Week of November 8, 2000
Florida mess - Hopes are fading for a quick resolution as to the outcome of the
presidential election. It seems that George Bush’s margin is dwindling as some
votes get recounted. The chairman of Gore’s campaign threatens to sue, if
necessary, to block bush from taking the White House and demands a hand
count of several thousand ballots.
Election officials in Palm Beach County order a manual recount of 460,000
ballots after a limited had recount showed Al Gore picking up 19 votes.
George W. Bush loses a federal court fight to block a hand count of hundreds of
thousands of disputed presidential ballots in Florida.
The Nasdaq slips below the 3,000 mark for the first time in more than a year,
probably because of disappointing earnings from HP.
Technology -
Pets.com is about to shut down - the first publicly traded dot-com to be shut
down completely.
Jerry Seinfeld and his wife, Jessica Sklar have a new baby girl. Her name is
Sascha - the first for the couple who were married last December.
Music news
-
Monica
will star in “Love
Song,” a new TV movie to air on MTV in
December.
Madonna’s sold-out London concert at
the Brixton Academy will be broadcast
live over the Internet at
www.msn.co.uk/madonna
. Don’t miss it.
Radio news -
ABC drops the Sunday “Drudge Report”
heard on 135 stations Drudge told the
Washington Post - “I se it as punishment
for daring to report on ABC’s activities.”
Television news -
After 33 years as host of “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, Fred Rogers tapes his last
episode next month. He’s 71.
