Today, lets talk about covid. Trump made the comments while blitzing the battleground state of pennsylvania. Hes at his second rally right now and will be on his way to the third stop in just a few minutes from now. Vice president mike pence, he is on the road right now in minnesota after we learned this weekend that five of his aides have contracted the coronavirus. Pence, himself, tested negative again today. Still, hes no longer planning to preside over tonights senate vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The white house is planning another large event to celebrate, and the president is eager to have barrett voting on electionrelated ir ed issues i couple weeks. Pete williams will have a report on that in a moment for us. We want to begin with jake sherman, Senior Editor at politico. Peter baker, chief White House Correspondent at the New York Times, and coauthor of the new book the men who ran washington the life and times of james a. Bake r iii. And dr. Jennifer
To start pulling the country together. Donald trump continues to claim the us election was stolen from him and refuses to concede despite a lack of evidence. Now hes sacked his defence secretary, mark esper. Hello to you. Leading scientists are cautiously welcoming news of a new vaccine against coronavirus thats proved more than 90 effective in early results. The vaccine, developed by pharma giant pfizer and its partner biontech has been tested on nearly a4,000 people in six countries, with no safety concerns being raised so far. Some experts though point out that the announcement was made on the basis of very early analysis, with the vaccine not yet formally approved. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. This is a huge day for science and perhaps the world. For the first time, a covid i9 vaccine has been shown to protect against the disease. Plenty of caution is needed but the preliminary results of the Pfizer Biontech trial a highly promising. There were more than 43,000 voluntee
Election in a tight, tight vote count, theyre going to try to fight this out in the courts. We need a president that will be a president for all americans. Gept yo get your vote in, these votes matter. And election conditions decided on small margins. Welcome to the United States and all around the world. This is a special edition of new day. It is monday, november 2nd, it is 6 00 here in new york. Why is it special . Exactly 36 hours until the first polls close in america. The voting is very nearly over. And a reminder, we will not know a winner until the votes are counted, no matter what anyone says. Thats not chaos, thats counting. And a vote count two weeks ago is every bit as valid as a vote cast tomorrow. Joe biden and President Trump are using these final hours to blanket the key battleground states. Biden campaigns with three drivein rallies in pennsylvania and he has a new added stop in ohio, as well. Thats a state donald trump won big four years ago. President trump travels t
Well, alisyn, after disregarding our repeated attempts to gain comment from them, nigerian authorities this morning held a press conference to denounce our findings, accusing us of disinformation and announcing a social media clampdown. They also, the head of the findings of their own Judicial Panel say that they are satisfied with the conduct of the military and the police on the night of october 20th. In the meantime, alisyn, families, witnesses, people continue to reach out to us, begging for information as to the whereabouts of their missing loved ones. Alisyn . Anema, we would not know abot this without your reporting. Thank you very much for being on the ground there and showing the world whats happening. And new day continues right now. Biden and his team zeroed in on the pandemic, pressing their case for the Trump Administration to coordinate with them on the crisis. We havent had any official contact between the Transition Team coming in and the current administration. I am op
11 more electoral votes to his total. Bringing him currently to 290. North carolina and georgia are now the only states left, but the race is still deemed too close to call. Just over 14,000 votes separate biden and trump in georgia where a statewide hand recount has been ordered. But most likely North Carolina will go to trump. Georgia to biden. And perhaps it was waiting on arizona to be called. Also breaking overnight, china congratulated president elect joe biden on his election victory. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign ministry said, quote, we respect the choice of the American People. We congratulate mr. Biden and ms. Harris, proving once again, willie geist, the old saying that my god, you have heard in Political Science classes for the past 100 years, as goes scottsdale so goes beijing. And joe, beijing traditionally waits for the nbc decision desk before making a congratulatory phone call to the president. So keeping in form. No doubt about it. Jonathan lemire, as we said y