The congressional hispanic caucus, has said there is a lack of latinos in the incoming cabinet, if confirmed this air will face the daunting task of leading the department during a pandemic that has killed more than 281,000 people has disproportionately affected people of color. Our other big story this sunday night more than 30 million californians now facing stay at home orders and less than 2 hours at 10 00pm. Those orders will go into effect for 3 bay area counties that San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. The order is very similar to the lockdown that many of us all the way back in march. Those counties now taking an earlier approach to governor newsoms order that requires counties to go into lockdown when icu bed capacity has dropped below 15 . Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area, no hovering around 24 . Number of Health Leaders across the bay area say right now they dont want to take any chances. Thats why theyre doing this early. Stay at home orders will also
Say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of wild scale abuse which the army denies. But we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start so of the pandemic there have been more than 64000000. 00 confirmed cases nearly 1500000. 00 deaths the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on coronavirus diplomatic editor james bays is at the u. N. In new york and james that session is still ongoing but we understand the secretary general has addressed the meeting what did he have to say. Well secretary general was the 1st to address the meeting one of only a couple of speakers who were actually in the room at the General Assembly because of covert 19 most the leaders have submitted their speeches recorded speeches theyre being played out from all of them for
Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 00 00am morning news, its tuesday november 3rd election day today is the day weve all been waiting for. Im Robin Winston and well get to all the election coverage in just a bit but first lets start off with a check of your election day forecast lot of folks will be standing in line today this morning later on this afternoon. John hows forecast shaping up well robin good news for the forecast today if youre standing in a line for election day later on youre going to be doing so. With sunshine overhead after morning, fog burns off and also some really comfortable temperatures daytime highs a little cooler than they were yesterday a look outside this alcatraz camera showing you that we do have some low clouds and fog that a push right into the bay, if you look at this camera you see line right there at the bottom where you can see the lights thats because fog is sitting just right above the bay itself. So do watch for
Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tied to and in other news the u. N. Calls for i mean media deescalation intentions that ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit region following at an auction on a military base the way. To. So democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes ron donald trump has 214 hour remember the magic number to become president is to 70 here in yellow youll see the states still in play nevada in the west and georgia and North Carolina in the south and up here pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states to stop votes being counted. Lets look at georgia firsts an extremely close race ted Donald Trumps initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from atl
A shooting in the austrian capital vienna the government calls it a terrorist attack ugandan politician bobby wine is arrested again shortly after he was nominated for next years president ial elections. And the sports news argentine football legend Diego Maradona has been admitted to hospital although hes done to says its not related to code 19 all of the details coming up this hour. Its 1500 g. M. T. And 10 am in the eastern United States where polls are open for one of the most controversial and highly anticipated elections in recent years donald trump and joe biden have campaigned for months its now up to the American Public people in all but 5 states are now voting with 3 of those california idaho and oregon opening their. Polls this hour the man battling for the presidency havent stopped campaigning with biden in scranton pennsylvania and trump in arlington virginia. Lets speak to our coverage good begin our coverage by speaking to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan where int