A political transition and bolivias former leader abel morales heads home from exile in argentina just days after his party swept back to power we will have a live update from one of science. To simply told you sport is less than the brim of age schools in stoppage time as a simulation state some of the telly and league while he goes to the dont call in show. The fight against covert 19 may have taken a significant step forward this monday the u. S. Drugs make a fine vaccine candidate has proved to be more than 90 percent effective bringing some hope in a pandemic thats killed nearly 1300000 people all over the world now pfizer says it is on track to ask for permission to sell the vaccine before the end of the month but u. S. Health regulators have. Theyll need some time to review any potential vaccine the head of the World Health Organizations also been calling for Scientific Solutions and solidarity to end the pandemic that was what proved to be a largely Virtual Meeting of the w h o
Good monday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. The dow puts together the first intraday high in nine months, processing the election, putting closure, perhaps, to that but obviously the big news of the day is out of pfizer and this potential covid19 vaccine once again, well start the hour with meg hey, carl this news that pfizer and german partner biontech provided 90 efficacy in the phase three trial providing hope this is the first vaccine we have seen results from the results are limited. They just the independent committee took a look at the trial. They found 94 confirmed cases of the covid19 in the trial and they found a difference in the Placebo Group and the vaccine group. They also said they saw no serious safety concerns in the trial. Theyre going to he mass two months of safety followup which for half the people in the trial getting their second shot which will take them into the third week of november that is next week after which time they will file with the fachl
We will speak with independent journalist allan nairn and unit organizer Jane Mcalevey got how to stop and electoral coup and what went wrong in the 2000 flood recount. Then georgia flips blue for now, as joe biden pulls ahead of trump for the first time in extraordinarily tight race for the states 16 elecral votes. Ware patitly watchg as demoacy is mos definitely at stake in to see whether or no georgia will fp for thecratic candidate for First Time Since 1992. Amy will in the u. S. , millions of people are mesmerized by the president ial race, ipuerto ric the isld is dealg with its own race that produced very different results, including the election of afro puerto rican human rights feminist and l lgbtq activist ana irma rivera lassen. Is i am anmeans bt and others the black woman. The discrimination some of us may face. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Democric president ial nominee joe biden has
Morning. Biden leading the vote talley in both pennsylvania and georgia. And as carl mention ad new arizona count will be coming out of Maricopa County shortly heres where things stand in pennsylvania biden now with nearly 7,000 vote edge a winning for biden in pennsylvania which carries 20 Electoral College votes along with arizona should he hold that would secure him the election. In georgia, biden now holds a more than 1500 vote edge Georgia Election officials announcing in the last half hour that there will be a runoff in senate election. Well see about a recount. Well see where the vote talley ends as we await the latest the from arizona, its worth noting that President Trump has been closing the gap with each round of new vote counts. The question is by what proportion is it enough to catch up to biden. In terms of the Electoral College the race stands at 753 sorry, 253 for biden and 214 for President Trump. That according to nbc. Frank holland is in philadelphia with the latest
President hes vowing to challenge Election Results in several states. On the welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted and pennsylvania biden won 49. 7 percent trump took home 49. 2 the 20 electoral votes biden takes in this state allowed him to surpass the crucial 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press that is he also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290. 00 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. 00. Im a critic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect biden success from philadelphia to black lives matter plaza in washington to new yorks times square people didnt want to hide their relief and excitement any longer lets take a look at those reactions. To me means everything my mother is a disabled woman european medicaid and m