Way. What sent the cryptocurrency sit to its highest level in nearly three years. We start tonight with the story thats front and center for investors, and all of americas right now. Thats the vote counting under way in five key battleground states plus alaska eamon javers has more on where things stand at this hour. We havent really moved all day today, as all the vote counters around the country are doing their jobs biden 253, trump 214 in the race to 270 joe biden has more paths to 270 now than donald trump does, but its not over for either man lets start with arizona you can see where we stand in that state theyve been giving us new data throughout the day that is 11 electoral votes available there. Nevada was giving us data throughout the day still too close to call with 89 of the vote in in nevada georgia, another state where were seeing an interesting move by the biden camp, making a run at a historically very, very red state. 49. 5 for trump, 49. 3 for biden a difference there,
What it is, and why it is wreaking so much havoc for social media companies. And it is halloween eve. Night. Iller, but triller we will have the executive chair of the social media platform sued by tiktok. Those stories in a moment. Also this hour, we will be speaking with the ceo of overstock. Com on supply Chain Technology ahead of the busy retail season going into the holidays. Later, i will have an interview with the ceo of blue apron, which reported results yesterday. Dropping, u. S. Stocks capping their biggest weekly route since march after tech earnings disappointed investors concerned the slowing economy will dampen assets. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. It was a crazy week just ahead of the election. Walk us through your roundup. Abigail yes, it was a crazy week, a wild week. Two down weeks. That is another piece of the story that the bears have been at it last part of this month. The nasdaq today not surprisingly with the text selling that you were alluding to re
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