By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News |
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Good Tuesday afternoon. Republicans appear to have the votes for Trump’s Supreme Court pick, and the CDC is warning against trick-or-treating this Halloween. |
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Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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Romney supports Senate GOP push for vote on Trump’s Supreme Court pick |
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Senate Republicans are falling in line with President Trump’s push to fast-track a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, days before they know who the nominee will be. |
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Only two Republican senators, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, have opposed a vote before the election — not enough to block it. |
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Democrats have accused Republicans of hypocrisy for racing to fill Ginsburg’s seat 42 days before the election, after the Senate GOP blocked former President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland for nearly eight months before the 2016 election. |
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Joe Biden has said that the winner of the 2020 election should choose Ginsburg’s successor, but Trump plans to announce his nominee on Saturday. |
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Judges Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa have emerged as frontrunners. Either one would give the court a 6-3 conservative majority. |
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Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and Thursday, and lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Friday. |
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GOP senators support vote on Trump's SCOTUS pick; Democrats 'furious' |
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Topics for first presidential debate revealed |
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Moderator Chris Wallace has selected the topics for the first presidential debate, happening just a week from now on Sept. 29 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. |
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The debate will be divided into six, 15-minute segments (not necessarily in this order): |
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The Trump and Biden RecordsThe Supreme CourtCovid-19The EconomyRace and Violence in our CitiesThe Integrity of the Election |
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The topics are subject to possible changes due to developments in the news. |
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Rising concerns of potential fall coronavirus surge |
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It’s the first day of fall — and with it comes growing concern of another coronavirus surge. |
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The number of new daily cases in the U.S. has increased by more than 15 percent in the last 10 days, according to a New York Times analysis. |
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Public health experts are warning that this fall could bring a “twindemic,” as the coronavirus pandemic collides with flu season. |
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20,000 flags placed at National Mall to commemorate Covid-19 deaths, Pelosi says was ‘preventable’ |
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CDC warns families to “avoid” trick-or-treating this Halloween |
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The CDC has released new guidance advising families to “avoid” some of the most beloved traditions this Halloween, because they are too “high risk” during the pandemic, including: |
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Trick-or-treating door-to-doorIndoor costume parties or haunted housesHayrides with people who don’t live in your householdGoing to fall festivals outside your community |
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The CDC also warns that costume masks are “not a substitute for a cloth mask,” and advised that costume masks should not be worn over protective cloth masks. |
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Other Covid-19 headlines: |
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A former Mike Pence aide, who quit the White House coronavirus task force, called President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic “frightening,” in an NBC News Exclusive interview.New research indicates 80 percent of Covid patients do develop symptoms, and most who don’t still have as much virus in their noses and throats as someone who is visibly sick.The U.K. has reached a “perilous turning point,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, as he announced sweeping new Covid restrictions that could last up to six months.Film and TV production is set to resume after Hollywood’s unions agreed to a set of new pandemic safety protocols.Two parents in Massachusetts have been charged after their teen threw a party that caused a Covid scare and led to their town’s high school going remote.Walmart is partnering with Quest Diagnostics to deliver Covid-19 diagnostic kits to homes using drones. |
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Louisville police under state of emergency ahead of Breonna Taylor announcement |
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Parts of Louisville, Kentucky have been boarded up, and police have been placed under a state of emergency, in anticipation of an announcement by the state attorney general in the Breonna Taylor case. |
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The police department is canceling all time off and vacation requests, and officers will work in 12-hour shifts, as part of their emergency response plan. |
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State Attorney General Daniel Cameron is expected to announce a decision over whether to charge the officers involved in a botched raid in March at Taylor’s home that left her dead. It’s unclear when exactly that announcement is coming. |
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Sgt. Brett Hankison, who “blindly” shot ten rounds into Taylor’s apartment according to his termination letter, was fired in June. |
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Officer Myles Cosgrove and Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, along with detective Joshua Jaynes, who requested the “no knock” warrant, have been placed on administrative leave. |
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Cosgrove, Mattingly, Jaynes, and three other detectives — Tony James, Michael Campbell and Michael Nobles — are under internal investigation, police said. |
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Gabe Gutierrez is reporting tonight from a city on edge. |
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Tropical Depression Beta brings heavy flooding to Houston |
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Tropical Depression Beta has shut down parts of Houston with heavy flooding, after making landfall overnight near Port O’Connor as a tropical storm. |
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The middle and upper Texas coast could see as much as 20 inches of rain from Beta, the National Hurricane Center said. |
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In Houston, fire officials say they’ve completed nearly 100 water evacuations from roadways, after drivers became trapped. |
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Beta is the first Greek letter-named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. — after forecasters ran out of alphabetical names for storms in this very active Atlantic season. |
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Al Roker will have the latest forecast as we come on the air. |
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What else we’re watching: |
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NASA has unveiled a $28 billion plan to land the first woman on the moon by 2024. It would be the first time humans have set foot on the moon since 1972.Kobe Bryant’s widow filed a lawsuit over photos deputies allegedly took at the site of the helicopter crash that killed the former NBA superstar, the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, and seven other people.Both Los Angeles County deputies shot in an ambush on Sept. 12 have been released from the hospital, but the search for the gunman continues.Florida authorities are searching for a church arsonist who was caught on camera spraying flammable liquid over pews and setting them on fire. Watch the video here.A missing paraglider who disappeared nearly a month ago while attempting to fly across Nevada, has been found dead in the mountains in a remote part of the state. |
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