coming up, jeffrey solomon at 2:00 new york, 7:00 in london. this is bloomberg. check it on the bloomberg first word news. joe biden is on the verge of winning the white house. he has overtaken president trump in pennsylvania and has a slight lead in georgia. pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes. , heiden were to win there would have more than the 270 electoral college votes needed to be elected. meanwhile, president trump shows no sign of dropping his legal challenges. last night he said the election was being stolen but has offered no evidence of voter fraud. the u.s. labor market got stronger in october. employers added 638,000 jobs, beating estimates. the unemployment rate fell 1% to 6.9%. that was double the prior month decline. the number of long-term jobless americans surged and now makes up one third of those out of work. russia is seeing its worst coronavirus numbers since the pandemic began. the country reported more than 20,000 new infections today. nohorities insist there is need to impose a second lockdown or shut down of businesses nationwide. they c