Move joe bidens transition to the white house can now begin until now hes been doing it without the support of the federal office thats tasked with overseeing the transfer of power. Well, more than 2 weeks after his victory speech, the head of the General Services administration is filing told the president elects that the transition can formally begin. It means bidens new administration can meet with federal officials to work on the Pandemic Response and National Security. Will trump took to twitter to announce that he is ready for the transition . He wrote, she wants to thank emily murphy at the g. S. A. For his steadfast dedication and loyalty to a country he went on to say shes been harassed and threatened that he doesnt want this for her or her family or anyone at the g. S. A. He went on to say that case, strongly continues wanting to keep up the good fight and believing that he will prevail, nevertheless, that he is recommending emily and her team do what needs to be done with re
Being closely watched as the clock ticks down on the ballot count clicks up before we go any further lets go to come out has the latest on the numbers come up thank you adrian yes so 300 hours g. M. T. It is now which means 10 pm on the u. S. East coast and these are the polls that are closing at this hour 4 of them for you montana nevada utah and iowa im not going to go through any projections just now because we dont have any at the moment too early to call in all 4 of those states the one swing state will be keeping an eye on is iowa in the midwest so with that in mind its a good chance just to step back and have a look at some of our swing states as well so lets start in ohio with nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting donald trump is edging further and further away from joe biden his latest 130000 out of 4. 4 almost 4400000 votes counted so its close but the gap widening for donald trump in ohio lets move on to michigan one of the important ones that donald trump picked up. 4 ye
You through so lets get into it louisiana 8 Electoral College votes to dont drop again a lot of these are going to be fairly predictable ones ones like north dakota which is going to go the way of donald trump only a small state there with 3 Electoral College votes we look at nebraska next to rick. It is nebraska now just going to polls on this for a 2nd 3 Electoral College votes for donald trump there are 5 on offer in nebraska i think you may remember early i mention that nebraska and maine split their Electoral College votes so if this point we can say there are 3 for donald trump he is the projected winner in those 3 districts 2 other ones which could be picked up by have a candidate. Lets move on again in vienna or wyoming no its wyoming 1st of all with its 3 Electoral College votes in indiana as well excuse me indiana is the next one with 11 Electoral College votes and the state of nevada as well now this is when we start looking at some blue states the state of too early to coal
With france reporting record infection rates as germany curfews go into effect in berlin and frankfort. President trump is back on the campaign trail after announcing he has fully recovered from covid, claiming he is now new. Well get rid of it all over the world. You see big flareups in europe, big flareup in canada, very big flareup in canada you saw that today a lot of flareups, but its going to disappear congressional lawmakers have rejected a white house proposal for a new 1. 8 trillion Coronavirus Relief package, as talks to reach a fresh stimulus deal before the november election remain at an impasse. The Trump Administrations plan would include aid for state and local governments and Liability Protection for business, along with 20 billion in support for the struggling airline sector. Senate republicans, though, oppose the plan in a weekend call with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and white house chief of staff, mark memeadows, saying they were not pleased with the high cost
The highest number of coronavirus deaths in 4 months in the u. K. Also warns of curves. And we begin with breaking news from the United States where a Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg has died of complications from pancreatic cancer the 87 year old had been a champion of womens rights and the leader of the courts liberal wing her death gives President Trumpet chance to dramatically expand the courts conservative majority at a time when america is deeply divided and the president ial vote is just over 6 weeks away heidi jocasta begins our coverage with a look back at Ruth Bader Ginsburgs life and legacy. Physically Ruth Bader Ginsburg was diminutive but she loomed large on the u. S. Supreme Court Ginsburg was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench warrant to jewish immigrants in Brooklyn New York in 1933 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only 9 women to enroll in Harvard University law school in 1956 later transferring