Trump won"t accept election results if he loses as Clinton expands campaign into red states
Dozens of parents are left scrambling to find new schools to enroll their children after First Place Scholars cuts classes for 2nd to 5th grades. (KOMO)
SEATTLE - The families of close to 90 kids are now scrambling to find a school for their children after First Place School in Seattle decided to stop teaching the 2nd through 5th grades.
"There is no place for our children to go to school and they don"t care," said Juliette Hecker.
This week, many parents received a voice mail from the school informing them because of "budgetary constraints" First Place would operate as a private school for "pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and the 1st grade only". For parents like Hecker, whose daughter attends the second grade, they felt like they were duped.
"We were told the school was going to start on the 7th of September," said Hecker. "And I even got a phone call from my daughter"s teacher saying I"m glad to meet you."
First Place became the state"s first charter school in September of 2014 after they had operated as a successful small school catering to the needs of homeless families. But the charter system caused issues, and in December after a court ruling affected state funding, First Place said it would go back to being a private school.
"We had to make a tough business decision," said Board President Dawn Mason.
Mason said because of the lack of funding the school decided to cut back on the number of grades they teach and go back to their roots where they found success as a smaller specialized school.
"We want to make sure young children have a relevant education and good start on learning," said Mason. "We want to go back to what we are good at."
Mason also said the school had sent a letter to many parents two weeks ago about the changes, but parents say only a handful received the letter.
"That"s not acceptable for us as parents," said Hecker. "They should have known last year that funding wasn"t available."
Hecker and others say, it is now a challenge to find a public school they can enroll their child.
"Less than a week is not enough time for us to get our children into the proper school we want them to go to," said Hecker.
First Place says they will offer assistance to place kids into other schools as well as provide backpacks and school supplies to those children.
Elizabeth Warren DESTROYS Donald Trump In Manchester NH FULL Speech 10/24/16
Senator Elizabeth Warren said she is a little nervous as millions hit the polls across the country today -- but said she thinks the country will come together.
I believe that were going to show today that were a country that believes in opportunity for everyone, that we are not a country that calls each other names and turns people against people, were a country that I hope will come together and building something stronger, Warren said, outside her polling place near Harvard Square in Cambridge.
On her way in, speaking to other voters, Warren said described herself as a little nervous.
Of course Im nervous. If there is any chance at all that Donald Trump could be elected to lead this country, then Im nervous, and thats why Im out working, Im headed out to do more work today, Warren said to reporters after casting her vote for Hillary Clinton.
The senator a progressive who waited until Clinton won the nomination to endorse her has since embraced her role as a Trump tormentor on Twitter and a vehement campaigner for the Democratic nominee.
She said she will be spending election night at home with her husband, Eating popcorn and eating my fingernails.
Warren will head up to New Hampshire later today to help with get-out-the-vote efforts in a battleground state that could decide the election.
We have our voices, we have our votes. If we turn out the vote, I believe Democrats will win, she said.
New Hampshire is also home to a Senate race between incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte and Democratic challenger Maggie Hassan a race crucial to Democrats hopes to retake the Senate.
I would like to say Im 100 percent confident, but its scary, these races are tight, Warren said.
Noticiero Telemundo, lunes 7 de noviembre de 2016 | Noticiero | Noticias Telemundo
NBC and Telemundo owned TV stations are opening English and Spanish-language Election Day tip linesand dispersing I-teams accordingly to report and have remedied any voting irregularities.
Concerns about voter fraud among the communities we serve are real, said Stephanie Adrouny, VP of news at KNTV, the San Francisco areas NBC station.We want to make sure that all those who want to vote have the information they need to exercise their right. If our viewers run across any problems, they can reach us to report them. Well follow up and we will investigate."
KNTV and its sister station, Telemundo-owned KSTS, are among the duopolies that will be fielding questions and concerns about voting from both English and Spanish speakers.Long lines at the polls, faulty voting machines and intimidation are among the concerns.
Members of stations I-teams will investigate complaints in their markets, with the goal of them being remedied, the NBC station group said. In Chicago, a WMAQ investigative reporter and producer are stationed all day at the citys Board of Elections headquarters. In Miami, a WTVJ reporter is assigned to the state attorneys office.
Websites across the group have all-day voter information as well.
The effort is particularly key this year given the discord surrounding this years electionand the importance of it for English and Spanish speakers alikesaid Dawn Clapperton, a WTVJ executive producer.
It is the first time for many of the people voting, and we are there to help them in all platforms and using all resources, she said.
Noticiero Telemundo, lunes 7 de noviembre de 2016 | Noticiero | Noticias Telemundo
As Telemundo"s #YoDecido campaign comes to an end, an unprecedented number of Hispanics are turning out to vote in the 2016 presidential election. Under the umbrella of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises" community initiative "El Poder En Ti," the Spanish-language network"s one-of-a-kind effort to inform and empower Hispanic voters nationwide reached 5.5 million total viewers via the #YoDecido PSA campaign, 2.5 million people through #YoDecido"s social media efforts and over 4.7 million page views on the "El Poder En Ti" site.
"We are proud to see that our #YoDecido efforts have not only informed and empowered so many Hispanics across the nation, but also motivated millions to get out to vote in this historic election," said Cesar Conde, Chairman, NBCUniversal International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. "Latinos" impact in this election is a clear sign of the growing influence of our community in every aspect of our society."
"If there is a story I have been waiting to report during my more than 30 year career, it is the story of the Latino vote awakening," said Jos Daz-Balart, Anchor of "Noticiero Telemundo" and "NBC Nightly News, Saturday Edition". "The level of Latino participation will forever change the political landscape of the country. It is a privilege to be able to report that our community has become the decisive factor in our country"s presidential election."
Telemundo wraps up its nationwide comprehensive multiplatform election coverage, leveraging all platforms including digital, broadcast and community events to guide viewers through the registration and voting process, including:
Political News Coverage:
In close collaboration with NBC News, the country"s number one news organization, Noticias Telemundo aired more than 275 hours of political coverage at the end of this electoral cycle, a figure unprecedented in the network"s history. Noticiero Telemundo"s Emmy Award-winning anchors, Mara Celeste Arrars and Jos Daz-Balart, have been at the forefront of the electoral coverage, aided by a team of more than 15 correspondents charged with documenting the electoral process across the country. Telemundo is the only Spanish-language network in the United States in this electoral cycle to have presented an official Republican Party presidential debate and forums with the two leading Democratic candidates.
Public Service Announcements (PSAs):
#YoDecido "Get Out To Vote" PSA - aired in Spanish on Telemundo network and across Telemundo-owned and affiliate stations featuring Mara Celeste Arrars, Jorge Bernal, Jos Daz-Balart, Ximena Duque, Adamari Lpez, Ana Mara Polo, Carlos Ponce, Yarel Ramos and Guad Venegas. The PSA rotation reached 5.5 million total viewers.
The PSA was also produced in English and featured on NBC News, MSNBC and their respective platforms, and reached approximately 7 million adults.
Digital PSA campaign - featuring Carlos Ponce and Yarel Ramos, and musical celebrities such as Gente de Zona, Santa Cecilia, f***y Lu, Alex Sensation, CNCO and Banda MS on the purple carpet of the Latina AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS encouraging Latinos to get out and vote.
On-Air:
Telemundo followed novela star Ximena Duque while registering and on her first time voting. She was also a special guest host on Un Nuevo Dia and was featured in segments on Al Rojo Vivo and Noticero Telemundo.
Telemundo followed novela star Anglica Vale as NALEO Educational Fund registered her to vote following her Citizenship Ceremony in Los Angeles.
Telemundo shows such as Un Nuevo Da, Suelta La Sopa, Al Rojo Vivo and Noticiero Telemundo featured segments on importance of voting and addressing topics most import to the U.S. Hispanic audience.
During iheart Fiesta Latina, which aired on Sunday, November 6, various talent encouraged viewers to get out to vote including Don Francisco and The Riveras.
DONALD TRUMP "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" HAT - UNBOXING VIDEO
Not all heroes wear capes.
One of them is this intrepid journalist.
A few weeks ago, I found myself living out my own version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I was bored and anxious, waiting out the final Trump-Clinton debate in a hotel on the Strip that smelled and tasted like an ashtray. I reached out to a friend who currently lives in Vegas and works in the hospitality industry. Is there anything to do in Sin Citytonight? I asked. Well, you could come with me to aJa Rule and Ashanti concert, was the reply.
*Cue the sound of trumpets.* This was exactly the "Only in Vegas" response I was hoping for. The middle school version of me could not believe how lucky the adult version of me was.
Elated, I began to get ready to embrace my high school dance favorites.Earlier that day, I had gone for a jog down the Strip. I had to stop into the Trump hotel to have a look around. In the gold gilded lobby was a small store selling Make America Great Again hats. I picked a few up as novelty items. As I was getting ready for my night out I thought it might be an interesting experiment to see how the Ja Rule faithful react to a Trump hat.
Why not?
I arrived at the lit venue and immediately got the screwface from the bouncer working the door. He sort-of rolled his eyes and let me in anyway.Inside it was clear that this was not a Trump crowd. Young, diverse club goers packed out in front of a smoky blue stage while a DJ spun. I moved toward the stage where a security guy stopped me. He was sporting a orange mohawk approximately a foot off his head. Yo, you can"t go any farther... man is that a real Trump hat? he said. Yep. Dude, we both are wearing something insane, he said, pointing to his mohawk, laughing.
He was very nice. We took a picture.
Next, I went to the bar for a drink. A wall of a man named William was standing against the side of the long, wooden bartop. Yo, are you really voting Trump?! he boomed at me as I grabbed my Bud Light. Um... I said, trying to think of a way out. It"s all good, man, he said, I have just never met one of you. I voted for Bernie. We"re not really so different, William said, grabbing my shoulder and sipping some green drink.
On my way across the club I got plenty of stares. Some people took photos as I walked by.Some laughed. Some looked in disgust, pointed but never approached me.
Then there was Xavier. Xavier walked right up to me from across the club. He put a finger on my hat and said, I respect that! I respect that! We went on to have a conversation about how he feels people are scared to express themselves because of howmean the 2016 race has been. I just love America, man, he said America has been good to me. He left, telling me that he hopes Donald Trump loses big, but is glad we"re all a part of the same country.
Then there was Maria. She approached me as I was waiting for my second drink. She punched me in the shoulder and said Amazing! Another Trump supporter at the Ja concert. I love Trump. She then proceeded to tell me about how much she admiresthe billionaire and how she will be voting for him. I told her I was doing this as a social experiment. She laughed and stole my other hat. I was upset because these things are $30, but not that upset.
Eventually, Ja got onstage. It was everything I ever dreamed of.And more.
Throughout the concert people took photos with and of me, I think as a novelty, but one thing really stood out: Even though this room of over 2,000 people hadvery little in common with the candidate I was faux supporting, and even though this campaign has been one of bitter, icy vitriol from both sides, I was treated with respect and kindness by nearly everyone I met. Perhaps it was the nostalgic cultural bonds of Put It On Me, perhaps it was something deeper, but I"m glad I wore that hat that night. It gave me hope.
Make Ja Rule Great Again.
Image Credit: all images, Benny Johnson/Independent Journal Review
Hillary Clinton Campaigns in Philadelphia | The New York Times Photo A woman placed an I voted sticker on the tombstone of Susan B. Anthony at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., on Tuesday. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times
Just a few steps into the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., up the curve of a cobblestone walkway on a low hill, is the grave of Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the movement for womens suffrage who lived about three miles away.
On Tuesday, her gravestone was nearly invisible beneath a coating of I Voted stickers and behind a line of hundreds of people who came here to pay their respects. They left notes of thanks to a woman who was arrested when she dared to vote and who did not live to see women granted that right.
The cemetery opened early, at 7:30 a.m., to mark the day, and was to stay open late.
At 11 a.m., Lovely Warren, the mayor of Rochester and the first woman elected to that position, arrived at the grave. I was elected 141 years to the day that Susan B. Anthony cast that illegal vote, Ms. Warren said, seated on a stone step in the graveyard under a bowed spruce.
To me that means, as a woman, there are no shackles and no chains to what we can accomplish, she said. If I could do back flips, I would be doing back flips.
The line to the grave site grew throughout the day. By noon it had snaked and doubled back on itself through the orange and gold trees. The color of the leaves was reflected in the yellow flowers many carried or wore pinned to pantsuit lapels the bright roses the suffragists took to symbolize their cause, which began in the 1840s and continued for 80 years.
A woman moved among the stones with a hand drum looking to form a drum circle. Others knelt with their children and whispered about who Anthony was and who Hillary Clinton is.
A young woman wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with vote vote vote posed for pictures.
Rochesters population is 40 percent African-American, but there were few black people in the crowd, perhaps reflective of the fracture between some suffragists and abolitionists that split the allied causes for a time.
At 12:15 p.m., a group of women reached their turn at the grave and assembled around the stone in a semicircle.
One by one, each read from the Declaration of Sentiments, the text modeled on the Declaration of Independence and written in by the suffragists demanding equality and decrying a government that did not grant it.
It reads, It is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
More than 300 miles away, workers at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City invited voters to visit the graves of four prominent female suffragists buried there, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthonys friend and a founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Around 2 p.m. there were no lines at the graves at Woodlawn, but word about Stantons resting place was slowly starting to spread on social media.
US election: Voters voice worst-case scenarios - BBC News
Fliers were distributed to trick college students. The Bangor Daily News reports that were fliers left on the campus of Bates College, in Maine, telling students that if they wanted to vote in Lewiston, they would have to pay to change their drivers licenses and re-register any vehicle in the city. These sorts of hoaxes are common on college campuses.
A mayor posted a message with an incorrect date for Election Day. Jefferson Riley, the Republican mayor of Mansfield, Ga., posted a message on his Facebook page: Remember the voting days: Republicans vote on Tuesday, 11/8 and Democrats vote on Wednesday, 11/9.
He soon deleted the post.
Jeana Hyde, the city clerk in Mansfield, confirmed that Mayor Riley had made the post on his personal account. She said that while she couldnt speak for the mayor, she believed that the post had been a joke, but I really dont know.
Hes a good man; hes a good mayor, she said. And good people do crazy stuff sometimes.
Needless to say, Tuesday is Electing Day for all Americans, regardless of their political affiliations.
Misinformation
Other falsehoods are spread by seemingly well-meaning entities corporate accounts and misinformed individuals who trumpet claims that turn out not to be true.
Here were some Election Day examples:
An inaccurate guide was distributed to voters. Urban Outfitters on Monday tweeted an Election Day guide that contained wrong information, telling voters that they needed a voters registration card along with their identification to vote. There is not a single state that requires such a card.
The retailer has since corrected its guide.
Incorrect information was circulating at the polls. Anni OConnor, 53, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., reported on The New York Timess Facebook page that she overheard a woman in line at her polling place say that all her friends had voted online already. Ms. OConnor, who had been an independent voter for many years but registered as a Democrat to support Hillary Clinton in this years primary, said she told the woman to alert her friends that they had not voted.
There is no state in which votes can be submitted online, though a few states make exceptions for military and overseas voters.
A much-shared tweet about election workers being fired in Florida got some things right, but got key details wrong. Even when people seem eager to help spread the truth, theres often misinformation given out. For instance, look at this tweet from Adam D. Brown, a Republican politician:
While Mr. Brown is correct that two Florida election clerks were removed from their duties on Tuesday, it was in Broward County, not Miami-Dade.
Tonya Edwards, a spokeswoman for the Broward County elections supervisor, confirmed that two clerks had been removed from their duties before noon, and had been replaced by other poll workers.
The clerks were removed, Ms. Edwards said, because they were not adhering to our election policies and procedures as they were trained.
Asked to elaborate, she said that they had obstructed and interfered with the voting process but could not give any more information. She said that the episode had not ended up affecting anyones ability to vote.
CNN corrected a tweet from Mr. Trump. The Republican nominee tweeted on Tuesday that Utah officials had reported problems with voting machines across the country.
Later, Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor, addressed Mr. Trumps tweet during a live broadcast.
CNN is not reporting that, Mr. Tapper said. The problem is, the problems across the county. A county. Not a country, as Mr. Trump tweeted.
A tweet about a rigged voting machine in Philadelphia was shared more than 11,000 times. But it was user error, according to ProPublicas Electionland project.
A Few Tips for Spotting a Fake
On Election Day and in the days afteward, Snopes and BuzzFeed, two operations that vigilantly debunk fake news sites, will be useful.
First, a note: A growing tendency to dive into our own echo chambers and construct our personal versions of the truth on social media has been destructive to the ability to call out misinformation online. A post that contains an opinion you disagree with isnt necessarily fake or inaccurate. Were looking for stories that seem designed to misinform the reader.
Heres a quick primer for spotting fake news:
Check the account history of the source. One red flag is usually the number of posts and the span of time the account has been active. Is the story one of 50 coming from a Facebook account that was created just last week? It warrants a deeper look.
Images are often reused from one live event to another to deceive people. Do a reverse-image search with a service like TinEye. The site should tell you if the photo has been used elsewhere.
Check for context. Distortion is a powerful tactic used by sites designed to mislead the public. Images, videos and text snippets will be chopped, twisted and stuffed into a new headline to fit an inflammatory new narrative.
In one example cited in a recent BuzzFeed study, a site called Freedom Daily wrote fake details around a months-old video to make it seem like two white men had been beaten and set on fire by supporters of the Black Lives Matter Movement. The story was, in fact, a dispute between two co-workers, and BuzzFeed found that it had nothing to do with racially motivated violence.
