And on the run ethiopians flee for their lives as the government orders the army to start the final phase of an offensive in the Northern Region of teak. Right . Well have the latest from mad as out of the nickel for good to have you with us. Tens of thousands of people have paid their final respects to argentinian football, superstar, Diego Maradona, and when osiris he died on wednesday at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack, his body was taken away for boro. After lying in state at the president ial palace cheering for their hero, one last time was outside the president ial palace. And despite the ongoing pandemic, tens of thousands of mourners have been lining up for their chance to pay their respects. Scuffles broke out when police moved to shut down, access to the president ial palace. Now the motions are running high. It isnt what you might feel today. The football has died. I have no words for me. Hes the greatest and all carry him in my heart forever. Yeah, that got us
There with me so robyn a reminder of our top stories the European Union has reversed a decision to impose export controls on vaccines made within the block to the United Kingdom the earlier move would have prevented vaccines from entering the u. K. Through Northern Ireland Drugs Companies that novaks and johnson and johnson have introduced 2 new vaccines to fight the pandemic johnson and johnsons inoculation is a single shot job but both produced weaker results on the more infectious south african strain. Mexicos economy last year suffered its biggest contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930 s. Its credible as death toll surpassed that of india this week that now has the 3rd highest number of fatalities in the world. Kenya says health care and security personnel will be 1st in line when it starts inoculating people next month that scenes are being secured through the African Union and the w. H. O. But Health Officials say it will take until june next year to vaccinate around
Stuff right right weve we saw what happened then. The year 2000 with George W Bush and al gore that was a mess you dont want to have that repeated so. Pennsylvania still waiting on that georgia. Lot closer lot closer in terms of counting all the votes lot closer in terms of how the 2 candidates are relative to one another this is another state that trump had been leading since tuesday. And took the lead early today just like in pennsylvania, but its much closer 22,000 p a its about 4,000 in georgia 99 of the vote counted though so again theyre still getting these mail in ballots, it said the Covid Campaign led to the pandemic election and here we go no one has seen this before with all of these votes come in after election day because so many people were urged to vote by mail to avoid potential exposure. So many folks did and thus thats why were here waiting. The lot of the blue on your screen is where these mail in ballots are coming from because its just a fact of life people who wou
We will get into that. Let me say a little bit about scott. Welcome, scott. Many of our viewers know scott from his very long and successful and productive tenure and engagement with the National Park. He has been retired for a little more than 10 years or a little less than 10 years, excuse me. Geez, actually six years. Peter one thing john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We also talked about partnerships with academics. We have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina silver, one of the first historians who came to the park and had conversations about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg. Time and time again, john have noticed these connections between academics and public historians. Cant then conclude there is this great gap or golf between the two sides. I thought we could open by howng you reflect upon battlefield interpretation has changed over time during your career. And then,
Take it to the Supreme Court. Reporter this morning still counting votes and the potential path for victory for both candidates as we wait to see what happens next, today, wednesday, november 4th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today. We are glad youre with us on wednesday morning. We really never left. Weve been on the air all night. Lots of news to cover. We still dont know who the president is going to be and filled with uncertainty and a lot of questions. We will try to guide you through the best we know one step at a time and we will get it started. This is where it stands at this hour on the electoral map. You will see 224 electoral votes for joe biden and 213 for the president. The goal is 270 and that is what it takes to win the presidency. Keep your eye on the states in gray which are too close to call