are going to talk to our correspondents about this kimberlee how could that the white house and mike hanna is in wilmington delaware so want to start with you mike i mean the same sort of message that we've heard from joe biden for a long time but we hear it as president elect now and we see the extraordinary contrast with the current president extraordinary it's basically his 1st day off to the election back at the 1st thing he does is holds this coronavirus briefing announcing the names of his tossed for saddam is just my colleague can be how could will build up on the spot the last time the trumpet ministration held a coronavirus task force meeting was october the 20th but if we can take one message away from what joe biden had to say there. and the politicize ation of basic health measures we're a mascot so most impassioned that we've heard joe biden on that particular issue saying that by wearing a mask you could save the life of somebody packing shelves in a supermarket you could save the lives of one of your children's teachers you could save your own life this was the absolute thru

portions at the convention center there we have our correspondent mike hanna who will be standing by i will speak to him for analysis afterwards we're not sure what joe biden is going to say. we weren't sure even if he would be speaking but we will be bringing you that live as it happens here on al-jazeera. mexico is among the most dangerous countries in the wold lists but a social media campaign is seeking accountability from authorities on. reports from mexico city. latin america is one of the most dangerous regions in the world to be a journalist according to a recent report by the un in 2019 the region accounted for 40 percent of all confirmed killings of journalists around the world. hell a 100 pages from what is says he left his job as a reporter after receiving death threats and after several of his colleagues lost their lives for reporting on organized crime in the city while it had a kind of hidden type of korean i've experienced the violence and the threats firsthand i see the risks that are taken every day to practice journalism in ciudad juarez and i've witnessed through

places that matter kristen salumi is standing by for us in philadelphia and is in miami we have mike hanna in his home state of delaware but 1st let's have more white house correspondent kelly how it is in washington d.c. and of course kimberly the campaign not accepting these roles it's something we expected but it always comes as a surprise to. it's not really a surprise given the fact that donald trump said that he wasn't sure if he would accept the results of the election and was willing to fight it in the courts what donald trump is counting on is that he might be able to take this to the supreme court and of course that is where he has judge amy kone barrett who was 6 appointed and confirmed there just in recent weeks so this is all part of the strategy now at the same time this strategy this legal strategy cost money so what we've seen already isn't even being sent out to supporters of donald trump saying that they have launched a legal fund particularly wisconsin in order to try and fight back now according to the white house press secretary and also adviser to the trunk campaign k

mike thanks very much for the picture in delaware mike hanna reporting thank you. still ahead here on al-jazeera taking office again tanzania's president is sworn in middle additions of fraud and a crackdown on the opposition. and the u.n. calls for immediate deescalation intension is ethiopia's prime minister since troops into the green region. are. hallowed ghani stood around that was the super typhoon that is now barely a tropical storm so winds aren't the problem but once again it's making landfall in vietnam very soon the rains are even thrown ahead and we've got yet more to top up the extensive flooding in vietnam southern laos and parts of cambodia have been the story this season the top your screens at sonnie just building up into a significant tropical storm but it's catch taiwan in the south but not do any damage to the philippines this big circulations one to watch significant rain from that otherwise rainy season for malaysia and indonesia widespread showers becoming quite active long way south as sumatra and job uncertainty so in borneo but this is sea

and mike hanna in wilmington delaware where the democratic contender joe biden spoken in the last hour in america voted sacred. it's how people of this nation expressed their will. and it is the will of the voters no one not anything else that chooses the president of united states of america so each ballot must be counted and that's what we're going to see going through now and that's how it should be democracy sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years the system of government governance that's been the envy of the world. and we continue to feel sad and i will continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is truly senator harrison i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working. the count is being completed and we'll know very soon so thank you all for your patience but you have to count the votes god bless you all and may god protect our troops thank you so much. let's go to mike hanna who's i

thinks about mike hanna reporting from delaware. let us now cross to california los angeles in fact reynolds is there the state with the biggest number of electoral votes he's outside the staples center which is a stadium that was turned into a voting center earlier in the day so 1st i'm going to talk about the blue wall in a moment but 1st let's just quickly talk about arizona the state that flipped. yes well arizona has been undergoing a great deal of demographic change over the past 4 years and over the past decade phoenix is one of the larger the fastest growing cities metropolitan areas in the country so a lot of people have come into what was formerly a solidly red state with their own political beliefs and that changes the makeup of arizona in addition there are demographic changes a rising number of young latino and latino voters who tend towards the democrats in part that is because of president trump's behavior with regard to immigration with regard to the separation of families and the whole story that we've seen play out

and that speak now to a cross one of mike hanna, mike, when we say brief, we mean brief, right? very brief indeed to precisely 64 seconds that towards the time that it took donald trump to make that statement claiming to be responsible for their massive surge in the stock market. there had been some speculating speculation about what he would actually say. well, he just spread. took credit for the stock market surge. there was no talk of any concession whatsoever. and he is continuing to tweet out that he will not concede that he still considers the electoral process of fraud despite the fact that the general services administration has now given the go ahead for the transition to formally begin, which is now well under way. but this is what president trump had to say. as the stock market's just broken, 30000 never been broken. that number, it's a secret number 30000 and nobody thought they'd ever see it. that's the name time since the beginning of 2020. and it's the 48th time that we've broken records in during the trumpet ministration. and i just want to congratulate all the p

so far on kimberly let's see that the president corrected the spelling of polls let's go back to mike hanna in wilmington delaware where the biden campaign be making of that mike. i'm on your mind well we haven't heard any reaction from the supporters at this particular point although you heard a number of them their part to their vehicles is very much a mission of the distance a social distance campaign headquarters but clearly somebody cheers of support for joe biden the same made that statement now this is us it is way past half past midnight the convoy arriving here joe biden making this surprise appearance after an evening in which we heard nothing at all from any member of the campaign joe biden saying in the course of yesterday afternoon that when he has got something to say you'll come out and said well now he did have something to say he came out and he said it and what he's saying to his supporters is keep the faith on the one hand it's absolutely adamant that he's looking for victory in contested states like arizona wisconsin and michigan and very very importantly pennsylvania bu

let's say get more now on the races stance from mike hanna he joins us now live from delaware which mike is of course where joe biden and his campaign are currently hold up now joe biden addressed the nation a few hours ago many could be forgiven for thinking that he be giving a victory speech of sorts given where the vote is going the still no winner though so what was the points of joe biden's speech. what we had been told early in the day that the speech would be banging that one stage we did expect that biden may well declare victory and at that stage is campaign may have been thinking that the results would have moved a little bit further faster than they did that being said by didn't since the polls as close to is made very clear that he is not going to declare victory prematurely and that's obviously given his campaign that instruction as well he's making very clear too that he wants all the votes to be counted and he wants absolute certainty the reason why he went ahead with this national address tonight was one of reassurance certainly once again he called for calm he called for

mike hanna al jazeera wilmington delaware. let's go back to washington where she have a chance is going to dig a little deeper into this topic she have we should be very clear she is. shahab sorry. we can't hear what you're saying at the moment we'll sort out that technical issue will be back with shahab and just a few moments now the native american community has a small but influential group of votes as in the u.s. indigenous people have a political force to shift the outcome of the selection particularly in the swing state of arizona but many faced obstacles as they try to cost the vote this year as al-jazeera has rolled reynolds explains. on the vast and remote stretches of the navajo nation where people live in isolated communities there is keen interest in the presidential election. voted early so that we can know how important kony should joe is a nurse and has seen firsthand the devastating effects of culvert 19 on the reservation according to the u.s. census bureau there are about 6800000 native american and alaska na

us this hour rob reynolds is in comma harrison's home state of california but let's begin with mike hanna who is in joe biden's home state of delaware mike let's talk about joe biden's victory speech previous president elect have come out and in their victory speech is really focused on their to do list joe biden's message seemed to be one of compromise of wanting to work together of of healing divisions. or very much so after a truly bitter and vitriolic election campaign and also 4 years in particular of deep partisanship joe biden making very clear that the people have got to start coming together now is the time to huey lewis what he said and for the 1st time in one of his speeches he directly address president trump sharing the disappointment as he put it of losing a presidential race joe biden has done that twice before but he said directly to president trump let's give each other a chance let's meet let's lower the temperature and stop treating our opponents as our enemies well this has been a constant theme of joe biden during the campaign and in the days since the polls closed an

of course mike hanna is in joe biden's home state of delaware ok mike so joe biden's 1st speech as president elect let this grim era of demonization begin to end here and now i want to ask you with previous president elect to come out and talk about that to do list what the you know the mandate of course now joe biden's message really seem to be one of compromise of wanting to work together one of healing divisions. indeed yes well it's been a bitter and divisive period over the past 4 years of the trumpet ministration in particular and a constant theme of buy it in this campaign and in the days since the polls closed in the election was the need for unity now is the time to begin to whew hew said and for the 1st time he directly addressed president trump during his speech sharing the disappointment that he had felt on 2 previous occasions when he failed in the presidency bid in 19882008 so he said i know what it feels like but he also said to president trump let's give each other a chance let's lower the temperature let's stop treating our opponents like our enemies once again reaching out

them unkind but justice ignored request legal challenges were pending well let's get more now from mike hanna he joins us live from delaware which is where the joe biden campaign holds up mike joe biden addressed the nation a few hours ago but it wasn't quite a victory speech was it. no it wasn't turned biden making very clear that he didn't want to declare victory prematurely but making clear at the same time as well that he was optimistic and in fact certain that when the votes are tallied he will be the big in this election and certainly all the figures are pointing towards exactly that we are expecting him once a major call is made when a projection is made from one of these states in particular pennsylvania that is appointed which he is likely to declare a victory in this election but at the moment biden continuing to call for calm asking his supporters to exercise patience at the same time trying to build a coalition in the months ahead saying for example that these political opponents are just a code and say are not enemies attempting to build bridges of particularly these last divisiv

request while legal challenges were pending let's get more on the state of the race tonight from mike hanna he joins us live from delaware which is of course where the joe biden campaign addressed the nation a few hours ago but it was the picture the speech was it. no it wasn't joe biden saying that he's very optimistic that when the votes are counted he will achieve victory but not wanting to be premature and claim victory at this particular point this is a policy that he appears to be following since the polls have been counted making very clear that he doesn't want to get ahead of himself but he did as he has done before he called for calm he called for patients from his supporters and insisted that the poll. counters must be left alone allow them to finish the job biden as well also making yet another call for unity following 4 years of deep division under the trunk administration saying at one stage that opponents are opponents say are not enemies so reaching out to those even those who voted against him he says and biden now sitting down with his running mate to convalesce harris to s

let's check again with our correspondents covering the 2 candidates we got mike hanna in joe biden's home state shortly for us let's go to kelly holcomb in washington so while some republicans have been distancing themselves from still has the support of a lot of his party. yeah there's no question that there are a number of prominent 'd advocates of the president to have been vocal in his support including representative jim jordan for example that we've seen in a number for rational hearings still saying that the president has right to pursue his legal avenues this is something that he's also had backed out by the republicans in the top u.s. senate position mitch mcconnell who is saying that the president has a right to have every vote counted at but he stopped short of sort of condemning outright some of the president's statements what we're seeing here are republicans trying to have calculate their own political futures in contrast to what the president's lead that we have reported on the bow paraded and when it comes to republicans they actually did some better than expected tha

officer as mike hanna reports from washington. hundreds of thousands of americans are heading home for the thanksgiving holiday. and health officials view these long lines in the airports as ominous predicting that the already calamitous coated figures could rise even further. as the consequences of this mass travel are measured. despite an urgent call from the centers for disease control, for all americans to stay at home, more than a 1000000 passengers traveled on friday alone. and i am nervous. but i want to be with my babies. i feel safe to fly. i think. i think we should all 5 of the nation's top infectious disease expert did the round of sunday talk shows right now. the curve is like that. it's going up at a very rapid rate and you looked at almost every single day. in fact, gives you another record, the long lines that persist, that testing stations around the country are tangible evidence of the absence of any federally controlled testing program. just one of the reasons, say, health experts, why the virus has not been bro

mike hanna, there in washington, d.c. with all the latest for us. thanks so much, mike. well, the u.s. federal court of appeals has now rejected donald trump's campaign request to block joe biden from being declared the winner in pennsylvania. and it's the latest setback in the president's legal challenges to overturn the results of the election . chums lawyer argued there was widespread fraud during the vote, but the court said that claim has no merit. the campaign is likely to appeal the case in the supreme court. for french police officers have been detained after a video emerged showing the beating at that community produce in paris. present to manuma khan has called that incident unacceptable and shameful is all to sparked outrage towards a police force already under scrutiny. for heavy handed tactics and a warning, some viewers may find the images in this report from the tasha butler to step in from the start. a shocking video police officers brutally beating a man in a music studio in paris. images captured on c.c.t.v. record producer michele's seculars says polic

from campaign is now lost or withdrawn, dozens of similar lawsuits. 0 as mike hanna reports from washington account is more than 30 since the elections brought in various key swing states. but this very significance because it's a ruling by a federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. he likened the tramp appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together haphazardly. he made very clear that he believed there was no grounds for the trump claim whatsoever. and this makes it very unlikely that it can go on an appeal given that there are no grounds . nevertheless, trans lawyers, his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who argued the case before the judge says he wants to take it to the next level, the 3rd district and from there to the supreme court. but very difficult to see how he's going to achieve that. and very significantly to the senator for pennsylvania, pat toomey has issued a statement saying that the judge in this particular case, matthew brand, is a lifelong republican with no legal bias whatsoever. he considers the whole matter . n

that the incumbent president has done little experts maintain to counter this ongoing pandemic mike hanna thank you to washington d.c. and i want to house correspondent kelly hellcats committee what is going on behind the scenes at the white house is there pressure on president donald trump now to concede. yeah this is really exposing the schism in the republican party on the one hand you have some of the more traditional republicans like george w. bush former president and also mitt romney who of course ran unsuccessfully for the white house is now a senator really pressuring the president to concede for the good of the country and to allow for unity and harmony but there are others that have very loud voices in the on capitol hill live in the republican party senator ted cruz senator lindsey graham that are saying that the president should continue to fight his pursue his legal challenges and in fact just under way are just about to wrap up as a press conference out in nevada where the truck campaign has been releasing detailed list of the evidence it says it has of voter irregularities

when it speak to mike hanna, he's in washington d.c. for us. mike, this was really the 1st time we heard from take questions since the election. and obviously that was the big one. yes indeed, and certainly it's the 1st time as well that president trump has explicitly said that he will leave the white house should there as this is expected, the electoral college confirm the president elect biden as the country's next president. now, president trump saying that he's still not going to concede, insisting that there's a lot of battles still to go continuing to insist with no evidence whatsoever that the election was fraudulent. but all of that ends affectively when the electoral college concerts votes in mid december, basically all the electors in their respective states will confirm the votes, which at the present stands for $306.00 electoral college votes for joe biden, 232 for donald trump. now at that point to president trump saying he will accept the electoral college is a decision, though, if he considers it as a fraud. well, that's not stric

mike hanna takes a look at biden's long road to the white house. it was joe biden. as the vice president mr chairman it's my great honor to place into nomination for the office of vice president of united states my father my hero joe biden. 3 years later biden died. it's another personal tragedy for a man who had experienced the death of his 1st wife and infant daughter in a car crash in 1702 but it has been a life of many triumphs as well perhaps none great tribute from his commander in chief for the final time. i'm pleased. the presidential medal of. hi. still mourning the death of his son biden did not contest the democratic party nomination in 2016 but after a slow start easily secured the party's support this year and in his acceptance address gave notice a better and kind of country to come we have a great purpose as a nation to open the doors of opportunity for all americans to save our democracy to be a light to the world once again and finally to live up to and make real the words written in the sacred documents that founded this nation that all men and wom

mike hanna al-jazeera wilmington delaware. georgia's ruling party is leading saturday's parliamentary election that has won 54 percent of the vote with nearly one 3rd of the ballots counted but opposition parties say the race isn't over yet as they may have enough votes to form a coalition government robin far said walker reports from tbilisi. the polls had barely closed and georges richest man chairman of the governing party was congratulating the nation from his party headquarters claiming victory for a historic term got some of their own georgia has made me a worthy choice and that georgian dream founded by me is a worthy dream georgian voters who would not make the wrong choice today expressed support for worthy people but his party's opponents believe the result may have been much closer than exit polls indicated. less than half of the georgian population supports the georgian during this means that people do not wonder george injuring people need change concrete real changes. mass protests last year were a warning to the

and i hear there's talk of a cast in the white house coming up soon to mike hanna there with all the latest for us from washington d.c. . thank you. mike white house senior adviser, jared kushner, will travel to saudi arabia and qatar in the coming days. and i believe the aim is to resolve the dispute between those neighboring countries and comes amid tensions in the region following the killing of an iranian scientist. and also with just weeks left in the ministration team have already helped negotiate deals with you don bahrain and the u.a.e. to normalize relations with israel. well, still ahead here on out as they are fed up with the status quo. thousands call for change and guatemala, and after decades of mistreatment, pakistan's, knowing the elephant is on the move to a new home, get some much needed company. hello before any water freezes you get cold air across ethnic tense produce some big showers and of course is cold enough? aerial be snow shows. that's definitely case for hockey. the next couple of days less so the case for home. sure. except when the highest ground 0. of r

well let's go and see what the biden campaign is doing mike hanna joins us live now from wilmington delaware so as we were hearing from kimberly mike the whole legal process is starting from the trump campaign side but the biden team seems to be going ahead as planned and preparing for the transition process. joe biden clearly not being distracted by these numerous illegal initiatives being launched by the trump campaign the biden campaign has had a whole set of lawyers lined up for a long period of time now the boiler room call they are being dispatched to contest these claims in various parts of the united states but biden and his vice president elect a couple of terrorists are focusing in on what their policy is going to be and they want to move very very quickly the priority as we heard from joe biden to combat the pandemic to start initiating a plan that has been months in the making to try and cut back on this massive incidence of the pandemic throughout the country to the send biden will be announcing in the next 24 hours a coronavirus task team now this will be headed by a former sur

mike hanna there with all the latest for us from washington d.c. . thank you so much, mike. still ahead for you here on al-jazeera, the historic agreement between cuban artists activists and the government. after a rare protests over the freedom of expression and after decades of mistreatment, pakistan's lonely elephant sets off to a sanctuary in cambodia for some much needed company. how the cold sank down through the plain states case and snow to the texas panhandle. enhance the rain, the snow going through georgia. not the east coast. it's rain fairly warm and windy in the east coast of the u.s. . come back a state or 2, and you're talking in the cold once more, all the way down to georgia, concentrating snow wise in ontario. now, there is something of a snowy weather in the far northwest,, the pacific northwest of the u.s., but nothing as concentrate is like she said, i think in, for example, toronto. so there's a picture of a choose day. and if i pick out toronto in the forecast, snow or rain, or snow proper for the next 3 days is your lot. whereas in chicago has anothe

concede defeat the legal battles could stretch on for weeks robert oulds al jazeera los angeles mike hanna joins us now live from delaware mike so biden that patients once again this is getting excruciating just hurry up and ways as they say do we know when this might be cold. no we don't at this particular stage although early on in the evening the senator for delaware chris coons spoke to reporters here at the convention center the headquarters of the biden campaign saying that he expects that pennsylvania will be projected in the course of the next 24 hours expecting it to be projected by tomorrow now that obviously an absolutely key issue a win for biden in pennsylvania or the projection of a win in pennsylvania would certainly should his path to the presidency of the united states but biden being very very cautious there as he has been since the polls closed urging once again patients calling for calm and using again that stressing of unity the need for national unity following this intensely bitter partisan election campaign and the divisions that have been growing over the past 4 ye

apologies we have lost a connection there to mike hanna who is covering the biden campaign for us of course we will raise tabish it with him and check in with him in just a few minutes it's now 20 $345.00 g.m.t. and in just about 15 minutes or so the 1st battle polls will close on the east coast in the meantime let's discuss foreign policy a bit more 9 few world leaders have benefited from the presidency then benyamin that's now these really prime minister who says his country's never had a better friend in the white house but palestinians have been increasingly alya native leaving the prospect of a 2 state solution as remote as ever harry fawcett reports from occupied east jerusalem. a few moments better sum up the lockstep relationship between benjamin netanyahu and donald trump the no meeting on the 15th of september at the white house we call ricky to the waiter's ticket to our country and to our hearts thank you mr president and i have served this is true that you have the key to the hearts of the people of israel. within minutes they were outside to sign deals normalizing israe

mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. . so mike, if they're able to get this emergency approval, was the most optimistic timeline for people to be vaccinated? well, that's a very important question. and one that depends on the speed with which the f.d.a. grants the emergency use authorization. what happens once 5 registers the request with the f.d.a.? it then looks at the data that pfizer has collected through its tests of some 40000 people over the past few months. the f.d.a. then calls a meeting with a group of independent scientists who will then decide whether or not to grant the emergency use authorization based on the data that they've been given by pfizer. but the real difficulty here is that this is not a routine vecsey trial. this is a new technology which the scientists are going to have to look at. it's completely uncharted water. it is not a vaccine in which a mutant down version of the virus is injected into the system, allowing the body to create its own immunity. this is a case where, a spike proteins are crea

but donald trump insists he well continue to challenge the election results, but at speak to mike hanna,, who joins us now from washington. d.c., mike, president, trump, is clearly running out of options here. and meanwhile, biden is plowing ahead for this transitional period, potentially now in a cost. well indeed, yes, it's now been confirmed that president elect biden actually fractured his ankle while playing in his garden with his 2 dogs. major and champion is position says that he'll be in a boot for a number of weeks. so joe biden limping along, but is administration is not, it's going at pace with more appointments being announced in the course of the day, joe biden has announced his communications staff, the sure operate in the white house, and that's headed by gender sarky, a highly respected communications professional, she worked as the white house communications director in the obama administration. she will head a team of 6 within the communications department, all of whom are women for the 1st time in u.s. history. the communications team will be staffed entirely by women

we are waiting for joe biden to address the nation mike hanna is in his home state of delaware and joins us from wilmington mike so we're expecting joe biden to speak he was saying we're waiting for something to happen for someone to call it is joe biden likely to claim victory what is he likely to say. well once again we're still waiting for confirmation that he will be speaking we understand that this is not the situation he will be arriving here at what stage we are not quite clear but no direction as to what he will say should he hold that speech tonight at the stage and up until this point joe biden has been very careful not to predict a victory he says that he feels guilty feels confident that he will be victorious off to the vote is counted but he has been reluctant it seems as members of his campaign to declare a victory prematurely but this may change in the course of the next few hours we'll have to wait and see the fact that the the to and fro of whether or not he's going to be making a speech is in itself fairly indicative of how the results are going at this particular point

that he was in fact feeling defeated ok thank you for that live from washington let's go now to mike hanna who is in biden's home state of delaware joining us from wilmington mike so joe biden wants everyone to be patient and it appears he and his team are feeling very confident. well indeed there are in the course of the day his campaign team briefed reporters saying that the numbers that they were crunching indicate that joe biden was doing very well indeed in a number of these absolutely tense fraught states in the course of the day to have joe biden having a meeting with his campaign staff and then coming out to making that statement that basically he's feeling good that the campaign's looking good however he continued to call for calm and above all to call for patience but what he's also calling for as well is an appeal for a sense of unity joe biden very clearly attempting to lay some building blocks for what may come next should he be declared victory in this particular election and knowing that he may well have to be dealing with a republican senate knowing that he's also going to

mike hanna, is live for us now in washington. d.c. yet another blow for the campaign. mike, but this might be part of the strategy, is trump trying to fail upwards of maybe trying to get this to the supreme court. do you think well, it would appear to be the strategy. let's put it very clearly here, is that in more than 30 cases that the trunk campaign or republicans have brought after the elections, they have not succeeded in a single one, but this particular decision was notable for a number of reasons. 1st of all, it's a federal charges, a very senior judge. secondly, the language in which he rejected this case was extremely surprising, extremely harsh and extremely critical of the attempt to reverse the election result. what the judge william brand said was that the trump campaign provide only strained at legal arguments without to merit and speculative arguments, and supported by evidence. he went on and likened to the campaign appeal to frankenstein's monster, which you said had been put together haphazardly. now also significantly, this case was brought in person

and for sure we've lost our correspondent mike hanna but you can see those pictures those live pictures from wilmington delaware where we're expecting to hear from president elect joe biden he's jews who gave his victory speech and moment now let's go to from the time being until we get joe biden we can turn to our correspondent in washington d.c. kimberly whole kit's any reaction yet from the trump campaign. i we have had statements just to sort of feeling you know what i think happening there with respect to my chemists connection i watching the pictures of joe biden as he heads towards that stage to make his 1st speech as president elect and already now he has the secret service detail just as u.s. president donald trump does the white house behind me and so what they do when there's a transition is they often jam the signals which we rely on to broadcast so don't worry he'll be back once the joe biden is squarely in place of the security is confirmed but for now security also watching pretty heavily these celebrations that are occurring behind me of course this is the same location

let's return to mike hanna who is in wellington delaware where joe biden made that speech just about half an hour ago so . mike it sounds like tackling coded is going to be the number one problem priority for the new president. very much sir he said this throughout the campaign and he said it since the polls closed and now he repeated it tonight this is the number one action that the paris biden campaign or now vice president and president elect will be tossed to manage now you heard there the vice president elect saying that as soon as monday he'll be convening a corona virus taskforce he'll give the names but we we do know who is going to be heading that particular task force at this moment it is vivek murthy who's the former surgeon general and david kessler who's a former commissioner of the food and drug association another person who's going to be on that task forces dr marcella nunez smith who's a public health expert at yale university so we see already that real scientific heavyweights is being gathered around joe biden and his vice president and the president elect to start

bin salman or shortly will speak to our white house correspondent can help at 1st let's turn to mike hanna who's in wilmington delaware which is of course joe biden's home town so mike biden's team very busy already pushing for plans for when he takes over office. indeed e.s.a. had been preparing for this for months particularly with regard to the pandemic which joe biden continually describes as his absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours he'll be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now mung them ron klain who was the at both the czar and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by murphy who's a former senate surgeon general appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and drug administration david kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his coronavirus task force as he and his. vice president elect harris go fo

bureaucratic employees who are supposed to be conducting nonpartisan roles are following his lead mike hanna thank you very much with us markets rallied following the announcement of that major development in pfizer's coronavirus vaccine and it's industries hit hardest by the pandemic that have seen the biggest gains including airlines and hotels cambridge on dismounting market reaction in new york for us so talk us through the reaction to this element of hope here. yeah the markets really exploded in a good way here in new york at the new york stock exchange both the dow the s. and p. and nasdaq all seeing record highs reaching the highest levels not seen in the past 7 months we've seen it all across the board there are about 2800 companies on the new york stock exchange listed and over 300 of them have seen record highs on this monday because of the corona virus vaccine announcement now the sectors that are benefiting the most are travel leisure hospitality and just to give you an idea on how big these numbers are and how big some of these companies are benefiting from this carnival cruise

have correspondents in all the places that matter this hour and a name is standing by in wisconsin mike hanna is covering the biden campaign from his home state of delaware kimberly how kate it's looking at the top campaign she's our white house correspondent in washington d.c. for us we go to john hendren in michigan john the charm campaign had to find a nasuwt to how the vote counting in michigan but now michigan has been called for biden is this final. well it certainly looks so fully i'm at the michigan state house in lansing at a rally called count every vote and that's where the state is still doing despite that trump lawsuit there have been some self appointed trump poll watchers who his burst into the central counting office in detroit the wall that counting has been going on the police were called in by the counting continues in the state of michigan expects to have the remaining votes counted by the end of the night now 97 percent of the vote has been counted and at that point biden has a $1.00 percentage point lead which is nearly insurmountable especially when you consider the fac

let's go to mike hanna is in biden's home stays to delaware and joins us from the city wilmington mike earlier tonight we thought we were going to hear from biden and then we thought we when going to hear from bob and now again we're hearing that he may speak even the not officially been any kind of result to clay what are you hearing. well precisely that has been going backwards and forwards initially there was a speech is scheduled regardless then we heard that mr biden would be waiting for a proper call on a major state such as pennsylvania before speaking and now we're hearing again that joe biden will be speaking regardless of whether or not there is a major projection issued in coming hours but i think the way to leave it is on this is that once his convoy comes into the convention center on the road right next to me here then we'll know that he will be making a speech within the coming hours but i just want to pick up on the supreme court action that has just occurred the supreme court instructing the secretary of state in pennsylvania to separate the votes that were handed in a

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mike hanna in wilmington delaware thank you for that. let's speak to peter matthews who's a professor of political science at cypress college in the author of dollar democracy joins us now from los angeles peter so margins as mike was just saying there are very very slim out there and meanwhile we have donald trump saying that the election is being stolen by joe biden saying just hold the faith how do you assess where we're at right now well it's absolutely slim at this point but there are many many votes that you know about 30 more on 1000000 votes to be counted and these states like michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania are critical and most of those votes in those states were cast through the mail or early in the ballot box the drop boxes they were the early votes and those were overwhelmingly democratic votes and that's what joe biden is actually correct in saying all are all holler on principle in the united states of america we believe in counting every vote everybody has to be balance that's why would that work like tradition an

mike hanna, is live from washington d.c. . so it's a situation where numbers can tell us where it's worst in the u.s. and what the, what kind of figures, how the figures play out for the pandemic is spread out pretty evenly throughout most of the united states. and certainly these figures are utterly horrific in november alone, there were 4000000 new cases of corona virus reported. now that is double the number in october, which in itself was an all time record for the month in all on average. some $170000.00 plus new cases are being reported every day. now the figure that you mentioned there, the 205000 cases reported on friday, the slightly skewed because a number of states didn't report on thursday which was thanksgiving day. so that was 2 days data, but this is offset by the fact that a number of testing centers have closed for the holiday period. so the amount of testing being done is down. so the figures may well be even higher than they appear at present. so of great concern to health workers and health officials and po

will defeat trump but as patients as the final votes are tallied let's go to our correspondent mike hanna who is in biden's home state of delaware he joins us from will wilmington. so we did hear from biden about an hour or so ago and he set a rather different tone from trump who we've just heard from. well the polar opposite of what we've just heard joe biden making very clear that he wants every vote to be counted the americans cast their votes and have a right to have the pope recorded in the ultimate result saying to that everybody's got to be patient and wait for that result to happen biden to adopting a tone of calm attempting as world to adopt a turn of unity once again not pointing fingers in any direction just for once again maintaining and even balance as he's been demanding from his campaign not to claim victory despite the fact that most projects since have him ahead but not to get ahead of the fact to wait until all the results are in and counted this is what joe biden had to say beachgoers most be counted. and that's what we're going to see going through now and that's how i

the team you know the white house correspondent i'll be with you shortly can really start with mike hanna in wilmington delaware we expecting to hear from joe biden today we are indeed at the moment he is meeting with his vice president elect kaamelott harris as well as some of the health experts that he's just appointed to a coronavirus task committee it's a virtual meeting he's sitting in the theater here behind me talking to the various experts virtually this is the day on which he launches this coronavirus task force a very important element in terms of the transition in terms of his administration making very clear that this is an absolute priority. mike is an absolute so i carry my aura t.v. for this. yes that and just saying the beach 1st meeting of the coronavirus task force going on behind me here virtual meeting now joe biden responded to the news of the new vaccine he said he was informed of it by his health officials late last night he's welcome the news says congress that the team that's been involved in this development but he's also quoted the director of the c.d.c. robert

let's go to mike hanna now who joins us from washington, d.c. . so i suppose a little bit of good news there when it comes to the vaccines. now that at least the moving ahead with getting the full stamp of approval. but when it comes to the covert situation in the states, things seem to be going from bad to worse. indeed, yes, officials had been warning for months of the onset of winter and the impact that that could have on the spread of the corona virus. and certainly their worst fears have come true. in the past 2 weeks alone, hospital occupancy has risen by more than 50 percent across this country. as you mentioned, the death toll now is in the region of over 2000 a day. and health officials are predicting that they could be more than 460000 deaths by the beginning of march. these figures are absolutely stark. and as i said, confirmation of the worst fears and predictions of health officials, the virus that may be rolled out in coming weeks, certainly that is perhaps a light at the end of this very dark tunnel. however, it's still got to go th

and mike hanna joins us live from washington, d.c. and mike, even though trump has allowed the transition to start officially, it's just, i'm sure not just to admit defeat well, essentially president trump had no real choice in that once the general services administration issued the letter saying that the transition was for began then that it's essentially out of its hands. we've understood in the last hour or so that the personal daily brief will be given to the president elect. this is a date on that. the days information that is presented to a president every morning at knowledge will be presented to joe biden as well every morning. the same detail that is presented to the president trump, the traditional part of the ongoing tradition to prepare an incoming president how to deal with threats and how it actually works in terms of his domestic and international advice that he receives every single day. well, president trump and self still continues to refuse to concede. there was a bit of speculation when it was announced he'd be ho

but while i may be the 1st woman in this office i will not be the last of the mike hanna joins us now live from delaware might if we look to find the headline if you like in joe biden speeches seems ready to be one of a compromise of wanting to work together of healing divisions. very much so it's been a seam of joe biden's campaign and it's been a theme of everything you said since the polls close the need for this country to come together after a bruising and vitriolic campaign and 4 years of deep division among the people of the united states and for the 1st time you address to president trump directly reaching out to him and saying let's give each other a chance he said lower the temperature stop treating your opponents like enemies but above all he said we have been called on to marshal the forces of decency bringing decency back into the political debate within the united states all of these are very important elements for joe biden as he and commoner heris look together to governing a country a country that has been so bitterly divided that is falling apart in this partisan str