Administration it will be, i guess time will tell. The latest on trumps legal challenges to the election and how the delay in the transition is leaving president elect biden in the dark on critical issues. Deadline approaching. Federal relief set to run out for millions of americans struggling to make ends meet. With covid cases growing as well as lines at food banks lawmakers at an apparent stalemate. Can they resolve their sticking points . And set for launch. Ignition, liftoff. The new liftoff date for a Historic Mission and the final preps under way for nasa and spacex. The two astronauts ready to make history and crew1s nod to a challenging year as they get ready to rocket into space. Hey, good morning, everybody, happy saturday. Were going to start here with the surging coronavirus pandemic. America has just shattered the daily record again with more than 193,000 new cases reported in just 24 hours. Several state and local officials announcing new lockdowns, pauses, freezes and o
Hearing. Shana broussard, sean cooksey and Alan Dickerson are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections commission, as our witnesses are joining us remotely, i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, is significant president ial nomination and significant to the work of this committee and i know youre proud, your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about the nominees and then ill turn to another Committee Member senator cruz to talk about the third nominee, Alan Dickerson is not the nominee to be a member of the federal Election Commission for a term expiring on april the 30th 2025 and he has been practicing law for 20 years primarily in the areas of First Amendment and campaignfinance since 2011 mr. Dickerson has been the legal director of the institute for free speech, a Nonprofit Organization that litigates First Amendment an
It says traffic break heading southbound 880 to alvarado heading down through union city into fremont. That break, chp says just cleared. No major problems there. We do have the backup at the toll plaza. No surprises but its waiting for you, marcus. Laura . Thanks so much. Its 6 01. Those polls already open in other u. S. Time zones and were waiting at the top of the hour. Lets bring in tracie potts in delaware. I think its safe to say finally arrived, all eyes on the president ial race. Reporter absolutely. Its going to be a busy day, marcus and laura. We are tracking the polls as they open here on the east coast and tracking the votes including the millions of early votes and today we are tracking the candidates. Lets take a look at the president who has been out talking this morning. Last night he was wrapping things up at a final rally in michigan, a state he narrowly won four years ago. The president claiming that he will easily win michigan this time around. It was one of five st
Richmond city hall on october 12th. After the online tracking system showed their ballots were not received, many of them reached out to local election officials, trigger an investigation. We have identified about 40 people who said they dropped their ballot off that day, and we have not yet received it. We have called and emailed each one of them. Many of them most of them actually weve already reissued them a second ballot so they can have the opportunity to vote. The assistant registrar of voters says its possible there are more missing ballots. However, he says 84 other ballots dropped off at that same ballot box in richmond the same day were received. He says it does not appear the box was tampered with. Instead they suspect its a handling error. Today several concerned voters who had planned to use the Richmond City hall drop box drove their ballots to the registrar of Voters Office in martinez instead. Lets get to the campaign trail. Tonight the focus is florida. President trump
Watching to washington dc people pouring into the streets saturday to celebrate the victory of now president elect joe biden but now its time for the Incoming Administration to begin the hard work of dealing with a wide range of issues theyll be inheriting. From a surging pandemic to a fragile economy and a nation demanding racial justice. Its not going to be easy. Good morning. Everybody, thank you for joining us. It is sunday november 8th im Marty Gonzales will begin this morning with a look at how the new administration celebrated its historic win and what comes next, alexander le mon is live in wilmington delaware with that part of our coverage this morning. Hi alexandra. Good morning and it was a big celebration here at the chase center last night a celebration that president elect joe biden supporters waited for 4 days, but that fight and waited for for 32 years biden first ran for president in 1988. Joe biden addressed his supporters for the first time as the president elect of