But not a contestant. Im a lot looser, i think, than most people think i am. I dont take too many things seriously. Much more ahead on the incredible life and impact of alex trebek. Coronavirus cases soaring over the weekend to new heights not yet seen across the United States weve got a breakdown. Plus a busy week in the nfl as some teams pull away in the standings whileothers fall flat its monday, november 9th. Early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena. And frances rivera. Today the transition will begin to a presidency five decades in the making joe biden is the president elect, securing the office thats twice eluded him before nbc news projected his win in pennsylvania on saturday, pushing him past the threshold of 270 electoral votes and his margin of victory can further widen as the votes continue to be tallied biden continues to hold a lead over President Trump in georgia and arizona. Yesterday former president george w. Bush congratulated biden and dismissed cla
Why the Election Results are path the president still has. Clear and what, if any, legal n path the president still has. Pe fifth straight day and surpasses running rampant, the u. S. Tops 100,000 coronavirus for the 10 million overall and breaking just this fifth straight day and surpasseg 10 million overall. On the vaccine front, pfizer and breaking just this morning reveals their vaccine is 90 on the vaccine front, pfizer effective. Reveals their vaccine is 90 how soon could it be available effective. All eyes on eta, overnight the Tropical Storm makes a rare how soon could it be available . All eyes on eta, overnight november landfall in s the Tropical Storm makes a rare florida packing high winds and november landfall in south heavy rain, on track to strengthen into a hurricane when florida packing high winds and it reaches the gulf before heavy rain, on track to slamming back into north florida and heading up the east coast. Strengthen into a hurricane when were tracking the very
Been going on on forever. And its like do we have a new president yet . Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Thousands of ballots have been counted but still tens of thousands left across the country. The race is still too close to call but if fieden webiden were two own winning georgia put him one electoral collect short. Biden is catching up in the key states as they count mailin ballots. Remember, trump discouraged his supporters from using mailin ballots. Democrats did use them and because they are generally counted last these mailin ballots as the last few trickle in, postmarked, of course, by election day, we are seeing biden make huge gains. Take a look at pennsylvania this morning. Pennsylvania biden has 3,310,000 and trump has 3,296,000. They could not count the mailin ballots in pennsylvania until election day. They pointed out mailin ballots are arduous to count. We are counting hundreds of thousands of ballots in an in
Administrations refusal to aid his transition and the impact it could have as the nation battles the pandemic. Breaking overnight, catastrophic. Hurricane iota tears across nicaragua as a powerful category 4, ripping roofs off buildings, toppling trees and causing widespread flooding. Just ahead, the damage and where this dangerous storm is headed next. Home away from home. Dragon spacex, capture confirmed. Overnight four astronauts arrive safely for their sixmonth stay on the International Space station, leading to cheers on the ground welcome to the iss. And hugs high above. All that, plus big demand for small turkeys. The holiday dilemma facing millions of families downsizing their gatherings this year. And rokers recovery. Al joins us live for the First Time Since his cancer surgery with some very good news to share. Today, tuesday, november 17th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, guys, w
Big headlines. Washington getting ready for the million maga march as counterprotests a are planned. Major networks called georgia and arizona for biden, Computer Software used for voting created major irregularities as resentment grows over this story and more, the do as i say, not as i do politicians. New examples of them breaking their own covid19 shutdown rules. Also tonight, how the election is not a repudiation of republican policies as democrats try to claim. Democrats are left with the slimmest majority in two decades. More democrats support nancy pelosi. Republicans could claim the house in the midterms as the democrat civil war is intensifying. Mud slinging, pushback, name calling, the far left squad is growing in size, also stepping up their fight with moderates. Theyre saying the far left, quote, defund the police is wrong and democrats dont have some, quote, crazy socialist agenda. They dont like it. And more on the hunter biden controversy. Democrat adam schiff now trying