The in. The in the evening. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top story this hour in the u. S. Elections democratic nominee joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house is now one the state of michigan giving him 264 Electoral College votes just 6 shy of the 270 required earlier biden said he was confident of securing enough states to win the presidency but the campaign has filed lawsuits to stop vote counting in michigan and pennsylvania while calling for a recount in wisconsin and its also looking to intervene in a Supreme Court case to stop pennsylvania counting votes up to 3 days after the election the count of absentee ballots continues in battleground states like pennsylvania georgia and arizona its a tight race in nevada where biden has a narrow lead with 86 percent of the votes tallied so far. And this is how those results look on the map with wisconsin and michigan now in this state still in play are here in yellow georgia North Carolina nevada and penns
Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
Traffic on this wednesday morning. Good morning. We are starting to see the slowest spot forming for that typical traffic pattern as you work into the pass. Things starting to get a little sluggish there. If are you getting ready to head out the door and plan to take 580 you will have a pocket of slowing between the 580, 205 connector. We are seeing speeds dipping down to about 19 miles an hour there with a 32 minute drive time from 205 toward 680. Also chp still working on a trouble spot. You have a big rig blocking the high street onramp to northbound 880. Firefighters in Southern California struggling to contain the silverado fire. One of two explosive wind whipped wildfires in Orange County that forced the evacuation of almost 70,000 homes and badly injured two crew members. This is new video of flames around lake forest. The fire and the blue ridge fires have grown to almost 30,000 acres combined in less than 48 hours. At last word silverado was only 5 contained. Some different nu
What a top. Its not a pretty picture. Avert your eyes. Lets take a live look at the latest numbers right now in the stock market. The dow down almost 800 points right now. It has been down all day long. Big sell off on wall streeto start off wednesday and thats after dropping over the past two sessions. A new surge of coronavirus cases being reported worldwide. German officials announced an agreement for a four week partial shut down closing restaurants, bars and theaters. Not good for the economy. France is also preparing to tighten its controls. Their president is planning a National Address thisevening. The United States just recorded its worst week for new cases since the pandemic started. More than a half million numbers are rising in 43 states, roughly a third of all new cases are coming from the midwest. A member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force Said that the numbers arent just up because of more testing. Even though testing is up. This is a real increase in cases. We k
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