welcome back. in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election, donald trump s son-in-law and white house advisor jared kushner made three trips to the middle east. that same day, treasury secretary steve mnuchin began his tour through the region where he was planning on holding private meetings with the heads of sovereign wealth funds, government-run funds of saudi arabia, emirates, qatar and kuwait, all future investors. he cut it short after the riot and did return to washington. his unusual trip at this time in the administration cost taxpayers nearly $288,000. according to those documents that you see there. nbc news has studies them after they were obtained by the non-profit citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. the two men were trying to raise $3 billion for a trump program called the abraham fund for
city center since russia first event ukraine paid me while russia continues its heavy firepower attacks in the east and lviv were residents have made makeshift graves to bury their dead for they search for drinkable water during the day and huddle in bomb shelters knowing that supplies there are running out to read the mayor said half of the cities 288,000 people so far have fled. and nobody helped, apartments were burning they asked to put out the fire and help, nobody did a parade locals died on our watch there is no water, food, nothing. further north near the country s capitol, workers help evacuate injured residents as some have been an shelter for days. no roughly 3.7 million people have fled to neighboring countries on the outskirts of ukraine. at about double that number have remained here in ukraine displaced people with nowhere to
committee tomorrow and his encouraging words even before the meeting. and all of this does not come a moment too soon, after the deadliest week so far in this pandemic. more than 15,000 lives lost in just the past week here in the u.s. and in this country, we are now losing about 92 americans every hour to the virus. more than 288,000 lives lost in the pandemic. we re now averaging more than 200,000 new cases a day, that s three times the summer peak, about six times more than what we were seeing last spring. tonight, the number of americans in the hospital right now battling this virus, more than 104,000. and in kansas, one hospital alone there with 152 front line workers now out with covid. in parts of california tonight, the ambulances with struggling patients are waiting outside e.r.s. hospitals are overwhelmed. meantime, in the uk today, thousands more getting the vaccine, including 100-year-old ethel sinclair right there. but there was some concern after early word that two healt
macomb county, where the president is leading. if he keeps that lead, would be in strong shape in michigan. 143,000 right now. go back in time, 224,000. this is higher turnout election. we expect everywhere close to 2016, don t expect any place to be below it. we have to wait. keep counting. way more votes down here. wayne county, joe biden ahead with 147,000 votes. hillary clinton won it, look at the difference? almost 520,000 votes. what does that tell you? they have a lot of votes to count in wayne county, macomb county and other places in michigan. we have to be patient. same story in wisconsin. bring up milwaukee. hillary clinton gets 288,000
we re nowhere near that, less than half that in both cases n. pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, there are simply more votes to be counted. the president leads, pull out to the national map, president leads in all three at the moment. he should be happy to celebrate that for now. but he had to still count the votes. that s potentially the democratic flip which would be significant as we get to the map. it s frustrating for everybody because everybody wants to know. but here 76%, 113,000 votes. here 60%, 288,000 votes and you come down to the commonwealth of pennsylvania last. it s a much bigger lead here but it s also a bigger state, electoral votes, votes to be counted f. you re the president, looks good, but you also know a lot of votes to be counted. nobody should be saying cheating. nobody should be saying cheating. they should be saying count them. let s be patient. indeed. we have another projection. two projections right now. let s take a look. in nebraska, the second congr