Octogonerian its monday, november 9th. Early today starts right now good monday morning. Im phillip mena. Glad youre starting the new week with us im Frances Rivera joe biden is the president elect securing the office thats twice eluded him before. Nbc news projected his win in pennsylvania on saturday pushing him past the threshold of 270 electoral votes. His margin of victory could further widen as further votes are tallied. He continues to hold a lead over President Trump in georgia and arizona. Biden and Kamala Harris will hit the ground running today laying out their transition strategy and announcing a Coronavirus Task force nbcs tracie potts joins us from capitol hill with the latest tracie plenty of challenges lie ahead for the president elect. Reporter big challenge, and the biggest is probably this virus, frances, that has infected more than 10 million americans and killed more than 200,000. The president elect says that will be the focus of his transition especially today. W
Been going on on forever. And its like do we have a new president yet . Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Thousands of ballots have been counted but still tens of thousands left across the country. The race is still too close to call but if fieden webiden were two own winning georgia put him one electoral collect short. Biden is catching up in the key states as they count mailin ballots. Remember, trump discouraged his supporters from using mailin ballots. Democrats did use them and because they are generally counted last these mailin ballots as the last few trickle in, postmarked, of course, by election day, we are seeing biden make huge gains. Take a look at pennsylvania this morning. Pennsylvania biden has 3,310,000 and trump has 3,296,000. They could not count the mailin ballots in pennsylvania until election day. They pointed out mailin ballots are arduous to count. We are counting hundreds of thousands of ballots in an in
This as the United States is seen a rise in the number of covid cases. Joining in the 8 a. M. Hour this morning all be speaking with health an human secretaries alex azar and markets this morning look like a mixed story attack a look after treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said he would not extend most of the emergency legending programs that run in tandem with Federal Reserve dow industrials down 55 and nasdaq up 14 but the s p 500 lower by 4 points. Markets yesterday shrugging off lockdown to finish in the green when all said and done dow industrials up 45 points and nasdaq up 103 and the s p higher by 14 at 4 00 on wall street yesterday. To the president for trade and Manufacturing Policy peter joining me to talk all they thinks economy and china coming up. And then do nothing for nothing. How you can score a get away to hawaii for free. The morning buzz coming up mornings with maria is live right now. All right here we go european markets take look inching higher european indices h
Lot of votes to count there. Pueblo has 20 electoral votes up for grabs. The president has 52 of the vote right now compared to joe bidens 47 . And the race remains close in North Carolina, as well. President trump is in the lead here, with 50 bank account of the vote. Compared to joe bidens nearly 49 . North carolina, by the way, has 15 electoral votes and President Trump also slightly ahead at this point in georgia, with 96 of the vote counted. He leads with 50 of the vote compared to joe bidens 49 . Georgia has 16 electoral votes to offer now, earlier this afternoon both michigan and wisconsin were called for joe biden. Lets look now at the electoral vote total. Joe biden now has 264 of the 270 that he needs. Nevadas six could give him the white house, though. We have live coverage of the race for the white house. Our political reporter greg greg lee. Here we are a day after the election and the election remains unclear. Yes. With michigan and wisconsin going to biden his path to th
Years. Welcoming everyone together as americans. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, november 8th. Im jovina fordson. We wake up to a message of healing as they look to build their vision for the next four years. Everyone will be watching, speaking from wilmington, delaware, last night. President elect biden laid out his hopes for his presidency, he was introduced by the woman whose story you know well here, Vice President elect Kamala Harris, daughter of indian jamaican immigrants, the highest ranking woman in the nations 244year history. As you wake up, here are some pages, front pages of sunday morning papers, from around the country. Were starting here at home, in San Francisco, we have the San Francisco chronicle saying biden wins. Subtext notes the victory for bay area native senator Kamala Harris saying harris to backgroundbreaking vp. The Washington Post reads biden defeats trump. Gives a nod to the Vice President elect saying with haar rilg harris he rebls the blue wall. It wa