dana: dr. mehmet oz and dave mccormick are separated by a few thousand votes. if the margin doesn t get bigger it heads for a recount. bill: pennsylvania s recount threshold, half a percentage point, .5% still tallying the votes and both candidates sounding very confident late last night. when all the votes are tallied i m confident we will win. we can see the path ahead. we can see victory ahead. dana: bryan llenas is reporting live from new hope, pennsylvania. you had a late night. catch us up this morning, bryan. good morning. we re in bucks county, the philadelphia suburban county that put oz over the top. the margins here were better than people expected. oz is currently leading dave mccormick by less than 3,000 votes statewide. the doctor is winning bucks county by some 5,000 votes. the mccormick camp says they re confident that thousands of absentee and mail-in ballots will break their way. perhaps voters chose mccormick before trump s endorsement of dr. oz
it is a priority of the administration. do you believe right now there is a crisis at the border? the answer is no. i think there is a challenge at the border that we re managing. is there a crisis at the border? at this point is this a crisis at the border? we don t have to put new labels on what we ve already conveyed is challenging. is there a challenge at the border? let s go. dana: a couple thoughts there from a communications perspective if i could. definitely think the white house is feeling the heat about the president not being as visible or taking questions. they had him go out yesterday. he is at a hardware store looking around but not answering questions. one of the questions is about the border. they pull it out. today at 12:30 p.m. when jen psaki briefs the press she will bring with her somebody that deals with border security issues because they know they need to have a better answer. if i were jen psaki i would agree i would bring someone else
Like it or loathe it, it is bigger and more controversial than ever. Facebook closes in on 2 billion users but can it see off the controversy. Also france and Youth Unemployment. Also in the programme, chinas answer to boeing prepares for its Maiden Flight. We start with facebook, because despite the ongoing controversy over everything from fake news to extremist and violent content, the Social Networkjust keeps getting bigger and more profitable. Facebook has been warning for some time it cant keep growing at this rate but the latest results show no sign of a slowdown yet. Take a look at these numbers. Facebook made profits ofjust over 3 billion in the first three months of this year. Thats a jump of more than 76 on the same period last year and more than investors were expecting. Facebook is creeping ever closer to two billion users 1. 91; billion people are now actively using the Social Media Platform every month, up 17 on this time last year. But in recent months theres been growin
And we look back at the past week in business, when us markets had their worst day since november, and the economy was the main focus in the uk election. Thats all with our Business Editor, simonjack. We always want to hear from you. Its easy to get in touch with the programme just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. It is friday, we have got that friday feeling. We start in france where the new president , emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. He now has to try and win a majority in next months parliamentary elections and implement the Economic Policy he says can turn the country around. So what is Macron Economics and can it solve frances problems . Macron calls himself neither right nor left, hes a centrist, and, sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from the left, right and centre. He says his Economic Policy is based on the nordic model. Whats that . Basically,
But does the new president have the right formula to bring backjobs and growth . Plus nafta nerves. Tense times for mexico as its two decade old trade deal with the us is thrown into doubt. Welcome to World Business report, im aaron heslehurst. We have got about nine minutes, my very last Early Morning programme for you all before i moved to a new show. Move. Coming up, who needs the us anyway . Asia pacific trade ministers hope to salvage the Trans Pacific partnership after President Trump pulled the plug. We start in france, where the new president , emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. He now has try and to win a majority in next months parliamentary elections, and implement the Economic Policy he says can turn the country around. So what is macron economics, and can it solve frances problems . Macron calls himself neither right nor left and sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from partie