History have paved the way for this moment tonight. Shattering the glass ceiling. While i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last, because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. The Campaign Ends with celebrations and protests across america. [ crowd chanting ] as President Trump confronts defeat, the president elect prepares to lead, grappling with a raging pandemic, a faltering economy, a nation divided by race, region and politics. Announcer from abc news, this is a special edition of this week, your voice, your vote 2020. Here now chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. The week america chose to end the trump presidency. After four years of division and tumult, assaults on truth and treasured institutions, voters turned out in record numbers to turn the page, replacing a reality tv star raised in wealth with a career politician from the working class. In his first speech as president
Were following all those headlines. And this. While democrats are moving forward without republicans to get americans covid relief aid, the white house is ramping up vaccine efforts. The new plan, send Vaccine Doses to community pharmacies. Its an allout push to get ahead of more fastmoving variants. But first, we begin on capitol hill. Lauren fox is tracking the republican rift between trump loyalists, longstanding conservatives. Lauren, where do we stand . You have two politicians fate at stake here. Marjorie taylor greene, but also liz cheneys leadership position. Thats exactly right, jim. Last night, we should note, Kevin Mccarthy, the minority leader in the House Of Representatives sat down for an hourslong meeting with Marjorie Taylor greene to talk about her future. We are told that the minority leader is still undecided about whether or not she will keep her post. But essentially we are learning from that meeting that Marjorie Taylor greene did not apologize for the past statem
Singapore and malaysia doing pretty decent. Aligned coming from apple daily. Hong kong has found a third a gym. Irus links to if my memory serves me correct, this is the paris gym. It is slowly making its way into the second week. This,s talk more about italy has had more people died than any other nation including china. Stephen. Bring in he is doing his best to keep abreast of all that is going on. We heard a lot of headlines. What has been announced in california . Has basicallyr ordered everyone to stay home. They want to control the outbreak and the governor actually saying that the outbreak and infections could of thepwards of 56 population of california. Last year they had nearly 40 million residents, 20 million infections is what the governor is saying. We had a separate order with the mayor telling people to stay home. Heels of san the francisco and the bay area being on lockdown, so it looks like a lot of the local governments and federal governments are taking this much more
Good thursday morning to you. Welcome. Im Contessa Brewer in for Brian Sullivan looking at futures all up about. 15 or more in the futures that indicated open. Lets look at the treasury yield and look at the 10year is doing after that big fed decision wait a wasnt that big of a fed decision yesterday, was it yielding 1. 8 . In asia today, lets look at the hang seng, we are up 1. 3 . The nikkei up slightly the shanghai down a third a percentage point in europe, we are paying attention on the big vote. Will it be conservatives or labor . We are seeing in the green across the board up more than half a percentage point except in spain where we are just up 0. 4 looking at some of the top stories with rahel investors this morning are still digesting the comments from jay powell. The rates are on hold and signaled it doesnt plan to move in either direction in 2020. He said hed need to see a sustained base of inflation before they hike rates china regulators raised concerns with boeing on reli
Against deploying new missiles in europe well showcasing next generation russian weaponry thats id like to tell you about this Hypersonic Missile which can travel at about 9 times the speed of sound has a range of more than 1000 kilometers for months nato leaders urged russia to comply with the deal to prevent its collapse the u. S. Concerns on nato concerns about the new russian missiles have been raised with russia over several years but last minute pleas to keep that deal intact failed in july putin signed a law suspending russias participation in the agreement now hopes are diminishing for preserving the last remaining arms pact between the United States and russia the new start treaty signed in 2010 and set to expire in 2021 Trumps National security adviser john bolton has called the treaty flawed i fear that without. And with the. Mr ball with the lack of interest and focus of president we end up with out a new start treaty as well we go into a Nuclear Arms Race like we saw in th