Timing of election results - Fauci’s winter covid prognosis - Record storm season

Citing three anonymous sources “familiar with his private comments”, the news site Axios said Trump “has told confidants he’ll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he’s ‘ahead.' Trump denied the Axios story, describing it as false, but then confirmed he would try to shut down vote counting as soon as the polls close on Tuesday.
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“For this to happen, his allies expect he would need to either win or have commanding leads in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Arizona and Georgia.” [Axios said]. According to FiveThirtyEight.com, Trump leads in Ohio, Texas and Iowa while Biden is up in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. The races are all exceptionally tight.
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“A lot of the early states that are battleground states, especially in the Sunbelt, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, are states that tend to get their votes counted on election night,” [Biden adviser Anita Dunn said Sunday]. “I think we will get some sort of indicator what kind of night it’s going to be from those three states. We will see. Obviously, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin may be slower.”

"We're in for a whole lot of hurt. It's not a good situation," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The Washington Post on Friday. "All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly."
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Fauci said the country needs to make an "abrupt change" in its public health practices and behaviors as the holiday season nears. He also said Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign "is taking it seriously from a public health perspective," while President Donald Trump is "looking at it from a different perspective," which he said was "the economy and reopening the country."
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In a lengthy statement, White House spokesman Judd Deere said it was "unacceptable and breaking with all norms for Dr. Fauci, a senior member of the President's Coronavirus Taskforce and someone who has praised President Trump's actions throughout this pandemic, to choose three days before an election to play politics."

Police in Graham, N.C., moved in on a march and rally to drive voter turnout, using pepper spray and making several arrests on the state's last day of early voting. Participants and organizers say they had proper permits for Saturday's event. Following the rally, organizers had then planned to lead the some 200 marchers to a nearby polling place.
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Along the way, marchers led by organizer the Rev. Greg Drumwright stopped for a nearly nine minute long silence in memory of George Floyd. It was shortly after that moment of silence that the first confrontation occurred, according to march participant Amy Cooper. Cooper says that police then began ordering marchers to remain on the sidewalk. Drumwright contends participants were not in the road but on the sidewalk when police began using pepper spray.
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Reporter Rusty Jacobs with member station WUNC tweeted that at one point, police had said the permitted march was an unlawful assembly and ordered people out of the streets. Jacobs noted that officers began making arrests. In a statement issued Saturday evening, Graham police say organizers hadn't gotten clearance for a temporary road closure.

Sixty-two deaths have been confirmed in Turkey, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos. Dozens of people remain unaccounted for following the quake. Thousands of personnel were deployed to help with the rescue efforts, using mechanical diggers to remove blocks of concrete.
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The US Geological Survey (USGS) said Friday's quake was 7.0 magnitude, but Turkey put it lower at 6.6. The shallow tremor triggered tidal waves that hit coastal areas and islands in both Turkey and Greece.
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A 70-year-old man, identified as Ahmet Citim, was pulled out from beneath the rubble of a destroyed residential building in Izmir in the early hours of Sunday morning and taken to hospital. Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca visited Mr Citim in hospital, and said he was doing well.

Meteorologists expected that the storm would strengthen to a [Category 2] hurricane by Sunday night and that it would reach the coast of Central America on Monday night or early Tuesday. With Eta, the unusually busy 2020 season tied the record for the most storms with 2005, when Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma battered the Gulf Coast.
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That year, so many storms grew strong enough to be named that meteorologists had to resort to the Greek alphabet after exhausting the list of rotating names maintained by the World Meteorological Organization. The agency never got to Eta, however, because the 28th storm of that year was not identified until the season was over and remained nameless. “This is the first time that Eta will be used in real time,” said Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
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With the 2020 season not ending until Nov. 30, it is likely that the 2005 record for most named storms will be broken, he said. The hurricanes of 2020 have not matched the intensity of the storms of 2005. That year, eight storms became major hurricanes, which are defined as hurricanes that reach Category 3 or higher.