I would also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today, david blight. One of our panelists. Opportunity tois say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at New York Historical. I want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin, who are cochairs of our Frederick Douglass counsel. Of course, welcome all members who have joined up today. Who have joined up today. [applause] and i want to recognize a if not, my colleagues are going up and down the aisles with notecards and pencils. The notecards will be collected later on in the program. There will be a book signing following the program this morning. The book signing will take place right outside these central doors in the smith gallery. Copies of the books are available for purchase at our ny History Museum store, which is located to my left on the 77th street side. We are really, truly delighted to welcome our guest speakers. David blight, professor of American History and director of th
That. Need while Trump Supporters protested the vote count as his campaign mounts legal challenges in several crucial swing states. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program votes are still being counted in several key swing states in a tense u. S. Election at this hour democratic challenger joe biden is leading the quest to secure 270 Electoral College votes that would take him to the white house now the Associated Press agency says that biden has taken arizona it puts him had 264 votes although other News Agencies have yet to call it as Donald Trumps potential path to get back to the white house narrows his thinking fraud and has launched legal action in 3 states to have the vote count stopped. Frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and t. Trump protesters demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In portland a sign that many here have had enough of u. S. Politics all together. But in phoenix arizona pro Trump Supporters make th
Changes ahead of its big hong kong listing. New controversy for one of wall streets most powerful Investment Banks this time over Sexual Misconduct allegations. And then ditching sin city, yes, ditching it, one of the biggest casino operators in the world on a plan that would focus the company entirely on mccaw and singapore. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc on tuesday, october 27th, 2020. Viva las vegas good morning im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan today. Lets begin with stock futures right now showing relative stability after big losses yesterday. You can see here the s p implied higher by just about seven points the dow implied higher by 37 and the nasdaq by 36 not large gains by any measure implied. However, after yesterdays losses they could be viewed as somewhat stable. A closer look at the dow futures over the past 12 hours were well off our session highs as you can see here and just a hair below the lows of the level we saw in the overnight session as yo
A quick recovery have been dashed the country now faces the worst economic and humanitarian crisis in a decade and critics question the political will to stamp out rampant corruption and human rights abuses my guest this week is involve ways minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade see both these 2 more you as a former army chief he was also the face of the military coup that propelled him nongod what took power will zimbabwe ever be able to see genuine political and economic reform. Foreign ministers see both you so much oil welcome to conflict zone thank you. You were the face of the military overthrow of Robert Mugabe back in 2017 as a commander you got on television in your uniform to assure the public of a stable transition back then you were the heroes of the hour now you have an economy close to collapse with fuel food electricity shortages where is the hope in zimbabwe right now. World thank you very much sarah yes the change in 2017 and the advent of the current gov
Tonight, the air quality in the bay area night yet great but dramatically better than the past few days. You can see just how much clearer was in sausalito today we have been living in some of the most unhealthy air on earth over the past week but people are slowly getting back outside as we start to see and to smell a difference in the air. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with details yeah guys finally getting those winds to start to clear things out still got some haze in the atmosphere and you can boy needs shot from the Berkeley Hills here lot going on to get some haze out there from some of the smoke some high clouds all some patchy fog. Begin to move in along the coastline. But certainly the air quality much better around the bay area today looking out toward the Golden Gate Bridge you can see it again we have some thick fog moving a little early on but that will be back again pushing into the bay and certainly overnight tonight kind of filling in around the bay a