Today low to mid 60s. 61 to 66. Some upper 50s at the coast. Kumasi, reggie. Mike, thank you. Happening today, president elect joe biden talking about his plans for health care. Hes already at work tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile President Trump and his team defiant claiming that the election was stolen but providing no evidence to back that up. Abc News Reporter alex presha live in washington. Goodern moi morning, reggie kumasi. No evidence right now to back up those claims of Election Fraud. Meanwhi meanwhile, we know president elect joe biden is set to address health care. Supreme court looking at the Affordable Care act today. But on the coronavirus front, some good news. Drugmaker pfizer announcing that its vaccine has a 90 or more than 90 effectiveness rate in some lateround clinical trials. As the u. S. Passes 10 million covid cases president elect joe biden is welcoming pfizers vaccine breakthrough but warning more work is still to be done. The challenge before us
Moving into the red. The News Conference set to start at noon. Were expecting it to start imminently. Meanwhile, we learned that Contra Costa County and Santa Cruz County were bumped back into the red. The governor warned based on current covid infect rates that are the counties are likelying to follow the move and be bumped again in the colorcoded tier system. Were waiting to learn if others are on the list. The News Conference is to start at noon. Californias in a better situation than other parts of the country where infects and hospitalization rates are surging. The governor yesterday indicating that dr. Gale today will announce more restrictions for some counties. Anticipate that we will see some counties moving backwards not forwards and this is exactly why we designed the tore status the way we did. It was about being more and less restrictive not based upon political whim but based upon the data. The epidemiology and facts. Reporter the governors comments came the same day as c
To increased economy. There is a one month to in germany, not good for our market, same thing in france and a Record Number of new cases in america over the last seven days. Thats not good either and a time clearly running out for stimulus package before the election. We will ask larry kudlow about that. Dow industrial 900point drop yesterday, dead flat at the opening of this morning, pretty much the same story for the s p, modest rebound for the nasdaq. This is the big day for big tech, apple, amazon, google and facebook will tell us how they are doing financially. Report on this about 4 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. Extreme importance because these are the most important and powerful countries in the world. Their stocks have had a terrific run, but they have come off their highs and we will ask if the blue is coming off the big tech. Campaign headline, joe biden leaves his house again. Today hes off to tampa, florida and so is the president. The latest poll shows a dead heat, 48,
We couldnt have had it in a more to say a more formal setting because it may been better attended. Im not sure any hearing we have had would be any more important in the spirit her witnesses will be the director of the Congressional Budget Office and jeans are darl who is the comptroller general of the United States in the head of the u. S. Government Accountability Office. With that i will make my Opening Statement and turned to Maggie Hassan my Ranking Member and then i think Ranking Member wise and for the entire committee for statement you would like to make as well. Again thank you all for being here. Im grateful to all who are joining us via the internet. Today we will address the topic a with refer to shy away from addressing her nations run away debt and deficit could when it comes to our Health Care Choices arent so easy. We exercise we want to relax and eat healthily when we preferred a splurge. These promote health and fitness and is worthwhile for her overall wellbeing. Sim
Thank you. Good evening everybody. And i want to thank the aarp for sponsoring this debate and the voters and people in the seventh district for giving me the opportunity to serve them in and congress over these number of years. Ive been there long enough so i was able to move up to the head of the Agricultural Committee and ive been chair man twice and probably the only person thats ever done that. Weve been able to do some good work. Weve kept the Committee Bipartisan which was important to me. We got the usmc a trade agreement done that people were concerned about. We made that happen and got a good democratic vote so i look forward to going back to congress and continuing the bipartisan work that ive done over the number of years. Michelle fischbach, one minute opening statement. Thank you very much to matt and aarp for putting this together tonight. Im Michelle Fischbach. I served in the Minnesota Senate and first female president of the senate and worked as Lieutenant Governor fo