Today President Trumps request was answered by none other than senator ted cruz. Cruz announcing that if the u. S. Supreme Court Decides to take up the pennsylvania mailin ballot case, he stands ready to make the oral arguments on behalf of the petitioners, congressman mike kelly and republican congressional candidate sean parnell. And by extension, the president himself. Senator cruz is considered to be not only one of the smartest people to ever graduate from harvard law school, but also a brilliant debater and litigator. His offer to champion the president s fight for a free and Fair Election in court couldnt come at a more propitious moment. It comes as several key deadlines are rapidly approaching in the certification of the president ial race. Every state the is expected to certify the Election Results by tomorrow, and next monday the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to cast their votes for either President Trump or joe biden. President trump says he expects big things to c
New york correspondent. Its like something straight out of a spy thriller revealing predetermine to russia wherever youre tuning into the program from this hour. Welcome to our, to international my names. You know, many of you with us the transition process for the u. S. Presidency is still in limbo with donald trump refusing to concede defeat. But joe biden is already lining up candidates for his proposed administration. There are some familiar faces from the obama era. From the details, lets speak to our u. S. Correspondent, kill up in kill of the biden hardest team name, their next secretary of state, tell us more about him, and indeed the significance of the appointment. Indeed, well, at this point, weve heard from the Biden Harris Administration that they have named 6 individuals that will be in their cabinet, one of those the nominee and the person they will select for their secretary of state is Anthony Blinken. Now Anthony Blinken is certainly not a newcomer to the washington d
Shepard smith will introduce you a blustery weekend for many. Welcome to monday, november 16th early today starts right now grad youlad youre with uss monday. The country reaches yet another grim coronavirus milestone as state officials scramble to contain the amendment. The virus is spreading at alarming rates we have now surpassed 11 million infections that took just seven days to add a million. Before that it took ten days for the country to go from nine million cases to ten million and two weeks to go from eight to nine million these are the scenes playing out across the country as hospitals are overloaded with Covid Patients at least 15 states have increased restrictions our Megan Fitzgerald has the very latest. Moelggen, good morning valerie, good morning to you. Acrosby the count across the country we are seeing states scrambling to contain the virus. The u. S. Adding a million new infections in the last week alone, pushing total cases to 11 million and forcing more states to cr
Im not running a false promise and being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch. But what i can promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions. We will deal honestly with the american people. Biden and his wife jill cast their ballots in wilmington today. Meanwhile, democrat, democratic Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris held two drive in rallies in arizona. She criticized President Trump for putting the health of his supporters at risk by packing them together. Stocks tumble today because of worries that the pandemic in the u. S. And in europe will mean more restrictions on businesses and drag down the economy. The dow dropped 943 points, the nasdaq lost 426 and the s p was down 119. Early voting numbers continue to break records nationwide and if the trends hold, we could see historic levels of turnout. Our political reporter greg lee tells us whats driving the numbers. Reporter with less than one week until
Danger is something that should be concerning to us all day long today, sonoma calistoga fairfield danville in Half Moon Bay, some of your more remarkable and consistently windy spots throughout the evening into this morning and some of our warmer areas to now working their way through the morning youre gradually going to see these wind speeds calming down and by the time we work towards 03 30pm as youre seeing on the map right here a noticeably less windy day but were still under red flag warnings with temperatures hot enough humidity low enough. And winds still present enough for fire danger to remain high 60s 70s, and yes, a couple of 80 still on the map alameda at 80 degrees right now say only know youre right there as well. Some of our wind your spots are also some of those warmer areas and thus well we are looking at still high fire danger this morning as it will remain into the afternoon by the afternoon ahead of us some record breakers likely upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the ba