To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are being tallied. In other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation intentions ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit province following in attack on a military base. Welcome to the program 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 now really won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the western georgia and North Carolina in the south and up there in the northeast as pennsylvania powers lot of legal action in several states over the votes still being counted well lets look at Georgia State stream really close race there doldrums initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from
Nowhere the World Health Organization remdesivir, its all right but were not really keen on calling a Silver Bullet with dealing with the coronavirus, that is the kind of thing that can happen out of the blue sobered not pulling the possibilities, were seen things happen in the approval process and the push across more states even though led by republican gogetters to demand constituents residents wear masks no matter where they are. Some states pushing for this indoors, we have all of that going on and how doctors themselves are guiding people. We will talk to a very smart ones over the next two hours on what we have to do as a nation over the next few days and ahead of thanksgiving next week, lets get the read from David Lee Miller on pfizer and biotech in this emergency approval that they want granted to go ahead and pounce on the vaccine that they find to be very promising and addressing, 19 head on. Reporter americans can start receiving a virus vaccine as early december, that acc
Continues to make baseless allegations of widespread fraud in states like pennsylvania which officials flatly reject. What the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on knowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. And on resolved election a nation on edge 3 days after one of americas most divisive president ial votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump in battleground states which will decide the outcome. So far biden is projected to have 1264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 the magic number required is 270 by the needs to win in only one of those undecided states to get him over the finish line lets start with pennsylvania where biden is ahead of trump by just over 19 and a half 1000 votes the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from democratic leaning cities like philadelphia and pittsburgh biden is also leading in georgia by nearly 4000. 00 votes in an unusually tight
Francine we will have plenty more on that throughout the day. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika no murder charges in the Fatal Shooting of breonna taylor. A kentucky grand jury chose not to file the indictments against any of the Police Officers involved. A single officer was charged with wanton endangerment for firing into neighboring apartments. The decision has sparked outrage and renewed violence. At least two Police Officers have been shot. President trump says the Supreme Court will likely have to decide the outcome of the november election. Hes arguing he needs to confirm a new justice to replace ruth bader ginsburg. Hes casting doubt on the validity of the election, reiterating his criticism of mailin voting. Idea of challenging the virus is gaining. The study speeding up research but raises ethical questions about exposing people to a potentially fatal virus. Global news 24 hours a day, on air and at bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalist