Also continue the count in the handful of states with more results to to be announced in the coming hours. Plus a 2nd coronavirus knockdown in line with other European Countries has come into force in england. Welcome to the program its 500. 00 g. M. T. Midnight in the United States and georgia is one of several battleground states where the result of choose days president ial election remains in the balance these are live pictures now from Atlanta Georgia capital city where the vote counting continues its the extremely close race in the traditionally republican state trance initial lead has been steadily falling. Now its about 28000. 00 votes and thousands of absentee ballots are still to be counted now were expecting more data in the coming hours but what might help joe biden most of all is the remaining votes that are from atlanta and its suburbs which normally lean towards the democrats but winning georgia could be crucial for by news extended his lead in the race for the white hou
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Election. Mitt romney the last potential swing vote announces his support as the nation honors the groundbreaking justice. Air scare. Vice president pences plane, air force two, forced to land after a bird strike. The details this morning. Crossing the aisle. Cindy mccain, the widow of senator john mccain, announces shes endorsing joe biden. She joins us this morning. Why she says shes putting country over party. Making waves. The video of this 6monthold waterskiing baby with his dad beside him getting backlash online. Our exclusive interview with his parents, how they are responding this morning. And icy expedition. Two explorers surviving this chilling climb in the north pole when they were suddenly flipped into the freezing waters. How they narrowly escaped the frigid fright of their lives. Good morning, america. Its good to be with you, and of course, its great to be with george and robin. And i know thats something they will never see happen to any of us. An iceberg . Mmhmm. Why g
Ravaged the country. Dozens of wildfires continue to ban through forests and towns along the u. S. West coast destroying hundreds of heart. Breaking news from jordan fast where a large explosion has rocked the outskirts of the capital it happened in the zaka governorate about 30 kilometers northeast of amman there are reports the blast happened at a munitions storage depor or thirtys are working to put out the resulting fire that the cause of the extent of the damage is not yet and will will be speaking live child correspondent in amman in just a few moments. Well now to our other top story 9 people have now been killed and at least 300 injured in protest against the death of a man in Police Custody in Colombia Riot Police fought with demonstrators who set fire to Police Stations in the capital bogota the anger has been driven by a video showing 43 year old boy or dollars being repeatedly shot by officers with a taser stun gun he later died in Police Custody police say hed broken coron
West coast. And disneys new film rely on faces calls for a boycott and control the sea over links to. As its released in mainland china. India and china have reached an agreement on deescalation tensions along their disputed border nearly 3 months after the biggest a military confrontation between the 2 sides in the last 45 years Foreign Ministers from both countries have been holding talks in moscow the 5 point plan is centered around honoring existing border agreements 20 indian troops were killed in hand to hand combat in june in the border area of the northern the dak region which china also claims both sides are prohibited from using arms there under a treaty well for more on this lets speak to my whole crew woman hes the Deputy Director and senior associate for south asia at the Wilson Center is asia program he joins us now from washington d. C. Michael we knew these talks were happening did the extend of todays deal come as a surprise to you i think theres actually no timeline f