The president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. And on resolved election the nation on edge 3 days after one of americas most divisive and knife edge president ial votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump and battleground states which will decide the final outcome biden leads in pennsylvania nevada and in georgia so far is projected to have 164. 00 Electoral College votes trump has 214. 00 and of course the number required is 270 the needs to win in only one of those undecided states to get across that finish line. His magic White House Correspondent can you help it who is in washington for us. In wilmington delaware joe bidens home state we have passed culhane standing by for us in philadelphia and then theres Andy Gallagher who bring us the latest on the state of georgia and heidi castro is among protest as the House W
Digit lead over President Trump. He paddled furiously over to his Postal Service showdown. Wife, posted up on her board and nancy pelosi calls the house back into session. Punched the shark in the snout. The postmaster general, a trump morning at the beach turning into a fight for survival. Donor, in the hot seat. Democrats accuse him of trying the patient has numerous deep to silence millions of voters. Lacerations to just above the this morning the big question about the election. Will mailin ballots be knee to the calf. Delivered in time to be counted . Reporter 35yearold wildfires raging in the Chantelle Doyle attacked by a west. At least 94 burning from texas to washington state. Tenfoot great white shark, the one massive blaze spawning this shark latching on to her leg fire tornado. Refusing to let her go but her husband, mark, surfing nearby dangerous triple degree saw it. It hit her like with a force temperatures and more than 100 and threw her off the board and lightning strik
After a shooting outside. The president returning moments later. Were live with what happened. Class is in, but as some schools reopen today, masks are out. Walking into the school i didnt see a lot of mask wearing. The parents and teachers voicing concern this morning. New hot spots emerging in the u. S. As cases hit 20 million worldwide. And overnight, Vladimir Putin with a bold claim that russia has the vaccine. Sacked . The leaders of College Football holding emergency talks today on whether to cancel the season as star players and coaches say game on. We want to play no matter who it is or where it is, so well see how those chips fall. Just ahead, dan patrick on the sports uncertain future. Those stories, plus in the air. The youtube stars hearing that phil collins classic for the very first time. And it sends the song to the top of the charts four declads later. Oh, lord. Today, tuesday, august 11th, announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live
All safe. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 10th. Thank you for starting your week with us. And we do begin with schools ng a as coravirus cas millionaon be Holding Classes online today and tomorrow, while the building is disinfected following an outbreak among students and staff. In bigtime College Football, the power five conferences may be considering moving their season to the spring. Meantime, the pandemic has prompted some top ncaa players to call for the creation of a union. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter the u. S. Now surpassing 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Kansas city among nine cities warned by the White House Task force they are in danger of becoming new hot spots. Were seeing a lot of activity that has been against Public Health advice. House parties of up to hundreds of people, a lot of backyard parties. Reporter chicagos mayor threatening to shut down the lakefront, posting these images on social media after witnessing what she
Across 420,000 acres and that is about 14 times the size of San Francisco and they are still having no containment. It is daunting, it is overwhelming. It is out of control and it is out of anybodys control. We are covering all angles of this massive fire battle including the unhealthy air and the impact as people escape. Lets look at the mountains, where an update is about to began. We are coming to you from the incident command post in the city of Scotts Valley and they have a map that shows significant it has expanded in size overnight. We will get the exact numbers once the press conference gets started. Where we are standing, this is west of highway 17 and we are in the mandatory Evacuation Order area. It will give you a better sense. Look at this map it shows you how big of an area were talking about. The orient shaded in red is a la honda to the north. Skyway 17 to the east and down to santa cruz campus and then the only thing stopping it was the Pacific Ocean to the west. At la