China sea. The talks cover the pact under which both countries are obligated to respond to an armed attack against their territories. Translator president elect biden has told me that hes committed to the application of article v of the japan u. S. Security treaty to the senkaku islands. Mr. Biden also told me he looks forward to working together to strengthen the japan u. S. Alliance and also move towards peace and stability in the indopacific region. Japan controls the islands. China and taiwan claim them. The japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japans territory in terms of history and international law. It says theres no issue of sovereignty to be resolved over them. The pair also discussed plans to combat the coronavirus and the importance of tackling climate change. Suga plans to visit washington as soon as possible to meet biden in person. Now, as biden carries on with matters of diplomacy, President Donald Trump refuses to concede. He appeared in pu
Steadier rain moves in which is off the Mendocino County coast. Heres a look at your storm impact scale today. Light to moderate rain and then just some scattered showers as we head into the evening hours. Its going to be breezy especially this morning before the steady rain rolls in. Gusts could get up to around 35 Miles Per Hour and blowing southwest to northeast. They could affect some of our east west bridges and definitely our higher elevations. Temperatures mild even with the rain low to mid 60s today. Well take an hourbyhour look and what to expect coming up. Back to you. Thank you. Expect changes with businesses in your county and that starts today. Governor newsom says he had to pull the emergency brake on reopening because new cases of coronavirus nearly doubled in just ten days. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Heres a look at where the bay area stands. And look at all that purple. Heres the easiest way to put it.
The east coast so its actually no longer election day there isnt its moved on to november the 4th but in other parts of the country and in fact way out in the Pacific Ocean is the state of hawaii with 4 Electoral College votes going to joe biden of course the home state of his old boss barack obama. So were just adding that to the total mostly the total later on right now though i want to talk about North Carolina 15 Electoral College votes still too close to call but when we break down the numbers we start to get a little bit more of the picture. 100 percent reporting i believe its just short of that actually at the moment and donald trump has a 75000. 00 vote difference but once again North Carolina its the story of the night in so many states that rural urban split there is maybe still a little bit of a runway left for joe biden in the urban areas but it would only be a very small amount and remember in this sort of part of the United States when it goes North Carolina you could pos
A recount and finds lawsuits as he has promised to victory now rules the outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tapped and in other news this hour the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation in tensions as ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops following an attack on a military base in the teeth ray beach. Thank you very much for joining us so we begin in the United States way joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house we cannot project away in for biden in the key battleground state of michigan its one of these socalled rust belt states that donald trump won in 2016 helping him deliver the presidency now within the past couple of hours the democrats also flipped neighboring wisconsin. Which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago and that means that biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 remember the magic number of course to become president is 217 now here in yellow yo
Coronavirus crisis i spoke exclusively with President Trump this week about his second term agenda heading into that convention that interview straight ahead and well also talk to the man who helped lead the Trump Campaign to victory in 2016 steve bannon is here with his election predictions ahead of Convention Season in the middle of it all breaking news in john durhams criminal probe with exfbi attorney Kevin Klinesmith expected to plead guilty to falsifying a document in the russia investigation and dni John Ratcliffe flagged his criminality back in december last year. What you have is fbi lawyers literally changing evidence to make false representations to the court to continue this counterintelligence investigation against the president , so it details everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence, the democrats never want to give one to donald trump, but the inspector generals findings really outline what his criminal activity. Maria coming up wisconsin senator ron johnson i