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Dangerous conditions in egypts business. So the number of people around the world who have contracted coronaviruses exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people that have died of cave in 1000 over the past 24 hours and that brings the total number of fatalities up to more than 30000 and more than 10000000 cases have been reported across latin America Brazil argentina and colombia are among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including poland and italy are imposing more restrictions to tackle the new wave of infections and wales is going into a nationwide lockdown for 2 weeks that starts on friday its one of the worst hit areas in the u. K. Over on then jenna hall says the well slow down did come they surprise whales of course already under restrictions much of the country and on friday to the rather unprecedented step of banning people from travelling to wales
President ial candidate tax plans. At 8 45, pennsylvania senator bob casey on the Upcoming Senate vote on Amy Coney Barretts confirmation to the Supreme Court. Host good morning. This is the washington journal for october 22. The fbi and the director of National Intelligence have accused two countries of attempting to influence this years election. Russia and iran, who according to officials not only gave voter info, but also according to officials sent emails aimed to intimidate voters and damage the president. Well see what officials have to say and get reaction from capitol hill and get your thoughts on this first hour of the program. Heres how you can call us pure 202 7488001 if you support President Trump and mike pence. 202 7488000 if you support joe biden and kamala harris. If you an undecided voter or support another candidate and want to give your thoughts on this latest, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 and also post on twitter. Our Facebook Page is also available
Tried to interfere what this means for your vote, and our nations safety. Plus, new Research Shows masks do work. But which face coverings block covid19 the best . Announcer live, from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith. Good evening. We begin tonight with urge ennews from the fbi and the department of Homeland Security. And the headline is Russian Hackers got into local and state computers in america, browsed about uncheck asked stole data from at least two u. S. Government servers the New York Times reports u. S. Intelligence pieced together details what have they believe are russias plans to enter veer in the electionin the final days or immediately after the election on november 3rd. However, the fbi reports it has no evidence yet that the integrity of the elections data has been compromised we will hear from a cyber expert on this coming right up. This on debate night in america. Joe biden and President Trump in their final scheduled faceof