News. Just 90 minutes ago, the president announced the united arab emirates, uae and israel, will establish diplomatic ties. Uae is only the third nation to recognize israels existence. It will be known as the abraham accord, and id like to ask our ambassador, david freedman, to please explain why were doing and calling it the abraham accord. Abraham, as many of you know, was the father of all three great faiths. I wanted it to be called the donald j. Trump accord but didnt think the press would understand it. Well have more details on what this accord means ahead in a few moments. Were going to begin with the struggle against the pandemic and a sign of hope for the economy as new weekly jobless claims fell below 1 million for the First Time Since the beginning of the pandemic in march. However, the unemployment numbers have piled up. We are now up to 15. 5 million continuing claims. And judging by the sevenday passenger of virus fatalities, were seeing some of the deadliest days since