To hold the nations second highest office. Their remarks will set the tone for how they will lead this divided country after four years of political turmoil, eight months of a deadly pandemic, and over four days of suspense as we all waited to learn how this election would end. Lets go straut to our correspondents in wilmington, delaware. What do we expect tonight . Reporter well, wolf, when joe biden addresses the nation for the first time as president elect his speech will be one focusing on unity. His advisers say that it draws from some of the major final speeches of his campaign. One that he delivered in gettysburg as well as warm springs, georgia. And this speech has been written for sometime but they have made adjustments for it as the week has progressed. Ultimately, hell talk about the need to come together and how he will be a president for all americans. Now, joe biden spent the majority of today at home with his family taking in this moment that they have worked for togethe
I feel hopeful today, relieved. I feel like healing is coming. I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in our history. I want to instill Public Confidence that the vaccine is safe. Were in a pandemic, and so we all need to do our parts. How about that . And the virus has tightened its grip on this country. Indeed the outgoing president ignored the crisis again today while keeping up his campaign to deny his defeat at the ballot box and overturn the election. Today the Electoral College cemented joe bidens victory after weeks of legal challenges that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The effort was focused on six battleground states that have now all affirmed the will of the voters. The electors of the commonwealth of pennsylvania have cast 20 votes for the honorable joseph r. Biden for president of the United States. The electors have unanimously cast 16 votes for joseph r. Biden. Madam secretary, we have 16 votes for joseph r. Biden for president. Wiscon
His onetime rival Pete Buttigieg to lead the department of transportation which, by the way, has been coordinating with operation warp speed for Vaccine Distribution. One thing the d. O. T. Cant control, though, the weather. In a twist that is so 2020, theres now a noreaster threatening to snarl vaccine deliveries in our country by dropping up to two feet of snow. More on that in a moment. First, these are the facts on the pandemic. This morning the New York Times reports the Trump Administration is negotiating a deal to help pfizer produce tens of millions of more doses of his its vaccine. Thats noteworthy considering the government turned down an order to secure more doses back in november. A new way to fight the pandemic from your own home. The fda just gave emergency use authorization to the first overthecounter at home covid test. No sending samples to the lab. Results in as little as 20 minutes. Even with positive news like that, this sobering warning from the cdc which now proje
Washington as the curfew is just being lifted. Griff . Griff ainsley, brian and steve good morning to you. Things are quiet here now. Not only is the curfew being lifted, let me just show you quickly a scene we have here at the corner of the west front of the capitol. That is the railing, the barriers that were out here yesterday, because of the chaos, and the protrump protesters that came town here being taken away, put on that flatbed and driven away. But, boy, the scenes we saw yesterday and witnessed are among the darkest in the nations history here at the peoples house. You had the protesters scaling walls. You had them breaking windows. Using the very barriers we were showing you to attack the Capital Police. The day left four dead including 14 Year Air Force veteran shot by the police. Dozendozens were injured and tao hospitals. 14 Police Officers were hurt. Two hospitalized, more than 50 have been arrested it. All started shortly after the president finished that speech on the
Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and Vice President of the United States. Each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2021. So even after the president sent the mob, the insurrecti insurrectionists to take over the capitol, there were republican members of congress who voted to overturn the result of the election. U. S. Senator who s who voted to overturn the results of the election. Look at all of this . Look at the results of those votes, those actions, and the president s words. And we should note that because of all of this, because of what the president said, because of what these people did, four people, four people are dead today after all of this. Look at their faces, john. Look at the faces and the sounds and the actions of the people wearing the maga hats, of the people that the senators wanted to align themselves with. These are the americans that they decided to align themselves with yesterday. Moments after presid