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Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, november 24th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have white house report for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt back with us. And joe, its book day for you. Happy book day. Well get to that in a moment but first, a lot happened yesterday to clear the way for the Trump Administration to actually recognize joe biden as the president elect. Lets go through how things played out. It started with the state of michigans top election board voting yesterday to certify president elect joe bidens win over President Trump with a margin of more than 154,000 votes. Three out of four Board Members including one republican voted to certify the election results. The other gop board member withheld his vote. Last week, President Trump welcomed two other state lawmakers from michigan who had been pushing to delay certification in key counties to the white house in a move
Realize our defense is inadequate. Leanne called wadwell. Lets get to the very latest there on capitol hill. When do you think we can expect to see an agreement . Reporter well, this has been weeks, really, months in the making. But a deal does seem imminent at this point. The reason is because there was a major breakthrough overnight on the final major Sticking Point that had to do with a Federal Reserve lending program. Its actually an issue that did not have a lot of direct impact on americans. But it was a policy agreement between the republicans and democrats and democrats didnt want to tie the hands of the next administration, the biden administration. They were able to pair down that language and pave the way for a deal moving forward. On the sunday shows this morning, lawmakeres were saying that a deal is close, echoing what were hearing from house aides. Lets listen to mitt romney on meet the press this morning. I believe theres going to be a deal. The big one was resolved las
Businesses. New f. B. I. Warning. The alert tonight to officers making arrests related to the capitol hill assault consider using swat after they found this arsenal in one suspects home. New arrests. The man wearing a camp auschwitz shirt is in custody. So is the rioter seen dangling above the Senate Chamber. Was it an inside job . New allegations that some members of Congress Gave tours to rioters who stormed the capitol. Nearly one million doses in a single day. Some good news on the vaccine front as a Record Number of vaccines are put into the arms of americans. Deadly dog food. Tonight the pet food recall after toxic mold kills more than 70 dogs and makes 80 sick. What you need to know to keep your pet safe. And the reminder tonight our government remains of the people, by the people, for the people. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. Tonight the sittin
Good friday, everyone. The news at 5 30 starts right now. Thank you so much for joining us. Im janelle wang. And im raj mathai. We begin with breaking news. Were tracking a fastmoving fire in northern california. This fire is burning homes as we speak, and its threatening hundreds of more homes. This is in the town of weed. Thats about an hour north of redding. So far its burned about 900 acres. You can see some video there from the ground level. And this video from a car thats driving by the homes. This is from a nearby fire department. You can see homes there engulfed in flames. A mandatory Evacuation Order is in effect now for weed, lake lake shastina, and edgewood. This impacts about 7,000 people in all. Were going keep track of this fastmoving fire. Well bring you the very latest on air and online. Our other headlines this evening, california continues to rebound from a summer covid surge. New numbers released today show an 8. 7 positivity rate. Keep in mind it was 14 just last mo