Vice President Biden is just six electoral votes away from the white house. Bloomberg chief washington correspondent Kevin Cirilli joins us for more. What is the vote count . What do we get over the next couple of hours . Kevin joe biden is just six electoral votes away from reaching the magic number of 270 electoral votes, which would put him at the threshold for the presidency. Within the next 30 minutes, georgias secretary of state is going to give a News Conference, and which they are going to provide an update on what is going on in the battleground state of georgia. 15 electoral votes, that would put him over it he is able to beat trump in georgia. In the noon hour, we are going to get an update from clark county, nevada, where the over and willing the overwhelming majority of electoral votes are cast in that state. This evening, not a clock eastern time, arizona, Maricopa County is going to provide an update. In terms of the dataflow on the president ial election front, we will
Russian vaccine. Yeah. Which i guess is, i dont know i dont know are you going to take a russian vaccine . Thats about now, were really talking about a tremendous leap of faith a russian vaccine which i think theyve dubbed did chernobyl ii. Im going to pass. Is that a hard pass yeah, hard pass chernobyl its been approved even though its had trials. Easy come, easy go. Remember, they spent a fortune on the trial and a couple people died i dont think thats the russian way. Nor do i think when 28 people died in world war ii did necessarily everybody come to a fight with a machine gun fight and they have very little fear and its demonstrated in certain trials, really well, listen, we can hope theres great science there and there is something well, they used to have great science. And plenty of scientists, no doubt. And rockets they stole a Hydrogen Bomb from the rosenbergs, they can do that. Lets read what putin had to say, as far as i know a vaccine against a new coronavirus has been regi
With civil Rights Groups today to address the growing boycott the organizers of stop hate for profit calling the meeting a disappointment saying that Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg are not ready to address the hate on that platform and did not respond to demands of dozens of its largest advertisers the ncaa color of change, Antidefamation League and free press saying Mark Zuckerberg did not offer any tangible plans on how facebook will address the rampant discrimination and violent conspiracies on their platform the meeting that we just left was a disappointment facebook has had our demands in multiple ways and they showed up to the meeting expect an a for atte attending. Attending alone is not enough. Civil Rights Groups saying facebook did not address their list of demands, saying zuckerberg offered no automatic recourse for advertisers whose consent runs alongside hateful posts. They did not address why facebook recommends hateful groups and didnt address rampant disinformation
Joe, the big story is oil prices once again im ready to move out past june move out where . June is too close if we are not going to open anything up, no reason to think it will be anything different than minus 38 a barrel it is related to the price of gold and the price of a suit, so i should have been buying andrew, you are spending 10 times what you are on a suit with those hugo boss things. Which none of them have belt loops for 4,000, you could get a couple of belt loops no hugo boss. It is ralph. Ralph who oil prices, it is not funny. This is out of the realm of anything weve ever seen brent crude only a 20year low you look at wti or what may was before the contract rolls. It is incredible supply shortage spiked overseas. The u. S. Movement, wtis june contract the price giving up earlier gains. Up 11 see, im ready to move to september. August at some point what does this mean for the saudis youve had your picture taken there on a sand dune youve got a feel. They should have done
Top stories, you 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Today, tensions hitting new highs, 1400 israelis are dead, 4700 palestinians are dead as the war in israel enters day 17, hamas releasing two american hostages and they say theyll release two more but israel says the terrorist group is holding more people than previously thought. We understand you now it is 222 hostages. Meanwhile, Chinese State media says the Naval Command has been deployed to the middle east. As for President Biden, hes back on the beach, everything you need to know all morning long. Markets this morning are selling off this morning, take a look at futures, a triple digit decline ahead of a major week of earnings and economic data, dow jones down 211, nasdaq down 121, s p 500 lower by 30. We are waiting on the first read of Third Quarter gdp out on thursday, the september pce index out on friday. Earnings will drive the action ahead of all of that. Investors still closely watching the bond market and spiking Interest Rat