yeah, so there was a culture of violence in philadelphia. i think the most remarkable of which is probably the volunteer fire companies in that would go out to fires and compete to be the first to plug in their hose at the fireplugs the hygrims as we now call them and if another company got there first, well, maybe they cut the hose or maybe they would, you know, try to beat up the other company to get to the hose or if that didn't work. maybe just wait till the next weekend and try to raid that company and steal its hose carriage hack it to bits in the street and then these companies would have unofficial gang so you'd have official members of the fire companies glad to be 21 years old or older usually and then some sort of 19 and 20 year olds hanging around and if you've ever met a 19 or 20 year old, you know that they may not have the very best judgment and may take some excitement on the warm summer night. and so south work was notorious for being full of these gangs and if you cross to the wrong side of the street and didn't notice the

that is philadelphia. it's tough, because anyone listening to this from the franklin institute or a philadelphian would say no, the franklin suit -- institute is better. visiting what is now called the benjamin franklin institute of technology in boston to me best invokes franklin's spirit, not just because it's a historic building, there are murals along the top of the ceiling of the lobby showing scenes from franklin's life with great quotes. you walk through that school and you see young people learning trades, they are not sitting at their desk passively, they are working at 3d printers, they are welding, wrenching. the president at the school, i visited several times, he said to me the principles of learning the trade in franklin's time and our time have not changed that much. you are trying to solve a problem to help a customer, more efficient, better. people keep asking me, we have the fourth industrial resolution and robots are taking over, and we are training students to fix the robots. there is a

so by starting so many civic organizations, the first free library of philadelphia. there's no revolving fund for people who have to start small businesses. for me being the greatest innovator of the time from the lightning rod, full of grace in the quintessential american. flawed but on a journey y of moral affection. >> during his life he actually received that transformation. >> and during the life ofour country . i find him to be a metaphor for the country. we are trying'in fits and starts to achieve that transformation. but even at the end of his life in his journal he's trying to figure out what didn't i do? when my students at tulane, i understand why you want to take names down but before you do it thank they put your portrait on the wall here someday want 100 years from now will be causing people to say we've got to take that person's portrait down . was it because you ate meat or you have a car or maybe you were supportive of washington. be able to challenge your own beliefs and see howhistory might judge you . >> among your other biographies. >> i wrote a

philadelphia during franklin's time was the cradle of creativity. for this country, absolutely and why was that, you know, i think that it's deeply important to understand why some places in some times become cradles of creativity and if we go through history can start in 1570. with florence becomes the hub of the renaissance you go to 1770 where philadelphia is 1970 where the stanford areas and you say what makes it work well in philadelphia and in florence in particular as you spoke about early, and i loved your comment on it's a shame that diversity got defined in the context of the bakkie decision instead of in the context of the glorification that we see here in new orleans by having a diverse culture and we know why that's a great thing not something to be imposed by law, but if you look at let's pick florence when leonardo goes there. he is a total misfit. has borne out of wedlock he's gay. he's left-handed. he's distracted. he's you know, he's but he gets the florence and the medici family thinks he's great and he becomes accepted and a town

we saw philadelphia reinstating its mask mandate. could we be doing the same thing here in the bay area? >>> and this is cool, rate-season snow in the sierra. we're live in tahoe to see how it's affecting our drought and the ski resorts. good evening. i'm raj mathai. happy monday to you. we start tonight with that wind. strong gusts are blowing through the bay area. can you hear it. you can see it. it's like a winter storm. we also saw some rain overnight and into the late morning. plenty of problems as well. this video from martinez, you see that tree right there taking out that fence. this is in the vine hill neighborhood. let's bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. you said it was going to be windy. you've been to my house. i have these trees. i'm looking at the trees thinking what's going to happen it if it falls down. it was swaying. >> those big oak trees limbering in that wind. look at the lower elevations. anywhere from 30-50 on average. so very, very gusty as we roll through today. >> is that normal for a winter-ty

nikki battiste will start us off from philadelphia where an indoor mask mandate was just reinstated. a lot of news to get to good evening, nikki. >> norah, good evening. we are just getting some clarity from the administration about that judge's ruling today saying that they are reviewing the judge's order but that for now the ta-- tsa will not enforce the mask mandate on transportation adding that all of this confusion as you mentioned, there is a new mask mandate here in philadelphia that took effect today. that means about 20,000 fans heading too this 76ers game tonight will once again have to mask up. >> you can now fly or ride the buses and trains maskfree. tonight the cdc announced its mask mandate on public transportation is no longer in effect and won't be enforced. the move comes just hours after pay federal judge in florida ruled it was unlawful. today a u.s. district judge said the court accepts the cdc's argument that massks limit covid spread but that alone was not sufficient to exceed the agency's authority. infectious disease specialist dr. celine gounder says it is st

cnn's polo sandoval is in philadelphia tonight. so polo, this comes less than a month after the mandate was lifted. what are people there saying about this? >> reporter: it's almost like a broken record for so many people here in philadelphia too, pamela. it's going to be the third time the mask manned yailt is basically reinstated. what are we talking about? basically, you're talking schools, office buildings, public government buildings just like the one you see behind me, city hall. businesses, restaurants as well. and what initially started this was back when they noticed about a 50% increase in daily covid cases in just the last two weeks. and that was a huge red flag for city officials, and that is why they basically brought this back. but i tell you what, though, when you look at the numbers and when you look at the key indicators it certainly is still just about a fraction of what we saw during the last pandemic surge. you're looking at an average of about 142 daily covid cases which is still well below the 225 threshold ne

so a city like philadelphia can decide to be more aggressive about what they require and other places might choose not to be so aggressive. it is now up to individual airlines to decide the they will require masks. delta, united and alaska airlines are the first to say effective immediately, that passengers do not have to wear masks on their planes. but to reiterate, nora, the cdc does still recommend wearing a mask on public transportation. >> o'donnell: nikki battiste with all that news, thank you. let's turn now to overseas where russia is ramping up its attacks on ukraine with a barrage of new missile strikes across the country, most of today's rocket attacks targeted cities in eastern ukraine where president volodymyr zelenskyy says the battle for donbas has begun. cbs' chris livesay reports tonight from kyiv. >> reporter: the next chapter of the war is here. russian troops have begun the battle for donbas, says ukrainian president zelenskyy. a major development after russian troops pulled back from kyiv and turned their attention to the east, setting the stage for major clashes

vethe most obvious is that he enslaved to people when he owned the print shop in philadelphia and then is appalled that that concept and talks about public education and then he starts to thing the academy in philadelphia which becomes penn state and the associates of doctor gray whichee was a public school to teach children of slaves and e then having done this wehe always believe that the holder democracy together we have to make compromises but the hardest thing we do in our lives is when to make a compromise and went to stand true and he had gotten it wrong a few times. heay was an apprentice himself but the last one last one was b to tolerate slaves so how can i rectify by coming the president of the society of the abolitionist of slight slavery in 1777 and thennd creating a revolving fund for apprenticeship and you talk eloquently charity is fighting injustice so by starting so many civic organizations the academies for the education of youth and the notion of the revolving fund for people who want to start small businesses. and being the greatest innovator all of that makes him

covid cases a day in the city of philadelphia. that is still a fraction of what we saw during the last surge but for health officials including a local doctor i spoke to this morning, that is still a red flag. the concern is a potential significant increase off of the horizon, the potential could be more than just a 50% increase of philadelphia experienced in covid cases just in the last couple of weeks. what they're doing here is basically looking a few steps ahead and implementing this mask mandate that as of today, will require people in public spaces like schools and restaurants and museums, several government buildings and businesses to basically wear that mask again while indoors. now, there is sort of a way around it, according to the city of philadelphia. those businesses and entities that are sure they are fully vaccinated can be mask-free but a question of if many of these businesses go that route. would they rather enforce sort of a vaccination requirement or just require everybody entering their spaces to just wear a m

his father decides not to send into harvard and he runs away to philadelphia. but it is that sort of self taught person he is apprenticed to his brother and every night he takes books down from the shelves and learns.be but franklin does that to people in history, maybe three, but two people in the history of humanity who really tried to learn everything you could possibly know about every subject that was knowable. leonardo da vinci and ben franklin. and that is what i wanted to do biographies of both. because what they see is a connection between the arts and the humanities he said at the end of your talk. steve jobs once said you go right to your story about poetry that basically the reason bill gates created the zune which was the most god-awful product ever to be done and microsoft word is almost unusable was because he studied only coding and science and computer science where he studied calligraphy, dance, poetry and art when he went to college. and so that notion steve did whenever he did a product lots he showed the last slide was the intersection of a

philadelphia tonight bringing back its mask mandate. what they're seeing in new york, and in 24 states with new covid cases. >>> first tonight, the new satellite images showing an eight-mile long russian military convoy on the move. where the pentagon believes its headed. and tonight, the new russian general now in command already known as the butcher of syria. and news tonight on the staggering death toll in mariupol. the devastating new images from above. the mayor now saying well more than 10,000 civilians killed. what president zelenskyy is saying. and our james longman on what he found in the doorway of a school outside kyiv. the possible russian trap. our team inside ukraine again tonight. >>> back here at home tonight, new covid cases now on the rise in at least 24 states. philadelphia tonight with that mask mandate reinstated what authorities are seeing in halfcountry now. also tonight, news on house speaker nancy pelosi late today, and on president biden. his latest test. amid these new covid concerns with so many lawmakers tes

it is not just affecting mass transit here in philadelphia. we're talking about the judge's decision to strike down the federal mask mandate that requires masking on buses, air planes and mass transit. so two cases they're watching closely here. >> thank you. >>> so this is the greatest story. >> it's fantastic. >> the gift of life from a real cnn heroine. richard roth is receiving this after a successful kidney transplant. >> he is recovering as well. the donor is cnn colleague same ira and they both appeared today to talk about it. >> i was moved by it. i knew he was a cnn original and i had a great admiration for what he did as a journalist and what he does. it felt like something i could do in my life. >> i'm very fortunate. there are 117,000 people looking for kidneys and livers and many people die each day. i guess could i only ask people who are like samira or tend to think that way, to donate to a friend or a relative. >> richard is the last cnn original who started with us in 1980. he is still in the hospital. she is resting at home.

only in a twisted mind i am from philadelphia now, i love philadelphia unapologetically sorry for all of you penguins fans out there love philadelphia. it breaks my heart everyday to see what is happening in the great city of philadelphia. men and women in blue are filling they cannot do their jobs for they have a district attorney who in his own mind that he's there to make sure people do not spend time in jail. he will not prosecute crimes pretty is judging by how many people get released. then that same party the same radical left says we should restrict the gun rights to defend themselves. it's absolute madness. >> george bochetto. >> we talk about adding more gun regulation and background checks of assault rivals everything, essentially what you are doing is penalizing law-abiding citizens for the conduct of criminals. law-abiding citizens, whether they have assault weapons, bazookas, tanks, what have you obey the law. they are not out to hurt other people for they do not commit crimes with guns. criminals commit crimes. they did didn't have guns that use baseball bats that have

this advertisement in a newspaper in philadelphia. as she may attempt to escape by water, all masters of vessels and others are cautioned against receiving her on board. and of course, her escape, ona judge's a skip was successful. washington tried again and again to get her back and was never able to do so. but this is just another example of iran away slave advertisement. here's another one from the mid 19th century. and this is a case where the advertisement mentions the fact that the people who have absconded had a long relationship with water watermen and it was suspected that they were using that relationship for help to escape. both of them -- sorry -- both of them had a long time relation with the negro fishermen at the bayou. and so we see this again and again, where owners are publishing what they suspect happened, and how they think their instate property might have run away. so, this is another advertisement, also a legal advertisement. but it's not placed by a slave owner. instead, it's placed by the master of a vessel fr

, and she did take a ship from philadelphia to new hampshire, and an agent of the president put this advertisement in a newspaper in philadelphia, and as she may look to escape by water, all others are cautioned against receiving her onboard. her escape, her only escape was successful, and washington tried to get her back again and again and was never able to do so. this is another example of a runaway slave advertisement. this is a case where the advertisement mentions the fact that the people who had aub skaupbded -- sorry, both of them had long relationships with negro fishermen at the bayou. this is another advertisement, also a legal advertisement, but it's not placed by a slave owner. instead it's placed by the master of a vessel from new england, and this is from william tabor, and he was the master of a sloop called the union, and this follows the runaway slave legislation of 1793, an act which required captains who were involved in an escape to post a notice so that owners in the south or owners anywhere could -- had a chance to get their property back. this is an interestin

flood warnings near philadelphia and parts of new york. cecily tie unanimous from philadelphia tonight. >>> overseas tonight, another deadly shooting in israel, in tel aviv. the area crowded with busy restaurants devba.en wounded. the fourth attack in two weeks. and just in, an image of a person of interest put out by authorities. >>> the economy tonight, and walmart's new offer. $110,000 a year. >>> pink floyd's first new song in 30 years and their powerful reason why. >>> and what tiger woods has now done. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy thursday night. and we begin tonight with that historic vote in the senate playing out this afternoon. judge ketanji brown jackson confirmed by the senate. all of the democrats and three republicans voting to make history. judge jackson will now be the first black woman to serve on the nation's highest court. and we learned today that as the vote was taking place, judge jackson was at the white house with president biden, watching the vote. sharing a hug when it be

flood warnings near philadelphia and parts of new york. cecily tynan from philadelphia tonight. >>> overseas tonight, another deadly shooting in israel, in tel aviv. the area crowded with busy bars and restaurants. at least two killed, seven wounded. the fourth attack in two weeks. and just in tonight, the image of a person of interest just put out by authorities. >>> the economy tonight, and walmart's new offer. $110,000 a year. >>> pink floyd's first new song in 30 years and their powerful reason why. >>> and what tiger woods has now done. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy thursday night. and we begin tonight with that historic vote in the senate playing out this afternoon. judge ketanji brown jackson confirmed by the senate. all of the democrats and three republicans voting to make history. judge jackson will now be the first black woman to serve on the nation's highest court. and we learned today that as the vote was taking place, judge jackson was at the white house with president biden, watching

now we live in the philadelphia suburbs and i love philadelphia, unapologetically. it breaks my heart every day to see what is happening that great say philadelphia men and women in blue, feeling that they cannot do the job they have a district attorney said that he is there to make sure that people don't spend timee in jail and he will not prosecute crimes, he judging by how many people get released in the same party, the same radical left that elected larry - should restrict gun rights so people can do for themselves and it's absolute madness. >> when you talk about adding more gun regulation and background checks and banning assault rifles and everything essentially what you are doing is penalizing law-abiding citizens with the conduct of criminals. law-abiding citizens whether they have assault weapons, bazookas takes what have you, obey the law and they are not out to hurt other people they do not commit crimes withpe guns. criminals commit crimes and if they didn't use guns it would have baseball as i did have baseball bessette would use knives and you're puni

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tonight's debate is sponsored by spark light in partnership with the philadelphia inquirer in philadelphia of course, pen live in harrisburg, w ietf in harrisburg and pennsylvania cable network. the event is hosted by dickinson college and here at the anita auditorium. a special thank you to the other partners with the news media association and the pennsylvania women's forum.or before we get to the rules and introduce the candidates tonight, i'd like to introduce you to president of the dickinson college student senate. [applause] good evening and welcome to dickinson college including those watching on pcn. as president of the student senate it isle my privilege to welcome you to the debate among candidates for senate. here we hold fast to the ideals fromrd nearly 240 years ago. informed citizenry is essential to the health of a democracy. thats it's happy to host this important debate. it's our hope this debate will encouragenc the kind of interest among voters that will allow for both engagement and turnout in the upcoming primary election. i wish all the candidates good luck. >> i wou

this advertisement newspaper in philadelphia. as she may attempt to escape by water all masters of vessels and others are cautioned against receiving her on board. and of course her escape only judges escape was successful washington tried again and again to get her back and and was never able to do so, but this is just another example of a runaway slave advertisement. here's another one from the mid-19th century and this is a case where the the advertisement mentions the fact that the people who had absconded had a long relationship with with watermen, and it was suspected that they were using that relationship for help to escape both of them. sorry. both of them had had a long time relations with the -- fishermen at the bayou and so we see this again and again where owners are publishing what they suspect happened and how they think they're enslaved property might have run away. so this is another advertisement also a legal advertisement, but it's not placed by a slave owner in instead. it's placed by the master of a vessel fro

everyone wear a mask indoors in philadelphia. we will have dr. oz to talk about that. we have some restaurant owners coming on. they are worried that it's going to hinder their -- their ability to stay open again because people aren't aren't going to want to go to restaurants anymore if they have to wear a mask. >> steve: the question is, what will the biden administration do will they repeal this particular ruling by the judge. they could. they should let it go. they could lose it in a bigger way. >> brian: brought you the mess at the border and getting rid of title 42. so it will be perfect for them to just go say i need that mask mandated. >> ainsley: they can wear mask if they want to. >> steve: what the administration needs to do is hire more lawyers who actually understand the law. because as long as some of these federal court judges read the findings of, you know, and the rulings from the administration, it's like, wait a minute, you can't do this. you can't do that and then it stops. just like it stopped yesterday in the

he has addresses in philadelphia and wisconsin. he drove the van from philadelphia and he has made some concerning posts on social media about mayor eric adams and about homelessness and just some complaints about new york. and because of that, they have under the security here at -- for the mayor who is in quarantine because of covid-19. all right. let's bring back harry, retired first grade nypd detective. what strikes you from the information we just got there? >> well, jesse, you know, from the beginning they stated that they had known exactly the way the shooter had entered the subway. how could they have not known that before they had this picture? well, i think what happened was there was probably some type of video, you know, showing the shooter coming into the subway and then when they finally got a picture of this mr. james, compared that, and i think they have got their guy. but we wouldn't know 100 percent sure. the fact that, you know, they had found the vehicle. he dropped the keys. i have had cases where bad guys act

philadelphia tonight bringing back its mask mandate. what they're seeing in new york and in 24 states with new covid cases. >>> first tonight, the new satellite images showing an eight-mile long russian military convoy on the move. where the pentagon believes its headed. and tonight, the new russian general now in command, already known as the butcher of syria. and news tonight on the staggering death toll in mariupol. the devastating new images from above. the mayor now saying well more than 10,000 civilians killed. what president zelenskyy is saying. and our james longman on what he found in the doorway of a school outside kyiv. the possible russian trap. our team inside ukraine again tonight. >>> back here at home tonight, new covid cases now on the rise in at least 24 states. philadelphia tonight with that mask mandate reinstated. what authorities are seeing in half the country now. also tonight, news on house speaker nancy pelosi late today, and on president biden. his latest test. amid these new covid concerns with so many lawmake

so the question is do you hold the the constitutional convention in philadelphia? and what i did is super interesting. i reached out to a great civil war historian who's now a princeton a guy named alan wells though. everybody should read his book about gettysburg. he was a when i reached out to him. he was at the time at gettysburg college, but now he's at princeton and i said, you know alan where here's my scenario where might they have held the constitutional convention in 1863 assuming it went on and i said, would it be new york or boston or something like that? and he's he wrote me back and he said bow they probably would have considered the framers probably in the 1863 probably would have considered columbus, ohio and i said hold on this ohio really and he said yeah, don't forget couple things one is they want to give a nod to those western states west of the appalachian to ohio is the third largest state by population. they probably would have given some thought to to columbus, ohio. but ultimately he said certainly not new york new york was very much kind o

i love philadelphia. it breaks my heart everyday to see what is happening in the great city of philadelphia. our men and women in blue are feeling they cannot do their jobs. they have a district attorney who in his own mind that he's there to make sure people do not spend time in jail jail. he will not prosecute crimes , he is judging by how many people get released. then that same party the same radical left says we should restrict the gun rights to defend themselves. it's absolute madness. >> time. george, when you talk about adding work on regulation of background checks, banning assault rifles and everything, what you're doing is penalizing law-abiding citizens for the conduct of criminals. law-abiding citizens, whether they have assault weapons, bazookas, tanks, what have you , obey the law. they are not out to hurt other people. they do not commit crimes with guns. criminals commit crimes. if they didn't have guns, they would use baseball bats. if they didn't have baseball bats, they would use knive

so i commend philadelphia, though. when i look at what they're doing and you look at the details, they talked about the fact that a lot of their minority population suffered and that's one of the big reasons that they're making this mask mandate happen right now, because they knew it affected people in philadelphia unfairly. so i do commend them. >> though doctor, there is very little tolerance, isn't there, for wearing masks going forward. one very smart way around this imminent mask mandate in philadelphia is for businesses, museums, et cetera, to require all occupants in each space to be vaccinated. if that happens instead, would that be a better approach given it might encourage more people to get vaccinated? >> well, you know, we've gone that way across the country and it's a push-pull. i think it's a lot easier to get people who are opposed to being forced to do anything to wear a mask than it is to have them get a shot. i would tell you right now since my group across the country is still giving vaccinations, bo

as of last monday, philadelphia seeing a little over 140 daily cases. that's still well below the 225 that would be needed to enter the next phase or the next response level. as for hospitalizations as of last monday, still about 44, which is still well below what would be needed to enter the next response level. really these numbers are just a fraction of what we saw here in philadelphia during the last omicron surge. as for the business community, this is certainly causing some criticism directed toward the city. in fact, there's a group of businesses that have basically moved to sue the city to try to make a stay for this mask mandate. their argument here is that the city is not following the cdc's own guidance and that at the end of the day it would potentially be bad for business. polo sandoval, cnn, philadelphia. >>> in china officials say three people in shanghai have died from covid-19. it's the first official announcement of deaths in the city since shanghai entered a strict covid lockdown in march. and in economic news china says its gdp grew

we saw philadelphia reinstating its mask mandate. could we be doing the same thing here in the bay area? >>> and this is cool, rate-season snow in the

that's an average of over 200 covid cases per day. >> i think it is unsafe. >> reporter: philadelphia restaurant owner yeshooda sichel is concerned the revived mandate will hurt business again. >> when masks were mandated, people are less inclined to go out to the city. the city, there are a lot of people that live in the city but really the city thrives off people coming from the suburbs. >> reporter: a group of 22 business owners and residents is suing the city seeking to overturn the mask mandate. >> philadelphia actually did away with the cdc guidelines as the standard and they have invented their own guidelines. they are making this stuff up. >> reporter: in response to the lawsuit, the city says it has the legal authority. >> the role of the cdc is really to provide minimum guidelines in terms of what is safe. so a city like philadelphia can decide to be more aggressive about what they require and other places might choose not to be so aggressive. >> reporter: it is unclear whether airlines will now implement their own mask rules. but the majority of airlines have been asking to

and then philadelphia and new york city facing storms tomorrow. ginger zee tracking it all. >>> the disturbing new video from ukraine tonight appearing to show cluster bombs being used to attack civilians in kharkiv. and tonight, what the u.s. is now sending to ukraine. james longman standing by live in kyiv. >>> here at home, amid the new rise in covid cases, the cdc tonight extending the travel mask mandate on planes and elsewhere. and there is news coming in tonight on new subvariants, what they're seeing in central new york. >>> graphic videos released late today showing the deadly police shooting of a black man following a traffic stop in michigan. video showing an officer on top of the driver during a struggle. the officer then pulling out his gun and firing. >>> the stunning plea deal in a case that made national headlines. a mother of two now admitting she faked her own kidnapping. >>> and the major league coach making baseball history. her story right here tonight. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday ni

so i actually took a flight yesterday through philadelphia. we got off the plane where that half the people were sk mas and night attendant announced you have to wear your mask in the airport. people around me were utterly confused. they were talking about their vaccination status. they didn't know whether or not they had to put the masks back on or not. so the simple message is wear a mask if you're concerned about getting covid or the best mask you can. if you don't care. so about covid because you're vaccinated and boosted, expect that you're going to get it if you go unmasked. >> thank you. >>> she lost her husband to a roadside bomb in iraq. then she found out her husband's remains were dumped in a landfill. allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flflonase all goo. so, people can get a free samsung galaxy s22 when they trade in a galaxy, any year any condition. oh i get it. so you can take your old phone, that you've had for 12 years and loved ev

tonight's debate is sponsored by spotlight pa in partnership with the philadelphia inquirer in philadelphia. , w idf in harrisburg and the pennsylvania cable network. the event is hosted by dickinson college and is being held here at the auditorium. a special thank you to our other supporting partners, the pennsylvania news media association and the pennsylvania women's forum. before we get to the rules and and produce the candidates tonight, i would like to introduce you to the president of the dickens college student senate. >> good evening and welcome to dickinson college including those watching. my privilege to welcome you to the debate among democratic candidates for u.s. senate. here dickinson we hold fast the ideas which regarded nearly 240 years ago. it is essential to the health of a democracy. that is why dickinson is happy to host of this important debate. it is our hope that this debate will encourage the kind of interest among voters that will allow for both engagement and turnout in the upcoming may primary election. i wish all the candidates good luck. >> now i would like to

philadelphia's health commissioner cites a rapid rise in new covid cases. and today, white house covid coordinator ashish jha said decisions like these should be left up to local governments. >> you know, local officials do have a lot of local knowledge of where is it spreading, in which communities? they are using other data. i have been supportive of local people making -- local leaders making local decisions. and i continue to be supportive. i think that's the right way to go. >> cnn's polo sandoval is in philadelphia for us. so polo, how fast are cases rising there? >> fred it was about a f50% increase in daily covid cases. that's why they made that announcement on monday to require masks at indoor public spaces starting tomorrow, as you point out. what are we talking about? basically schools, businesses, restaurants, museums as well. and the list does go on. important, though, some of these businesses and institutions have a way around that. and they can remain mask-free, so long as they can ensure that everyone on the premises, both staff and patrons