Good morning, it is saturday, september 21st. I am Alecia Menendez with michael steele. Symone Sanders Townsend has the day off. Americans are starting to cast their ballots. And the Vice President makes a passionate, new plea of the stakes of the race. Plus, georgia changes The Way the votes will be counted in the state. Lucky losers. New york times winning is back a new look at the funny story about trumps financial organs origins. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to The Weekend. D. Can you believe it, folks . We are just 45 days from the election of the next President Of The United States and voters are already heading to the polls in some states. Early inperson voting kicked off friday in minnesota, south dakota, and virginia. Overnight, in arizona, The State Supreme Court just guaranteed full Ballot Access for nearly 100,000 voters following a dispute over a clerical error related to the States Proof of citizenship requirements for voting. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala H
The World Health Organization and americas top infectious experts are urging vigilance. The virus is not going to stop and call a time out while things change the virus is just going to keep going. The process is just going to keep going. This is something that just is now going in the very, very strong right direction. The vaccines are effective. We want to get it approved this quickly as we possibly can. We want to get doses to people starting in december, and then we want to really get the ball rolling as we get into january, february, and march. We want to smooth process with that. And the way you do that is by essentially having the 2 groups speak to each other and exchange information. Donald Trumps National security adviser says the 1st step to solving the qatar gulf located is to allow planes to fly over saudi and bahraini airspace. Robert obrien said hed like to see permission for flights granted within the next 70, days before a transition of office. Saudi arabia, the u. A. E
For there are. Claims news about a potentially breakthrough u. S. Seen was deliberately held back until after the election. Just after 1 am here in moscow this wednesday morning pleasure to have you with us you know neal bringing you the top global news stories this hour a deal has been struck between armenia and azerbaijan to end fighting in the disputed. Region the truce was brokered by moscow and includes a prominent role for russian peacekeepers. Expressed his hope of a lasting settlement between the warring sides. But you said you should care about you what is happening in karabakh is a truly great tragedy i want to note with great satisfaction the outlines of compromise and the agreements reached on ending the bloodshed i hope that all the steps we have taken recently will lead to the establishment of a long term peace for the benefit of both azerbaijan and armenia. All my colleagues are earlier probed on the Current Situation in the disputed region and they renewed hopes for a l
Affect the president s reelection message particularly when it comes to cope with. What we know is that the president is trying to put a positive spin on all of this the fact that. He has been trying to convey the message that things are back to normal that the economy is bouncing back and thats why weve seen kind of a 2016 Campaign Style message but the same time the president will not be able to do that moving forward given the fact that he himself has tested positive several senior officials have confirmed negative tests including secretary of States Michael pale blues in croatia he says hes still plans to go ahead with his settled asia trip next week Vice President mike pence has also tested negative. Democratic House Speaker nancy pelosi says plans for continuing government are in place and she says that though it is tragic trumps habit of going into crowds without a mask was a brazen invitation for something to happen and trumps democratic rival joe biden has sent his best wishes
This morning i got a call from the cleaning and i am an ideal candidate here. Theres not much in there looks like a couple of drops im ready. Those are main stories here in our international you can read more of our. Report is straight ahead on. National and in the u. K. And ireland it is with us. So i said. Well max youve often talked about the me mcconnell me and the you know the economy getting ever lighter and lighter there are more and more intangibles and this is shown in this chart 84 percent of the s. And p. 500. 00 assets are now intention this is a chart of the corporate Balance Sheets are more knowledge driven s. And p. 500. 00 Company Assets in trillions of dollars and as you see the tangible part of companies they just increase slowly since 1075 when 17 percent of a companys assets were intangible back in 1075 and now its 84 Percent Companies used to make stuff and they had value terms of the factories and their employees and their trade deals etc but now we have a situati