One republican candidate is sidelined in covid quarantine and another took the day off he democratic challenger was busy digging for votes as his democratic counterpart ran into some nasty weather. We are in athens, georgia with more on all ofm this. Good evening, peter. Good evening. Today wasnt controversy, but rain clouds that were enough to wash out the only scheduled event of the day and keep democratic candidate rafe l warnock moving quickly when he tried to get in position at his first event to ask him a question. Earlyio voting is done, and 3 Million People have already cast ballots record for a runof in georgia. For those of you who have voted already, thank you very much. Ive got news for you. Your job is not done. He returned to the trail after two days off as Republica David perdue finishes his secon day in quarantine. My wife and i are doing just time for it he did test positiv and insist he was mass while in close contact with an infected staffer. Ta its terrible timing,
And a Record Number of people, nearly 125,000 are hospitalized this morning with coronavirus. The situation becoming so severe in los angeles that several hospitals have had to turn patients away because of a shortage of oxygen. Just alarming in america in 2020. One of the latest victims of the outbreak, republican congressman luke letlo of louisiana, he was set to be sworn in this weekend, he died just two weeks after his diagno diagnosis. Also this morning, the uk has just approved the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine with the first doses to be given on monday. This could be a game changer in the effort to vaccinate many countries, since this vaccine is much cheaper, also easier to store and transport than the two approved here in the u. S. Already. Were going to get a live report from london on the latest in just a moment. But lets begin with cnns athena jones. That on the news of the uk variant, which is more easily transmissible, now present here in the u. S. And signs that its already
With democrats to reject President Trumps veto of a key defence bill. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Military personnel are to provide remote support to schools and colleges with coronavirus testing programmes, as they reopen in england from next week. 1,500 Armed Forces Staff will form local response teams, providing telephone and online advice on setting up Testing Facilities. It comes as the chief of the National Health service in england warns Health Workers are back in the eye of the storm as coronavirus cases rise at the end of the toughest year. Around the world, russias coronavirus death toll was revised to 186,000, more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the Third Largest number of fatalities. Spain is to set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and share it with other European Union nations. And australia says it could deport backpackers who flout covid rule
Be held accountable, but republicans are divided on the matter. There is still strong support in the congress for impeaching the president a second time. This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that. The democrats are going to try to remove the president from office just seven days before he is set to leave anyway. I dont see how that unifies the country. I think the best thing would be a resignation. I actually do believe the president has disqualified himself. I dont think he is a viable candidate for office ever again because of the outrageous behavior in the postelection period. Sandra Fox Team Coverage for you on this monday morning, byron york, Jason Chaffetz, and we began with White House Correspondent john roberts, a big morning for many reasons and the north lawn this morning but what is the word inside that white house this morning, good morning . Distance of the white house this morning everything in capitol hill in terms of democrats and