What do you think is going to be one of the major issues that the Incoming Biden Administration may face . Kyle one thing the Biden Administration early on will figure out what they have to do with is they are inheriting at least a google antitrust lawsuit from the doj. And, you know, there is speculation about how politically motivated it may have been, but nevertheless the actual text of this thing is fairly narrow and fairly focused on issues that democrats have raised as well about the market power of google. They will have to decide, okay almost certainly they will continue to litigate this, but do we want to expand this . Do we want to try and rope in some state attorneys general who are also investigating google . The trump doj has the support of a group of ags, but they are all republicans. Democrats are looking at this stuff too. How expensive do we want to go on antitrust . Host do you think it will be more expensive than under a Trump Administration . Kyle that is the expect
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Is a head of one of the years most anticipated clashes will be previewing this weekends top of the table bonus league a match between byron and dark but its being held in an empty stadium due to the countrys partial lockdown. And welcome to the program just an hour ago democratic president ial candidate joe biden gave a statement he said the democrats were going to win the u. S. President ial election biden has been pulling ahead of us President Donald Trump in key states lets listen to some of what he had to say were going to win this race to see what has happened since yesterday. 24 hours were behind in georgia now are ahead and were going to win that state 24 hours ago we were fine in pennsylvania and we are going to win pennsylvania and an hour ahead but when you do arizona were going to nevada and in fact our lead just doubled in nevada were on track to have over 300 electoral votes Electoral College votes and look at the National Numbers were going to win this race with a clear m
And we lead the program with the latest development in the treatment of copa 19 in the u. S. Food and Drug Administration on monday authorized emergency use of eli lillys experiment mental antibody treatment. Thats balm let me be mocked the f. D. A. Said the emergency use authorization was given based on Clinical Trials showing the drug reduced the need for hospitalization or emergency room visits and high risk tobit 1000 patients now the regulator added that it can be used now for treating patients over the age of 12 with mild to moderate symptoms but cannot be used for patients who have been hospitalized due to cope at 19 lilly is hoping to supply as many as 1000000 doses of the treatment in the 4th quarter of this year now the u. S. Government previously made an agreement with the drug maker for the early supply of the medication on the news lately stock was up as much as 4 percent throughout the day. And following the news that pfizer bio and texaco but 1000 vaccine candidate showe
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