Good evening everyone and welcome to the special election coverage. All eyes are on the president ial race, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden made one final push for votes today wrapping up what has been an incredibly contentious battle for the white house. Polls are just closing moments ago in iowa, montana, nevada, and utah. Here is a look at that map. This is from fox and it is updating at all times. Estates in blue have gone to joe biden, biden has one colorado, illinois, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, delaware, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new york, vermont, and a portion of maine, for a total of 129 electoral votes. President trump has one wyoming, north and south dakota, part of nebraska, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, indiana, and west virginia, and also just lay there, South Carolina for a total of 109 Electoral College votes. 270 is the magic number needed to win f
All of their mailin ballots, so we are were seeing big tranches of numbers being released. With 50 reported. Look at that. It is a dead heat. For more on the i were importance of florida, we spoke to correspondent joe. They may count their ballots early, early as in terms of our time in the evening. If trump loses florida, its pretty much game over. You know, theres ways to get a win, but it would take a lot of gymnastics. So thats the one to watch. Now, its super close, so, you know, theres no guarantee either way. Now, again, there was a big push from both campaigns to reach out to black and latinx voters in florida, and looks like right now President Trump is doing well in counties with large latin communities. If it is close like it is now, they still have a lot of ballots to count, and it could bleed into tomorrow morning. What about the early vote . We know that typically goes to democrats. A lot of it for President Trump had to be turnout today in person on election day, when re
Healthy. Thats a challenging goal during a pandemic. The coronavirus keeps coming back threatening to beworse than before. California is approaching a million diagnosed cases total and the new cases are rising once again as you can see on the graph. We added more than 5300 in the past day and the state just reached another milestone, more than 18,000 deaths from coronavirus. However, there is optimism about a vaccine being ready but that wont fix everything as were reminded by dr. Patel. When its time to get the vaccine, we need to be in a much better place than we are right now to make sure that we go and get the vaccine and we can get back to normal faster. Because of the pandemic, Health Officials recommend you stay home this Holiday Season but for those intent on traveling, covid19 test appointments right before thanksgiving may be hard to come by. Melanie woodro did the research. Reporter tis the season but this season travel for thanksgiving could look vastly different. Just have
All three of them have impeccable credentials. I think we can learn a lot about what Advisory Board can do effectively from what drums Advisory Board didnt do. Reporter to start, we can expect the Incoming Biden Administration to emphasize a mask wearing and other Public Health measures. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. Or to take away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal. As fast as possible. Reporter other measures the president elect promised in his campaign. And asked the pandemic dashboard to keep track of the infections and beds. Increasing the production of tests. Hiring of tens of thousands of Public Health workers to step up Contact Tracing efforts. Health experts said Advisory Board will guide the direction of those efforts. It is a good crosssection. These are big complex questions they will have to have strategies to move on. Reporter over the next several weeks the board or
You go to safety. Youre going to buy volatility, yields, bonds, and the dollar. 10 year yield now 75 basis quite a move from just a few days ago. Crude battered, beaten up today. Less demand for those oil prices. Guy absolutely. Lets recap where we are and what is going on. The german chancellor Angela Merkel currently meeting with heads of the german states. We are going to hear from her we think when that meeting wraps. We are probably likely to hear from her as well tomorrow morning. We are also getting Emmanuel Macron a little later on. Both countries moving toward more restrict of lockdowns. Lets get the latest. Maria tadeo joins us from brussels. Theres a lot of ideas floating around. None of this will be official until both Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel speak. The idea is we are moving into something that looks like a fulltime lockdown in the case of the french government, that we understand is seriously considering a onemonth lockdown that would start thursday night, going