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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

Today is Monday, November 16th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, the city of Philadelphia is expected to announce new restrictions

related to the coronavirus outbreak on Monday. Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said Friday,

they would be taking some additional steps, but what exactly that means we'll find out later

today. A news conference with more details is expected this afternoon. Another 1,158 additional

COVID-19 cases in the city were announced on Friday,

bringing the total number of confirmed cases to more than 52,000.

In addition, the Department of Public Health also announced 52 new probable cases from rapid

antigen tests.

Five additional deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 1,909.

All five counties in the region are seeing more new cases than they did in April and cases are growing at a faster pace. Philadelphia currently has the highest infection rate with about 660 new cases per day. President Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday withdrew a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania where Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump to capture the state and help win the White House.

Ahead of Tuesday's hearing in the case, Trump's campaign dropped the allegation that hundreds

of thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots were illegally processed without a representative

watching.

The campaign slimmed down lawsuit filed in federal court on Sunday maintains the aim of blocking

Pennsylvania from certifying a victory for Biden in the state, and it maintains its claim that

Democratic voters were treated more favorably than Republican voters.

The Associated Press on November 7 called the presidential contest for former Vice President Joe Biden after determining that the remaining ballots left to be counted in Pennsylvania would not allow Trump to catch up.

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