What you need to know: Oct. 12

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Here's what you need to know to start your day on Oct.

12.

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Here's what you need to know to start your day.

Happening today - a chico businessman accused of unlawfully transporting and disposing hazardous material is due in court again.

A judge will hold a preliminary hearing for parks.

Prosecutors say richard parks dumped environmentally harmful asbestos back in february.

So far parks has plead'not guilty to the dumping charges.### lassen county..

Confirmed its first death from the coronavirus.

The lassen county health department released that information sunday night..

Department reps say the person was in their 70s..

But the department says they will not be releasing the victims name or identity..

Lassen county has had 113 cases in total..

7 of those are still active..

## happening today..

Word from the governor... governor gavin newsom is set to update the public on firefighting efforts across the state..

And the effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus..

That press conference kicks off at noon..

On the governors face book and twitter pages..

### are you registered to vote?

If not: time is running out.

October 19th is the deadline to register for the november election.

Not too sure if you're registered?..

You can check online.

If you know you haven't yet registered... you can do that online too.

If you can't access these sites online - visit or give your county registrar a call and they can help you with these steps.### at last count - more than seven million americans have already cast their ballots.

Thats from a cnn and edison research survey..

So far, democrats lead republicans in the six states reporting returns by party...### president trump wants to debate democratic challenger joe biden this week... and he wants to do it in person.

That's the message from white house deputy communications director brian morgenstern sunday.

He says trump is urging the commission on presidential debates to put the second matchup back on the schedule.

Biden's campaign says it already booked him for a town hall thursday.### this morning - the confirmation hearings for judge amy coney barrett are set to begin.

The hearings are scheduled to last through thursday..

We will be taking a live look at these proceedings throughout the morning..

And stay tuned after action news now at six for national coverage of the hearings..

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