our guest is david gifford bread we welcome your calls and comments.hose of you in the eastern and central time zones. .02-748-8000 202-748-8001 for those in mountain and pacific. for those with a family member in a nursing home, 202-748-8002. we welcome your comments via text, 202-748-8003. -- niney have you been months into the pandemic, have you been able at your facilities been able to provide personal protective equipment, been able to staff as well as you had hoped to? personal protective equipment has gotten a little better. but the challenge still has been the n95 masks that filter out the virus and the gloves. those are principally made overseas. as we opened up and the virus spread, everyone is competing for those. we need to ramp up local production to help with that. we are just out there competing with everyone else. the same with testing. we got test supplies and some test equipment, but not enough. turnaround times for testing can take three to five days or longer and that allows a virus to spread while you are waiting for results. moder

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david. arizona is sending a second democrat to the u.s. senate -- mark kelly, the astronaut, the husband of former congresswoman gabby giffords who was shot and nearly killed back in 2011. martha mcsally struggled to distance herself from the president late in the campaign stretch. during a debate she would not say three times whether she supported donald trump. mark kelly will fill the seat of the late john mccain, a huge win for democrats trying to flip the senate. >> whit, thank you. >>> in nevada, joe biden extended his lead. the question, is that lead large enough to keep the president at bay? because as we saw, he would need to win pennsylvania and a number of states. let's bring in matt gutman tonight for nevada. what are you looking at? >> reporter: vice president joe biden extended that lead to nearly 2%. that is important. not quite enough at this point, but the counting going in fits and starts. the registrar in clark county said they overstated the missing ballots. the gop is suing clark county over its use of electronic signature machines. they want that halted and every ballot counted by hand. unclear how much longer that is