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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 It's Election Day 2021, with several high-profile races across the country for mayor, governor, school boards, US House special elections and ballot initiatives. So far, only a few major voting equipment problems reported, primarily in New Jersey, where electronic pollbooks failed around the state for several hours. Oklahoma Republican lawmakers proposed extreme partisan gerrymandering maps that split apart longtime Democratic districts to cheat voters out of representation. At the U.N. COP26 climate conference now underway in Glasgow, Scotland, President Biden officially apologized to the world for Donald Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. More than 100 world governments struck two major agreements in the summit's opening days to stop and reverse deforestation and cut climate-warming methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a deal has been reached with holdout Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to lower prescription drug prices in Biden's Build Back Better Act, and the other Democratic obstructionist, Joe Manchin (WV), offered somewhat encouraging remarks about his openness to supporting the legislation. In spite of a flood of anti-vaccine fear-mongering from rightwing media that vaccine mandates would push as many as 10,000 New York City police and firefighters to leave their jobs, only 34 actually did. New data show that vaccine mandates in other states and industries are succeeding in reducing rates of transmission and deaths from COVID. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"