Allege irregularities. His supporters are continuing to protest outside Voting Centers as well but elsewhere its a very different mood celebrations already broken out not dissipate the final results. Well joe biden is edging closer that crucial number 270 Electoral College votes thats whats needed to make him the next president of the United States in the past 12 hours the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 states pennsylvania and georgia so this is the state of play at the moment just a handful of states still being counted biden is leading in most of them based on projections from the Associated Press he secured 264 votes so far donald trump has just 214 Electoral College votes and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach 270 in georgia its still very close most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which leans towards the democrats which have helped joe biden get ahead but it is still by a slim margin well that might secure him georgias covete
Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tied to and in other news the u. N. Calls for i mean media deescalation intentions that ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit region following at an auction on a military base the way. To. So democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes ron donald trump has 214 hour remember the magic number to become president is to 70 here in yellow youll see the states still in play nevada in the west and georgia and North Carolina in the south and up here pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states to stop votes being counted. Lets look at georgia firsts an extremely close race ted Donald Trumps initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from atl
Im tom hanson in for annemarie green. A very happy thanksgiving to you and your family. Despite urgings by Health Officials for americans to stay home, people are still traveling for todays holiday, even as coronavirus cases continue to surge. Yesterday there were more than 181,000 cases in the u. S. There were also nearly 2300 deaths, the most since early may. It was a recordbreaking day in california, which recorded more than 18,000 new cases. Thats the largest single day increase for any state since the pandemic started. If you plan to watch the iconic thanksgiving day parade here in new york city, it is going to look a bit different. You guessed it thanks to the pandemic. Naomi ruchim is along the parade route with more. Naomi, good morning. Reporter hey, tom, good morning to you. Thats right, the parade route is much shorter this year. In fact, it is only about a block long, starting and ending right here in front of macys. The balloons, though, they will still fly as organizers h
Be seen preparing inside a counting center as Trump Supporters gathered outside a white house crossed one can be held at has more from washington d. C. Some networks here in the United States are still saying that this state of arizona is too close to call so this is encouraging for the president he has insisted and in fact hes been working the phones all day we understand as of wednesday he has no Public Events on his schedule for thursday or e suspect he will continue to do this hes launched a spate of lawsuits and even now i am resigning as well as another potential one of the state of the list is he continues to focus on winning. John mica fairly has been sworn in as times it is president off he won a 2nd term in last weeks elections make you feel it was declared the winner by the Election Commission with 84 percent of the vote opposition parties however are alleging widespread from florida. Fi United Nations is an end to fight scene between ethiopia Central Government and local fo
Good bye sean. This week in a screeching u. Turn and in an apparently chaotic manner the johnson government announced a new month Long National lockdown in england starting today but this is a lockdown with a difference schools universities and key workplaces remain open hospitality house parties and holidays are forbidden elsewhere across these islands things are different wills is already a week into a much stricter to be close time while Northern Ireland is half way through month long restrictionists scotland this week saw the introduction of a 5 regionally based system today we asked to Public Health experts whether these measures contain the virus across the u. K. While the world awaits a vaccine professor harvey burns a former chief medical officer of scotland is a new president of the British Medical Association he is in a unique position to assess and assesses whether the virus can be brought back under control through these tight or Public Health restrictions dr coming out of