Twoweek lockdown. Its because of a new variant of the virus that he says is up to 70 more infectious. Well have the details on everything regarding the pandemic in just a moment. First, we want to bring you cnns new reporting about a Tense Exchange in the oval office. Sources tell cnn there was a contentious meeting at the white house friday where staff argued over highly controversial ideas to overturn the election. Cnns Jeremy Diamond has the details. Reporter while President Trump isnt just publicly refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, he is also privately still grasping for ideas and ways to possibly overturn the results of the 2020 election. Sources telling cnn that those ideas were floated during an Oval Office Meeting that the president held on friday that grew heated and ugly at times, according to our sources, as two people, two allies of the president , pushed some really deranged ideas about overturning the results of the election. Those two people are sydney
Sirens, Police Chasing looters around town. I want to show you just up the street. There are police cars that are driving around. They have their lights on. Look how quiet it is. There is no one outside. And thats how its been here for the better part of the night. Behind me here is Union Square Park which has been a gathering point here for many of the protesters. There was a lot of looting in this neighborhood. Theres a lot of stores boarded up. There was none of that here tonight. There has been some looting across manhattan, but, you know, its important to say that were not seeing what we saw last night. I will tell you we were told by the nypd there were about 200 arrests tonight and thats going to be curfew violations. There was some looting. We and our team witnessed a couple of those incidents. But overall, and i think its important to note this, its now starting to rain. So, thats going to help things along as well. Things much different here tonight, much quieter. And it look