A war crimes trial at the hague for his alleged role during the 1999 costs of all conflict the u. K. Gets a new multibillion dollar rescue package to boost its economy as a glint enters another pandemic lock down. Now were going to begin in the United States a nation on the edge almost 48 hours on the president ial race between donald trump and joe biden still remains too close to call the democratic candidate has already flipped to michigan and wisconsin donald trump has now really won those 4 years ago but biden now has a projected total of 264. 00 electoral votes trump is projected to get to 214. 00 now remember a candidate needs a minimum of 270. 00 Electoral College of. So when a few states here highlighted yellow on the map of nevada georgia pennsylvania North Carolina still in play counting is ongoing in georgia no democrat has carried this state since 1902 but drums lead there is narrowing fast what might help joe biden is that most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and i
Including arizona, florida, michigan, North Carolina, pennsylvania and wisconsin. Were tracking each candidates road to 270 electoral votes. The number, of course, needed to win the presidency. Another big story, who will control the United States senate . A handful of races will determine that question. Were watching them all. So polls have just close in the six states with 60 electoral votes. Lets get right to it. You see right now, georgia is too early to call. Lets go to South Carolina. There is a Big Senate Race as well as the president ial. Too early to call. Were waiting for the vote there. And the president will easily carry indiana, the home state of Vice President mike pence. And lets look at virginia. It is too early to call. However, our projection is that it is a biden lead at this hour. Lets look at kentucky. Right now, too early to call. You see the first numbers were getting of the night. Vermont is too early to call. And lets look at how all this takes us on the road t
Count the votes that came in late we look at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late ive already decisively won many critical stage yes democratic president ial candidate joe biden has been calling for calm as a final votes for him choose days election continue to be counted is closing the gap on donald trump in pennsylvania and georgia and says he is confident of becoming the next president each ballot must be counted. And thats what were going to see going through now and thats how it should be democracy is sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years the system of government governance has been the envy of the world. And we continue to feel sad and i will continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is finished senator harris and i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working. The U
Author of fighting for hope. The National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this discussion and provided the video. Greetings, everyone. I am senior director of programs at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to what promises to be a Great Program on the history of africanamericans in combat in the United States from world war i to world war ii with everything in between and in the immediate postworld war ii years, and i am joined by three of our nations preeminent scholars on this subject. Whohost is dr. John morrow, is franklin professor of history at the university of georgia and is coauthor with our second panelist, who is professor of harlemst nyu, of rattlers in the great war, which is a fantastic book about one of the great africanamerican units in the First World War were. Our third panelist is Robert Jefferson junior, associate professor of history at the , andrsity of new mexico the author of fighting for hope. I
Becky is off today all breaking fivemonth win streaks with the dow the big loser. Still a good quarter i should say a very good quarter. The dow gaining 7. 5 take a look at u. S. Equity futures this morning lets show you where things stand as we speak. The dow up triple digits s p looking to open higher nasdaq about 140 points hire overnight, Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading after a glitch blaming a hard wear problem followed by a failure to switch over to a backup device. The first fullday closure of the tokyo markets since trading began in 1999. Too much partying like in 1999 also in 1999, the year after was the year 2000. That was the last time the nasdaq had two quarters as good as this. It has been 20 years the nasdaq was up 45 . So it has been pretty unbelievable yesterday, we had worries about coronavirus. Even in new york and elsewhere where there is high infection rates. We had sort of just the aftermath of the debate, which people said was unsettling just watching then