Heritage site to ease Traffic Congestion was consigned amongst all. Hell just and environment now ethiopias military says its making gains in the northern tikrit region where the federal government is backing Regional Forces. But the conflict is also raising fears of a humanitarian crisis. Phone lines have been cut off and transport has been halted in and out of the region. The offensive began last week off to Prime Minister ahmed, accuse the Regional Government of attacking a military base, aid agencies, a warning they contre bring much needed supplies into the region because of all this fighting. Thousands of people are already fleeing many to neighboring through dawn. In the ethiopian capital, thousands of people have been lining up to give blood for troops fighting in tigray and part of the drive to rally support for the ethiopian army. Hundreds have been reported dead on each side since the Government Military operation began including civilians who are in development for us. And
Rawlings, the military career leader who guided ghanas transition to democracy, has died. With all the sports news, the 2020 masters has teed off defending champion tiger woods, going in search of green jacket number 6, while the u. S. Has recorded its worst single day death toll from the corona virus since may. And as you were saying, Health Experts are warning the pandemic is getting worse. Nearly 2000 more americans died on wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities. Now 2241800, it was also the 9th straight day when the number of new cases topped 100000, texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases. Well, europe is also struggling to contain a rapidly spreading 2nd wave as the World Health Organization wants countries not to lift restrictions too fast. While the u. K. s reported more than 33000. 00 new cases on thursday, frances Prime Minister now says every 30 seconds, another person is being admitted to hospital for the virus. Throughout the last week,
Is and if we will continue to offer that in future election cycles. Reporter record turnout is expected. 122,000 vote by mail ballots have been collected. A steady stream of cars were at the crop box. This is more important than anything in our lifetime. In Oakland Barbara lee said every vote is cast and counted. Staying in contact about the post office to make sure theres no delays. Having Kamala Harris on the ticket is good. This is a remarkable historical moment to have a Vice President ial candidate from oakland is important. 2020 is the pivot election with a pandemic and other factors changing american politics. This election has been frahmed by the pandemic, by covid and how President Trump has conducted himself in office. This has created an election weve never seen. Theres a rise in firsttime voters, which is a big deal. You can vote in person or by mail until election day. Vote by mail ballots must and postmarked by november 3. Free bus rides on tuesday. You can take buses to
The Oakland Fire Department says two structures and a brush caught fire. Crews from hayward fire, Alameda County fire and fremont fire were all called to the scene. Eight people were displaced by the fire for people in the montclair hills have been hit by the pg e Public Safety power shutoff. Lets bring in meteorologist Rosemary Orozco as the intense winds that sparked the power shutoffs have passed. There is still a red flag warning in effect. Where do you start . The red flag warning in the far east bay hills that includes montclair and over the north bay hills. Not because it is incredibly dry out there. And still a little bit breezy. Giving you a look at the conditions you have a northeast wind that continues to keep dry conditions. We are seeing some improvement but in any event, we are looking at the red flag warning with relative humidity reporting 16 in some areas. And we are looking at this to continue until 5 00 this afternoon. More on this in the conditions you can expect co
Take it to the Supreme Court. Reporter this morning still counting votes and the potential path for victory for both candidates as we wait to see what happens next, today, wednesday, november 4th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today. We are glad youre with us on wednesday morning. We really never left. Weve been on the air all night. Lots of news to cover. We still dont know who the president is going to be and filled with uncertainty and a lot of questions. We will try to guide you through the best we know one step at a time and we will get it started. This is where it stands at this hour on the electoral map. You will see 224 electoral votes for joe biden and 213 for the president. The goal is 270 and that is what it takes to win the presidency. Keep your eye on the states in gray which are too close to call