Following other holiday weekends. We dont want to see a surge under any circumstances, but particularly as we go on the other side of labor day and enter into the fall, we want to go into that with a running start in the right direction. We dont want to go into that with another surge that we have to turn around again. Dr. Faucis message comes as the United States surpasses 1,000 deaths in a day. Cases are on the rise in 18 states, concentrated mostly in the midwest and the northeast. Iowa, as weve been talking about the last couple of days, that is still a major concern, averaging its highest average number of daily infections since this pandemic began. And another state were watching closely here is missouri. The White House Coronavirus Task Force Says that that state is in a red zone with high transmission and rural and urban communities as well as Major College towns. And all of this is happening here as concerns grow that the Trump Administration will put politics over Public Heal
Would not comment specifically to nominating a person of color if either the position of attorney general or secretary of defense. Plus, president elect biden warned of the escalating pandemic. He promised to follow the science when it comes to his own inauguration which will take place in less than two months. He said there will not be millions of people on the National Mall for his inauguration. Mj lee is in wilmington, delaware. President elect biden gave more details what exactly he is looking for in a stimulus. Tell us more about that. Reporter he did. This was a president elect who was not mincing words. Look at the words he used in his remark. Dire, crisis, urgent, bleak. Clearly somebody who is wanting to prepare the American People for things being worse before they ultimately get better. But youre right, when he was talking about the help that he needed and calling on congress one more time to act now, to pass a stimulus bill, he did say, look, he is encouraged by the 900 bil
Cnn that universal mask wearing along with a vaccine could save 66,000 lives will. Cnns athena jones has more on what Public Health officials are expecting in these winter weeks ahead. We are seeing numbers that none of us believe was possible to see with this pandemic right now. Reporter its never been this bad, and its only getting worse. A nation in the midst of a fullblown crisis. The u. S. Setting records for new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths thursday. Covid19 becoming the leading cause of death in the u. S. This week, according to researchers at the university of washington whose model new predicts the death toll will nearly double to 500,000 people by may 1st. Thats more people than live in atlanta, sacramento or kansas city, missouri. Experts warning there is more trouble ahead. I think we have not yet seen the postthanksgiving peak. Reporter that peak could come in the next couple of weeks, putting more pressure on already struggling hospitals and 911 systems.
Also the president is downplaying the spat with secretary of state Rex Tillerson. The two met for lunch and said he called him a moron this summer. So this interview with Forbes Magazine boasted hes smarter and challenged him to an i. Q. Test. Asking if hes under cutting the secretary of state. Heres what he said. Did you under cut the secretary of state with the i. Q. Comment . No. I didnt under cut anybody. I dont believe in under cutting people. Thank you very much everybody. Do you still have confidence in secretary tillerson . Yes. Lets go to caitlyn, shes our White House Reporter in the white house, anticipating the big hockey team. But before we see the penguins here, what can you tell me about this lunch today between the president and his secretary of state . Yeah, a lot of facetime for these two men where the tension is at an alltime high between them ks brooke. During the press briefing we heard from press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders who said the president was joking wh
Location, i assume, where parents can respond to. Thats another thing that Law Enforcement sets up, a particular area where parents can respond and pick up their children. It looks like theyre already evacuating it. As we can see from the screen right here, theyre actually taking care of injured individuals on the scene. Theyve got a triage set up. It looks like multiple injuries here. This is a horrible sight for these poor kids in school, and for the parents responding to the scene, to pick up their children. Let me make it clear for people who are watching. These are not live pictures. Because this is an okay. Im being told these are live. This is fine. Were showing the ambulance presence. Were obviously having to be very careful about Live Television in an active shooter situation not to get ahead of and show exactly what s. W. A. T. Is doing. Concern is there a concern, art, for potential booby traps as s. W. A. T. Enters the high school . Theres always that type of concern. We di