Shannon from Wisconsin Public radio. Thank you so much for being here as well and moderating this conversation today. As always i want to thank the library and the Public Library foundation for the ongoing support of free cultural events through the wisconsin book festival. It is one of the great pleasures of this year for me that we are able to do these events virtually and ring is altogether even if we cant be all together. But we also have been expanded. There are many people from madison, many people from wisconsin with people from across the nation and across the globe so that is one small wonderful thing that has occurred because of the pandemic. We are grateful for it with with you today. Most notable are grateful Jennifer Palmieri is here to talk about her book, and i will turn the proceedings over to jennifer and shannon and and il sue at the end. Thank you so much. Thanks, tremor. This is so much fun. Thanks jennifer for joining us today. It is fun to be able to be in these d
Committee held a news conference. Making various absence unsubstantiated claims about fraud. We are going to pursue all of this. It would be enough . No it is going to take time. Yes it is going to take time. President trump has so far refused to concede a Bipartisan Group from the last three administrations is calling on the Trump Administration to move forward. Immediately begin the postelection transition process. The General Services administration has yet to formally recognize joe biden as the president elect. That is necessary to free up money for the biden transition team. President trump personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani is planning on filing and Election Fraud lawsuits. Tom baker has been looking into those and the kind of claims, potential outcomes we might see with these legal challenges. Tom. Forest a little bit of breaking news. Despite little evidence, and very little evidence of fraud. Attorney general barr has authorized what he calls substantial allegations of voting ir
Reporter some places that were on the list were spared any outage at all and others saw the weather subside and few problems getting power back on. But there are still 32,000 customers spending a second night without. It was last night at eight zero 7 pm. That is a good thing. Reporter generators and extension cords put away as neighborhoods in the mount diablo foothills were reenergized by pg e. They are dependent on weather forecast. Reporter this home and retire for the phone company and recalls it is better to under promise than to disappoint. You get your outside estimate because that is what people need to plan for the worst event or the worst case. We feel pretty comfortable that once there restored they will stay on. Reporter it is nightly briefing they said overnight winds delivered in mount st. Helena recording a 65 mileper hour gust and winds are forecast to ramp up again in the north the overnight so napa and sonoma counties will stay out. Areas with the all clear have been
This is the exact moment where Boris Johnson may be about to speak to eu leaders. We understand that most of it is virtual. We are expecting the Prime Minister to give his response on whether he is continuing to negotiate. There was that selfimposed deadline on october 15. We dont know whether he is happy with the progress or whether he thinks even if there is not progress, he still wants to give it a shot. Tom there is your update this morning. Lot, like about the map of the fisheries. Its like a big deal, right . In the north . Francine i remember being a young reporter a million years ago showing up in brussels and actually going to at the time, it was not much to talk about, but our editor said watch out for fisheries, because nobody talks about them. Its always a fishing problem, as we see with brexit in 2020. Tom there we are with your update. Ritika gupta just nodded off. Lets start the show with the bloomberg first word news in new york. Ritika good morning. President trump and
Over as Prime Minister following the resignation of the previous officeholders late on tuesday government buildings have been stormed by protest as is anger grows over sundays parliamentary election which is now being an old both u. S. Vice president ial nominees have reportedly tested negative for coronavirus hours before they go face to face in a televised debate clear plastic barriers will separate mike pence and Commodore Harris as they spar for 90 minutes the handling of the pandemic is set to be a key topic but the president still recuperating at the white house for in the hospital stay with the virus germany and france have announced plans to sanction people they blame for the poisoning of russian opposition figures alexina valmy the countrys Foreign Ministers say moscow has failed to provide answers over the attempted murder of novelli who is a vocal critic of president Vladimir Putin is not yet clear who will be sanctioned but both countries say theyll share the list with othe