recount in wisconsin in the two largest counties surrounding milwaukee and wisconsin. in georgia election officials say they again found uncounted ballots during their recount. an additional 2700 of them narrow s joe biden s lead to less than 13,000 there. garrett tenney reports, john roberts from the white house, that s where we begin. john good afternoon bill good afternoon to you. the trump campaign filed a petition for a recount in two of wisconsin s biggest countries there are 800 thousand votes. milwaukee, voted 69% in favor of joe biden on november 3rd, and in the mail in votes and the bobcat goes by behind me. dated county nearly 75% in favor of joe biden. the basis for the filing of the petition for the recount illegally altered absentee ballots, illegally issued absentee ballots and illegal advice from government officials rega regarding voter id laws. the biden campaign says, after wisconsin voters turned out to cast their ballots in record numbers, a cherry pick
announced that 33 people tested positive for the virus and 8,400 californians are now being monitored. so far there have been 59 confirmed cases in the u.s., according to the world health organization. worldwide over 83,000 cases and over 2,800 deaths of the coronavirus have been confirmed. the impact on wall street continues as the dow and s&p are on pace for their worst weekly performance since 2008. down more than 10.5% on the week. yesterday the dow experienced its single worst day point drop in history plunging nearly 1,200 points while both the zps&p 500 closed. and in strong contrast to success earlier this month. the dow closed on a record high february 12th and it only took the s&p 500 six days to fall from an all-time high to correction levels marking the fastest drop of that magnitude. this morning the dow futures eae pointing to an opening loss of more than 600 points while the s&p and nasdaq also point to lower openings. the effects of coronavirus is already wide
good thursday morning, everybody. it is april 30th. i m yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover this morning as the u.s. death toll surpassed 60,000 yesterday. the president seemed to revert to his old line of thinking that the virus will, in fact, disappeared. this claim has been refuted time and time again by the administration s top medical experts who say the virus will come back in the fall and will likely be worst if it coincides with flu season. here is dr. anthony fauci on tuesday. and then the president contradicting him yesterday. it s not going to disappear from the planet, which means as we get into next season, in my mind, it s inevitable that we will have a return of the virus or maybe it never even went away. when it does, how we handle it will determine how fate. if by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well. if we don t do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and
welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. the death toll from covid 19 in the us has risen beyond 70,000. it is predicted to top 100,000 by the end of the month. it is expected to top 100,000 by the end of the month. at the same time, donald trump is doubling down on his calls for american states to ease the lockdown and get back to work. in this presidential election year, dealing with the pandemic has become the dominant political issue. my guest today is jaime harrison, a senior official in the democratic party who is running for the us senate in south carolina. has covid 19 changed america s political landscape? jaime harrison, in south carolina, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it is good to see you again. well, it s great to have you back on this show. i wonder, as a politician who is running for the us senate in november, ijust wonder whether covid 19 and the pandemic feels like it s changed everything in us politics right now? stephen, you re right. it has c
now on bbc news. it is 4:30am in the morning. it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. the death toll from covid 19 in the us has risen beyond 70,000. it is expected to top 100,000 by the end of the month. at the same time, donald trump is doubling down on his calls for american states to ease the lockdown and get back to work. in this presidential election year, dealing with the pandemic has become the dominant political issue. my guest today is jaime harrison, a senior official in the democratic party who is running for the us senate in south carolina. has covid 19 changed america s political landscape? jaime harrison, in south carolina, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it is good to see you again. well, it s great to have you back on this show. i wonder, as a politician who is running for the us senate in november, ijust wonder whether covid 19 and the pandemic feels like it s changed everything in us politics right now? stephen, you re right. it has