The race to stop the spread. Plus, the terrifying moment a jeep tumbles down this cliff. What went wrong. Hailed a hero. The deputy who saved this newborn who had stopped breathing. Santa claus is coming to town and later, why santa claus is changing his travel plans this year. Good friday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. Im andrew dymburt. We begin with the final debate showdown in the race for president with just 11 days until election day. The two made their closing arguments to voters, but nearly 48 million americans have already cast their ballots. Thats a 700 increase over this time in 2016. And it all comes against the backdrop of the pandemic with new cases up 32 in the last two weeks. The final president ial debate kicking off without interruption, the candidates feisty but focused. President trump with the first question defending his administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has now killed more than 220,000 americans. We closed up the greatest economy
Nagornokarabakh and the desk top keeps rising. Hello welcome to the program of france will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 of the citys ily 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control at tesh about the reports from paris. French president emanuel macross that france was in the grip of a 2nd wave of coronavirus he urged people to be more responsible and announced a nighttime curfew for paris and 8 tell the cities the could last until december 5th. If we stick to this curfew for 6 weeks if we take collective responsibility for reducing our contacts we think it will be able to progressive the reopen at that stage. If you move the curfew adds to a raft of restrictions already in place in the countries big cities where cases of new infections are rising rapidly in the past couple of weeks queues outside the board freeze like this one in the city have been g
Forces battle to stop taliban fighters closing in on the capital of Helmand Province and flooding and landslides kill or least 36 people in Central Vietnam with more heavy rain forecast. We begin this news hour in europe where many countries are seeing coronavirus cases surged to their highest levels in months and with that comes a wave of new restrictions france will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 other cities you know the 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control meanwhile in the u. K. A new 3 tier alert. System has come into force in england only one city is in the highest level but with almost 20000. 00 new cases in the past 24 hours other areas look set to join it is in the meanwhile has seen its highest daily increase yet with more than 7300 new cases its infection rate has more than doubled in the past 2 weeks and germany hit a 6 month high i
Highly contested races in u. S. History. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after the boaters went to the polls, when the u. S. Supreme court stopped the florida recount. This awarded the states electoral votes to president bush. Mr. Lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who , along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the comm
Closing in berlin bars and restaurants for german capital now have to shut their doors at 11 pm authorities are hoping to avoid a new lockdown despite rising coronavirus infections. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program a ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan appears to have been short lived just hours after it came into effect Azerbaijans Defense Ministry released footage of what it claims are strikes against the Armenian Army and says the attacks are in retaliation for violating the cease fire on media in turn has accused its full of breaking the deal the 2 former soviet republics earlier agreed to russian demands to halt their decades long conflict over the disputed region of no corner karabakh. Hundreds have died in fighting over the last fortnight caught in the middle of thousands of displaced civilians. A mother and child forced to take refuge in a school. Who is just one of several azerbaijani families who fled here from nearby villages there are scaping heavy fight