Underway in the philippines after a super typhoon go and he killed 20 people and caused widespread destruction. Well now across the United States verses are going to the polls to decide if donald trump will get a 2nd term or if joe biden will become president voting has been open for a couple of hours now but already long lines have been forming now already nearly 100000000 people have cost their ballots an early voting levels that have never been seen before in a u. S. Election now this hour 12 g. M. T. Polls have opened in a number of states including delaware washington d. C. And pennsylvania. Well lets introduce you to our team on the ground for this hour. Is monitoring developments from new york christensen amy is in philadelphia and pennsylvania one of the big battleground states where as we had very saying has already begun to mollify al is in wellington delaware thats bidens home state and from washington d. C. Weve got alan fischer well get the latest more of them in a moment
Office come the house breaks down barriers and highlights sacrifices made by american women but donald trump remains defiant the president showing no sign of conceiving a look at what that means for the transition of power. And in other news azerbaijans president says his military has taken the 2nd largest city in the disputed region of. Transport so kerry is testing its ability to host a safe olympics next year the city has staged its 1st International Competition at the games venue since the olympics had to be postponed due to coronavirus. In the past our former u. S. President george w. Bush has congratulated joe biden on his win calling him a good man and hes told americans to have faith that this weeks election was fair with a clear outcome the former president is now the highest profile republican to acknowledge biden as the elections. When even the current republican president of the trump has refused to concede the statement from president bush comes as president elect biden vo
Judy and its friday, mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede. And what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Announcer major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by [music] moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf. The engine that connects us. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. Announcer and with the ongoing support of these institutions. Announcer and friends of the newshour. Announcer this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy covid19 set all kinds of recordin the u. S. This week and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. Reported 153,000 yesterday, more than 67,000 people are hospitalized. A record for a third raight day. The country has averaged near
Playing offense against covid19, where we stand against therapeutics, a vaccine and hospital care. Are we Getting Better at treating success patients . Plus around 80 million ballots already cast how will this massive vote, impact fierce and weather impact turnout on election day. Live from cnbc global headquarter, the fact, the truth, the news with shepard smith. Good evening with five days until the election, a fight for mustwin florida. President donald trump and joe biden holding rallies in tampa just hours apart nbc news marist poll out today show as tight race in florida, biden with a slight edge, 5147, but thats inside the margin of error and last months poll had them tied at 48. A live look at tampa here where biden is set to take the stage at any minute. Biden told supporters there today if florida goes blue, its over were covering both campaigns. And Kayla Tausche is following the story. Reporter President Donald Trump had people in blazing heat that sent some to the hospital
Wisconsin. Now he has two 53 electoral votes. President trump has 214. There are five key battleground states, they are pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina, nerve a carolina, nevada and arizona. The president leads by slightly more than 23,000 votes in georgia. Alaska has yet to be called but it heavily favors President Trump. Faith abubey joins us from washington, d. C. Good morning. Yes. This race is still way too close to call. In a key battleground states, but this morning the Trump Campaign and the Joe Biden Campaign both projecting confidence. This morning the counting continuing with former Vice President joe biden saying he sees victory ahead. Im not here to declare what we won, but when the voting is f done we believe well be the winners. Reporter projections show hes likely to win in michigan and wisconsin and just 17 electoral votes shy of the presidency. His Campaign Setting the record for most votes of any president ial candidate. Weve won with the majority of the americ