Before pushing ahead to fill her seat. But in less than 24 hours since we learned of her death, cnn has been told President Trump wants to announce a pick before the first president ial debate. Thats just ten days from now. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell appears to be on the same page. Vowing that trumps nominee will get a vote. But this just in. Vulnerable gop senator, Susan Collins, now saying, wait a minute. The vacancy should be filled by whoever wins the president ial election. As Senate Democrats send an open letter to judiciary chairman, Lindsey Graham, making that same argument. Lets go, right now, to capitol hill. Our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju, is there. Manu, tell us more about senator collins statement and what it could mean for the path forward. Well, i could tell you this had been expected from the republican leadership. Collins had signalled, first, for a couple of weeks that she was unlikely to get behind any effort to fill a Supreme Court vac
Hes feeling great, up and around. He could be discharged tomorrow. Now, the president s doctors did say he battled a fever, his oxygen levels did fall at least two times and he did spend time being administered supplemental oxygen. A detail they danced around in yesterdays medical briefing. This is the u. S. President. We need serious and accurate information, whether its what we are hoping to hear or not because not only americans but people around the world, friendly and otherwise, will fill in the blanks if there are holes in what were being told. Every medical doctor that advises me and this network believes theres more to the president s condition than what his caregivers are saying outloud. They believe it because not what theyre being told, stay right there, youll hear directly from our doctors in a moment. First, lets go to our White House Correspondent enginejerem diamond, outside the walter reed. This is frustrating the way reporters have to drag information out of these doct
But hi medical team is admitting he has experienced two episodes of low objection jection that required a oxygen supplement and a steroid. This after doctors sidestepped objection jection questions, about the second dose of remdesivir a fiveday treatment, despite the president s troubling symptoms, his doctors say he could be back in the white house as soon as tomorrow. Today he feels well. Our plan is to have him eat and drink, be up out of bed as much as possible, to be mobile. If he continue to say look and feel as well as he does today, we hope to plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the white house where he can continue his treatment course. With the growing conditions, there are major questions about the credibility of the story we are being told about the president. We had a team of correspondents covering these developments, Boris Sanchez is at the white house. Lets begin with Jeremy Diamond at walter reed. They tried to set the record straight with the president s heal
A vaccine for people 16 years and older. All thats waiting is for Robert Redfield to give the green light. That could come any moment now. Vaccinations are expected to start as soon as monday. The punishing toll of covid in the United States is unrelenting. Today another staggering record. More than 108,000 people across the country right now are hospitalized with covid. This is the 11th day in a row that the u. S. Has broken the record for hospitalizations. Yesterday, get this, more than 3300 americans died from the coronavirus and today already more than 2200 have already died and the day is by no means over. Dr. Redfield said we should expect to see more deaths per day than there were on 9 11 every day for the next two to three months, even with a massive vaccine rollout that is about to get underway. That historic rollout, by the way, when it happens, will start in the state of michigan. Thats where the pfizer scientists are creating the vaccine. Millions and millions of doses, the
Potentially gamechanging moment in this fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Right now as we speak, the Cdc Advisory Committee, one committee at the cdc, is holding a meeting on whether to recommend the use of pfizers covid19 vaccine. A final vote is expected within the next few hours. And final announcement could come from the cdc shortly after that. Now all of this comes just a day after the fda gave the green light for an emergency use authorization of that same Pfizer Vaccine and now one operation warp speed official said the vaccine will be delivered to 145 sites all across the states on monday. And another 425 sites on tuesday. It could not come at a more dire time. The United States seeing its worst day of the pandemic thus far. On friday, the highest number of deaths, over 3,300. Hospitalizations and new cases also higher than any day prior. The u. S. Now approaching another horrific milestone closing in on 300,000 americans killed by the disease. And as we wait for the vacc