Count votes. This projected that President Trump has won alaska and their electoral votes. In georgia the secretary of state is calling for a hand count of votes. I know the secretary of state there under tremendous amount of pressure right now. Staggering amounts of pressure. And from his own party. He is a republican. He says there has been nothing wrong or suspicious with the ballot count but he is under pressure to step down. Video here of the vote count that continues in georgia where the race between biden and trump is still too close to call. The state has 16 electoral votes. Even if President Trump won the state, he would not have won the president ial election. He is just too far behind which is why we and every other major News Organization have called the race for biden. Even if President Trump won all of the states that have not finished their counting, he would not reach the constitutionally mandated 270 electoral votes. There is no mathematical way for him to win with the
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt. Deirdre is with us for the hour. Nasdaq is trying to come back after a couple of days of losses as we turn our attention once again to covid levels in the United States. Were going to start the hour, though, with alibaba, a big drop for the stock despite these new sales records on this singles day. Hi, eunice hey, carl live streamers in china are wrapping up whats been a very long day pitching to Chinese Consumers and it seems as though the efforts have paid off. For alibaba, the value of the orders that crossed the site have just come in at just shy of a 500 billion, about 75 billion u. S. Dollars these numbers cap an extended 11day campaign thats a little different this time around not the usual 24hour singles day shopping extravaganza. There were some interesting trends that we saw that were generally pandemic related, where consumers were looking to buy goods that they probably would be buying if th
Honoring the brave men and women who served our country in the armed forces, President Trump becoming the First American president to attend new york citys veterans day parade. How the white house and businesses across the country are working to give back to our nations heroes. Anger and rage on the streets of hong kong. A prodemocracy protester shot at close range by police. A counterprotester was set on fire. The latest response what is an escalating crisis. The force is officially entering the streaming wars. What you need to know ahead of the launch of disney plus which comes our way tomorrow. Melissa Jackie Deangelis on the floor. New york stock exchange, blake burman at white house and greg palkot in london. Susan li is in the newsroom. Wow, that is lot of firepower. Well start with jackie. Appears another record for the dow jones, finishing up 12,693. Dow started out in the red this morning but a turnaround from boeing definitely helped. Shares up almost 5 during the session tod
Veterans issues and how lawmakers are working to improve Veterans Affairs programs. The event was hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I amng toi skip a set of am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. Let me begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recently a district that runs recently elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange Coun
Happy wednesday everybody president bidens interview with the Weather Channel aired today. I know. The forecast was partly senile with a chance of precipitation in his pants. The only things cloudy were joes memories especially when it came to phone calls with hunters Business Associates. The one thing he didnt forget, how to touch someone without their permission. Are you prepared to declare a National Emergency with respect to Climate Change . I have already done that. It is the existential threat to humanity. You have already declared that National Emergency. Yeah. Thanks, appreciate it. That is the first time any woman said appreciate it after Making Contact with joe. If he is really concerned about the climate you know what he should have done. He should have eaten the bug. The tasty but tiny carbon footprint. It is cute. It reminds me how joe is always brushing the cocaine off of hunters lapels. And also how he was raised in a town called claymont, delaware. I was raised in a tow