Who should care. And its a nightmare that didnt even need to happen, at all. Exactly six months and one day ago, the Vice President of the United States, the head of the selfproclaimed wholeofgovernment effort against the outbreak said it would not happen. Heres what ran in the wall street journal six months and one day ago, under mike pences name. The piece is headlined there isnt a coronavirus second wave. Quoting now. Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American People, our publichealth system is far stronger than it was four months ago. And we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy. The truth is, the piece concludes, whatever the media says, our wholeofamerica approach has been a success. Success. That was six months, one day, and more than 190,000 american deaths, ago. 823 americans died, today. Those words appeared in print. Nearly 2,900 deaths, just so far, tonight. On top of more than 3,600, last night. More than a quarte
This nightmare is the kind in which screams go unheard, or unheeded by those that care. And its a nightmare that did not need to happen. Six months and one day ago, the self proclaimed effort against the outbreak said it would not happen. Here is what ran under mike pences name. The piece was outlined, there isnt a coronavirus second wave. Yetting now, thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage andcompassion of the American People, our Public Health system is far stronger than it was four months ago and we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy. That is 190,000 american deaths ago. Nearly 2900 ethdeaths reported t so is far tonight, on top of the 3600 last night. Nearly quarter million new cases in a Record Number of people hospitalized. No mention of any of that for the man whose name is on the oped, we will have the inside story of it shortly, by the way. And no mention either by the president. Not a peep. Nothing acknowledging that california today report
Despite these really horrific numbers, there are still political leaders downplaying the severity or even the existence of the pandemic. To that, one of the top federal officials overseeing the Pandemic Response had this to say this morning to cnns john berman. We have hundreds of thousands of dead americans. Well have millions of people around the world. This is not phony, this is not fake. It is serious. It is serious. And today were going to focus in on not only hospitals getting hammered right now and also the hope these vaccines are bringing, but also on the wider ripple effects of the pandemic. Restaurants forced to close their doors, schools trying the best to the best they can to keep their doors open as we enter this dark winter. Lets turn first to capitol hill. The top leaders in congress are offering up clear signs that they are confident a covid relief bill is coming but, yes, you have heard this before. No, they dont have a lot of time left. Cnns manu raju is tracking this
Since that time, the Charlottesville Police department, in cooperation with the county of albemarle, and jurisdictions throughout the commonwealth of virginia engaged in an unprecedented search in an effort to find her. And return her to her family. Countless hours, thousands of hours, have been spent by let literally hundreds of Law Enforcement and volunteers in an effort to find hannah. We think perhaps today proved their worth. Sometime before noon today, a search team from the Chesterfield County Sheriffs Department was searching an abandoned property along old lynchburg road in southern Albemarle County when they discovered what appears to be human remains. Now, fairly shortly after that discovery, at a time that was most appropriate, detective Sergeant James mooney of the Charlottesville Police department made a very difficult phone call and reached out to john and susan graham to share with them this preliminary discovery. Again, these are human remains, and forensic tests need
Williams. Good evening. Im tamron hall in for brian on this Christmas Eve. We begin with breaking news from atlanta. Inside a secure laboratory may have exposed a technician to ebola and other staff who may have had contact with that lab are being identified. Its the latest in a series of embarrassing errors for the cdc. The agencys director tonight saying hes troubled by this incident. An investigation is now underway. We get late details tonight from nbcs Gabe Gutierrez in atlanta. Reporter tonight, an internal investigation is underway at the centers for Disease Control to find out how one of their workers and possibly more could have been exposed to the deadly ebola virus. The exposure took place monday when scientists researching the virus mistakenly sent a sample from a highlevel security lab to a lower level lab at the cdc. The technician has no symptoms and is being monitored for 21 days. You have to get ebola into your body to be infected, so its likely that the risk to the te