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the clock is ticking and the race for
the White House is heating up today
marks one week until the 2024
presidential election and with just days
until America makes its big decision
both candidates are crisscrossing the
country focusing on the crucial swing
states there are seven Battleground
States Arizona Georgia Michigan Nevada
Pennsylvania North Carolina and
Wisconsin as well as Nebraska's second
congressional district that both
candidates are focused on in order to
win the election one of the candidates
must get to 270 Electoral College votes
the race is neck and neck the latest CNN
poll found the candidates deadlocked
among likely voters Nationwide in the
final days of the election vice
president Kamala Harris is leaning into
her messaging on women's reproductive
Health rights while former president
Donald Trump is focused on immigration
now did you know that more than 40
million Americans have already cast
their ballots either by mail or through
early in-person voting and there's more
on their ballots than just the race for
the White House Americans aren't just
picking a president they're also
deciding who will represent them in
Congress as both House and Senate seats
are up for grabs we'll hear next from
our senior political data reporter Harry
enton with a look at just how close this
race is compared with other presidential
races in
history the race is close but if we want
to break it down into some numbers here
look I I I this to me is the simplest
way to sort of show up mathematically
kamla Harris likely must carry three of
these four states to win these are the
states that are most likely going to
determine who the next president of the
United States is you look in North
Carolina look at this Donald Trump with
less than a point lead Wisconsin
Michigan Pennsylvania that great blue
wall in the Great Lake States Harris
ahead by less than a point less than a
point less than a point when you're
showing the four most important States
and the margin in all four of them is
one of the candidates up by less than a
point I'm not quite sure there's any
other way to put it than this race is
really
really close so let's just say that the
polls were exactly 100% correct and so
the the results match the polls and
Harris wins Pennsylvania up here in blue
what does that mean well it means KLA
Harris gets 276 electoral votes of
course you need 270 to win hence the
road to 270 so she just gets over that
Mark but it's so simple so simple to
give the election to Donald Trump so I
mentioned in Pennsylvania what happens
if the results match the polls exactly
but Trump wins Pennsylvania we turn
Pennsylvania light red or pink then we
get Donald Trump at 281 elector votes
when just one state flipping one state
could turn a loser into a winner and
vice versa I'm not quite sure that
there's any way else to put it than what
I said at the very top this race is
close so you know we're talking about
all this and often times I say this race
is historically close and you know we
look at the popular vote polls so I
decided to do it a slightly different
way which is okay what I'm going to do
is at the end of each election cycle I
said okay how did the polls look and
what was the projected count in the
Electoral College well at this
particular point if the polls are
exactly right K Harris would get 276
electoral votes that is the lowest level
for a leader at the end of a campaign in
terms of the projected electoral map
going back since at least
1972 in 2000 Al Gore was projected to
get 281 electoral votes of course the
polls missed in Florida it flipped
George W bush won that campaign in 2004
look at that George W Bush was projected
to get 296 electoral votes the polls
were actually pretty gosh darn close the
only state they missed was Wisconsin
actually that state flipped into John
Ker's column but the bottom line is this
at this particular point this is the
closest race heading into an election on
record at least over the last 52 years
or
so 10 second trivia what country had the
first parliament in Europe England
France Iceland or or
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Spain raise your hand if you said
Iceland and that is where we're headed
next we're standing here right next to
the crater of the volcano and it is an
assault on the
senses I can hear the Roaring of the
magma as it spews up from underneath the
ground over the side of the crater as
far as my eye can see is lava cooling
with heat rising off it spewing down
towards the Sea and the smell in the air
is thick with sulfur it smells like eggs
experts say the volcanic activity in
this area of Iceland is entering a new
era of unrest an era that could last
hundreds of years and this future
underscores the complicated history that
icelanders have with volcanoes a
relationship that takes but also gives
standing here you get such a sense of
the power of this volcano
and it's exactly this power that they're
trying to harness in the north of the
country and if they can do it and it's a
big if they say the potential could be
Limitless all right you know that
feeling you get when a 3-day holiday
weekend rolls around is pretty nice well
imagine getting that feeling every week
folks in Iceland aren't just dreaming
about it they're living it the country
is hitting the snooze button on one
whole day of the work week by making it
four days instead of five they're
setting out to prove that they can get
all of their work that's expected to be
done in a week completed in less time
let's head to Iceland now where they're
turning that fryer feeling into
thier imagine working a shorter week for
the same pay well for more than 50% of
the workforce in Iceland this has been a
reality in recent years it came about
thanks to two successful trials in the
country dating back to 2015 two and a
half thousand workers were allowed to
reduce their hours from 40 hours to 35
36 a week and the results were good
researchers found that productivity
stayed the same or improved in most
workplaces and work as well-being
increased dramatically now so much of
the country's Workforce has followed
suit so it's been interesting to look at
the Icelandic economy to see if it's had
any sort of effect well given it's
growing at a faster Pace than much of
Europe and the unemployment rate is low
it certainly doesn't appear to be a drag
but before you all decide that you're
going to take your Mondays off from now
on you might want want to ask your
employer first and what works in a very
small country with an outside service
and tourism sector may not work
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everywhere today's story getting a 10
out of 10 a kangaroo spotted in a place
far far away from the motherland you
might expect to see kangaroos bouncing
around the Outback of Australia but
downtown Durango Colorado that's about
as out of place as a penguin at a beach
party police officers responded to a
wild 911 call and found themselves in
quite this situation discovering a
kangaroo taking a downtown
tour hi um so I know this is going to
sound completely insane but um I lived
downtown and I was just walking home
from work um there is like a baby
kangaroo with a diaper G like wandering
around Main Street police in Durango
Colorado responded to that 911 call Body
cam capturing the
do we uh come here the red kangaroo was
allegedly someone's pet it's legal to
own a red kangaroo in Colorado according
to Colorado Parks and
Wildlife it's your mommy an officer that
responded to the call said quote this
was one of the best calls of my career
so far the kangaroo was eventually
recovered by its owner the animal was
not
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