Plus reverberations are being felt after the doublewhammy from attorney general bill barr who said, no, the Justice Department has not found any widespread evidence of voter fraud, yes, he did appoint a special ounce sell to probe the origins of the trump russia investigation. Critics calling out nasdaq to force companies to include women and minorities on their boards. They say it is another example focus on identity politics taking precedent over efficient capitalism. President obama, remember him, attacks the party about defunding police. They need more than snappy slogans. That is drawing sharp criticism from his fellow democrats. Im gerry baker in for elizabeth mccdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Gerry we begin tonight on capitol hill where there is potential progress on delivering a covid relief package. Fox news Congressional Correspondent chad pergram has the details. Chad . Reporter good evening, gerry. The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is pushing socalled s
And snow in the sierra. Were going to tell you how much more is in our forecast. And a glimmer of hope tonight as covid cases surge. Late details on a vaccine and how soon it could become widely available. But first several counties are quickly tightening restrictions to slow the spread. Tonight covid cases are surging sf statewide. Cases are up nearly 50 in the first week of november. Many of our local counties are stopping Indoor Dining, and more restrictions could be on the way. Heres nbc bay areas ian cull. Reporter it was eight months ago tonight. Bay area counties were limiting crowd sizes and preparing a shelter at home order. Fast forward to today doctors say we are fully into the third wave of covid19. After a slow drift up in the month of october its started to head straight up. Because of it santa clara is joining with San Francisco, copia costa and marin counties to ban all Indoor Dining. The south bay expects to fall back into the red tier tuesday. And if it does that also
That might not be enough because it looks as if joe biden has more than enough force to get over the 270. 00 Electoral College vote threshold which of course means he wins the white house but ideally the biden team would like to get to 360 thats within their grasp theres a couple reasons for that one it makes it look slightly more comfortable than just squeezing by on one Electoral College vote id take so we. Only got there because of problems with the voting systems but also 306. 00 is what donald trump achieved 4 years ago so for many in the Biden Campaign there would be an ironic symmetry that biden got to 306 but celebrations here in front of the white house and even here in the. Goodbye that was played i remember. 12 years ago when. The. Obama won the white house for the 1st time but a truly historic moment if this is to go through because of course we get joe biden as president in the United States but also elected for the 1st time to the office of Vice President we have a woman
Thank you for joining us. Voting is underway across the United States and the most controversial and anticipated pole in years. Millions of will have cast their ballots early. There have been long lines at polling stations as voters try to stay safe amid the pandemic. Donald trump and joe biden have been battling for every last vote with joe biden out of pennsylvania and trump in virginia. Im not thinking about a consent acceptance or concession speech. Winning is easy. Losing is never easy. Not for me, its not. When you see rallies, the likes of which in the history of this country probably in the history of the world nobody has ever seen before, there is a tremendous love going on in this country and a tremendous unity. Nobody has ever seen that were you taken airport in the airport isnt big enough to hold the crowds. Nobody has ever seen nothing like that. Our opposition has a few people sitting in circles and thats ok. Thats not abnormal actually. Thats the way it is. Lets go back
The careful counting of every ballot. Mr. Biden asks for every ballot to be counted, mr. Trump says he will go to the Supreme Court. Good morning. The news flowing every hour. Francine lacqua, it is pretty much as we expected, and we have not only seen the political results but the market gyrations in the last 24 hours. Francine tom, there are two outcomes the markets were fearful about, and those outcomes can much more possible in the last 24 hours. First, the joe biden presidency with a Republican Senate. We could have that. It is still mathematically possible. The other one, of course come a very contested election. If you listen to what President Trump said about an hour and 10 minutes ago, it is very clear that he wanted to go to the Supreme Court, ask that the Supreme Court step in, because unclear why, tom, because we are still counting votes. There is absolutely no evidence that something has been done wrong, but certainly fighting words from President Trump, and that will put