Voting results in key states are still in play a 4th straight day of record Coronavirus Infections across the u. S. Joe biden makes the pandemic his 1st priority and celebrations in azerbaijan as the government announces it now controls the city of shoe shop in disputed nagornokarabakh. And in School Child Care is testing its ability to host a safe olympics next year the citys staged its 1st International Competition of the games venue since the new pics have to be postponed due to canonical. Us president elect joe biden has declared its time to heal a deeply divided america. Even as his predecessor still refuses to concede defeat in a bitterly fought president ial election biden vowed not to divide but to unify and called on americans to give each other a chance reaching out to the 70000000 people who did not vote for him his running mate kemah harris will be the 1st woman black american and american of asian descent to serve as Vice President and she paid tribute to the women who pav
Azerbaijan as the government announces it now controls the city of shoes in disputed neck or knock out about. Us president elect joe biden has declared its time to heal a deeply divided america even as his predecessor still refuses to concede defeat in a bishop before president ial election biden found not to divide but to unify and called on americans to give each other a chance reaching out to the 70000000. 00 people who did not vote for him his running mate kemel harris will be the 1st woman black american and american of asian descent to serve as Vice President and she paid tribute to the women who paved the way for her victory donald trump meanwhile is threatening multiple lawsuits in an attempt to challenge the results but Election Officials in states across the country say there has been no evidence of significant fraud while biden has spent his 1st sunday as president elect attending a Church Service with his family in his hometown of wilmington delaware planning for his presid
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Count is truly senator harrison i will be declared the winner so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people stay calm the process is work the count is being completed. In a low very soon the last president has repeated unsubstantiated claims that there were major problems with voting and ballot counting children of arda and pennsylvania just some of the states where votes still being counted and republicans are filing legal challenges over the election a Trump Campaign lawsuit calling for a halt a vote counting in michigan has been thrown out or trump and biden supporters have confronted each other outside the Philadelphia Convention center where ballots the still being counted Trump Supporters say fraudulent ballots are being counted in favor of joe biden democrats have dismissed the allegation. United states set a new record for daily coronavirus cases with more than 102000 confirmed cases on wednesday topping the record set last friday we were our 2nd National Lockdown has begun in
World. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by judy there are two major stories tonight, the postelection transition as President Trump refuses to concede or even allow for the traditional preparations that would normally have begun and the surging burden of covid cases in most areas of the country. The u. S. Hit a new daily record of covid19 infections with more than 144,000 reported yesterday. Hospitalizations top 65,000 for the first time, 22 states are reporting more hospitalizations than at any time says the pandemic began. Deaths are up by 22 from a week you. Ago. Lets look at how this is hitting a number of states especially hard no matter which region. In el paso, texas, makeshift clinics outside hospitals are opening up. Mobile morgues are moving in and a lockdown of nonessential businesses has been extended, testing lines are growing in wisconsin. Cases there have jumped from 700 a day to more than 6000 in two months