First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
Battleground states still counting votes but the president ial remains remains too close to call joe biden is urging people to be patient he says he is confident of becoming the next president s biden has 264 Electoral College votes 270 are needed for victory. Donald trump is making false claims that if only legal votes were counted he would win the election he says legal challenges manned up in the Supreme Courts kristen salumi has more now from philadelphia. Joe biden ahead in pennsylvania by just over 5000 votes thats a 10th of a percentage point still a very close race here but the ballots are continuing to be counted particularly here in philadelphia where biden has been winning 87 percent of the vote that lead is expected to expand as it does the president has been attacking the poll workers here the credibility of the county and launching legal challenges if the o. P. s Prime Minister says a military operation in the northern to gray region has clear and limits of goals and so a
2 key states trotted out leads by fewer than 2000 votes in georgia as the remaining votes are tallied up to tuesdays election and has left less than half a percent between them in pennsylvania. Trampas lashed out at the time its taking for remaining votes to be tallied in those key states claiming without evidence that the election was being rigged and stolen saying further legal action is imminent if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in i will really just say certainly were many critical stage. Biden is urging people to be patient he says hes confident of becoming the next president he has 264 Electoral College votes to 70 and they did for victory we continue to feel you know we continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is surely senator harrison i will be declar
About her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. I also want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight, alas its virtually but i will do my best. It is my first soon presentation so bear with me everyone. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking about now i shouldve had a lot of wind, but anyway here we go. Im going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. He once observed, may occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them picked themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel stuart alexander, the remarkable hero of my book, did not hurry off. In fact, he refuse to leave the scene of the military disaster even when churchill himself warned him to. He stayed, he paid attention, he investigated, and as a result he recognized the never before seen symptoms in a group of dying sailors that might have lifesaving
The courts by his Team Republicans have followed legal challenges in several states and trying this Campaign Says its expected to launch additional action in pennsylvania and nevada Donald Trumps Campaign Manager has issued a statement accusing democrats of trying to steal the election alan fisher has more from washington d. C. Theres been an attack from the Trump Campaign on the way that democrats are allegedly conducting themselves. Campaign manager they said that the democrats are lying cheating and stealing running rampant across the country now theyve alleged in several places that there is voter fraud but they have yet to produce any evidence of that and theyve gone to court in the last 24 hours in michigan and also in. Kosovo as president says hell resign immediately to face a war crimes trial at the hague he was indicted in june by a special tribunal investigating the 99899. 00 conflict with serbia that is accused of nearly 100 murders when he was a commander of the Kosovo Libe