Four days of losses is about to become five. Are down 7. 5 over the previous four days. Cross assets, we look like this. A bid into the bond market briefly in treasuries. It did not stick. It was a treasury market selloff. This morning, it is about yen strength. Dollaryen coming down on 0. 3 . Again. Rude is down 0. 9 mark wheret is that you have these massive producing countries like russia and saudi starting to worry. These are very hard prices to deal with when you try to balance your books. It all comes back to demand. Everything is about demand right now. When you have france and germany going into lockdown, that does not bode well. Euroyen is striking me this morning. I feel that for the first time it is acting like a haven. It is her membrane what it is supposed to do. Jonathan a bit of yen strength. Chancellor merkel giving a wakeup call to her fellow eu leaders. They failed to act quickly stop the pandemic. For more, our western europe managing editor joins us. Walk us through
Complete repeat of the 2016 map. All the big battleground states are all in play. And one of the key ones, this could be a new state in play for 2020, is the state of arizona. Its been a longtime republican state, but right now, with 75 of the expected vote in, joe biden has a lead over donald trump. Tom llamas. Yeah, so, george, the first thing i want to show our viewers is on the early vote. We have talked so much about the early vote. But you need to talk about this number if you talk about arizona. Joe biden with a tenpoint lead in the early vote, and thats so important because if you look at his lead its by ten points an as well. Hes winning in the biggest county. Threefourths of the vote going to come from here. One of the things joe biden did here, he spent big. Went to maricopa and spent 17 million. Democrats looked at the map, saw donald trump underperformed. Kristen cinema comes in, she wins. We have to talk about tucson. Pima county. Joe biden on top. Overperforming there. W
Are trying to cast ballots that others are trying to vote twice but theres no history of that happening just to be clear entrust no voting weve been doing a very very long time and United States. Voter fraud is extremely rare in the United States the rules for mail and voting depend on where you live in the u. S. This year 9 states and washington d. C. Sent ballots to voters automatically this is what the president has railed against. In more than 30 states voters could apply for a ballot to send in by mail in these 5 states in order to vote by mail if you have to give a reason why you couldnt vote in person and the pandemic alone was not reason enough. Mail and voting can be complicated for anyone doing it for the 1st time some forget to sign the ballot others dont seal it exactly right this year around 30 states have allowed voters to curate their ballots they contacted voters letting them know there was a mistake and allow them to correct it as america gets more and more used to mai
The president s Team Planning legal challenges, all of this as the president s chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus and the u. S. Is hit with the most cases ever. Who will be the next president to handle the pandemic . And will today be the day a president ial winner is declared . America is watching and waiting, today, saturday, november 7th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. Peter and i are so happy to be joining you from new york. Typically of course we would be in d. C. , but here we are in our election headquarters as we watch and wait for results today. Thats right. We had election day that turned into election week. We welcome you to election weekend. You were in wilmington, i was at the white house. Were in new york for as long as it takes to get you results. It
But that has not stopped president from from coming out to address his supporters at the white house this has been one of the most divisive and unpredictable u. S. Elections in memory and even though trump initially trailed biden he quickly picked up Electoral College votes theres no clear winner yet we have just learned that arizona is going to joe biden lets cross over to rob reynolds in los angeles in california hes following the returns on the west coast and rob we were speaking 56 minutes ago about the importance of arizona and then moments later the flip happened tell us more. Yes and the important part is one of the important aspects is that this is a flip this is joe biden taking away a state that was won by President Trump in 2016 and its all the more remarkable because arizona has always been one of the most rock ribbed republican states in the union it is the home state of Barry Goldwater who considered the founder of the modern conservative movement although some of the dev