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
Weve had many of them. It is not a drill. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well start off this morning with the duelling Campaign Events five days before the election. Today President Trump and Vice President biden will be President Biden will be in florida. The former Vice President is to hold a car rally. Nancy chen is in washington. What is their strategy . Good morning to you. The candidates are shoring up all the stops as they try to get support in key swing states like florida. Biden is up slightly but his edge is within the margin of error. Democratic nominee joe biden and his wife jill voted in delaware yesterday joining t th 75 million americans who already cast ballots. Biden took part in an event. One, a town hall hosted by Oprah Winfrey the other with health experts. I cant promise to end this by flipping a switch but i promise we will start on day one doing the right thing. Campaigning in arizona, President Trump insisted the coronavirus is under cont
We have William Justice who will talk about allowing prayer to become action. Join us when we come back. Today we have bishop William Justice to discuss how we can prayerfully movein. We learn how to share the mercy of god with one another. The bishop has been in Northern California since his family moved west in 1946. He graduates graduated from saint gregory elementary and later from Saint Patricks cemetery in menlo park. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1968 and he served as a young priest and a number of San Francisco and San Mateo County parishes. That includes the Pastoral Ministry and most recently the victory of clergy. In 2008, he was named an auxiliary minister by Pope Benedict the 16th. Its a pleasure to have you here with us. Its a pleasure to be here. Host we are talking about the year of mercy and when pope francis declared it, i know his words were so inspiring to us. Even as you became a bishop, you had in your coat of arms that this endures for ever and this messag
A whole policy over there was also locked down but lets listen to some of the people ive been talking to earlier i think its going to be hard after one lock down i think most people are just kind of tired of it they see it as mainly political more than Public Health issue. And especially now with the whole days it seems that you know just a lot more people are not going to. Not going to follow the rules. Which are here to be rude and everybodys and rage and theres a sense of confusion i feel it is a mistake it wasnt prepared it was no exit strategy from the last look down and now we enter another cycle of home im a man and i think its unnecessary mostly because a lot of loopholes not to keep. And i dont know if my daughter will be allowed to work or my husband i dont know whats. Open borders not all but. Ok so if theres anger at the government we could hear that and this rejection of the measure is really are people going to comply you think. Well thats a big question i mean i took a c
Resignation at home head into a sixth week. And European Union leaders calling for a level Playing Field in trade with china. During talks with presidency shooting, eu leaders pushed for access to Chinese Markets. Plus, is there life on venus . Scientists have found what could be the firirst clue. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. U. S. President donald trump is in california where he plans to see firsthand the devastation caused by massive wildfires along the u. S. West coast. The president has been meeting with firefighters and emergency officials s in the north of the state, who have been strugglilig to control record blblazes that have devastated 20,000 square kilometers. Trump blamed the fires on poor Forest Management and a failure to clear underbrush. Democratic rival joe biden has pointed to Climate Change. As the reason for the fires. Our correspondent, he is at the airport in the state capital of sacramento. Where the pre