Administrations refusal to aid his transition and the impact it could have as the nation battles the pandemic. Breaking overnight, catastrophic. Hurricane iota tears across nicaragua as a powerful category 4, ripping roofs off buildings, toppling trees and causing widespread flooding. Just ahead, the damage and where this dangerous storm is headed next. Home away from home. Dragon spacex, capture confirmed. Overnight four astronauts arrive safely for their sixmonth stay on the International Space station, leading to cheers on the ground welcome to the iss. And hugs high above. All that, plus big demand for small turkeys. The holiday dilemma facing millions of families downsizing their gatherings this year. And rokers recovery. Al joins us live for the First Time Since his cancer surgery with some very good news to share. Today, tuesday, november 17th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, guys, w
1000000 books welcome to the program there is still no winner in the u. S. Election but there are some encouraging signs for democratic challenger joe biden the former Vice President has picked up wins in some closely fought states President Trump meanwhile is facing an increasingly difficult path to re election hes launched legal challenges aimed to stop the vote counting in several tight races a call echoed by his supporters. In arizona a crowd of trump fans gathered to protest the ongoing vote count there that race is neck and neck though several news outlets have reported joe biden has flipped this battleground state trump has made unfounded allegations of voter fraud and on wednesday accused democrats of trying to steal the election. So lets have a look now at where we are in this election our figures are showing that biden currently has an edge 264. 00 electoral votes to president Donald Trumps 214. 00 which puts joe biden just 6 f electoral votes shy of the magic 270 he would ne
Tech and bond trades play out. Lets dig a little deeper into the virus story in the u. S. U. S. Infectious disease official Anthony Fauci says it wont be a pandemic a lot longer because of vaccine progress. Joining us now with more is bloomberg Senior Editor drew armstrong. We all want to have the monday where we were very happy about the Pfizer Biontech results. What if the state of play in the u. S. . Drew the state of play in the u. S. Is brutal. We are sitting case records because of uncontrolled spread in huge amounts of the u. S. Hospitalizations are higher than they have been at any point during the pandemic. During thet pandemic. Depend on who you ask, 1500 sorry, 1506 to two deaths in the u. S. Yesterday, a number we havent seen since the early days of the pandemic. Numberout every single or way you look at this that you can is going in the wrong direction right now, and newman the hospitalizations and knowing that hospitalizations after that, it is going to be a grizzly pictu
Rules musicians around the country posted silent protest videos against germanys new partial lockdown on monday night that included the hamburg philharmonic and conductor cant not going to war this week germanys shut down concert halls theatres museums and cinemas to have least the end of the month while allowing Retail Stores and other businesses to stay up and running. In the jungles of southern mexico the luck and dont people are one of the countrys most isolated indigenous groups without contact to the outside world they preserved their interest mayan culture for centuries and recent years thats starting to change and one of the outsiders theyve let in is austrian photographer martine i know mine hes been visiting them for over a decade now documenting their traditions before they disappear. Tempos of the maya a lost civilization the practiced astronomy and mathematics phone time was sacred and made him an sacrifices tribute to the gods. Martin engelman travel to Central America fo
And we lead the program with the latest development in the treatment of copa 19 in the u. S. Food and Drug Administration on monday authorized emergency use of eli lillys experiment mental antibody treatment. Thats balm let me be mocked the f. D. A. Said the emergency use authorization was given based on Clinical Trials showing the drug reduced the need for hospitalization or emergency room visits and high risk tobit 1000 patients now the regulator added that it can be used now for treating patients over the age of 12 with mild to moderate symptoms but cannot be used for patients who have been hospitalized due to cope at 19 lilly is hoping to supply as many as 1000000 doses of the treatment in the 4th quarter of this year now the u. S. Government previously made an agreement with the drug maker for the early supply of the medication on the news lately stock was up as much as 4 percent throughout the day. And following the news that pfizer bio and texaco but 1000 vaccine candidate showe