As they gather in brussels for the end of year summit. Also on the programme us regulators allowed boeings 737 max to continue flying even when they knew it could average one fatal crash every two or three years. And the christmas bonus that left these lucky employees an awful lot richer. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. The talking is over. It is decision time. After five weeks of campaigning, the uk goes to the polls tomorrow, at a critical juncture in the brexit story. Such are the vagueries of britains first past the post system no one really knows where this will take us. The polls suggest the gap between the two main parties has narrowed in recent weeks, but still we could be looking at anything from a Hung Parliament to a tory landslide. The Party Leaders have been on a whistle stop tour of the country. We have plotted it for you, the conservatives in blue, labour in red. The Prime Minister began his day delivering milk to a voter i
1. 855. We begin with facebook with the social media giant honing a Developers Conference this hour. The stock right now is currently down 1. 9 but it is nonetheless, still sitting around alltime highs. Julia borstein is live at the big event in san francisco. Julia. Thats right, mandy. Mark zuckerberg is about to take the stage. He will be addressing the 2,500 developers who are gathered here in san francisco, and there are two main topics that he is expected to make big news on. Messenger is facebooks standalone messeninging app, and he announced he will be turning it into a platform. That means that developers will be able to build other apps on top of the platform very similar to what weve seen with the line app, which is a popular messaging app in asia. That means people will be able to buy things, buy movie tickets, and do various things including read content, watch videos without actually leaving the messenger app. Big news there as well as an Ad Technology as facebook looks to
Fifth democrat to drop out in five days as the race is on between biden and bernie to gain heron endorsement. While the Sanders Campaign is changing strategy on the fly to deal with the biden bounce in the next round of states. And another warning tonight about a potential pandemic of misinformation. Especially on social media. Well let you guess as to who is behind it as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1141 of the Trump Administration, leaving 243 days to go until the 2020 president ial election. As the nation grows increasingly anxious about the coronavirus outbreak, our president s focus is clearly on defending his administration and his fight to hold onto the white house. Fox news put on a town hall meeting for the president tonight. Of all places, in joe bidens hometown of scranton, p. A. More on that event lart. The Trump White House is under fire and under pressure for its resp
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1141 of the trump administration, leaving 243 days to go until the 2020 president ial election. As the nation grows increasingly anxious about the coronavirus outbreak, our president s focus is clearly on defending his administration and his fight to hold onto the white house. Fox news put on a town hall meeting for the president tonight. Of all places, in joe bidens hometown of scranton, p. A. More on that event later. The Trump White House is under fire and under pressure for its response to the coronavirus. Right now the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Rising daily and region by region. There are now well over 200 confirmed cases in this country, but remember, only 1500 people have been tested. Financial markets remain rattled by the relentless spread. Today the dow lost about 970 points, largely erasing the big gains from earlier this week. Both chambers of congress have now approved an 8. 3 b
And then an extraordinary moment of candor. Not everyone at white house agreed with me. On what part of this . Probably on the pace of releases. Because youve been cautious . Because i had the responsibility and i play my own game here and that is because by law i am the one, the one official in government charged with certification of release of detainees. Have you had pressure . Weve had a lot of conversations. What he is talking about is the pressure he felt to sign off on releasing more detainees and releasing them faster. Secretary hagel made clear he was never willing to sign anything he wasnt comfortable with. Barbara star cnn, the pentagon. For more on this lets bring in former u. S. Delta force Commander Lieutenant colonel james reese. I think there is a big picture question that needs answering. What do we do when our guys or those of our allies end up in enemy hands . Jordan may be making a swap for an iraqi wouldbe suicide bomber, the female but to answer that underlying qu