The sun coming up 6 00 a. M. Its wednesday, august 28th. And we have a lot to get to this morning. Including special counsel jack smith trying to salvage the federal Election Interference case against donald trump. Filing a formal indictment against the former president. Were going to bring you excellent analysis in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump now says that he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign still needs to be resolved. And well have more details about that the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. That comes as israel launches a broad operation in the west bank with raids and air strikes in that territory. Im Jonathan Lemire along with u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news katty kay in this morning for joe, mika and willie. Well be joined by Symone Sanderstownsend, and mike barnicle, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, you just saw her on way too early, ali vitali. Lo
Crimes. The gun violence archive finds that there have been nearly 300 Mass Shootings, meaning at least four people shot at once, since this year began. Cnn chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins is with us now. So give us a look at what we expect to hear from the president. Reporter i think, number one, the fact that were hearing from President Biden taking the entire day at the white house to focus on this publicly shows that the white house is wanting to look like President Biden is on top of this, that he is taking steps to address the spike in Violent Crime that youve seen happening in several cities across the u. S. So thats why hes sitting down with the attorney general, with those Law Enforcement agencies and mayors to talk about this. Whats important, though, is what were going to hear from President Biden is he is viewing all of this through the lens of gun violence. That is primarily going to be his focus when he comes out a few moments from now to address this. One
As timing who gets it and when, that is all still to be decided. There is a bit of a protocal for this. Well get into that with a prominent doctor as well. The left and right view on this battle, but first to blake burman on this latest news and this efficacy rate which was higher than both companies originally said, right . Reporter exactly, neil. We knew this Pfizer Vaccine candidate was effective. Pfizer though reiterating that today, in fact raising the effective rate on their covid19 vaccine candidate but just as important pfizer today also reported that they believe their vaccine candidate is safe which is why they say they are going to be applying for the eua. That is the emergency use authorization that the fda gives out. They will apply for that in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said earlier today as part of their news release they put out this morning. To date the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine
Im filled to hell welcome to the program joe biden is edging closer to the white house as final votes are still being counted 3 days after the u. S. Election the democratic challenger has extended his late in the key state of pennsylvania in the last hour President Trump has insisted that he will press ahead with his legal challenges and says he will never stop fighting so lets take a look at the picture so far joe biden has 264. 00 an actual College Votes donald trump has 214. 00 according to the a. P. News agency biden leads by more than 13000. 00 votes in pennsylvania around 98 percent of the vote has now been counted now thats worth 20 electoral College Votes and is the biggest prize still up for grabs. On to georgia with its 16 electoral votes biden has pulled ahead of trump here with most ballots now counted joe biden has a lead of just over 1500 votes but with such a slim margin a recount is expected the race is also tightening in North Carolina where donald trump has a lead of
An old etonian of course cant be expected to have the same experience ahead of another National Lockdown is class war being waged in our name we speak to labor panel griffiths of the report about old Etonian Boris johnsons ability to protect the most vulnerable in our society and will the 2nd lockdown kill off the multibillion pound culture industry in britain we speak to enter shikari 0 reynolds about why he has written to u. K. Johnson the ritchie son at about saving the arts almost more coming up in todays going underground but 1st while the United States comes to terms with election 2020 nato partner britain is facing a Coronavirus Crisis england is on the eve of a National Lockdown with the threat of a new me konami depression spiraling homelessness and suicide rates and children going hungry you gave him Boris Johnson has refused to extend a Free School Meals program to over a 1000000 children which has sparked outrage across the political spectrum joining me now from london is l