Election nasa just identified an asteroid with so much mineral wealth its worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars give or take a few bucks. After a weekend with some superspreader halloween parties, could the recordsetting pandemic get even worse . Its monday, november 2nd. Early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena. Good to be with you im Frances Rivera on the evening of the election both candidates are launching one last battleground blitz. The candidates will make their last stand today President Trump will headline five rallies across four states while joe biden is Holding Events in ohio and pennsylvania. A tremendous amount of americans already voted, casting a recordbreaking 93 million ballots. And it could cross the 100 million mark once the weekends tallies are complete helding into election day the president is trailing his democratic rival by ten points in our latest nbc news wall street journal poll nbcs tracie potts joins us live from bidens hometown wilmington, del
Work on a more normal basis, well continue to try to meet remotely so that we can play our part in slowing the spread of covid19. I want to also announce a couple of reminders to the conduct of this hearing. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, and members are responsible for their own microphones. Just be mindful that you probably have a little bit more responsibility than usual than if we were in a regular meeting space. And please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking and finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, email them to the committee clerk. But if you dont have it, we can make sure you do get it. I welcome you to the science, space and Technology Committees First Virtual hearing. Today were discussing the impact of covid19 on the Fire Service Community and how we can best leverage existing federal programs to expedite assistance to Fire Departments during the pandemic. I appreciate our witne
First responders during the coronavirus pandemic. The house sign space and Technology Committee is hosting. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We can understand more clearly what we are facing. Significant n to local estate tax revenue. And other sources of support for Fire Departments. Facing some departments the hardest decision for firefighters in this crisis. We are in the middle of this health guide trips Health Crisis that at the same time the country is addressing longstanding racism. We are also in the early days of [inaudible] paul. Are not on mute, im sorry . [beep] ok. Thismain in the middle of health and economic crisis at the same time our country is confronting racial injustice. On top of that, we are in the early days of an honest wildfire hurricane season. This is a time of great uncertainty. , people are counting on us to ensure our First Responders have the tools and support they need to do their job well and safely. I look forward to Todays Congress andout help
Tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for joining us at 10 on this tuesday night im pam moore and im ken wayne. The governor says hes using 6 factors to determine how soon california can ease its restrictions. They are expanding testing protecting highrisk groups, including Senior Citizens and people and facilities such as Nursing Homes ensuring hospitals have enough meds and supplies to care for patients progress in developing treatments. Ability of schools and businesses to support physical distancing and ability to decide when to reinstitute stay at home orders if needed. Tomorrow the governor says he will be specific to one of the key pieces of his evidence his administration wants to see which requires expanded testing and tracking of the infection. More tests. Will be made available we are seeing a significant increase in our testing remind and well go into this in great detail. Tomorrow and be much more prescriptive in terms of subpopulations and geographic distribution of tests and tes
Plea for the federal gornment to do more to control this pandemic it comes as United States reports the countrys highest singleday death toll from coronavirus good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore more than states are now under stay at home or shelterinplace orders but. The president says a National Stay at home is unlikely. We continue to do our part to kron 4 with social dtancing here in the studio and Health Officials want us all to do the same in the last 24 hours more than 900 people in the u. S. Have died from coronavirus the death toll for americans. Is now more than 5100. And if the Coronavirus Task force projections are correct that number will multiply at least 20 fall there are more than 213,000 cases in the u. S. With more than 9800 here in california. Around the world more than 935,000 people have been infected and more than 47,000 people have died. Th is all according to Johns Hopkins universitys coronavirus tracker map the ongoing out