He is expected as a virus numbers continue to spike around the nation to give an update on operation warp speed and talk about new developments in the race for covid19 vaccine. At the close you look at the numbers, the vaccine helps as well with upbeat corporate profit a rally not far away from a record high, it was flirting with the record, needed to be 470 but lost a little steam in the final minutes of trading, a strong day, the s p that is a recordsetting, closing up by 48point, as it settled in what appears to be the 23rd record close of the year for the s p 500 and we want to monitor the smallcap stocks today and the russell 2000, the russell closing in record territory what is significant for the smaller stocks, the first time in more than two years we have seen a wrestled record, the s p up in the second straight week, adding more than a thousand points. We canoes and big tech brought the nasdaq into the red, those are your numbers as we come to you on a friday, im connell mcsh
Count votes. This projected that President Trump has won alaska and their electoral votes. In georgia the secretary of state is calling for a hand count of votes. I know the secretary of state there under tremendous amount of pressure right now. Staggering amounts of pressure. And from his own party. He is a republican. He says there has been nothing wrong or suspicious with the ballot count but he is under pressure to step down. Video here of the vote count that continues in georgia where the race between biden and trump is still too close to call. The state has 16 electoral votes. Even if President Trump won the state, he would not have won the president ial election. He is just too far behind which is why we and every other major News Organization have called the race for biden. Even if President Trump won all of the states that have not finished their counting, he would not reach the constitutionally mandated 270 electoral votes. There is no mathematical way for him to win with the
5 00 right now. Covid cases in a nationwide surge. This map shows much of the midwest covered in red meaning a widespread number of new cases. Dark orange shows a significant surge. Thats most of the east coast along with parts of texas which just hit 1 million cases. California a lighter orange but cases here are also on the rise. The cdc has put out its strongest guidance yet on mask wearing citing growing evidence a mask can help protect a person wearing it. The cdc says adopting universal mask wearing policies could help future help prevent future lockdowns. As San Francisco struggles to get ahead of rising covid cases, leaders reopening rolling back plans. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain why the city is hardly alone here when it comes to new concerns and confusion, cierra. Reporter yes, good morning. Mayor london breed made that announcement shes pausing some of that reopening, and that includes halting the reopening of indoor learning for high
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The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi