Washington, and with that, welcome to americas news headquarters, im leland are visit earth. Kristin and im kristin fisher. The president also signaled that he has no intention of conceding even as the president ial transition moves ahead. David spunt joins us live at the white house where the just returned from camp david. Reporter hey, kristin. The president said pointblank about the election that his mind will not change in six months, so for his supporters, for those close to the president hoping that maybe he might concede, that he he might accept joe biden as the next president of the United States when he gets sworn in on january 20th, there is your answer when he says that his mind will not be made up in six months. Now, he doubled, tripled, even quadrupled down on his claims that the election was fraudulent, though no indication that is the case. Joe biden is the President Elect. He took 306 electoral votes. The president 232, the same spread, actually, that trump and secretar
We see how the pandemic has changed things onset. Oh, my lord. Everythings changed. First of all we have to be tested every single day. Warm welcome to our viewers on pbs america and around the globe. New scientific analysis seen by the bbc suggests the goals from the Paris Climate Agreement are coming within reach. The Tracker Study looks at the latest promises from countries including china as well as the plans of the us president Electjoe Biden. From the uks wettest february on record to raging wildfires in california. The fingerprints of Climate Change link to Human Activities have become increasingly clear this year. But efforts to curb Greenhouse Gasesis but efforts to curb Greenhouse Gases is the root cause of Global Warming has so far had limited impact. When countries are signed the agreement in 2015, they undertook to limit the rise of damages to well below two celsius this century. But when scientists added up all the pledges made to cut carbon, they mounted to around three
His first classified briefing and his historic picks as he staffs up his administration the injury over the weekend hes recovering from and the two battlegrounds delivering a new blow today to President Trumps legal fight. Severe storms barrel through several states, tornadoes, strong winds, heavy rain al roker is here. Cyber monday expected to be the biggest ever how to score deals all week long. Plus, the shipping alert you need to know about. The man clinging to a capsized boat 86 miles off the coast. Tonight how he survived messages to santa in the pandemic. What kids are really asking for this year this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone the specter of a covid surge on top of a surge is almost too much to imagine. But its exactly what Public Health officials believe we may be in for as millions of americans return to their lives today, some likely bringing home from thanksgiving gatherings more than just family memories officials urging travelers to take
We could be close to form 50000 americans have died from this virus name of the u. K. s become the 1st western country to approve a covert 19 vaccine for public use those most at risk including Health Workers and care home residents will get it from next week a minister bars johnson praised scientists for their work but said people still need to be cautious is president on trumps giving a speech on his social media repeating his unfounded allegations of fraud i spoke and twitter placed warnings on that video statement. The Afghan Government and taliban negotiators have agreed on a framework for talks off the weeks of stalemate to the negotiations here in doha the u. S. Military says it will drop all its forces by may only condition the talks make progress and a comprehensive cease fire is put in place. Irans approved new legislation to allow the resumption of high levels of uranium enrichment the bill was passed by parliament on tuesday it was signed into law after approval from irans
Ive ever made Donald Trumps 46 minute outburst the u. S. President repeats unsubstantiated claims of forward in an election he lost after nearly 2 decades of war a breakthrough in peace talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government. And one step short of famine the u. N. Ones of a looming food crisis for thousands of people in bikini. Starting in the United States the country hardest hit by the corona virus and in the past 24 hours more than 2700 americans have died from cove it 19 the highest daily death toll since april for the 1st time hospital admissions also topped 100000 in the u. S. And 200000 new cases reported another record and leads to the head of the u. S. A centers for Disease Control warning that by february another 200000 people could be dead from the virus. So were in that range potentially now. To see if 100 to 2000 to 2500. From this farm so you know the mortality concerns are real. And i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to form 50