Wave. Closing the valve as covid infections soar, cities issue new restrictions on restaurants, bars, and gyms. And action. Plus, hollywood is back the show must go on. We cant rehearse like we used to. Youll see the new normal behind the scenes. Livefrom cnbc global headquarters, the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith. Good evening again. The pandemic is raging across the nation shattering record after record day after day many of our hospitals are overwhelmed. Our Health Care Workers at the breaking point and now cities and states are threatening lockdowns. The u. S. Reported another 153,000 new cases just yesterday, an alltime high. Cases were bad in april, worse in the summer but this rise is much different and the chart is still going up over the past ten days Johns Hopkins reports weve added nearly 1. 3 million cases when the pandemic began it took the u. S. More than three months to hit that number now ten days hospitals are filling up just yesterday 67,000 people in
Republicans defied predictions everywhere. It does seem, as i said, that mr. Biden has a slight advantage with a slim lead in several crucial states, but the contest will go on in the form of recounts and legal challenges. Republicans are in a strong position to maintain control of the senate, they made big gains in the house of representatives. Of course, the main, unsettlinged question remains the president ial race itself. On thursday night, President Trump claimed victory. This is a case where theyre trying to steal an election. Theyre trying to rig an election, and we cant let that happen. Detroit and philadelphia known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a president ial race, a very important president ial race. Gerri now, the president s typically combative style drew the usual pearlclutching from the media, Major Networks cut away from his remarks to protect their viewers. Now, its also
Everywhere. It does seem, as i said, that mr. Biden has a slight advantage with a slim lead in several crucial states, but the contest will go on in the form of recounts and legal challenges. Republicans are in a strong position to maintain control of the senate, they made big gains in the house of representatives. Of course, the main, unsettlinged question remains the president ial race itself. On thursday night, President Trump claimed victory. This is a case where theyre trying to steal an election. Theyre trying to rig an election, and we cant let that happen. Detroit and philadelphia known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a president ial race, a very important president ial race. Gerri now, the president s typically combative style drew the usual pearlclutching from the media, Major Networks cut away from his remarks to protect their viewers. Now, its also true that President Trump made
Philadelphia. Im sitting in front of mconkey ferry inn, that is the exact prays Continental Army stayed before general washingtons fateful trip across the delaware river. This is a historic backdrop on history in 2020. Susan li is in the newsroom in new york. Grady trimble at the polls in harrisburg, pennsylvania. Blake burman at the white house. Hillary vaughn with the Biden Campaign in wilmington. Well get to everybody. Well start with you, grady, like me youre in pennsylvania. I was out at the polls. We saw long lines in bucks county outside of philly. Some people waited well over an hour to vote. Seemed like a lot of enthusiasm, pretty strong inperson turnout at least in county. What do you see where you are . That is the same scenario in pittsburgh this morning, connell. We have video of the polling place we were at just a few hours ago. When the polls opened, there were lines that lined around the block. What youre looking at ppg paint arena. That is actually where the Pittsburgh
Hi, there, im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen, they are George Packer whose latest book our man, richard holebooke and the end of the century, and peter baker, this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of James A Baker iii, two good books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holebooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer. Holebooke, a democrat, Foreign Service officer. Student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories, but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this was 0 m a man with great ambiti and that was even before he came to washington. It was. He was part of a houston aristocracy. His family basically built modern houston. He was expected of great things. He had a father who impressed on him the legacy. One thing they were n