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Uphold the cease fire between media and the United States has both sides to respect the latest truce and joining us now with all the days sports the Los Angeles Dodgers take game 5 of baseballs world series to move to one of best 1st championship since 1900. So they current are as cases are rising sharply across europe with several countries reporting record numbers of new infections on sunday france announced more than 50000. 00 new cases for the 1st time while its only in spain are also struggling with the 2nd wave but hopes for a vaccine growing the u. K. Health secretary says the government is preparing for a mass rolled around in the 1st half of next year in china the government is conducting more mass testing after a new outbreak in the shin jang region nearly 5000000 people are being screened there after the discovery of 137 new infections in the United States the trumpet ministration has been. Cuse of giving up the fight against covert 19 after white house chief of staff mark m
Today low to mid 60s. 61 to 66. Some upper 50s at the coast. Kumasi, reggie. Mike, thank you. Happening today, president elect joe biden talking about his plans for health care. Hes already at work tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile President Trump and his team defiant claiming that the election was stolen but providing no evidence to back that up. Abc News Reporter alex presha live in washington. Goodern moi morning, reggie kumasi. No evidence right now to back up those claims of Election Fraud. Meanwhi meanwhile, we know president elect joe biden is set to address health care. Supreme court looking at the Affordable Care act today. But on the coronavirus front, some good news. Drugmaker pfizer announcing that its vaccine has a 90 or more than 90 effectiveness rate in some lateround clinical trials. As the u. S. Passes 10 million covid cases president elect joe biden is welcoming pfizers vaccine breakthrough but warning more work is still to be done. The challenge before us
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The hearing will come back to order. Senator klobuchar. Klobuchar thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Hello, judge. I want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isnt normal, we shouldnt be here right now. We are in the middle of a pandemic and people are sick. We are in the middle of an election and people are voting. And here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. I know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. And that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. Peoples lives depend on the Affordable Care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who has a heart condition and relies on his prescription medication. Emily from minneapolis, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Janet from rochester whose brother has a mental illness. Or christie, a mom from bloomington whose daughter had a tumor. That is what is on the line. Health care is on the line and judge, that is