All Eyes on Georgia, Veterans Day & Fireballs in the Sky - Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Wednesday, November 11th, 2020!
We'll tell you about:
- U.S. Senate races in Georgia: why the winners there mean so much for Congress and the country in 2021
- the expected timeline for a COVID-19 vaccine
- how the U.S. is honoring military veterans this Veterans Day
- another named storm in this record hurricane season
- why you may want to look at the sky this week
- what to expect from country music's biggest night
Those stories and more in about 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
NC Senate Race Results: AP, USA Today, FOX News, Cunningham Statement
GA Runoffs: ABC News, NBC News, Axios
Biden Transition Team Blocked: Politico, NPR, WSJ, CNN, WaPo
U.S. COVID-19 Hospitalizations Hit High: NY Times, NPR, CNN, COVID Tracking Project
Fauci on Vaccine Availability: CNN, Bloomberg, Axios
Observing Veterans Day: VA.Gov, WaPo, Today, Arlington National Cemetery, NPS
Veterans Day Discounts: USA Today, Newsweek, VA.Gov
Another 2020 Hurricane Season Record: USA Today, WSJ, AP, NHC
Romaine Lettuce Recall: USA Today, NBC News, FOX Business, FDA
Apple Event Reveals: Engadget, TechCrunch, Reuters, AP, Apple
Country Music Awards Tonight: Vulture, Billboard, Rolling Stone, CMAs
Northern Taurid Meteor Shower Peaks: CNN, Cnet, Space.com
Work Wednesday: Americans Moving Due to Remote Work: Reuters, UpWork, NPR
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, November 11th. |
| 0:01.9 | We're talking about the Senate race in Georgia |
| 0:03.7 | and why the winners there determined so much for Congress |
| 0:06.3 | and the country in 2021. |
| 0:08.2 | Also a new expected timeline for a COVID-19 vaccine, |
| 0:11.2 | and the new way the US is honoring military veterans this |
| 0:14.2 | Veterans Day. Plus another named storm in this record hurricane season, while |
| 0:18.4 | you may want to look to the sky this week and what to expect from country music's |
| 0:22.0 | biggest night. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:27.0 | All the days news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:29.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:37.0 | Georgia voters will determine the fate of the US Senate and potentially which |
| 0:44.0 | political party holds the majority and therefore leads the Senate's agenda. |
| 0:47.8 | It was already expected in recent days that it would come down to Georgia but now it's |
| 0:51.8 | even more clear and that's |
| 0:53.3 | because another tight race in North Carolina effectively came to an end |
| 0:57.3 | yesterday. North Carolina Democrat Cal Cunningham conceded to the incumbent |
| 1:01.4 | Republican senator Tom Tillis and with that |
| 1:04.0 | Tillis's victory gave the GOP 49 seats in the US Senate and that will likely jump |
| 1:08.7 | to 50 once Alaska finishes tallying ballots and remember remember, each state gets two senators |
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