Final sprint to the white house which tonight runs straight through pennsylvania, which is with just eight days until the election and with the coronavirus pandemic worsening nationwide, President Trump and joe biden arrive in the keystone state today trying to win over voters in a state both candidates believe holds the key to the oval office. But with new cases of coronavirus now at their highest since the crisis began and with hospitals across the country again overflowing with patients, tonight the pandemic is once again center stage on the campaign trail. In a surprise visit to a voter center, joe biden pointed to the surge of infections saying President Trump is the worst person to manage the nations response to the virus. For his part, President Trump downplayed the crisis, holding three large rallies and saying no one would be talking about covid after the election, even as his own white house is dealing with a second outbreak of it. Tonight five of the Vice President s aides h
1800. Our guide as park ranger matthew. We are standing in the old house of representatives a building we Call Congress hall, although originally was billed as a county courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building we will see in a moment was United States senate, the house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first census of about three and three quarters of 1 million. We had 106 members of the house, that would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 states, and the story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital is a story that were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also, the bill of rights would
Writeoff. As Boris Johnson promised more testing and tracing, which we dont have in the uk, we could sxr would have avoided a second lockdown. President trump raises questions about voter integrity in his rallies as democratic joe biden leads ten points days ahead of the election. The American People will not be silenced over a 90 Million People have already voted. Already voted. Theyve had enough theyve had enough theres too much on the line to sit it out chinas factory activity roars to life in october, expanding at its fastest rate in a decade, sending asian markets higher well, a very warm welcome to street signs. We have a packed week for you, which kicks off with some data lets look at the eurozone final manufacturing pmi for the month of october the eurozone figure has come in at 54. 8, higher than the flash estimate of 54. 4 in terms of whats actually been seen across the eurozone, manufacturing growth in the eurozone soared in october, but the recovery from the severely depres
We are up for it faangs really driving that. We are up 4 . Usually a useful indicator in terms of risk sentiment. A clean kind of number actually providing one message from the market, confusion. The german tenyear guilt, we do have a bid on bunds, but the move particularly at the 30 end of the u. S. Curve really quite stark today, a big flattening of the curve. Alix it all depends on where we are in the u. S. Election. Nick wadhams of bloomberg joins us now. Where are we . Wheres michigan . Wheres wisconsin . Where is pennsylvania . Nick joe biden leads in wisconsin and michigan, and it looks like those numbers will hold. Wisconsin aspects to make a call later today, although the margin is so narrow that there will likely be a recount. President trump leads in pennsylvania, but both sides say they are confident that they will win that state. Essentially we are doing right now is playing a waiting game. There are states like nevada, pennsylvania, georgia where it is still going to take
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