This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with breaking news tonight. America is now in covid hell. In just 24 hours, the u. S. Has broken every record set since the pandemic began 10 months ago with more new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in a single day than ever. So Many Americans are now being killed by the virus, four people have died just since this broadcast began. Thats a rate of one life lost every 30 seconds. As we come on the air tonight, more than 100,000 people are now in the hospital with coronavirus, pushing the countrys Healthcare System to the brink. Californias governor says i. C. U. Beds are filling up so fast there, he may soon have to shut down much of his state, ordering people to stay at home to try to stop the virus from spreading any faster. Now, tonight, president elect joe biden says hes going to ask all americans to wear a mask for
Crisis continues to worsen at an alarming rate. For the second time since the pandemic started, the number of daily cases topped 200,000 yesterday. More than 3100 people died from the illness, the singleworst daily death toll. And hospitalizations are also at an alltime high, passing the 100,000 mark for the first time. California has the highest number with just over 9300 covid cases. The state could run out of i. C. U. Beds by christmas. Debra joins us from washington. There is a disturbing prediction for death tolls in the coming months. Reporter yeah, annmarie, its heartbreaking to even say this. A top Government Official says 450,000 americans could die from the coronavirus by february. A dire warning from the head of the cdc. 200,000 americans may die from the coronavirus in just the next two months. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Reporter the number of americans currently hospitalized has passed 100,000
Even socially distancing practices, hes been at least 6 feet of space in between you and others at the beach so. Heres images of the beach this morning you can see. The Service Looking there are lot of people out there enjoying the water but heres what you should do if you are going decide to go out to the beach you want to make sure that youre keeping at 6 feet of space you want to avoid large crowds. So if you arrive at a beach and its too many people getting your car turn around go home now remember Health Officials also say because of those really coastal winds. Its one of the more high risk places that you can be since you just cant control the flow of the wind as youre out so you want to keep that in mind before you leave your house. Now last weekend a police on here pacifica issue hundreds of violations for people. Leaving their homes and be more than 5 miles away from their houses to frequent the beach so again if you are going to come out just people out here are doing a good
Good morning just in moscow youre watching International Baghdad has summoned the u. S. Ambassador over the latest american airstrikes on iraq and syria which killed 25 people rocky Officials Say they were unable to prevent the attack with their objections being ignored by washington the u. S. Special representative for rand brian hall has defended though the operation insisting it was meant to deter iranian aggression. One of the things we want to emphasize is that this was a defensive action that was designed to protect American Forces and american citizens in iraq were also working on the mission of restoring deterrence against remey and aggression while on sunday the United States hit 5 targets belonging to the type hizbollah its an armed group that emerged after the u. S. Invasion of iraq and has repeatedly targeted American Forces it is also one of the main she groups fighting against islamic states in both iraq and syria and according to the u. S. The bombing raids were in retal
Is testament to americas reach and capability to take out terrorist threats. No matter where they try to hide anywhere in the world. Im determined to protect the American People from terrorist threats, and ill take to see Decisive Action to protect this country. And well continue working with our close allies and partners. The searing Democratic Forces directly Security Forces, including the kurdish press. Margaret had more than 80 members of the Global Coalition to keep pressure on ices to protect our home. We remained vigilant. We remained prepared. Last night operation took a major terrorist leader off the battlefield and sent a strong message to terrace round the world. We will come after you and find you in the latest diplomatic effort to ease fears of a russian invasion of ukraine turkeys president has met the president of ukraine, volota me zalinski, turkey as good relations with both countries and hopes to act as a mediator. This comes as russia condemned the u. S. Decision to