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Kamala Harris at the DNC, coronavirus outbreak, California wildfires: 5 things to know Wednesday

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Voters know Kamala Harris as a senator and most recently as a former presidential candidate. But Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, Harris will get …
Voters know Kamala Harris as a senator and most recently as a former presidential candidate. But Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, Harris will get to reintroduce herself as presumptive nominee Joe Biden’s potential second-in-command. Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American person to be on a major party’s ticket for vice president, will detail to Americans why she was the best choice for Biden’s running mate and why their ticket is the best choice for America. In another DNC speech Wednesday, former President Barack Obama will work to energize Americans — including younger voters — to do everything they can to get Joe Biden elected. DNC speeches will be broadcast from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET on all major television networks. Undergraduate courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will go remote Wednesday after just one week of in-person classes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Chapel Hill on Monday became the first major university to pivot to online classes after reopening in person after it reported at least four clusters of outbreaks of COVID-19 in student living spaces.

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