already fighting a commoterror, which is covid, and now this now? , you knople were just pissed off, like, this is just ridiculous-- how can you kill this man?o >>stice, no peace, prosecute the police! >> the outrage began with a video showing an officer kneeng on floyd's neck. >> many people have gathered in front of the third precinct... >> sitting here in front of officers who are complicit in the murder of george floyd. thousands packed the area...

>> protesting the death of georgeloyd. >> how many times have we watched police officers murder people? (crowd reacting) >> you're numb to it after so many of them. it's been happening for so long. >> don't shoot, nd's up! >> but then it's a little dierent, you're like, wow, that just happened right here on 38th. the fact that it happened in my neighborhood was what really pulled me into it. (overlapping chatter) peoplere getting anger, and angrier, and angrier, and then hold up... we have a whole bunch of police t with helmets right in fr . (glass shattering) >> crowds of protestors facing off with officers in riot ge. xplosion booms) (explosions boom) (woman screaming >> (chanting): i can't breathe! >> protests turned violent last night. >> overnight protests left parts of downtown in ruins >> multiple fires were set windows smashed, and stores

looted. >> as far as volunteering efforts go, so far you're our go-to volunteer coordinator right? >> yeah. >> so we really have to get her >> them.with... >> them. my name is tayo daniel. i'm from south minneapolis, minnesota, co foder of 10k. you know, we were listening to the news, and the narrativepr that theeading was like, "oh these looters and rioters, people from minneapolis, just burning down their own and all that kind of stuff, and i i was like, man... i'm from here and i know everybody that lives here, we're not like that. so a lot of guys from the neighborhood decided to getnd togetherreate the 10k foundation. and we want to show that wen ve a peaceful protest. >> 10k is about, it's mobilizing 10,000 people and the power in that, the sovereignty m in being able ilize 10,000 people. i'm royce white, i grew up here in the twin cities. i was an athlete. i s drafted to the nba back in 2013, and had a huge fight

with the nba regarding mental health policy. you know, when all the protests broke out, my first thought was, i'm headed down there. i'm not gonna claim to have a crystal ball ato what's gonna happen, i really have no clue. i'm just going off of pure opinion. the four officers were arrested and, temporarily, that's enoughi justice we wait and see what happens with the court process.i ow people are still very unhappy, they're not in the uproar that they were in, obviously, when the city was burning down or even a few days ever day we get away from it, that energy's gonna go down a little bit. i think it's spiking uin other places around the country. i want the goal of this march to be how can we re-ab some of that energy? ♪ (helicopter droning)

>> the reason why we're here is because the history has been misconstrued, because every 4th of july i used to go out and party, and i used to just... really scream independence. not realizing that my ancestors with the same color in of mine were not independent. they were chains, they were being whipped, ty were being tortured. people, the times right now. can everybody say that one time? o the count of three say the "the time is now, two, three! >> the time is now! >> say it again! >> the time is now! >> louder! >> the timis now! >> the time is right now. ♪ (chains dragging) ou >> look, we dibest to think through how the protests would put people at risk for covid-19 transmission. bu at the end of the day, there's no way that we could

low the state to tell us "hey, we're going to kill black men out on the streets, and also, stay in your house because we also... you know,id because of c9." ♪ if you think about the historical context of black men, black people in this country in general, we have no reason to trust the state. g ineral, when we wake up in the morning, there's no good reason for us to have any faith in the state.in and maybimes where there needs to be a trust, it falls through. yeah, maybe black people should have more trust in the state when it comes to covid-19, butit a tough sell. >> the reason why we're doing this silent march is because when you take a moment of silence, you're taking a moment rs silence for the dead. for the eric garfor the breonna taylors, for the george floyds. >> hey, it is what it is, this is a war. this is a war. and so the only other optionw, is to, you kno board up in your house and wait for the next

orge floyd to be murdere i mean, that's just the reality. (light chatter, shuffling) >> protestors have been on the streets of richmond r several weeks now. >> the one-time capital of the confederacy is in the throes of change as statues commemorating confederate >> i am grateful to this generation of black youth and white youth that are noty' rioting, t protesting, and they're smart, and they're doing it right. i'm going in from over here... i cided one sunday, id inyou know what, i'm steppout on faith, i'm going down to see what this it's about. >> black lives matter! b i kept seeing it on the news and i just did nieve the way media was portraying it,

that it was that bad. >> do you understandou are a spirit being that lives in a body, your body will die... >> understand, i'm 63, i'm deadly afraid of covid, buit's worth to come out and show my support. >> black lives matter, may allal lives matter, i'mma stand for something. >> i met some terrific people, had great conversations with people. (laughter) the dirsity is what makes me feel good about it. the black and the whites are coming out here. and as long as they catch one dirty cop at a time, one dirty racist, dirty politician, dirty lawyer-- i'm happy, one at a time. 'cause this is 400 years of this (bleep). (overlapping voices) >> we are out here to endac systematic rm. we're out here to defund the police. i grew up in rural virginia, green.osest town was bowling

therwere some whites that we talked with, but i didn't play with any, it was no white kids up the street that i played with or ag, they didn't do... we didn't do that in my era. (drumming, laughter) that's where i grew up aa child. yeah. i'm at the monument right now ae peak. having big fun, man. (fireworks crackling, whistling) each experience i hahere has beenifferent.ll >> we wi never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues orr erase our hi oo i come early and i leave before it gets tate. (crowd shouting indistinctly)

one evening i didn't understand what was happening when i sa like 14 lice cars coming up in ) (crowd shout and i just begged them to allow me to go t car and leave. i just wanna go home, please. i just wanna go home. my car's (indistinct)... i can't t ov there. >> you can go wait in your car. we'll be out of here in just a second. we'll be out of here in just a second. you can go wait in your car. >> a they were very kind. i was gone.elped me get out and , white people, very decent people on thers are surface. i don't understand why they can't see what we're seeing. all i can do ijust shake my head. (indistinct chatter)

>> another intense night here in the city of richmond as protestors took to t streets... >> a peaceful protest in virginia also turned v on saturday night. >> i don't think our country. could be any more divided than we are right now. thcountris, is horribly divided right now and, and moree dithan we ever have been. for what gain? my name is mark curtis. i'm a father of four young kid i own a constructiompany.. i'm huge rights activist. i believe in our constitution. i believe in the way our constitution was intended to be read and not interpreted. if anybody hadold us this was gonna ended up happening, nobody would have believed it. no. >> like i say, racism is out there.

that's what its. (bleep), i got more black friends than i could ever imagine. i got one black friend and i specifically tell people that that's myrother. (both laughing) and we talk about it all the time. it's ridiculous, man. >> people that are doing all this are just out just to wreck stuff. >> my same buddy that i call my brother he said it too. he said, "man, it's crazy,"e becaey say it's a black lives matter thing, but yet they're going in and destroying old black peop's businesses ond. >> yeah. k >> yw what i mean? >> i don't know how everything got so race-oriented all of a sudden here within the past year, honestly. um... that, that kind of blows my mind. ♪ so as far as the platform or the cause that the black lives matter rallies are for, i think raising awareness for police utality, sure. if you want to focus on any aspect of it that could have a positive effect on the american people, you could bring up that one aspect of it.

tt it doesn't just happeno black folks, happe to white folks, happens to asian fos. it happens across all walks of life, no matter what color you are, no matter what race you are. >> are we jumping? >> we all need to work together in a common cause to defend our freedoms. not to fight against each other and empower more regulation against us. (indistinct chatter) >> two crises have converged: protests over the death of george floyd and the pandemic. 104,000, the most in anytoing country... >> right now we have a situation where black americans die out of proporon to any kind of parameter that you can think of. >> all lives do matter but they won't until black lives matter first. (crowd cheering, applauding)wh someti you have

specific type of community that's hurting, it is okay to focus on them for a little while untithings better. and then when they do get better, then all lives will matter. (cheers and applause) >> when the george floyd murder occurred, it was in the middle of this pandemic. and so, for me as a healthcare provider, i really felt that it was my responsibility to not expose myself to the potential spreading on to my patients. (crowd chanting) but i was hay that so many people were coming out of their homes and out of their workplaces to be involved in those protests. >> black lives mter! >> we were there, you know, in in solidarity. we have a very long history of systemic racisin this country that persists today. you have to look at the lives

that are most at risur country. the ones that arbeing lost out of proportion to every other category of american. >> black lives matter! >> black lives matter! >> protests turned violent after denstrators clashed with oakland police officers. there is significant property damage tobu nesses in the downtown area of oakland after these protests last night. >> my understanding is it's actually aood movement, in my opinion, but there's just a bunch of other protesters, a small percentage of it, that are... they're giving it a bad name. ♪ my name is jason tolentino and i own a nail salon. >> well, actually, i'm thene who wanted to open a shop. my name is jamie, i'm from vietnam. >> no way! >> oh no! >> really?! 's all closed. >> i told myself before i'm 30 i will own somhing.

so when i'm 28, just take all the money for our wedding, just to go buy a shop and start a business. ♪ op >> we've bee for about three years, and so far, everything's great. besides this, of course. the pandemic has taken a huge toll. we're just trying to get by doing whatever we can to survive. ♪ then now when we have this going on, whicmade it even worse. it's mainly just for insurance purposes. if it did get vandalized or looted it's not fair for someone like me who's trying to make this community better. and next thing you know someone just takes it away and ruins the whole business itself. there is the racism in america and, at the moment, i think it's just getting worse.

african amerans, ty just want to not be harassed by the law. there's nothing wrong with protesting. you can protest all yo we live in america. but when you start vandalizingss small busi, that part is wrong. oi (overlappings) and turmoil in thery rightchaos now, it could be easy to forget that we are still in a pandemic. >> one of the first known american covid-19 survivors to receive a double lung transplant is now recovering. an-year-old mayra ramirez received a lung lant at northwestern medicine in chicago. >> when i first woke up from my lung transplant, i was a vegetable, i couldn't move a finger, i couldn't, you knowi could barely wiggle my toes. i couldn't talk. i was in a lot of paini was uncomfortae. i was like really disoriented at

the time. i felt like i had only been there for like three days or so. i didn't realize that i was intubated and sedated for six weeks. (shouting, explosion, sparks) the tv would be on and, you ouknow, they would talk aball these riots that were happening, and george floyd, and protest. i was like, "can i just go back to being sedated? like can i wake up when this isv ?" the world was so ugly. lirally, cities are burnin i, i just couldn't take it. >> the radical dems are pushing as many left-wing activists and anarchists as they can into the streets of america. i understand the president is on the phone now. >> well maybe the point of great success, you know... >> my feelings with the black lives matter is l lives matter. not just black, not pink, white or purple.

it's not just one race. i think it's wrong, basically, what the officer did. i think he should pay a price for what he did. but i look back in history. i had a great-great-grandfather that helped with the sves. he helped run the underground railroad. he was ambushed by white people who felt the slaves should stay aves. so, you know, when they sit there and say every white person is racist or bad, i'm not racist. i'm not bad. i'm a human being. i respect them. i expect to be respected back. a george floyd's name is list now, a very long list, a centuries-old history... >> people told me that theseot ts had become about more than george floyd. that they're about this long histy of police brutality. k all you have to do is lat history.ou

iflip the pages back from history, it speaks for itself.he >> is another vigifor george floyd that is getting underway rightow at peninsula park. >> i keep seeing aican american people get killed by ps all across the nation... (crowd chanting) ...and nothing's happening. >> no peace! >> you look at american history and it's ugly. (cheers and applause) peoplere hurt, people are tired of... they're tired of being tired. >> they're sworn to prott this country... >> when i look at history, we nothing changed. we prote now. nothing's really changing.tf and that's h. >> from day one, america has been bed off of the subjugation of black and indigenous people. (cheers and applause) >> yes! yes! speak it, sister! how can i love america? i can't-- i don't think i can

love america. america hasn't loved me, that's for damn sure. >> power to the people! >> power to the people! >> power to the people! >> power to the people! >> black power! >> black power! >> black power! >> black power! >> power to the people! >> power to the people! >> all power to the people! >> all power to e people! the fight is real. but it's always been here. now it's to the surface in 2020. now where do we go from here? >> you need to get off your damn phones and recording (bleep) and (bleep) start getting active! (cheers and applause) p >> millions ple all across america are casting their votes on who they want to le they for. >> it has been a campaign year unlike any other and now 100 million people have voted already. >> record breaking early voting coins. massive early vote totales in more than seven million californians who have already returned their mail-in ballots. >> i wish there wa't as much hate in this world as what we have.

i don't care if you're aem, i don't care if you're republican, i don't care if you're in the middle. there's so much hate. i hope president trump wins. vice president biden, i feel, is-- and i hate to say the age age maybe.ause he's probably my oh my he is... i don't know how olde is. um... i think he's too old. t i think he feeble in his mind. i just wish it was ove yay! (chuckling) >> illinois election officials reporting seeing early voting numbers they have noen in prior elections. >> recovery is pretty slow and really hard.

i have someone else's lungs and be like a slap in the face if i didn't try my hardest. >> you're here to vote? >> mm-hmm. >> okay, so you're going to go through the revolving doors. >> i avoid going anywhere. so i requested the mail-in ballot, but it never arrived.. hi um... mayra ramirez. i saw onperson who like didn't have their mask on properland that upset me a little bit. my umber one topic of interest during this election is, you know, healthcare reform. i think this is the first time that during an electiothat we've actually expected like riots and violence and protests. gardless of how the results go, i think we're all still expecting it. ♪ >> so far this election is on track to set a record. >> california's top election official assuring folks there are safe ways to vote during a pandem.

all ballots will be... >> all right, everything's... >> did i put my name here? >> no! >> you gotta sign... well i got no pen. now we gotta walk back out again.u ve a pen? you gotta put your address... it literally says on the top it's gonna invalidate it if youn don't t. >> whoa! (laughing) >> um, i would rather not say who i voted for.er i just want hing to come back to normal. that's all. that's all i'm praying for really. people will be surprised, but it don't wasay who i voted >> i just vote forf or i vote for the lady! no, i vote for the lady! >> you voted for that lady. you don't even know her name. >> i don't know who she is, but it seem like she's the only lady, so i vote for the lady. ♪ i vote for the woman! >> well, you have a right to do that. ♪ >> it's been a while since i voted,ou know, due to my situation. e

i'm here at lling station. i'm here with my dad-- the o.g. i made a lot of bad decisions when i was younger. getting in fights, had an assault charge, things like that. hitrying to do the right t. it's never too late to do the rit thing. that's for sure. i've made a vow toyself that i'll never do nothing illegal again. you know, i'll never go to jail again. i need to register. so i just felt privileged to bee able to t out and vote. there are a lot of people thatt are lowed to vote or can't vote so it's important that the people who have the privilege oh voting tak step and make that initiative. >> the polls in iowa are open until 9:00 tonight for anyone who chooses to vote in person. across the state there are about 1,200 locations. >> gonna have to put this on now. you're sposed to find people that represent you, donald trump nnot represent me, he does not represent my beliefs. of course, i c't vote for joe biden for the very same reason. >> thank you for voting. (indistinct chatter)

.>> i will sleep good ton because someday, as a christian, i believe christ will return ans all wronill be righted and justice will prevail. and my job is to keep speaking the truth as a minister. >> big race, big electoral vote fight tonight, too rly to call. >> we wille getting some results, actually we think, this hour from kentucky from indiana, all the poles not closed... >> i'm equally excited and nervous. i'veeen thinking about how four years ago, i didn't think i was going to make it four years. joe biden was not my first choice. my first choice was kamala harris, who thankfully is the esce presidential candidate, soon to be vice ent. >> in the commonwealth of massachusetts... >> yay! joe biden wins massachusetts! >> ...joe biden the projected winner tonight. >> my gut is telling me biden's gonna win. but i'm so nvous about the

possibility of a contested election. but i think that it's unlikely. i think that we're going to have a go win tonight. >> we are still in the thick of a very heated contest. >> it isloser than the democrats wanted it to be. it is closer tn any democrat is comfortable with right now. we'll ha to wait and see how that comes in. >> i anticipate some very uneasy people on either or both sides angry about not getting their way. (nearby drumming) whoever wins, which pe it is not trump,e shouldome (crowd singing indistinctly) this week i felt kind of like a sigh of relief, like i was feeling, like, things shifting in, in a different direction. (crowd singing indistinctl

you know, it was, it was anti invigora space to see a lot of people that not necessarily look like me, but wanted the same types of things that i want in america. >> vice president e biden will win pennsylvania and nevada, putting him over the 270... >> across the country, pro-trump protesters gathering at state capitols, echoing the president that the election was stolen. (enginrevving, crowd cheering) (tires squeal) >> because i was really just so sick of politics i wanted to writin jesus. (laughs) but that doesn't do anything. so, i was surprised, i felt ompted to vote for trump >> we are very much in a spiritual battle right now. we are invoking christ, becausei christthe way, and christ is the only way that we're going to triumph over evil. (cheers and applause)

iv i really hope represent will be the voice of the people, and that there will be a middle ground. biden probably can't accomplish everything he wants, but a part of m ifes devastated because feel like it's taking society in a completely different direction. >> stand by and stand down. no, we're not standing down. we're here, we're gonna stand. we're gonna stand fast. we're gonna wait for orders. >> cheers and celebrations in the streets of minneapolis. >> celebrations by joe biden supporters have been going on all day, including here in the tro. (horns honking) >> hey! i'm just excited that overallth more people got involved in the voting process. because that way we're going to be able to hold these elected officials more accountle. (car hor honking) so i think a lot of people are going to be looking at joe biden like, "okay, you were talkingk, that tow are you gonna walk the walk?" what do you guys think of the election? >> we're good. >> i was relieved to the point's where like, "okay, this step has been handled. now, what's the next step?"

you know, it's not over, this is just the beginning.ns (car horonking) that's just onman. the president doesn't make the world a better place, e people make the world a better place.iv the people ling in it. (car horns honking) >> so let's talk about what exactly happened and what this vote says about the country. joe biden got a record number of votes. >> we have half a nation that believes that we had an unfair election. we have another half of the nation that thinks everything ie just, wonderful. i hope it's wrong, but i s too many comments by too many people. i feel a revolution coming.'s etting closer every day. sobody is going to be dumb enough to fire the first shot. and we're gonnhave some serious problems. i hope i'm wrong. >> i hope you're wrong t >> and i hope i'm not here to see it. ♪ >> i'm rdy for you... >> okay, i'll be right there. i think the immediate re holds turmoil and fear and

concern about where we go next. we are ready to do some covi testing now. i actually fear that people are going to say, "whew, joe biden won, we're done, we can go back to doing and living our normal lives."al right, this is a nasal swab. both sides of your nose. anyone who thinks that the election getting called is the end of the work that needs to b. done is mistak and we'll have results for you within 24 hours. ♪ >> i have no regrets abo voting for the libertarian candidate.re i'm of people voting for the lesser of two evils.ng you know, emocrat because it's not trump. voting republican because it's not biden. got in office, i feel likewho they're one in the same.

i think our culture is going to stay divided. e division that has been created here recently is, is something that we've regressed to. that's going to take gerations to recover. i think our culture is going to horribly scarred by thi and i don't know what it's goinl to bed on in the end, or how it's going to be spun, but i think our culture in a whole has gone down a deep, deep, darkle >> whoo-hoo! president biden! yay! that was for you. we hava president. ♪ let there be peace on earthit and leegin with me. ♪ he can't f this mess overnight. you can't fix it in a week, a month, but it's over. thank goodness, it's over.

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