President elect joe biden says the pandemic and its disastrous economic fallout will be a primary focus when he takes office next month. Biden and vp elect Kamala Harris sat down with jake tapper for an exclusive interview. Biden acknowledged this pandemic may be raging more intensely by the time hes sworn in. He said he will ask americans to unite to beat the virus and save the economy. Theres going to be a couple of things. Number one, its going to be important we set out national standards. Look, we met with governors, democrat and republican as well as 50 democrat and republican mayors, they said they need guidance. They need guidance, and theyre going to need a fair amount of money. Its one thing for us to talk about being able to get help out there, but its not getting there. Were having these hospital stays are overwhelming hospitals right now. Theres a need for more Financial Assistance. Theres more Financial Assistance needed as well when the vaccine comes forward. Theres a ne
Man which im holding here on camera while were talking about it. I know you said, by the way, i know you said in the last hour thats the last time youre going to talk about it. I took that to mean thats the last time youre going to talk about it on your show because youre going to talk about it on colbert tonight. Your book tour is two events, thats it, just two events . Yeah, only two Online Events and they happen within two days of each other and thats it. This is pandemic book tour special. Yeah, and for your last book tour you went around the country, there were a bunch of events. Even though i was on crutches, it was very laborious. Theres always something with a Rachel Maddow book tour. Lawrence, thank you so much for that interview you did with me about bag man. You were very kind, you picked out stuff from it that nobody else picked out about it. I loved the book, rachel, it was easy to do. Thank you very much, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you. Mitch mcconnell did not cry to
Now. Youre watching First Business financial news, analysis, and todays investment ideas. Good morning. Its wednesday, november 28th. Im angela miles. Stocks and shocks a selloff in stocks and commodities took more of a downturn, possibly following comments from Senate Leader harry reid that budget talks may be stallng out. Groupon shares rallied on word talks are underway about a new ceo. Investors poured money into Green Mountain after the close. The stock gained 20 after hours on betterthanexpected earnings. And the new apple imac will go on sale friday. Larry shover of sfg alternatives joins us now for a closer look at todays trading market. Good to have you on the show larry. Always good to see your smile. A lot of reports were surfacing yesterday that harry reid actually moved the market because he said that talks had stalled out over the fiscal cliff. Do you buy into that . Perhaps. Right now, the market seems to be shrugging its shoulders at every headline that comes in, becaus
Japan because of coronavirus. And how birds of prey are being killed in increasing numbers, and game keepers are being blamed dutch rogue gatekeepers. Good evening, welcome to bbc news. The body of a woman who went missing yesterday after being swept away by floodwaters and were sister has been found. Yvonne booth, pictured here with her late husband, has was caught up in the waters. In a statement, herfamily caught up in the waters. In a statement, her family said they were devastated by the news. Storm dennis battered uk over the weekend with wins over 90 mph and torrential rain. Winds have died down but river levels are still rising and hundreds of people have been flooded out of their homes. 0ver of people have been flooded out of their homes. Over 200 Flood Warnings are across the uk, nine are severe, meaning a threat to life, there along the rivers of y and trent. Jon kay has spent the day at harvard, where temperatures,. Those people are right because the Environment Agency have
Praising their quick action that likely prevented a massacre. Cnns nick roberts joins us in france with more. A big cheer as the motorcade drove them out of the Police Station and they have been here all day, and Spencer Stone getting surgery to his hand and his thumb almost severed and he led the success to bring down the attacker. What i would like to do, first of all, is to say thank you to alex skau law toes and Spencer Stone, without whom i dont think we would be here to speak to you today. The investigation getting more information about the attacker. A 26yearold moroccon. We now know he got on the train with his weapons in belgium. It stopped there, and on the way from amsterdam to paris and we understand from the belgian authorities they believe this 26yearold has ties and connections to hard line islamist groups, groups they are already investigating, and now we understand that the counterterrorism officials believe he had gone frommerup to turkey and we dont know if he manage