Reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news. Tonight, a new wave of coronavirus cases is now crashing across the country, taxing intensive care units and threatening to roll back months of progress in the fight against covid19. As we come on the air, more than 60,000 americans are now hospitalized with the virus, an alarming new high. Bracing for asis climbing, too. The c. D. C. Is now bracing for as many as 20,000 more americans to die in just the next three weeks alone. The countrys top Infectious Disease expert saying hes hoping pfizers new vaccine may help change that. Dr. Anthony fauci says the new shots could get emergency approval as soon as next week and could be available to most americans by april. Well, tonight, well take you inside the complex plan to make that happen. President trump took credit for the Vaccines Development today on twitter while continuing to uilsely allege Election Fraud
Exactly. Days until that election, more places and more opportunities for folks to do just that. This is a big weekend for several bay area counties. If youre here youll see a super voting center, a center where instead of having several polling locations, they will have one center. The Oakland Coliseum being one and the San Mateo Center behind me being the other. California voters are not required to show identification but if you are voting for the first time in the state after registered by mail, it is suggested that you bring one. In terms of contracost a county, voting there started a few minutes ago. Centers are held at churches, hotels, businesses and community centers. A quick check at the contra costa registrars website can tell you where to go. San francisco county has early voting at civic center location. The polling site has been open several weeks and continues to see visitors. We had a chance to catch up with some folks and listen to their experience and why it is so cru
Story. Reporter this is part of an online form hosted by the Silicon Valley leadership group. The conversation lasted 45 minutes. Invest time the moderator and dr. Fauci covered a lot of ground. Which means we should be able to get an inkling of whether or not we have a safe and effective vaccine. Sometime in middle to end of november. Beginning of december. Reporter dr. Fauci the nations top Infectious Disease expert told Silicon Valley leaders in an online forum by the end of the year we will know more about a covid 19 vaccine. Im optimistic based on preliminary data from the phase 1 study. That we will in fact have a safe and effective vaccine. If we are successful we will be able to start administering vaccine doses by the end of this calendar year or more likely in the beginning of 2021. For dr. Faucis at the process of getting americans back to take 4 to 6 months. Clinics and medical provider should start planning logistics now. He acknowledged skepticism about the safety of a co
Guess whos back . Back again. Good morning, everybody. The kid correspondents, unfortunately, disney policy, the kids could not fill in for you, so you had to come back. You have to be 18 years old or older. How does it feel . Andrew dymburt, i love you, man. Right out the gate. Andrew dymburt did a great job, trevor ault, will reeve. All the folks filling in for me. She ran out of correspondents i did. And im back. Crutched his way back here. I did. I was on crutches after a little knee surgery. Im the bionic man now, 6 million man, will majors. She doesnt know about that. No, not at all. But he is back in time because we begin with a final play for votes on the eve of the election with 93 million ballots already cast. President trump is holding another five rallies today in the midwest and north carolina. Former Vice President joe biden will campaign in ohio after a lastminute swing in pennsylvania where hell be joined by lady gaga. The president is praising a caravan of supporters i
Thats how unconventional all these polls are right now. Were also going to follow more as the markets sort of i digesting the news we got out of the likes of alphabet, amazon and apple. By and large, the numbers were pretty solid, they just werent solid enough, and its weighing on the techheavy nasdaq as a result. Much more on that in a second. Now back to the cases at hand that are getting a lot of attention. 12 states now are reporting record oneday increases including illinois, indiana, maine, michigan, minnesota, missouri, nebraska, new mexico, North Carolina, north dakota, oklahoma, ohio, oregon. These are not just with oneday blips. These are new causes, the highest cases, the highest ever recorded since the pandemic began. Furthermore, 91,248 americans, more americans just tested positive for the virus. It is the highest of the pandemic period. Thats whats weighing more on the markets than anything else, the idea that these expanded cases and the kind that were seeing in europe