Top story 4 provinces in china have lowered their Emergency Response level to the corona virus that does not include whole bay but the outbreak began the government has a 4 to response system for Public Health emergency is that determines what measures it will take so far about 78000 people in china have been infected however south korea is still on high alert its Just Announced 161 new cases that brings the total number of infected people to 763 the number of dead from the virus in south korea now stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday in a few moments rob mcbride will be live for us in seoul 1st lets get the latest from china and our correspondent in beijing katrina you katrina good morning so we have some positive news from some of the chinese provinces. Thats right were hearing that 4 chinese provinces you 9 kwaito going dong and sense you have lowered their alert level centrally encouraging people to get back to work as theyve had 0 confirmed cases in recent days over a
They are weighing new investigations. A record turnout in hong kong as prodemocracy looks set for big gains. It is the first opportunity for hong kongers to vote after months and months of violent protests. Paul lets get you across some breaking news on the bloomberg terminal. Carl icahn is said to seek control of occidentals board. He plans to nominate 10 directors in an attempt to seize control of the u. S. Oil and gas producer. This is according to people familiar with the matter. Is said to be looking to seek control of occidentals board. We will bring you more details on that as we get them. For now, trading has begun here in australia. Lets take a look at how we are tracking. Currently higher by just over. 1 . We have a staggered open here in australia. Stocks coming online in alphabetical order. We are currently in the as. The one we are really looking forward to is westpac in the ws. This packet slipping about 7 in the last week on the back of this Money Laundering scandal. 4 o
Dubai to london. In hongg, and the kong, a Record Number of candidates cast their ballots. Bloomberg spoke to the said Party Founding leader to get her take away from the election. Now the ball is in the governments court, and really have to respond to the five demands with an independent inquiry into recent events. Theres also the demand of universal suffrage. The government at least has to say that they are listening. Alix for more, bloombergs yvonne man. Joins us now. How does this affect what is happening on the streets . Yvonne all eyes will be on chief executive carrie lam as she speaks Tuesday Morning to reporters here in hong kong. She has delivered a lot of these press conferences before under increasing pressure. Before, that pressure has translated into a democratic exercise. 2. 9 Million People showed up to cast their ballots, a record turnout of 71 . It was a landslide victory for the prodemocracy camp. These district elections are pretty low level. These counselors dont h
American consumer. Well explain as power lunch begins right now lots of green on this fall monday take a look at the markets all three of the major measures that we follow the dow in 2 of the record high as we look to finish out the Third Quarter. Check out apple. Jumping as jpmorgan says the stock could soar well have more on that. thanks the ongoing impeachment inquiry taking the turmoil in washington to new heights eamon is live with the latest. Reporter on squawk box this morning we got a sense of how some people in white house are viewing this impeachment process up on capitol hill the president s trade adviser was on he gave us husband view. Here his view this is an attempt to run around the ballot box and these radical democrats told us this much i think its war the congress has declared war on this president the American People reporter that matches toeheb tone of what you hear from aides and this could be a long process. Its going to require a real robust white house effort to
I appreciate everyone quieting down so fast. All right. Were about to embark on our second panel of the summit, and the second panel is on the topic that for those of you who know me and know my work over the last 25 years in the election space is near and dear to my heart. Its probably the most important thing is were talking about the nuts and bolts of elections for running smooth elections in the United States, and something where we have made fast strike in the last couple of decades, and that is maintaining accurate and complete voter list. Those two aspects are really important. Whereas women talk about Voter Registration come so much of the time when we talk so much of the oxygen is taken up by those who would seek to make it a choice between affording the franchise to all eligible voters and keeping clean lists and keeping those who are ineligible maybe because they moved or died off of the list. And what we know is that thats a false choice, that you can do both and that both