Is detected in the United States just as there are new predictions of a much higher potential death toll. Donald trump left the white house, but many republicans are refusing to leave him. We have the latest as some Party Members swear their loyalty to the former president. And the sub reddit page that has wall street in a spin. The latest on gamestops Crazy Ride On wall street. Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the United States, canada and around the world. Im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. A new forecast warns that more contagious strains of the coronavirus could cause an additional 85,000 deaths in the u. S. By may. The first two cases of the variant first detected in south africa have now been confirmed in the u. S. Its already circulating in at least 30 other countries. Two americans who have it dont know each other and havent traveled abroad. Now this variant may make at least one potential new vaccine less effective. Drug
Tracie potts live for us this morning and, tracie, the president is now suing to stop the count in three states. Exactly. In fact, there were existing Court Actions in nevada and also in pennsylvania and now theyve added to that in michigan and more court action in pennsylvania to try to get the observers in and to try and stop the vote counts. This by the Trump Campaign, the Biden Campaign say they have lawyers ready to try to stop this. They think its unwarranted. Meantime, President Trumps Team Including his family says they believe that the votes that are being counted, some of them, arent legitimate. They are trying to cheat us out of it because they know its their only path to victory. Not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots. They could be from mars as far as were concerned. Every vote is going to count. Im going to fight like hell to protect the vote of every pennsylvanian. Pennsylvanias Governor Tom Wolf promising theyre going to count eve
And william glucose welcome to the program 2 days after the u. S. President ial election and theres still no winner votes are being counted in several key u. S. States democratic challenger joe biden is closest to the 270. 00 Electoral College votes needed to secure the presidency any remaining state will get him over the line the Associated Press has called arizona for biden but other networks are saying its too close to call with arizona biden has 200 64. 00 Electoral College votes that puts him just 6 votes shy of the 270. 00 he needs but the counting goes on the result could tip back towards trump meanwhile the Trump Campaign has launched legal action claiming fraud trying to stop the count in 3 states. But there is 0 evidence of any wrongdoing to the contrary counting is proceeding smoothly across the country. Frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and trump protesters demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In portland
For a september quarter. There are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. And america awaits the outcome of the president ial election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. Wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. Foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. We are up. 2 when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commoditieslinked currencies it particularly well. We have the u. S. Dollar fall to its lowest in two years. The nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. Also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volatility in ch
Being closely watched as the clock ticks down on the ballot count clicks up before we go any further lets go to come out has the latest on the numbers come up thank you adrian yes so 300 hours g. M. T. It is now which means 10 pm on the u. S. East coast and these are the polls that are closing at this hour 4 of them for you montana nevada utah and iowa im not going to go through any projections just now because we dont have any at the moment too early to call in all 4 of those states the one swing state will be keeping an eye on is iowa in the midwest so with that in mind its a good chance just to step back and have a look at some of our swing states as well so lets start in ohio with nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting donald trump is edging further and further away from joe biden his latest 130000 out of 4. 4 almost 4400000 votes counted so its close but the gap widening for donald trump in ohio lets move on to michigan one of the important ones that donald trump picked up. 4 ye