Im Claire Richard sennett welcome to the show democratic candidate joe biden has won at the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted in pennsylvania biden has won 49. 7 percent at his up against trump 49. 2 percent now the 20 electoral votes of biden won in this state allowed him to surpass the 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press who was also picked up 6 in nevada giving him a total of 290 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. Well democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect bidens a success from fill it. Black lives matters plaza in washington to new yorks times square people showed signs of relief and excitement here are some of those reactions now. To me that everything my mother is a disabled woman before security and medicaid and medicare and so you know. How to you can no longer mess
Others asking if that daily commute is too risky. Basketball, soccer and hockey seasons suspended. Tournaments, marathons and baseballs opening day canceled or postponed. Its weird circumstances right now. Brennan disneyland and disneyworld shut down, lights out at broadway on carnegie hall. The president called for a national day of prayer, but many churches are closed. And wall streets unprecedented 11 year bull market run officially ended last week. Military exercises were also scaled back, and protective measures taken to help those serving overseas. Those on the front lines at home. Doctors, nurses and First Responders continueed to show up and serve. As did the journalists who need to keep the public informed. That hit home for all of us at cbs this week. Our new york headquarters shut down after four of our colleagues tested positive for the virus, leaving us all scrambling to get the news on by remote. That meant it was all hands on deck in our network buer oats, and at our nat
Will be soon. Because if it looks like youre overreacting, youre probably doing the right thing. Reporter the nations top Infectious Disease inspector made the rounds warning it could be weeks if not months before things return to normal and cautioning americans to hunker down. Every single day we meet with the task force. You dont want to make a pronouncement that no one should go into an restaurant, that might be overkill. Reporter fauci called short of calling for a National Lockdown as governors warned prolonged lockdowns. And pressed the administration to step up its response. We have never fought a virus like this with this potential consequence. So, plan forward. Plan forward. Reporter as wall street braces for another volatile week, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said the administration is working with congress on its coronavirus aid package and will discuss potential help for Hard Hit Industries like the airlines. Providing liquidity to just businesses that just need liquidi
Tomorrow. There are two definite narratives being played out. To repeat the status quo for taiwan and that is sent autonomy, semi independence from china. Or more integration with the mainland economy. We will preview it coming up this hour and all morning. Yvonne we will see you soon. He does speak with the legislator at large. David lets get a quick check of your markets right now, 30 minutes into the session. About an hour into the taiwanese session. We should still be above 12,000. 2. 5 of the25 is is 28year high. Dont get too excited. Seere continuing to pressure coming into this friday. Jobs numbers are coming out later so that is fun to watch as well. Asare losing some momentum we head into the thick of things. Take a look at the currency markets and then we will talk about futures as well. You and pushing toward 1. 0. Chinese bonds are seeing a steep drop in yields. Su we will start out with the latest on boeing, critical messages from 2017 about the jet have been released to a
Accident in the tenderloin block had the busy intersection. Cars are rerouted. Thats a good area to avoid right now. Very busy commute this morning. Bay bridge coming in. We had slow traffic on 880 getting toward downtown oakland. There was a truck that flipped over carrying hazardous material. That ramp is closed. We have slow traffic developing on the east bay commute. South bay commute looking good. So the traffic has been slow. We do have quite a bit of stuff going on. I want to mention buchanan road is closed because of a deadly crash. A lot going opp. 701, back to the desk. Youve been tellings us about the problem at the station in San Francisco. The bart service is getting back to normal, muni is going to be affected for several hours. Christina rendon, you have more on our continuing coverage from the station. Whats happening there . Reporter good morning to you. Right now muni station is stopped. They taped off the gates. Theres a lot of confusion from rider this is morning. T