Attics and comment tray or reading universities and the wealth 1st cyber a kevin so great to have you with us. Why so many things have been coming up in the news lately so the technology of implanting alex roads into the brain cortex is at least 20 years old and the electrodes in the brain have already been used to control at the electic site some people here at mosques near a link project is presented as a giant leap forward why. Well i think. Thats why its the center. But it is good in some ways but the moment he just been experimented on with pigs as i understand so theres no human joy i was here not only is it. But only the type of electrodes theyre using the not rigid the electrodes that i have implanted in my nervous system were. Like like a hairbrush. And the potential there is that i can break off and of course firing them into the brain on a system would be quite dangerous a 100 spikes in my nervous system so i think if were looking at very. You know you can move them around t
A look at the u. S. Election map we certainly see that so far neither president on a trump nor his democratic challenger joe biden have clinched the necessary 270. 00 Electoral College votes which are needed to win trump has defied pollsters expectations by hanging on to several battleground states the sheer number of postal votes in states like pennsylvania means that. While we may not know the full outcome for days of course both candidates trying to reach 270 Electoral College delegates for now it appears biden is ahead but that could all change as key states begin to announce their results so that is the state of the race right now not surprisingly the share markets were on edge as results from the u. S. President ial election proved closer than polls had predicted the main european bourses in frankfurt paris and london were slightly lower. On investors fact it in a drawer out and to be to fight ahead safe havens like bones roses donald trump called foul play and the dollar also ga
Ethiopian egypt are expected to restart talks on the controversial nile dam project the President Donald Trump warns could lead to military. So with exactly a week to go now before the u. S. Election theres been a surge in early voting in part due to end in spite of the coronavirus pandemic more than 63000000 americans have voted by monday night already 4000000 more than all the early votes cast in 2016 the National Polls are giving democratic contender joe biden a solid lead although its a lot tighter in some battleground states the coronavirus pandemic continues to cast this shadow over proceedings infections is surging with some states concerned about the lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week alone with more than 225000 deaths since the pandemic began stop. Markets in the u. S. Saw their biggest day one day drop in a month as concern grows that failure to contain the outbreak will hurt the economic recovery a rescue package remains he
The focus certainly on the u. S. Not only for the infections but of the transition period and what we can expect from the markets. The markets looking at some caution, we heard from Central Banks saying look, the vaccine is not going to be a cureall. If you look at what investors are trying to assess, it is additional stimulus, an economy that has been battered by these coronavirus cases that we have seen going up and up. Treasuries adding to the gains, and if you look at other things we are looking at, you know, the dging higher afterword that Dominic Cummings will leave his role with Boris Johnson at the start of the year. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hi, laura. Laura good morning, francine. Powell, ecb president christine lagarde, and Andrew Bailey used a Virtual Conference to highlight the risk. The post pandemic economy will be different in many ways. The 2020 election was the most secure in american history. They say there are is no e
For us on the committee to do something radical, to listen more than we talk. For us to heare from our colleagues on both sides of the aisle about their ideas for the next rules package. Regardless of who controls Congress Next year, i think we can all agree running this house with integrity means listening to all members so that is what we will be doing today. We took a collaborative approach with the rules package for this congress and im proud to say the first bipartisan package in decades. It took time to acknowledge no party has the monopoly on good ideas. Of what weve created together, the consensus calendar to expedite consideration of ideas with bipartisan support, the Diversity Office to get the calls falls of Congress Looking like the real world, and the Modernization Committee to advance good ideas from both sides to get this place functioning better. Although we were hearing these in committee, we required other committees hold them so all members have the chance to be hear