Join fizer pfizer you can see were just about 20 points shy of the all time high on the dow a lot of news to unpack. We got the news from moderna showing the vaccine is more than 94 effective in preventing cases of covid19. We saw details in the study showing it prevented severe cases of covid19. So that a very strong result comes, of course, after the pfizer data last week showed that its vaccine was more than 90 effective. The first two out of gate showing incredibly strong efficacy questions do remain including these preventative cases of covid19 but do the vaccines sprent infection with the virus completely we dont yet know that we also dont know because this is a brand new virus and these are brand new vaccines how long this protection will last. So those are things that are going to come and be answered in the future looking at these data so what happens next well, both of the Companies Soon are going to file with the fda for emergency use authorization. The fda will then hold wh
House task force and dr. Atul gawande now advising the biden team. Plus, former National Security john bolton. And former Homeland Security jeh johnson on the lack of white house conversation. With all eyes on georgia the Senate Majority hanging in the balance. We talk to Democratic Senate candidate jon ossoff. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning and welcome to this week. 306 to 232. That is where the Electoral College stands with projections now in from all 50 states and d. C. Joe biden with the same number of electoral votes donald trump claimed victory with four years ago. At the time trump called it a landslide. As we come on the air this morning, after refusing to accept the results, the president seems closer to admitting he lost. Trump tweeting his opponent won because, quote, the election was rigged. He did use the word won. Although he has not conceded and the president continues to spread falsehoods without evidence. It comes
Winford places John Hervey Wheeler in the center of the civil rights narrative, casting new light on the role this banker, activist and humanitarian played. The central argument of this work is that wheeler exemplified the activist business demand that often stood at the center of the freedom struggle, a figure that continues to be under analyzed. He was often overlooked due to emphasis on the more incendiary elements of the movement, protests and mobilizations and other dramatic events. I am on this panel because i studied North Carolina civil rights history. Again i can speak to the ways in , which brendans book is making a really significant intervention in the history, not only of civil rights writ large, but the Civil Rights Movement and the black struggling North Carolina in particular. So from wheelers perch at mechanics and farmers bank and dunn, he was a consummate insider and powerplay or who understood the calculus of social change dictated variegated approaches and the purs
4 00 in the morning we can tell you joe biden is overperforming from where Hillary Clinton was 81 of that vote in but still 20 of maricopa is out. One of the reasons why we cant project the state just yet. One of the stronghold, pima, tucson, 6038, overperforming there. The trend so far and its been holding for the last two to three hours, you would know better than me, democrats are in a good position in arizona but its just with 20 out you just cant project it yet. Whit johnson, the vote is just trickling in, that remaining vote. Reporter were getting more clarity on the outstanding ballots that exist. We just talked to Maricopa County officials again and we keep going back to them because as we mentioned Maricopa County makes up at least 60 of the vote here in arizona. Within the next ten minutes but talking to my producer, it still hasnt come up they were trying to do the final dump of results and this is the inperson votes from today. They were counting those throughout the night
Another wave of covert 19 cases. Nigerias president sent out a warning to protesters after another night of widespread unrest and violence during the push for his resignation. So that in just an hours time u. S. President donald trump will meet democratic nominee joe biden for the final debate ahead of the elections on november the 3rd organizers in nashville in tennessee have made changes to the format same did avoiding a repeat of trumps interruptions during the 1st debate lets cross to our White House Correspondent can we how can his outside weather debate will be taking place in nashville in tennessee and say kimberly there will be an audience of tens of millions it promises to be quite a show so we have trouble maybe a breakthrough and biden i guess just needs to keep it steady. Yeah thats exactly it trying to avoid any major mistakes is really the goal for joe biden in all of this and for Donald Trumps part what hes trying to do is provoke that so what we expect throughout the 90