Says libyas warring sides have agreed to hold elections within 18 months aimed at uniting the country under one government and in armenia over a deal with us or by john to end. The fighting in the calling card about the Prime Minister says it was about preserving whats left. Welcome to the program, europe has been called a cautionary tale of the dangers of easing coronavirus restrictions. The World Health Organization issued a warning as the continent is witnessing an aggressive surge and infections more than 50000. People have now died from covert 19 in the United Kingdom and in italy. Once the epicenter of europes outbreak, 623 people died in the past 24 hours. Andrew symonds reports for the u. K. Its another landmark in the spread of covert, and its causing a lot more than 50000. 00. People who tested positive have died. Britains total of dead is now the highest in europe. Nearly 600. 00 deaths on wednesday overtakes figures since may in the 1st wave. Every death is a tragedy. I mea
Begin the lameduck session of the lameduck session of congress with a 117 still ahead, we are joined by the chief Congressional Correspondent from the Washington Examiner, great to have you with us. Guest good morning. Host lets leap ahead to january and the two runoff races in georgia, the race against the incumbent senator david perdue any other race with senator Kelly Loeffler. Have we ever seen to Senate Runoff races in any state before . Guest not my history of covering congress. Its really unusual. Its also unusual in georgia that the race has ended up in runoff territory. Georgia had been traditionally a very red state where republicans could usually count on an easy win in the statewide races. That was the last few election cycles. There has been a shift in the electorate in georgia over the areas ande the urban their suburban surroundings have gotten more blue, more democratic in their electorate. That has led to some close races where republicans cannot be assured of an easy
Not quite as thrilling after day as we had yesterday. Ashley connell it, would be hard to repeat. S p and nasdaq dropping because of a covid 19 vaccine fading a little bit. Investors pull out money from the tech companies, that benefited most from the pandemic. Look at the dow and s p and nasdaq down. I want to get tech stocks red across the screen. Microsoft, facebook, nvidia, Big Semiconductor conductor down 6 . Adobe systems down 4 . A lot of the stocks higher on the year but a victim of the rotation of money out of tech. If it is coming out of big tech where is it going . Lets take a look. Consumer defensive names. Companies likes walmart, costco, target, proctor gamble. There they all are. Weve gone from a red skeen to a green screen. Target, all the others also higher. Industrial stocks giving boost from a csx railroad gaining more than 3 as did ge, right around 3 . Raytheon up 4 1 2 . We should mention boeing, gaining more than, well, see in the final analysis 5. 2 . It was up m
Election day. Youre looking at long lines in philadelphia this morning, on the last day of early inperson voting there. Right now the campaigns are storming those key battleground states. Today President Trump will hold rallies in michigan, wisconsin and nebraska. His bread ses sore, former president obama will be campaigning for joe biden in orlando, florida, and biden himself is going to zero in on georgia. Coming up in a few minutes, ill talk to one of the Democratic Senate candidates who could flip a seat there. But hanging over all of it, this pandemic. This morning President Trump says all Everyone Wants to talk about is, quote, covid, covid, covid. Hard not to. Here is why. Hospitalizations in the United States are up 40 in the last month alone. Lets start on the ground with our reporters covering the candidates. Nbcs monica alba at the white house, mike memoli is following the Biden Campaign in warm springs, georgia, and nbcs Garrett Haake is in orlando, florida, ahead of presi
Margin there. And tonight, what joe biden said before the cameras late today, what he signaled while inside the white house, what is the strategy from here . And if the president can pull off pennsylvania, where else would he have to win to be reelected . Tonight, the remaining path to the white house. Well take you through it all. A special edition of world news tonight begins now. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on this thursday night, as a nation now waits for a winner in this president ial election. We did hear from President Trump late this evening and well have that for you in just a moment. His lead shrinking in the allimportant state of pennsylvania tonight. He needs that state win reelection. As they continue to count this historic early vote, the Biden Campaign feels very confident about what theyre seeing. In fact, joe biden says late today that he is confident that when the votes are counted, he and senator harris will be declared the winners. He said, s