west elementary school in hillsborough's principal heather maata. thank you for joining us, mrs. maata. >> absolutely. thank you for having us. >> yesterday was the first day back of your community k through five. i know the preschoolers came back earlier. what was the mood like? >> today was amazing. we welcomed back not all of our students. we started off with the sequential approach. we welcomed back kindergarten, and second graders today. students jumped out of their cars with big smiles on their faces and there was an amazing just energy on campus that we've missed since we closed our schools in march last spring. >> yeah. so alex, cahuna wants to know how many students do you have in your school? >> so full enrollments here at west school is 346. >> got it. ok. so it's kind of medium size. what safety precautions did your school and your district put in place for students and staff? >> sure. so we have a variety of safety precautions that we've been putting in place all throughout the summer. so we have of course very small classroom setting, so we have about 15 students in

administration citing an emergency order pressured some school districts including miami-dade, hillsboroughopen early. >> this is extortion by the department of education. >> reporter: since some school districts began to reopen on august 10th, state data shows a 60% increase in covid-19 cases in school-aged children. >> absolutely. there is an underreporting of cases in the state of florida. >> reporter: how? at least 13 districts in the state making up nearly 50% of all public school students say they don't require children who are quarantined due to exposure to covid to present a negative test before returning to in-person learning. >> if you do not test the close contacts of the individuals that tested positive in the school, you are missing cases, you are underreporting. >> reporter: and potentially exposing teachers to a deadly virus, says christina fin, a science teacher working from home for hillsborough county, a district that doesn't require quarantined students to present a negative test. >> i think it's wrong. >> reporter: christina used to run half-marathons, now since getting

puerto rican community is pretty big too, with the largest numbers again living in miami—dade and hillsboroughthey tend to vote democrat. there are also a lot of retired people in florida who move there for the warm winters. one in five people living in florida is over the age of 65. they have more older voters than any other state in the country. a lot of them are down here in the miami area. let's speak to the mayor of miami, francis suarez, who is non partisan in office but is a registered republican. good to have you back on the programme again. i was out that this morning at the early voting lines, do you get a sense today at how the electorate stands in area? we do, we know what it has dictated so far. everyone has to remember that elections are street events, mail—in voting, elevating and there is the day of election. now innovating, what we have seen is that democrats have jumped to a large advantage, 400,000 more mail—in ballots than republicans. the balance door—to—door we are seeing today the first day of actual early voting, we will see at the end of the day it has been a resurgent

and picking up litter once a week how volunteers in china's 1st problem neighborhood of hillsborough are trying to clean up its image it's bringing dads prized to their own environments and we starting to trick kids dads change of behavior in the people and then eventually once it's treatable and then there are all the parties need and the credit limits to move. hello i'm christine wonder it's good to have your company nigerian authorities have given little acknowledgment to reports of the military killing at least 12 peaceful demonstrators earlier this week in his 1st comments on the embrace president mohammed didn't mention the shootings that sparked international outrage instead he warned protesters against being used by subversive intimates oh the sound of rapid gunfire still rings in the is of many nigerians and more and more footage of tuesday night shootings is becoming public. since then tempus haven't come and. gunfire rang out again in nigeria's biggest city on thursday a prison was set ablaze and police stations were attacked elsewhere angry crowds who took shops and citie

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off the famous trophy for winning i spoke is an actual title during a boat parade on the city's hillsborough river fancy joining the celebrations on the water. along the riverside to follow social distancing guidelines of course. but it's just. you watching the news is a reminder of our top story the european commission president says the e.u. has begun legal action against the u.k. government of prime minister boris johnson for file ations of the briggs's withdrawal of the great. news from berlin up next focus on the euro. illusion women standing up to the regime of. more news from me at the top of the hour don't forget you can use the phrase rather. it's of course. thanks for joining. good thing to. me. that was generous my chosen correlatives and for democracy and then our us will not back down in the face of police violence propping up the authoritarian regime. they continue to demonstrate on to mom before socratic president step down them awesome audience women versus look at coke's comes from consumer of. d.w. . conflicts you don't hear a lot of bastard in your field days but for more

in hillsborough county, florida. both candidates will be there today.ate. what will we see happen ultimately in florida, daron >> the race is almost a dead heat. a little lead for biden at this point. in 2016 the polls showed that hillary clinton had a more substantial lead in florida. not a big lead but more substantial lead than biden is showing. in 2018 the republicans in the governor senate elections were underestimated in florida. it is really tight. not breaking news in florida. but i wouldn't be surprised. trump has to have that state. not coincidental both are there. it might have a slight trump lean at this point. >> sandra: biden visits broward county in florida as well. 80 million early votes cast. talk about the mail-in vote versus the in-person vote what we've seen so far and what can be taken away from that? >> well, i think the democrats are euphoric right now. out of the 80 million. 51 million mail-in ballots have been returned. a substantial democratic lead. everybody has been predicting this. one thing to predict it and another thing t

. >> nearly a third of hillsborough county residents are hispanic. president trump tried to increase his support among hispanic voters announcing the american dream plan. increasing hispanic employment, business creation, school, choice, homeownership, permanent resolution to that docket issue. >> were going on to win a record share of the hispanic-american vote. >> we are creating the greatest red wave in the history of our country. >> because of the lingering rains of the former hurricane, the event postponed. the president will re-add it to the already jam-packed schedule on monday. bret. >> bret: john roberts, thank you. one of the latest polls in florida has joe biden four points ahead of the president among likely voters. the trump campaign insists the internal numbers has the president leading in his home state but biden's keeping up the pressure in the sunshine state. peter doocy reporting from fort fort lauderdale fort lauderdale. >> five days left folks. >> the way joe biden sees it, the sunshine state if the electoral layouts mag votes go

the president lost hillsborough county in 2016 by seven point but trying to build up vote totals in the sunshine state. a big outreach to hispanic voters. a permanent solution to the daca issue. here is the president yesterday. >> president trump: more hispanic americans will be able to buy a home, to afford quality health insurance and to raise their families in a beautiful, safe neighborhood. joe biden would obliterate everything hispanic americans have worked for wiping out small businesses with lockdowns and regulations, gutting your police departments and devastating your families with massive tax hikes. >> that was the president in good year, arizona with a big hispanic population. he has a new talking point today. the cone me growing at 33.1% in the third quarter. the president claims joe biden would shut down that growth. biden will be in broward county today. yesterday in georgia. insisting that his plan would shut down the coronavirus and not the economy. listen here. >> he has done nothing -- nothing. i will bring democrats and republicans together to deliver the economic rel

thousands of the processing plant workers, thousands of their families and neighbors in georgetown, hillsborough as we look back on our response to covid-19, i believe our response to the outbreak the processing plants will be one of the high points. we were engaged with local community organizations, hospitals came up big and the companies themselves ultimately came around and realized testing employees and protecting them was better for them because more people would come to work so that will be the hi part of that is my prediction. >> follow-up, is there nothing he would have done differently about adjusting these impacts? >> if we have the opportunity, i would have tested, we did ultimately in the first week instead of being sent back by the white house as we worked on the president did his emergency declaration that nobody could shutdown the plants but i think we would have had an organization, we shifted a group of community organizers and advocates working on the homeless problem in the three counties and removed them to work on the poultry processing plant workers and their families in t

postmarked by election day and can be counted for up to ten days after the head of elections in hillsborough county says this. >> i have to load the early voting totals into the server shortly before the election. so by 7:00 election night, we'll be releasing a lot of unofficial results. >> reporter: the post office did not respond to our questions about the potential reasons for the slowdown that we experienced, but said they will be accelerating the delivery of ballots between now and november 24th shep >> kayla, thanks so even if your ballot does arrive on time, there can still be problems. just look at tearrant county in texas. it includes big cities like arlington and ft. worth. about one-third of all mail-in ballots have faulty barcodes they are unreadable by machines. they are now in the process of duplicating those ballots, hand marking each one tarrant got about 60,000 votes that are affected. once the ballots are added and the votes counted, there's only one number that matters in the end. that number is 270 that's how many electoral votes it takes to win. steve kornacki now with t

here in hillsborough theresa kron 4 news. >>today state leaders officially rolled out a new ramped up covid-19 testing program, the new 25 million dollar lab in la county. it's part of california's recent one 0.4 billion dollar contract with diagnostics company perkin elmer, the lab aims to significantly boost the state's testing capabilities, adding an extra 50,000 process tests a day with the goal of a 24 hour turnaround time. happening exactly the right time when more pressures being placed because of the increase we're experiencing around this nation. this lab represents a true opportunity not just to do things scale. >>that really only california can achieve. the latest state data show labs across the state are averaging just more than a one-day turnaround time with about. >>a 100,000 tests a day. >>cruise ships can set sail again in us waters, but there are some conditions today. the cdc announced the resumption of cruise ship operations with requirements to mitigate the covid-19 risk to passengers and crew. the initial

brian out of hillsborough, north carolina. caller: thank you for taking my call. yesterday just started doorknocking for the biden harris campaign and i wanted to ask about any data that might be available to suggest the effectiveness of doorknocking as a tactic as opposed to phone calls which we've been doing for months now and text messaging which we've been doing for months now. there was some criticism about the biden campaign not doing doorknocking in competitive states like north carolina. aboutal question would be the richard hudson race. his ads have gotten increasingly negative and i would just like to know what you think about that race in the tactic of going negative, what that tells you about where a race might stand. >> that's a very high-profile race in north carolina between incumbent republican richard hudson and democratic challenger pat timmons goodson who is the first black woman to serve on the state supreme court. that race is getting an awful lot of attention from the parties. trump won this district by nine points in 2016. the fact that it's

once a week volunteers in johannesburg problem neighborhood of hillsborough are trying to clean up its image its bringing dead to rights to their own environment to be respected to truth that's change of behavior in the people and then eventually once they st john then they're all apart because. the kremlin meant to move. hello i'm christie munda it's good to have your company nigerian authorities have given little acknowledgment to reports of the military killing at least 12 peaceful demonstrators any of this week in his 1st comments on the embrace president mohammed didn't mention the shootings that sparked international outrage and state he warned protest is against being used by subversive in a mints. the sound of rapid gunfire still rings in the is of many nigerians and more and more footage of tuesday night's shootings is becoming public. since then tempus haven't come and. gunfire rang out again in nigeria's biggest city on thursday a prison was set ablaze and police stations were attacked elsewhere angry crowds looted shops and cities across the country. in his 1st comments on

here in hillsborough theresa kron 4 news. states recorded more than 78,000 new coronavirus cases yesterday pushing towards nearly 9 million cases across the nation. this is a map showing the growth of new cases over the past 2 weeks you can see the covid hot spots growing in southern california as well as other states such as illinois indiana texas, florida. >>right now the u.s. has recorded more than 228,000 deaths that is the highest number of deaths in any country in the world and today the state officially rolled out its new ramp up covid-19 testing program which starts next week our capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala has details. >>state leaders walk through a brand new covid-19 testing lab in southern california friday, happening exactly the right time. when more pressures being placed because of the increase we're experiencing around this nation. the new 25 million dollar lab in valencia's part of california's recent one 0.4 billion dollar contract with diagnostics company perkin elmer, the lab aims to significantly

lauderdale, broward county, tampa and hillsborough county, a lot of ballots are already out in the systemallots have been sent out, they're beginning to return. of those sent out, 4.7% of the mail-in ballots sent out have returned. if we want to break it down by parties, these are the people within the parties who requested the ballots and have already mailed them back in. 4.1% of republicans who requested them have sent them back. in the democratic party, 5.5% of the democrats who requested mail-in ballots and got them back. when you look at the state, and you pointed out this is a battleground state, if you look back to 2016, separating hillary clinton from president donald trump was 1.2% of the vote. this is very much a purple state. at the end of the day, it's going to look like it will fall to those voters who are not party affiliated or in a minority party. bottom line here is here at the supervisor of elections office, they want to emphasize that whoever votes by mail, it is safe. this is what they had to say a short time ago. >> the deadline is 7:00 p.m. election day, not postmark

pinellas and hillsborough are the name of the counties. pinellas where st.es that are so-called pivot counties. they voted twice for obama/biden. they flipped to donald trump last time around. high number of senior citizens, also very diverse, and a growing population. a lot of those signs are why democrats think they can flip it. but take a look at what happened in 2016, right? tampa and st. pete flipped. this is what is so critical to understand. can they move it? what happened back in 2012? you see, it was all blue. that's what joe biden is trying to recreate this time around. it is just a vital area in the heart of the swing district of the state. that's why it is the key battleground, perhaps, in the key battleground state. >> and florida in general, john, if you go back to the first map, you talk about what happens if joe biden wins. what's donald trump's path to 270 without florida? what would it take for him to get to 270 without it? >> i mean, he would have to run the table, not only of battlegrounds, but take serious action into the other states. s

here in hillsborough theresa kron 4 news. >>today state leaders officially rolled out a new ramped up covid-19 testing program the new 25 million dollar lab in la county is part of california's recent one 0.4 billion dollar contract with diagnostics company perkin elmer, the lab aims to significantly boost the state's testing capabilities. adding an extra 50,000 process tests a day with the goal of the 24 hour turnaround time. thousands of tests a day. happening exactly the right time when more pressures being placed because of the increase we're experiencing around this nation. this lab represents a true opportunity not just to do things scale. >>that really only california can achieve. the latest data from the state health department show labs across california are averaging just over one. >>more than a day turnaround time with about a 100,000 tests, a day. san mateo county is issuing new quarantine and isolation guidelines for people who test positive for covid and for people who come in contact with someone who test posit

race this time from democratic perspective, welcome congresswoman cathy castor represents the hillsboroughs right. connell: speak broadly about florida is to flip this time back to the blue side what would the key be? as you know we talked about this i think on yesterday's show a lot of times will show a democrat ahead by a little bit then at the end of the last four or five years we've seen the race, a statewide race go back to the republicans and they end up winning. why coit be different this time do you think? >> i think there are two main reasons. one is the trump administration's failure to control the coronavirus. their failure to have that comprehensive plan, especially for widespread and rapid testing. you have to feel for all of our small business owners, all the students who need to be back in school but that, the fact that we have the highest death rate out of all developed countries in the world that is weighing on folks. the other is, very contentious issue, health care and affordable care act, because florida has more of our neighbors enrolled in healthcare.gov, 1.9 million

we should point out in hillsborough county which is where we are, 30% of the population, not quite, butlose to 30% of the population is hispanic. yesterday, president trump came out with his american dream plan, which is going to provide to allow has manically owned businesses to flourish, create jobs in the hispanic community, school choice for hispanics as well as increasing homeownership. he also is promising a final resolution to the docket issue. so clearly, that is something that is not going to happen until second term if the president were two win one. what he's talking about in arizona and in florida in hopes of bringing more hispanic voters to his side. >> bill: john thank you for that, peter doocy and coconut creek. john is in tampa and peter and the southeast corner with democratic motors. we saw the former vice president today and how many at his rally? the team said 10,000 to 15,000. >> 201 cars full of people and some might have been one or two people or might have been full, but biden as these folks it in their cars in the air conditioning and listen to him, he completel

solution they showed off the famous trophy for winning his title during a boat parade on the city's hillsborough river. fans who couldn't join in the celebrations on the water gathered along the riverside following social distancing guidelines of course and wearing face masks. iranian canoeist been boosted in his bid to represent a team of refugees at the top you're lympics next year. trains and competes in germany after fleeing his home 2015 now after rule changes he's one step closer to history. science is more motivated than ever the reigning refugee now has a clear way forward to next year's olympics in tokyo he's hoping to represent the refugee team 3 u.-turn from the international canoe federation. we've now decided it will support site competing for the i.o.c. as refugees. fled iran in 2015 after taking this selfie in front of milan cathedral at home that was viewed as him converting to christianity punishable by death germany gay for a place to train and compete he's since been working hard both out on the water and in a complicated process of severing ties with the iranian rowing team w

lauderdale, hillsborough county, which is tampa. west palm beach, which is palm beach county. those went out seven days ago and they have already started to return. voters in the state of florida sending back their votes even before this most recent debate, so if we break it down and take a look at the ballots that have already returned, we're talking about 4.7% of the ballots that were sent out have already come back. if we look at them by parties, we can see that the republicans have returned about 4.1% of their ballots, while 5.5% of the democrats have returned their ballots. again, those are just the people who requested mail-in ballots. here today, some of the people lined up got their mail-in ballots in person, took them into their cars and went to a voting booth right here, filled it out, and already did their votes. but to your question, katy, voters asking because donald trump has made this question so pervasive about the safety of the vote, will the postal service work? the supervisor of elections here addressing that question head on. >> the deadline is 7:00 p.m. on

when i see donald trump san frpd and not miami-dade county, not broward count and and hillsborough county, not tampa, i say, hmm, he's trying to limit the losses. if he's in ohio and western pennsylvania, not philly, that just as somebody who has worked in campaigns just a little teeny bit, that tells me that they're just trying to limit the popular vote damage. are you seeing something different than what i'm seeing? >> well, i do think he's always been a person who has reached out to his base. one of his big challenges is he has never reached out to people who didn't vote for him. but i think it's even more telling that he's campaigning in georgia and iowa. i mean, these are states he won by a considerable amount four years ago. iowa he won by nine points. ohio, nine points. he's campaigning in states that he had close to double-digit leads in and, you know, four years ago, which means he is -- has seen a considerable evaporation of support to joe biden in states that he expected to win. and i'll just say, you know, i think his whole strategy has really backfired. he's wanted to make vo

out west, numerous records are going to be challenged today 87 in hillsborough going to be near 100 down in los angeles downtown phoenix, 105 as you move to the east, it is going to actually feel a little bit more like october. today, chicago, 57 degrees that's 11 degrees below average. joplin, missouri, 68 buffalo, four degrees below average. we'll get to your local forecast we'll get to your local forecast comiming up in t the next 3030 ♪ seconds.s. k i.i... you know what i think? i think you owe us $48.50... wild thingng. if you ride, you get it. geico motorcycle. fifteeeen minutes s could saveu fifteen percent or more. >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. as we take a live look in san jose. the sun is coming over the hills, but we can't see it because of all the thick smoke that we have. we have unhealthy air quality for today. especially in the north bay, but moving over towards the east bay and spreading all across the bay area. not only will we have smoke, but triple-digit temperatures in some spots as we possibly could set some new records 82 in antioch and 87 in oaklan

brian out of hillsborough, north carolina. caller: thank you for taking my call.terday just started doorknocking for the biden harris campaign and i wanted to ask about any data that might be available to suggest the effectiveness of doorknocking as a tactic as opposed to phone calls which we've been doing for months now and text messaging which we've been doing for months now. there was some criticism about the biden campaign not doing doorknocking in competitive states like north carolina. aboutal question would be the richard hudson race. his ads have gotten increasingly negative and i would just like to know what you think about that race in the tactic of going negative, what that tells you about where a race might stand. >> that's a very high-profile race in north carolina between incumbent republican richard hudson and democratic challenger pat timmons goodson who is the first black woman to serve on the state supreme court. that race is getting an awful lot of attention from the parties. trump won this district by nine points in 2016. the fact that it's com