Al this is al jazeera live from doha youre watching our continuing u. S. Election coverage including. Supposed to celebrate bidens win across the country including the wattles. By donald trump and his supporters a defiant president showing no signs of conceding as he prepares to challenge ballot counts in several states. That hasnt stopped leaders from around the world applauding joe biden including many who have had a rocky relations with trump. Joe biden has declared victory in the u. S. Elections earlier he and his running mate carla harris. Addressed the nation from his home state of delaware he spoke of uniting a country that has seen deep divisions with a pandemic and racial unrest from dominating headlines a White House Correspondent Kelly Holcomb reports. Addressing the nation for the 1st time as president elect joe biden spoke to a divided america and appealed for unity. People of this nation have spoken. They delivered us a clear victory we won with the most roads ever crash
The nasdaq holds in the green up by a quarter of 1 for the week and all week long stimulus uncertainty has been hanging over this market and on that point the president elect joe biden is meeting this afternoon, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer, we will have more on that in the other meeting that were going to watch very closely this hour, President Trump has invited a group of state legislators from michigan into the white house. I am connell mcshane, welcomed after the bell we have a lot going on in his time to get straight to the news happening at this hour. Lauren simonetti, blake burman and Hillary Bonner standing by to cover the news, we start with you lauren on the latest figures on the virus, what are we seeing . Their moving in the wrong direction, the grid numbers coast to coast, new u. S. Pieces topping 100,000 for 17 days in a row and over the past week the u. S. Is averaging 166,000, new cases a day, this is happening right before the holidays with families gathered together
Protests and demonstrations that at times have gotten violent and destructive. Local Police Departments say theyre worried the violence might surface again on Election Night regardless of the outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some bay area Police Departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open
10000000 have been infected meanwhile president obama trump was out playing golf when biden was declared the winner of the election has not conceded he says he will go to court to make sure election laws are upheld more from alan fischer in washington we know that there are those theres reporting in washington d. C. That we cant confirm that suggests the jury is going to approach and suggest a concession might be best for the country theres also a report on for says the president under some conditions would consider an appropriate transfer of power or just point on that its really not up to him its in the constitution its in the law and there will be a transparent power nor Strings Attached whether he likes it or not. Some other headlines theres been an escalation in the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia as a johns president says his troops are now in control of shusha with the most important cities in the fight in the disputed region of going to cut about given its strategic pos
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