A mock up of their own on to an 18th century palace. It seemed to capture what may well be one of the strangest and most important g. 20 summits ever. Lets go to our Brussels Bureau chief alexandra phenomena who is following the g. 20 summit for us alexander good. Have you with us distribution of the covert . 19 vaccine is the issue of greatest urgency this weekend. Have any agreements been made . We are still waiting for their leaders to adopt and sign a joint declaration later today. But as you mentioned, we expect them to pledge to pay for a Fair Distribution of cobbett 19. 00 of the axioms so that no country is left out. And there are also expected to extend debt relief to poor countries who really needed. And theyre also going, as we expect to strike a more balder tone on International Trade and on climate change. Climate change is the most important topic today. So they seem to be quite united one prominent exemption. You as president dont seem to be the only leader, not talking
Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
police released footage showing the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old black man jalen walker. and later this hour, an update on wnba star brittney griner reaching out with a personal plea to president biden. we begin this morning with yet another community reeling and searching for answers after a mass shooting. hundreds of people gathered along a street in highland park, illinois, a half hour north of chicago. a gunman perched on a nearby roof opened fire seemingly at random. authorities say when the shooting stopped six people were dead. more than three dozen were injured. highland park mayor spoke with nbc s today show about how the community is coping. my greater focus this morning as the sun is rising is how my community is feeling. the unbelievable sadness and shock. this tragedy never should have arrived in our doorsteps and as a small town, everybody knows somebody who was affected by this directly. investigators say the gunman fled after dropping the weapon and
A vote as you said, this Christmas Tree that we can dress back up. He told reporters he was not satisfied with what he heard from speaker ryan and he stopped talking about it. I ran into him in a hall way about an hour and a half ago and tried to ask him about it and he would not say another word about his vote. All eyes in the chamber are on john mccain right now. As garrett spoke around the 12 00 mark on your screen, there is chuck schumer, the democratic leader who came down to talk to the senator and a few other democrats who are leaning in. Angus king of maine leaning in and missed senator schumers conversation. On the left hand side of the screen, you have the senator from texas talking to the senator from wyoming and corker of tennessee making a point. This is all we have seen thus far. It is not an expression of opinion for people in our line of work to call a little tension to the disgust with what we are seeing. Its crazy. Why does a governing body of legislature need to do t
Mcconnell comes in, various floor leaders doing the same. We cant tell whats happening. And im hope you can. Brian, the person im watching in all of this is john mccain. Who came into this chamber for a first vote a little while ago. Nodded along at a closing speech by senator schumer, and has been the focus of a ton of attention from other republicans in the room, including the Vice President. He occasionally appears on the top of your screen here as the senate well picture change from time to time. Sort of the basis of those cameras kind of flips around. Keep an eye on john mccain. He has been sitting side by side with his good friend Lindsey Graham for much of this, and getting a lot of attention from republican leaders. If john mccain decides not to vote for this bill, this bill will not move forward. Mccain was one of several senators to give a press conference today. He was one of the most outspoken people who said i dont want this bill to become law. But he was potentially willi