Name: Debating Another Lockdown | November 2, 2020
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Yeah, Two days into November and one day from the U.

Presidential election, We're happy you're starting off your week with us.

Today's show begins across the Atlantic in England, where the nation's lawmakers are debating another national lock down.

If it's passed by parliament, it will take effect on Thursday.

The plan, announced by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, would last at least until early December.

Schools and supermarkets would be allowed to stay open.

Gyms, hair salons and clothing stores would not.

Pubs and restaurants would be allowed to serve take out food Onley.

People in England will be required to stay in their homes unless they need to goto work, go to school or go to the grocery store.

They'll also be able to leave the house for outdoor exercise or doctor's appointments.

These measures will only apply to England, not other divisions of Britain, like Scotland and Wales.

Prime Minister Johnson said previously that he wanted to quote avoid the misery of another lock down.

But the spread of coronavirus has recently sped up in England like it has in several other parts of Europe, and the prime minister says England has toe act now with a lock down to contain Cove in 19.

England's chief medical officer says the divisions hospitals could be at full capacity in weeks if the lock down isn't put in place.

But Britain's Chamber of Commerce says the new restrictions will be devastating to businesses that have done all they can to stay open safely.

So it's a controversial decision just like it's been in other European countries which have seen some violent protests after new restrictions were announced.

Yeah, yeah, yeah this'll quake was felt for quite a distance not just in Turkey but also on a number of Greek islands.

Of course, this part of the Turkish coast eyes very close to a number of Greek islands and as faras in the city of Athens itself.

US President George Washington was a member of which political party, federalist, Democratic, Republican wig or independent.

The first president was the Onley, one who didn't represent a party.

In fact, he warned against them, so he's considered an independent.

There's been a lot of changes since that first election in 17 89 and while today's two major parties have been well established since the 18 hundreds.

The American election process continues to evolve, given 2020 is not what would be considered a normal year, and the coronavirus pandemic has thought to have been a major factor in early voting.

But as of this weekend, more than 91 million early votes have been cast in America, according to CNN Edison Research and Catalyst estimates.

That works out to two thirds of the total votes cast in 2016 when 136 and a half million people voted early.

Voting in 2020 has set a record in most states.

What kind of impact will that have on results?

CNN 10 contributor Kelly Mena explains why results may not be known Tuesday night.

Kelly This'll year's presidential election results process could be different than any other.

Usually media outlets predict winners and Americans go to sleep on election night, at least with some semblance of who the winners are.

But that probably won't happen this year due to the influx of mail in ballots.

Election workers will take longer to count votes as a manually verify and remove ballots from their envelopes.

Once those steps have been taken, the official ballot can then be counted towards the total.

Making the process even more challenging is each state has its own election laws.

Some states, like Florida, allow for early mail in ballot counting, speeding the tallying process.

Other states like Pennsylvania will be accepting late arriving ballots, which will delay the count as latest Friday, November 6.

To become president, the nominee needs at least 270 electoral votes.

Each candidate is allocated a specific amount of electoral votes based on the winner of each state's popular vote.

The first 2 to 70 is assumed the winner, but Congress has to certify the results.

Once certified, the next president is sworn into office on January 20th 2021.

There's been a lot of drama and the lead up to Election Day, but results are what matters.

The Americans and the candidates themselves might not get a clear winner on November 3rd.

There will be a president sworn in come next year.

Twice a year, there's a time switch in America, and twice a year there are questions about why and a debate about whether it's worth the nation officially fell back to standard time on Sunday morning, bringing daylight saving time to an end.

Florida and California are working toward not falling back at all.

They'd stay on daylight saving time, year round, but there is an advantage at least assed faras.

Daylight saving time sounds kind of special.

You're saving daylight time, but it puzzles the daylights out of some folks why we fall back to standard time.

We spend eight months out of the year in daylight saving time.

But standard, which is hardly the standard, is still called standard.

That's when daylight saving time was first implemented to save energy.

The switch made the sunset time later in the day so people didn't have to turn their lights on his early.

On Lee get about 9.5 hours of daylight in winter time.

That's not much if we didn't set our clocks back in the fall.

Sunrise wouldn't be until 8:30 a.m. In many places, you'd be starting and ending your day in the dark.

Following back to Standard keeps the time of dawn a little closer to what we're used to.

Plus, there's that whole extra hour of sleep thing, assuming you go to bed on time when we fall back.

So less daylight, but more sleep unless you happen to live in Arizona or Hawaii.

Most parts of Arizona and all of Hawaii don't observe daylight saving time.

Eso We've talked about how 2020 isn't a normal year in light of lockdowns.

And that's why the principal of a high school in Texas recently released surveillance video to the faculty, he says, because of all the challenges of the year, people are desperate for fun.

But I don't think this raccoon waas okay.

Our teacher came in and when she opened the door will that it then fell on the floor in front of her, and so I'm not sure which one got scared the most.

But anyway, it took off when the animal control officer arrived to.

We thought just go in and get the raccoon and take him to a new home and release him and all would be done, but opened the door to go in to get him.

Then the fun in suit e didn't really know about the fun excitement of the chase until actually, after it was all said and done.

And then I started hearing bits and pieces about how funny this was, and I thought, Well, I've got to go check the cameras to see that So the animals report card.

Well, it certainly passed a lot of classes.

It wasn't tardy to school, and it always has its mask on.

But it was caught running in the hallway, and it didn't follow directions, so I'd say it's conduct needs improvement.

Maybe it could take a tip from Parks in high school in parks in South Dakota.

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