Alarming new numbers in the coronavirus crisis. 278,000 americans have now lost their lives to covid19 and the country is facing more than 14. 2 million confirmed cases. It is now the leading cause of death this week in the United States. Covid killed nearly as Many Americans just yesterday as died on 9 11 almost 3,000 people. That has the cdc using its strongest language yet to encourage the use of masks, calling them critical and saying in some cases masks should even be worn at home. And just a short time ago president elect biden talked about the pandemic. He told reporters he has not yet seen any detailed Trump Administration plan on how to, quote, get the vaccine out of the container into a syringe and into somebodys arm. Biden also said the u. S. Will be in what he called dire, dire, dire straits unless congress immediately passes a new pandemic stimulus bill. Lets begin this hour with the breaking pandemic news. Cnns nick watt is joining us from los angeles. Nick, there are new stayathome orders that have just been issued out there in california where you are that impacts millions of people. Thats right, wolf. Its a new Stay Home Order and covers five counties up in the San Francisco bay area. It lasts through at least january 4th. You remember yesterday Governor Newsom out here said that if a regions icu capacity reaches a critical level then they have to go into a Stay Home Order. That hasnt actually happened yet up there in the bay area but local leaders said, listen, we know these numbers are going to get worse. Lets just do this now before its too late. This week covid19 is the leading cause of death in america. Its going to get worse. We have not yet seen the post thanksgiving peak. By the spring more than half a million americans could be dead. And while we are all excited about the vaccine the reality is the model says the vaccine probably by april 1st will only save about 10,000 to 11,000 deaths. Thursday was the worst day of this pandemic so far. A Record Number of new cases, a Record Number of americans in the hospital, and 2,879 dead. The most lives lost in a single day, one gone, every 30 seconds. Help is on the way. You see the light at the end of the tunnel. A hint at how the next administration will handle this . Im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask. Not forever. 100 days. And i think well see a significant reduction. Masking alone could save tens of thousands of lives. Its cheap. It doesnt shut down the economy. The shutdowns or lockdowns are really not on the table at least not from the biden harris team. Today states must submit Vaccine Distribution plans. At first there might not be enough even for the First Priority group. Health care workers and Long Term Care residents. That is millions and millions of people. When you only have a few hundred thousand doses of vaccine. And new National Jobs numbers suggest the economic recovery is stalling. Today we have over a thousand families coming through this line to take this box home and provide it to their families. Unfortunately, this is the last week of this coronavirus Food Assistance program. In many places Public School enrollment is down, Distance Learning just not the same. They were having tantrums. The newharts of illinois went inperson private. We had to do a lot of number crunching but we felt it was something we had to do. Reporter wolf, you mentioned the cdc now saying that you should sometimes even wear a mask inside your own house because there is so much asymptomatic spread and spread between members of the same household. They are also stressing once more that masks are the best way for us to keep businesses open and get kids back into school. The cdc also says half of those who are transmitting this virus are totally asymptomatic. They dont know they have it but theyre passing it along. That is why masks are so critically important. Nick watt reporting for us. Thank you very much. We just heard president elect biden speaking about the pandemic and answering reporters questions. Lets go to our Political Correspondent in wilmington, delaware. Biden didnt sugar coat the seriousness of the crisis now facing the country. Reporter he sure didnt, wolf. We are weeks out from Inauguration Day now and president elect joe biden seems to want to prepare the American Public for the very real possibility that things could get much worse before they get better. This is not just when it comes to the covid19 pandemic but the state of the economy as well. Americans need help and they need it now. Reporter a dismal jobs report on friday a grim reminder of the painful economic recession president elect joe biden will inherit come january. The u. S. Economy adding just 245,000 jobs in november, far fewer than economists had hoped for. Biden urging congress to immediately take action. The folks out there arent looking for a handout. They just need help. Theyre in trouble through no fault of their own. Were in a crisis. We need to come together as a nation. We need the congress to act and act now. Reporter biden also raising the alarm about Vaccine Distribution, saying he is not satisfied with what he has seen so far from the Trump Administration. There is no detailed plan that weve seen anyway as to how you get the vaccine out of a container into an injection syringe into somebodys arm. And it is going to be very difficult for that to be done and a very expensive proposition. Reporter this after the former Vice President detailed an urgent step he would take to get the pandemic under control in an exclusive sit down with cnns jake tapper. The first day im inaugurated im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask. Not forever. 100 days. And i think well see a significant reduction that occurs with vaccinations and masking. Biden revealing he asked dr. Fauci a widely trusted figure in the fight against covid19 to stay on in his government i asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well and be part of the covid team. Reporter fauci saying he readily accepted the offer. Absolutely i said yes right on the spot. Reporter now less than seven weeks until Inauguration Day, biden indicating trumps attendance would send an important signal. The protocol of the transfer of power i think is important but it is totally his decision and of no personal consequence to me. I do think it is for the country. Reporter next year a closely divided senate awaits biden who himself served as senator for more than three decades. Some of his former republican colleagues in congress have yet to publicly acknowledge his white house victory. According to biden its a different story behind the scenes. There have been more than several sitting republican senators who privately called me and congratulated me. And i understand the situation they find themselves in. Until the election is clearly decided in the minds where the Electoral College votes they get put in a very tough position. Reporter wolf, weve been doing a lot of reporting on the ongoing push for more racial diversity in bidens cabinet and what we are learning is that theres a lot of lobbying to avoid a situation where the top four cabinet positions are all appointed with white women and men and just keep in mind already appointed are the positions of secretary of state and treasury secretary, but biden has not yet appointed his attorney general, his defense secretary, and we heard biden telling reporters today that he is not going to make a specific commitment when it comes to those two roles but he did say we are going to see significant diversity in his cabinet when all of the announcements have been made. Thanks very much. Lets get to more on all of this. Dr. Peter hotez is joining us. Thanks so much. You just heard president elect biden say the Trump Administration does not have a detailed Vaccine Distribution plan at least as far as he has seen. He has not seen it yet. They have been briefing him during this transition. How concerning is it to hear that while we could be only days away from an approved vaccine the federal government may not necessarily be prepared to get the vaccine into arms . What is going on . That is a good question, wolf. One of the exciting aspects of operation warp speed is they brought in general gus perna an expert in logistics to work out those details especially for a complicated delivery mechanism like the Pfizer Vaccine requires. The deep Freeze Technology and other aspects. Weve never done this before. So this is not going to go smoothly. Were going to need detailed plans for each of the states. Now, in the past the Trump Administration has not led a Covid National response and this is one of the problems. Hes had the states in the lead who never had the intellectual horsepower to know how, and the scientific knowledge to know how to control covid19 and work with the models, etcetera. And there was the backup supply Chain Management but it wasnt adequate. Now once again the states are going to be asked to take the lead on delivering the vaccines and that is not too surprising since a lot of vaccine policy is set at the state level. I would have anticipated there would have been a detailed road map by this point, so hopefully the states are on top of it and again well probably see a lot of variability from state to state. The cdc dr. Hotez says masks are critical even at home and president elect biden says he will encourage americans to mask up for 100 days once he takes office. Could increased mask wearing plus a vaccine finally, finally turn the tide of this pandemic . I actually think there are three things. Clearly, the masks are critical if you look at the institute for Health Metrics models whether or not we get 95 mask compliance makes all the difference as to whether well have 500,000 or 600,000 americans who lose their lives by the time around the inauguration versus 300,000 or h 00,000. They are absolutely critical. I think the other piece to this is preventing those surges on the intensive care units. This is what we saw in el paso and lubbock, in texas, here in texas, this is what were seeing in the North Central midwest. The reason that is concerning is because that is when the mortality rates really start to skyrocket so the other piece to this, a measure similar to what Governor Newsom proposed in california which is where their surges are threatening thats where we have to maximize social distancing. That is pretty much going to be the mainstay from now until the time when vaccines roll out in the coming months. The good news is vaccines are coming. Well probably have four or five vaccines by the early part of next year. Well need all of those vaccines to vaccinate the american people. Were just looking at the numbers more than 2,000 americans have died just today and the day isnt even over yet. These numbers are simply so staggering. As you know, covid19 is now the leading cause of death in the United States this week according to the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation of the university of washington. Dr. Fauci is warning we have not even seen the post thanksgiving surge yet that could come in another week or two weeks. Do people understand just how serious this situation is, how deadly this situation is right now . No, wolf. I walk around my neighborhood in texas and im still seeing more people than not, not wearing masks, which is so disheartening. The word is really not getting out like it needs to. This goes to show you how important it is to have better leadership and guidance federal leadership and guidance so just by having a new administration in the white house eemphasizing the importance of masks and social distancing will be a game changer. We still have governors in the middle part of the country, many in red states still defiant and believing the scott atlas covid hoax theory and attributing deaths to other causes. This is terrible. And so i am trying to do everything i can in the middle part of the country to get the word out because all we need to do is keep everyone alive for the next couple months and we have vaccines on the other side. No reason anyone has to lose their life between now and the first couple months of the new year. So this is all about saving lives and everything i think for up to every american to do whatever they can to protect their mother, their father, their brother or sister. No one has to lose their life. Just wear a mask. Do some social distancing. Stay safe. Thanks for joining us. We are always grateful to you. Thank you. An important note. Please join sanjay gupta along with Anderson Cooper and dr. Anthony fauci for a coronavirus town hall answering your questions tonight about vaccines. Tonight 9 00 p. M. Eastern only here on cnn. There is more breaking news were following. Insiders are now revealing what theyre calling a toxic atmosphere at the white house right now as were learning that our growing and growing number of senior white house staffers are plotting their departure. Hi, my name is sam davis and im going to tell you about exciting plans available to anyone with medicare. Many plans provide broad coverage and still may save you money on monthly premiums and Prescription Drugs. With original medicare youre covered for hospital stays and Doctor Office visits, but you have to meet a deductible for each and then, youre still responsible for 20 percent of the cost. 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Lets to go our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, youre learning new information. Thats right, wolf. Cnn has learned more white house staffers are beginning to plan their departures from the administration. One Senior Administration official told me the white house is becoming, quote, more toxic by the day with people, quote, turning on each other. Other staffers here are frustrated the president wont give it up. The white house is caught in a bind as top officials are scrambling to save two Republican Senate seats in the upcoming georgia runoff races President Trump is still crying foul over the election he lost more than a month ago. We need the peach state to defend the majority because the road to the Senate Republican majority runs right through the state of georgia. Reporter the president s attacks on the Election Results have undermined his own partys chance ness georgia. Mr. Trump has blasted the states Governor Brian Kemp privately calling him a moron behind the scenes all part of his complaints he was cheated. They know it was a fixed election. It was a rigged election. They know it. And i appreciate their support. Reporter the results . Some Trump Supporters are questioning whether they should bother voting for incumbents Kelly Leffler and david purdue. That has republicans worried. We are very frustrated and well do everything we possibly can to make sure whatever anomalies are uncovered in november dont happen in january. But this is illogical for any republican to think that oh, im just going to sit down and not vote and hand the keys over to the democrats. We know what is at stake. Cnn has learned the president s refusal to concede has frustrated members of his own staff who are heading for the exits with one source saying some aides worry mr. Trump is both tarnishing his own legacy and undermining voters faith in u. S. Elections. A Senior Administration official described a west wing environment that is getting nasty saying, quote, i think people are moving on because they have families or livelihoods to support. That and the place is becoming more toxic by the day with people turning on each other trying to settle scores while they can. Some staffers are resigning like the White House Communications director and other trump loyalists are lining up influential posts with advisers Corey Lewandowski and david bossy be appointed to the pentagons defense business board the kind of deep state behavior mr. Trump has railed against in the past. Unelected deep state operatives who defy the voters to push their own secret agendas are truly a threat to democracy itself. The director of National IntelligenceJohn Ratcliffe a trump loyalist laid out another danger in questioning the Election Results. It is emboldening u. S. Adversaries. Does the intelligence show foreign adversaries are amplifying the voter fraud allegations . They are. Who is doing that . I cant tell you. But they are. Yes. What is their objective . To undermine Public Confidence in our democratic processes. Another serious concern the virus ravaged economy as only 245,000 jobs were added last month. 224,000 fewer than expected as the Unemployment Rate dipped to 6. 7 . The numbers showed job growth is slowing as the pandemic worsens. I dont think the job numbers are necessarily the end all and be all. I think were way ahead of expectations. And i think the economy is still fundamentally sound. Which is why congressional leaders are finally moving toward a compromise on a relief bill. Though smaller than democrats would like. It is less money but over a shorter period of time and we need to do it to save lives and livelihood with the hope that much more help is on the way. Now, staffers who are plotting their departures are ignoring warnings from the senior white house official who last month threatened to Fire Administration employees who were looking for work elsewhere as one white house adviser put it some are moving on. It is simply time to move on. Wolf, the president may think he is heading into a second term in office somehow but most of his staffers here dont share that opinion. Totally understandable what is going on. Thank you very much. Lets get to more on all of this with our chief political analyst Gloria Borger and abby philip as well. While the president continues to tweet about election fraud, hes nonstop doing so, i think in part because its raising a lot of money for his political campaign. The president elect biden today in contrast urged congress to take action on a covid relief bill. What did you make of bidens comments . What did he have to say specifically about his relationship with the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell . I think biden behaved like a president. Somebody who has been telling congress what he wants exactly, what he would like to see them approve. Weve spent the last four years with members of the president s own party wondering out loud what does the president want . People didnt know where donald trump was. When he finally told them where he was on something remember the stimulus package, first he was for it then against it then for it. Changed his mind. What you saw joe biden do today is what president s do which is they say this is what i want. This bipartisan bill is something i would like to see passed. I would like to see this as a downpayment on more to come after i would take office and when it comes to Mitch Mcconnell, wolf, he sort of smiled a bit when he was asked about whether he had spoken with mcconnell. He wouldnt answer the question. We knew the last time that he had said no he hadnt spoken to mcconnell so you can draw your own conclusion about that. But he said something that was interesting to me which is theyve had a long relationship. He said he knows me. He knows im straight as an arrow when i negotiate. He knows i keep commitments. And i never attempt to embarrass the opposition. So hes not going to degrade anyone who disagrees with him or and his objective is not to embarrass them or question their motives. His objective is to get things done. Stark contrast to the current president of the United States. Abby, biden wouldnt get pinned down on whether hell name a person of color as the defense secretary or attorney general but promised that when all the cabinet announcements are made hell have the most diverse cabinet in american history. He is certainly facing a lot of pressure on this front isnt he . Yes, absolutely. It is partly because this is a president who more than perhaps any other owes the support of, you know, groups like black voters and women and latino voters for his coming into office. But one of the things about joe biden is that he, over the summer, had actually already committed to naming a woman as Vice President and i had heard from friends of his that there is a little bit of hand wringing about him boxing himself in in that way so early on in the process. Now it ultimately i think Many Democrats would agree it ended up the way they liked for it to have ended up. At the same time youre seeing biden being more hesitant to being boxed in wanting to keep his options open as much as possible so he can have the flexibility to move the puzzle pieces around. This is a very complex thing theyre trying to do here. Finding candidates who are qualified for the job who are acceptable to the United States senate which could be a teetering on a very tight margin with either republican control or a very narrow democratic control and, also, finding candidates who are acceptable to progressives in the party and moderates in the party and constituent groups in the party. So i think biden is trying to keep his options open but i do suspect that given the names weve seen already for some of these top posts, attorney general, Homeland Security im sorry health and Human Services secretary and also defense secretary, there are a lot of diverse candidates being considered. So it seems pretty likely that at least one if not more of those roles will go to a person of color. We shall see very, very soon in the coming days. Gloria, were getting more and more signs that people around President Trump are finally beginning to accept reality from these white house staffers plotting their next moves looking for jobs already to signals that the secretary of state mike pompeo will eventually sit down and meet with the biden transition. Does that make it harder for the president to simply ignore what is really happening here in the United States right now . Well, it should but it wont. I mean, i think we just have to give up on the notion that donald trump is ever going to concede the election. He needs the adulation. He needs his supporters to believe with him, whether he really believes it i dont know, that he won, that the election was rigged, then he can move on and do whatever he wants whether he wants to monetize this into something or turn it into an election in 2024 i think it is quite remarkable we have to point out, wolf, that finally secretary of state pompeo would meet with the secretary of state designate tony blinken. This is something a phone call should have been made a long time ago about. This is absurd that everybody has had to have this artifice because of the president of the United States unwillingness to recognize the fact that he lost the election. Good point indeed. Thank you very, very much. Just ahead well take a closer look beyond the horrible coronavirus numbers to see how doctors and nurses are fighting covid19 nationwide. 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We asked cnns sara sidner to take a closer look at how the pandemic has changed life across the United States as we approach what experts are now predicting will be a very, very dark winter. My business pretty much tripled. Reporter in imperial county, california with an 18 Unemployment Rate that would normally be great news but this is a funeral home inundated with bodies. How much worse can that get . We are afraid. When the first wave hit, our hospitals were sending patients out of county to other hospitals because they were at capacity. Thats not going to happen this time. Because nobody has room anymore. Reporter the covid19 summer surge overwhelmed her staff going from an average of 55 deaths to 135 in one month. Sheila kruger frantically bought and soon filled three new refrigerated containers with the dead. They are filling up again. We can put two or three. Were backed up four and five weeks out now. Weve had married couples that die within a day of each other, parents and children die within a week of each other. It hits. Its heart wrenching. Reporter even with all the new treatments helping bring deaths down and a vaccine on the way covid19 is killing one person in america every 30 seconds. In kansas one patient says the politicization of masks is killing people. Im convinced there are going to be so many people that are going to die just because of what im going to call political for months throngs of Health Care Workers have been working to exhaustion battling to save as many lives as they can but seeing more death than ever before i dont want to say its been harder for us than it has for everybody else but the truth is it has. Reporter from a doctor in colorado where one of 41 people are contagious according to the governor to a covid unit nurse in kansas where icu beds in one part of the state are at capacity. There has been no respite. Two to three weeks well be just swamped. Reporter one Health Care System with hospitals in 21 states is reporting a 70 increase in hospitalizations over the past three weeks. Caring for highly contagious coronavirus patients is taking its toll on everyone. In a newly released survey of 1100 Health Care Workers 76 reported exhaustion and burnout i think were past the breaking point so the staff is here but theyre broken. They continue to come. Reporter dr. Adolph edward runs this hospital in central california. It has just two icu beds left before theyre at capacity. While working nonstop since the summers deadly surge theyre facing down yet another surge. This time a second Field Hospital with 50 beds has been erected. The medical tent mimicking a familiar scene to this air force veteran. This brings me back to when we were in the middle of baghdad. Are we in a war zone . We are. We used to shy away from using the term war zone. We are in a war zone against covid. Reporter the signs of a big battle are reappearing across the country. On Staten Island an Emergency Hospital reopened. Corona hospitalizations there have nearly tripled. In rhode island a Field Hospital erected. Another put up by the National Guard in massachusetts and a terribly familiar plea we heard at the beginning of the pandemic now repeated. If you have the skills, the ability, the can do attitude and have time to work in a hospital, we need you. Reporter experts say what we really need to put the disease on ice, the vaccine. Here in el centro they put part in the astrazeneca trial and now have one of the precious super cold refrigerators that hold the delicate vaccine. This refrigerator i call it my life right now. This is every night we come in to make sure everything is okay with it. That it has what it takes and that were prepared to actually take it to the next level. Reporter dr. Edward and all of the doctors and nurses weve talked to are begging people. Theyre imploring people to do the right thing at the very least, please, wear a mask. And if you need any reason to do that, just think about this. This week coronavirus was the single largest cause of death in our country. Wolf . So sad. Sara sidner reporting for us. Thank you very much, sara. Just ahead millions of americans are getting increasingly desperate but Congress Still hasnt passed a new economic stimulus relief bill. Well talk about that and more with democratic senator, herono. Well discuss when we come back. We are following multiple breaking stories including president elect joe biden urgently calling on congress to pass an economic stimulus bill. We are joined by democratic senator mazie hirono of hawaii. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Good evening. As you heard the president elect is urging congress to pass this desperately needed covid relief bill. He said it would be better if this included stimulus checks. How hopeful are you that congress can reach an agreement, get help immediately to the desperate folks out there who need it . I am hopeful because this bill represents the first time that republicans have gotten together in the senate to come up with a bipartisan bill so up to now Mitch Mcconnell has had no interest in looking at the house passed heroes act which was six months ago. This is really the first time that some republicans have stepped forward to say, we need to do something. We need to provide benefits and help state and counties. We need to provide testing support, education, all of that. I am hopeful. Were still working out the details. I hope you do it because there are so many people having trouble putting food on the table for their kids and paying the rent and it is desperately needed. We know. Earlier today the president elect dodged on whether hell nominate a person of color as defense secretary or as attorney general but he says hell have the most diverse cabinet in american history. Do you agree with the different groups right now lobbying the president elect to do more to diversify the top positions in his cabinet . Joe biden says that he would have a diverse cabinet and is his picks so far have been very competent people who know how government should run to help people as oppose today hurting them. I expect the president to nominate more people of diverse backgrounds and experiences. Its appropriate also for the various groups that worked really hard to elect joe biden and Kamala Harris to articulate their positions. How important do you think it would be that the president nominate a person of color to be the defense secretary and or the attorney general . Well, i would certainly be supportive of that. I just want to be sure that whoever he picks is someone who can follow the rule of law, who will in terms of the attorney general be someone who is going to be the lawyer for the whole country and not for the president. So first and foremost yes i would like diversity. I would like to see more asians in the top echelon of the cabinet. Id like to see more blacks. Yes. So the main thing is, though, that we are going to have a cabinet made up of people who know what the heck theyre doing and help joe biden move forward and id say get this pandemic under control so we can have an economy that can be reopened safely. You are ready to stay here in washington until there is an economic stimulus package passed and forget about christmas and new years if necessary . I am prepared to stay here for the purpose of enacting this legislation which by the way were going to need to do a stimulus bill next year. What this bipartisan bill is, it is an emergency relief measure that will take us through to possibly april. But it will help. It is very much needed. We are going to have to do a lot more with the new administration. Joe biden is providing the kind of leadership we have not seen and basically in four years. 47 days to go. I know. January 20th. Thats when he becomes the president of the United States. All right. Senator hirono thanks so much for joining us and good luck. Thank you. Everyone stay safe. Aloha. You too. Thank you. Just ahead more breaking news. Were getting new information about a Justice Department investigation of an alleged president ial pardon bribery scheme. Well have details right after this. More breaking news were following. Were learning that the Justice Department investigation into an alleged bribery plot to obtain president ial pardons involved a lawyer for the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner, and a wellknown republican lobbyist. Cnn senior White House Correspondent pamela brown is working this story for us. Pamela, update our viewers. Thats right, wolf. We are learning more about this doj investigation into a bribery for president ial pardon scheme. What were learning, wolf, is that some of trumps associates were involved in this, and that would include abby lowell. That was the lawyer for Jared Kushner and ivanka trump and the president s kids of course and at the time represented someone who was allegedly part of this effort. It also includes a republican lobbyist and fundraiser by the name of elliott brody. These people were involved in this apparent scheme that we learned about this week because of Court Documents that were heavily redacted but unsealed by the judge. Now, these were efforts that happened earlier in the Trump Administration days, and there are still many details to work out here. But from the information weve gathered from sources and through the information released by the courts, weve learned that the idea behind the scheme was for a political donor to give a substantial political donation in exchange for clemency for a psychologist by the name of hugh baress who had been charged with tax issues in 2014. This was part of the scheme. Now, we should note that the lawyer for abby lowell says hell given the indication from doj that his client did nothing wrong, that he isnt under scrutiny at all and the representatives as well for the others involved in this, including baress and brody say theres no indication theyre under investigation or any wrongdoing happened. Now, no charges have been filed in this case and doj has said that no Government Official was the subject or a target in this investigation. So all of this raises so many more questions, wolf, about what this scheme was all about and whether this is still an active case. And of course all of this comes as there is a lot of attention on pardons right now, who the president will pardon. We know from sources theres going to be a flurry of pardons before the end of his administration. And so it certainly raises a lot of questions and well keep digging, wolf. Pamela brown reporting for us, thank you. Well have more news just ahead. Fighting cancer doesnt start here. Not in tubes or bags. Not in scans or scribbles. Fighting cancer doesnt even start in a lab. The truth is, fighting cancer starts with you. Covid has devastated our funding for lifesaving research. Help us help patients. Donate today. See yourself. Welcome back to the mirror. And know youre not alone because this. Come on jessie one more. Is the reflection of an Unstoppable Community in the mirror. Im wolf blitzer, thanks very much for watching. Ill be back tomorrow 6 00 p. M. 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