Coronavirus pandemic. Officials say more than 100 million votes came in before election day, the most ever. The university of florida is analyzing the trend and says about 65 million of the ballots came in by mail. The surge in mailin voting could have a major effect on election calls. Many people in florida said they wanted to make their voices heard. I know a lot of people especially on social media, younger people are really pushing the voting. Some said the voting process was unexpectedly easy, though there were adjustments for the coronavirus pandemic. There have been no extra long lines, and once the line got started everything just went smoothly. A lot of attention is on the results of six swing states, arizona, florida, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin and north carolina. Those difficulttocall states are essentially the tipping points and often decide who wins the electoral college. The two candidates appeared in public on the crucial day. Were doing very well in florida. Were
Hello and welcome to nhk newsline. Im Yoshi Ogasawara in tokyo. We start this hour in new york where the United Nations is canceling all inperson General Assembly Committee Meetings scheduled for tuesday. It comes after five people of a mission of a member state tested positive for the coronavirus. Its not immediately clear which member state is involved but the u. N. Said it is conducting contact tracing. The cancelations likely mean the Committee Vote on a japansponsored resolution to abolish Nuclear Weapons will be postponed. Most u. N. Staff that operate out of the new york headquarters have been working remotely since march. But more people have been returning to the office since july. Meanwhile, a top official at the World Health Organization is expressing concern about the latest surge of infections sweeping across europe. We are seeing very, very high positivity rates and an increasing lack of capacity to do any effective form of contact tracing. The two countries with the high
Against a u. S. Company in decades. Google says the government case is deeply flawed. Late tradenges in after missing on subscribers last quarter. Its outlook for the current period is below expectations and investors are not happy. Haidi we are just getting a little bit more of an update on these ongoing stimulus discussions in washington, d. C. Nancy pelosi saying she is optimistic a deal can be done before the election and that she is calling on Committee Chairs to resolve some of the differences when it comes to funding levels and language so they can get back to negotiations between her and secretary mnuchin as soon as possible, crucially saying she remains hopeful an agreement will be safer, bigger, and better, and will be retroactive as well. We are seeing that reaction when it comes to the futures markets. Lets look at the asian trading day. Sophie kamaruddin is here with us in hong kong. Seeing s pare eminis gain ground and a muted start in asia with the asx 200 coming online
On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp
We will get insight from the director of of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe at 8 00 a. M. This morning. Take a look at tripledigit move, dow industrials up 218, nasdaq up 29 and s p up by 29. Friday industrials were up 112 points, nasdaq lower by 42 and white house trade adviser Peter Navarro on focus on swing states. Out with a report on swing state economy and we will look at michigan. Online outrage. Twitter executives online posts revealing deepseated hatred for President Trump. We are following the accusations of Technology One sideness this morning. Real november surprise. Neil degrass one day before the election making a buzz. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets take a look at european markets this morning on the heels of strong performances in the u. S. Ftse 100 down 2 points but cac quarante is down 40 and dax index is higher by 15 and a half. China out with some important Economic Data reporting 4. 9 expansion in Third Quarter gdp, from a year earlier. Sale