Like the country hasnt since the great depression. Reporter im errol barnett. Hospitals in at least 25 states face a critical shortage of doctors, nurses and other staffment not all hospitals are affected equally. Dr. Tara narula reports on two different facilities and how theyre coping. Reporter plains of nebraska, just 25 hospital beds and four doctors to battle the countys covid Positivity Rate of 28 . 1,500 miles away in new york, Northwell Health runs 23 hospitals, nearly 6,000 beds, 4,500 doctors. When covid first attacked the country, new york was the epicenter, and northwell were on the front lines. 84,000 Covid Patients since the crisis began. Reporter ceo Michael Dowling says the size and experience in disasters with 9 11 had advantages. Did load balancing, able to use transport to move patients from queens to westchester, to eastern long island. If wed not been able to, hospitals in queens would have been overwhelmed. Reporter small hospitals like lexington regional have few
Products pulled from the shelves turkey backs a boycott in retaliation for comments about islam. Donald trumps pick for the u. S. Supreme court has officially been confirmed as the countrys newest top judge. The nomination of any county indiana to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. And hes on the ballots appointment was approved in a vote by the Republican Controlled Senate should not be sworn in at the white house the confirmation means the countrys highest court now has a conservative majority no nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a president ial election lets go to alan fischer whos live for us in washington d. C. The democrats really did not want this to happen but it didnt seem to matter what they tried the republicans were determined that this was going to go through. 30 days from her nomination until her confirmation not the fastest in Supreme Court history but very fast particularly when you add in to the fact that the ele
Resumed in peace state to decide the next president. Now 2 days on from the election america still doesnt know who will be on to the keys to the white house and everything does hang on the key swing states that are yet to to clash so at the moment things are looking good for Democrat Joe Biden and he has the backing all of you can see right that 264 electors that is if you include arizona which some say is to cool if it is the his though it means that he just needs 6 mall to reach the magic 270 for victory donald trump on the other hand you can see its a bit behind with 214 well lets look at the post ways to power a full of accountants food joint biden securing a majority in nevada right here would haunt him 6 electors which is enough to put him in the white house for 4 more years of donald trump so the incumbent president would have to win 5 states with a result isnt clear yet these are the ones that a great man trump is currently ahead in 4 of them excluding nevada in georgia the cur
Are id required for one reason or another. The deadline for those voters to get back to us is friday, november 6 at 5 00 p. M. That is another group of the ballots we will need to put into the system once they have come in to provide their id. The u. S. Mail will continue to deliver. So starting tomorrow through next tuesday, which is the last day for us to receive a mail ballot that has been postmarked 3. Ember we will continue to receive mail. Those ballots are also separate from what i previously reported. Care process in about a which is statutorily required for those voters who have been notified that they did not sign there ballot or their signature did not match in our system, they have until thursday, november 12, to secure that ballot. Can tabulate and send ballots into the system is november 12. So, that night, we will stay here until we are done entering ballots into the system because statute clearly tells us that we must be done counting by that date. Information, i hope i
Count 51,000 ballots today and report the results friday morning but will not be done counting until saturday or sunday. He also pushed back against the trump campaigns accusations saying improper ballots are not being processed. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here this morning. I want to start by making a request. Parking is very limited in this facility and we are staff beingg on able to get in and out of this facility quickly. They will only be granting access to those who are approved members of the media, members of my staff, and those individuals who have business with the election department. Please keep that in mind. The purpose of being here this morning is to get some clarification on exactly what the work is that is being done here in clark county to get the votes counted accurately. On what wets now received from the election day dropoff. The u. S. Postal service on election day and yesterday, and also some additional ballots that we had pending bec