Coronavirus. You know, it is a thing you are pretty sure you had in february but actually didnt. The world is now deep into the second wave of this pandemic, or maybe the third wave, or the fourth. I dont know. At this point covid has so many waves it is like those pals at the Amusement Park which is also big spreaders of exotic disease and after doing a little bet over the past few month, unfortunately the u. S. Shows no signs of getting out of the pool. The new explosion of cases in the coronavirus crisis, if you heard this, the u. S. Reported a recordshattering number of new infections. For the first time all 50 states reported increase in cases, shocking seven day averages in kansas at 41 percent. Iowa at 48 , south dakota at as ton you wering 54 . New restrictions are about to go into effect in new york state, beginning tomorrow all bars and restaurants must close for dining at 10 p. M. , gyms must also close at 10 p. M. , and all private gatherings must be limited to ten people o
Philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history and will be in the future a continuing talking point in our political life. But also
Legal Jonathan Turley says they have to throw for hail mary passes, not just one in order to get the vote count overturned, also the biden team getting ready to launch a legal battle to get the transition going as secretary of state mike pompeo catches major heat today for saying there will be a smooth transition to a Second Trump Administration and we will give you an update of the former top fbi official injure mccabe testify before the senate claiming he was shocked and disappointed over fbi abuses in the trump pressure probe andg asking questions about the Michael Flynn probe, questioning if you have these issues, widen it and your mccabe whistle blow about all of this when he was in office, what andre injure mccabs finally admitting to, what went wrong and what he knew about the general flynn probe even if Andrew Mccabe was running the show. More on who is running the show in the house, it seems like its not nancy pelosi. Is this a threat to the democratic agenda as democrats push
Considerably and here is where things stand right now as we. Bring you out to the big board obviously the magic number 2. 70 and the 2 people that are vying for that office are stuck really to 64 for biden hes obviously much closer to 2. 70 donald trump there at 2. 14 the big states where watching tonight. Our georgia and pennsylvania, both of which see joe biden surging donald trump still has the lead this map from our broadcast partners with the Associated Press has a light red for pennsylvania meeting trump is still leading a light red for georgia meaning trump is still leading however a click on georgia where there is now a razor thin lead for donald trump we zoom in we scroll over and with 16 electoral votes at stake, you can see donald trump here still has the lead. But it is fewer than 2000 votes. And that is with 99 of the vote counted. So still votes out there still looking through all those mail in ballots because of the pandemic so many of them to sort through, but this is a
And a very tight one to a handful of states cant be called at this point just because the tally is to close the margin. Is too close and yet so going to be tracking for. Well east today for sure and least a few days to come as we take a look at the big wall and you can see that biden has a lead in the Electoral College to 38 to to 13. James even talking about how this count is far from done in their 60s talk a little bit more about also the battle for power in the senate which also is. Up for grabs still at this hour. It is and it seems like a lot of these senate. Voting down ballot sort of follow it follow along party lines to right from the top of the ticket places that democrats thought theyd make inroads turns out voted in line with pretty much how the president ial election has been going so far so lets give you a quick look on the National Scene democrats were able to flip one seat. And that was in the state of arizona, they also got colorado, but them last, alabama so that kind