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It's January 5th
election day in one particular u.s state
but it has ramifications for the whole
country so that's where we start today's
show
I'm Carl Azuz. US president Donald Trump,
U.S Vice president Mike Pence, U.S
President-elect Joe Biden
and u.s vice president-elect Kamala
Harris they've all been spending time in
georgia on tuesday voters there are
deciding who will fill
two u.s senate seats and that will
determine which political party controls
the senate for the next two years
a party needs a simple majority of 51
seats to have control of the 100-member
senate
after the november 3rd presidential
election republicans were projected to
hold 50 seats
democrats were projected to hold 48.
georgia had two seats to fill on
election day
but none of the state's candidates won
enough votes then to clinch a spot in
the u.s senate
so tuesday's runoff there has been
preceded by weeks of fierce campaigning
relentless political ads unceasing
robocalls and barrages of text messages
as both political parties have poured
millions of dollars into the peach state
trying to influence the outcome of the
vote
the road to socialism does not run
through georgia we're living at a moment
of crisis we win georgia we save
america elections are a matter of life
and debt georgia law requires that any
candidate running for
state local or federal office wins at
least 50
of the vote that didn't happen on
election day so now these races are
headed for a runoff in january
leaving the makeup of the us senate
hanging in the balance
the rematches will determine who
controls the power
on capitol hill if republicans can
manage to win one or both of the seats
republicans will maintain control of the
us senate and majority leader mitch
mcconnell
will remain the majority leader if
democrats however can win back
both seats they'll manage to create a
tiein the u.s senate that can always be
broken by the vice president
handing democrats control of not just
the u.s house
but also the entire congress the two
republican senators running david perdue
and kelly lefler
are running against democrats john ossip
and rafael warning
two democratic underdogs who are hoping
to find the same success biden found
in georgia during the general election
if loffler wins she'll add to the
republican ranks
and the record-breaking number of
republican women
on capitol hill if warnock wins he'll
become the first
black senator from the state of georgia
all eyes are on georgia and january 5th
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another date coming up on the u.s
political calendar it's january
6th that's when congress is set to count
electoral college votes which american
states certified last month
this is normally a ceremonial exercise
but at least 12 republican senators and
140 house republicans
plan to oppose counting electoral votes
for president-elect biden
what they want to do is hold a 10-day
emergency review
of votes in some u.s states objections
like this have been made before
in 2005 dozens of congressional
democrats challenged ohio's results in
the 2004 election
they said widespread voting problems
were to blame and that's what president
trump and some of his republican allies
say was the problem this time around
but 15 years ago congress still moved
ahead on certifying
president george w bush as the winner of
the 2004 election
and analysts say that's all but certain
to happen this wednesday
for president-elect joe biden president
trump's challenges to the 2020 results
have not succeeded in changing the
outcome in any state
certified results from georgia showed
biden winning there with 11
hundred seventy nine more votes than
trump in a phone call on saturday with
georgia's secretary of state
president trump said he wanted to quote
find eleven thousand seven hundred
eighty votes
one more than his opponent won by
because president trump says
he actually won the state but georgia's
secretary of state brad raffensberger
said the president's data was wrong and
that the truth would come out
as far as georgia's senate races go
we'll keep you updated on what happens
this week
10 second trivia where would you find
the most populated city in the world
japan brazil india or china
greater tokyo the capital of japan has a
population of about 38 million people
friday july 23rd is the planned kickoff
date for the 2020 tokyo summer olympics
they're still being called that even
though it's 2021 and the same pandemic
that postponed the games in the first
place is threatening to cancel them
altogether
to be clear that hasn't happened yet the
show is scheduled to go on this summer
in japan
but there are new strains of coronavirus
that have cropped up around the world
and they're causing new headaches in the
efforts to fight the disease
it's common for viruses to mutate or
change
at least one of the new covid strains or
variants is believed to spread faster
than the original one
but it's not believed to be more deadly
the survival rate for the new and older
strains is estimated to be more than 99
health officials don't know yet if the
newly approved emergency vaccines
work against the new strains but as they
race to find answers and treatments for
all variants of coronavirus
concerns about the disease in japan are
bringing some olympic
sized questions it's just
200 days now until the postponed tokyo
olympics
are set to kick off and that mammoth
task of planning the games in the middle
of the pandemic is
only getting harder prime minister
yoshihide suga said that
he is considering declaring a state of
emergency as the country grapples with
soaring kofi 19 cases
the governors of tokyo and three
neighboring prefectures have already
urged the prime minister to do so the
country is reporting
thousands of new coveted cases a day
bringing the national total to nearly a
quarter million
the country has also detected several
cases of the new
potentially more contagious variants of
kofi 19
prompting the government to ban entry of
foreign travelers through the end of the
month
now even though this state of emergency
wouldn't have any legal enforcement
japanese officials have been reluctant
to take any steps that would harm the
economy
olympic organizers have already said
that the games will be simplified
with pair back opening and closing
ceremonies
officials said that they'll decide in
the spring how many foreign fans
if any can attend despite high
confidence from the president of the ioc
that fans will be able to come the
success
of the olympics really hinges on how
fast the world can get vaccinated
in japan vaccination is not set to begin
until february
far behind some countries but the stakes
are very high this year for the games to
go forward as planned
olympic organizers have said that if the
games do not go
as planned this summer the games will
simply be cancelled
not postponed again japan has sunk an
unprecedented amount of money into these
games
these games were already set to be the
most expensive summer games
on record and now because of the
postponement and because of covin 19
prevention measures
that cost has only increased by billions
more to now
15.4 billion dollars selena wang
cnn tokyo
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for 10 out of 10 this method of
christmas tree recycling is sure to get
your goat
at a farm in massachusetts it's like
christmas morning for the animals who
love to eat the old trees
it's not just the nigerian dwarf goats
on the property who enjoy the special
treat
it's the chickens too who apparently
pick off the needles for a snack
this all started when the family who
owns the farm tried giving their tree to
the goats
and after that well they didn't need to
needle their friends and neighbors to
goat them into a recycling program that
people weren't chicken to join
it's like a barnyard eat-along that's
tough to bleat and no one thinks it's a
bad idea
that's just terrible before we go today
want to give a shout out to our friends
in medford massachusetts all those
students watching at medford high school
you guys are
awesome we picked these schools from the
comments of our most
recent show at youtube.com cnn 10.
I'm Carl Azuz have an amazing rest of
your day
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