If you get caught with covid 19, the closest hospital is probably one hour away for most people here. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff this has been a day for honoring americas military veterans, of peace and war, amid the political war over the president ial race. President trump still shows no sign of conceding to president elect biden, or
We will tell you what he is saying. The cdc says School Closings are a terrible way to fight rising covid cases was we have a doctor who agrees with him coming up, sounding off later in this hour. Lets look where stock prices are right now. We see the Dow Jones Industrial down 91 points, the s p down 9. 25 and the nasdaq down a tick as well. We will follow the progress on the market says they are due to open in 29 minutes and you will see the president today for the First Time Since saturday, he will be delivering remarks on lowering drug prices for all americans it to 30 p. M. Eastern time. You can watch that on foxbusiness. Joe biden is set to meet with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer today and we cant leave this out, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is in order to get the virus under control we should close businesses and pay people to stay home. Forget about businesses going bankrupt, the government can take care of all your needs. Isnt that pure socialism and dont we all know how that stor
So today well talk about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works and why most scholars kind of hate the Electoral College and its among the Political Science set which homely youve had so far and you get a fullthroated argument against the Electoral College and it is a useful, instructive book because lays out all of the common arguments for it, as well which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we like the president and few americans fully understand the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency you should walk away understanding how this process we use to select our chief executive officer work, but also because it is really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just how we started our discussion by president ial nominations by discussing the history of the nominations pr
Trevor thats right. Corona is blowing up in europe and america again. In fact, its rampaging across the western world so hard that scientists have had to invent new shades of red for the covid maps. Right now the midwest is blood meets fire engine but the east coast is only at pothead eyes. I see what corona did, it waited for us to be distracted by the election and, boom snuck into our lungs. How joey snuck into n sync, they were so focused on the dance moves they didnt realize the bus driver jointed the group. Its gotten so bad even utah is under mask mandate. You know its bad even when mormons are using protection. Thats the bad news. I promised you the good news, too. The news we have been waiting for pfizer said its vaccine candidate was more than 90 effective in early testing. Dr. Anthony fauci called the news extraordinary, he also says there are likely to be other effective vaccines coming soon. The news from pfizer was even better than expected. I would have been very satisfie
Trevor right now the coronavirus is giving us good and bad news, like getting laid at the family reunion. Lets get straight to the bad news. Were passing a staggering 10 million covid 19 infections, the highest in any nation. Past week, 74 americans were diagnosed every minute. Countries across europe are struggling to keep covid 19 at bay. France has reported its highly daily death toll since the start of the second wave, and the weekly death toll in england and wales has jumped by 41 , sur surpassing 1,000 for the first time in june. In utah overcrowding intensive care units forcing the governor to declare a new state of emergency. I am placing the entire state of utah under a mask mandate until further notice. Trevor thats right. Corona is blowing up in europe and america again. In fact, its rampaging across the western world so hard that scientists have had to invent new shades of red for the covid maps. Right now the midwest is blood meets fire engine but the east coast is only at