About things. That is the way it is. Its what we have. No addition to that, the president gave his fullest endorsement yet of steps to slow the spread. Were asking everybody that when you are not only to socially distance, to wear a mask, get a mask, whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact. They will have an effect and we need everything we can get. We are instead asking americans to use masks socially distance and employ vig use hygiene, wash your hands every chance you get and sheltering the high risk populations. We imploring Young Americans to avoid packed bars. Those words may have been spoken by dr. Anthony fauci who was not invited. The briefing can be read as someo something else, an admission that the president has been wrong, about his hands off approach to a virus that has taken 142,000 american lives in. That said, he admitted this things will get worse before they get better, he had little to say what about they would do to make them better. What he did do is
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5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast. We appreciate you joining us. Our top story, infectious experts warn the coronavirus pandemic is going to be with us for 18 months or longer. Hoping to shorten that time line, the u. S. Government has given emergency approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir which has shown some promise in Clinical Trials for treating severely ill patients. So far, Johns Hopkins university has tracked 1. 1 million cases among americans and more than 65,000 deaths in this country. Yet, even as numbers soar, a huge portion of the country is relaxing stayathome restrictions and reopening some businesses. Experts fear, though, it is much too early. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention have spent the last couple of months trying to pin down exactly how the coronavirus got a foothold in the united states. And now they know. Heres cnns nick watt. Reporter limited testing but continued influx of infected travelers from overseas hot spots and cruise ships and
Divers today after he was dragged away by a gator in water near the resort where his family was staying. His father fought to wrestle him from the animals jaws, but was sadly unable to set him free. More now on this tragic development from peter doocy. Most families who visit disney world want to take their young kids to meet minnie or mickie. But today the family got a visit from a sheriff and a priest who told them that their 2yearold son had been found in six feet of water, about 10 to 15 feet out in the murky manmade seven seas lagoon. Between the grand floridian resort and the magic kingdom. One stop on the monorail between the two. We know that last night according to the latest information that we have, blaine, the 2yearold, was playing along the waters edge. Disney says that they believe a movie night that happens in that general area had just wrapped up. An alligator somehow appeared, got ahold of him. His dad tried his best to keep a grip on his toddler son, but he could not.
Cuts despite a lin hemming and hawing are still looking good. But so many details to iron out and fast and peter doocy has more. We just got word from Mitch Mcconnell that he wants there to be a twoweek long budget to keep the government open. As of right now, they have enough cash to keep the lights on until friday. Theres a fight and how long it should be extended. Leadership wants to go till the 22nd. Three days before christmas. Pass a longer term budget so people can head home for a few weeks and celebrate the holidays. Conservatives want people to come back after christmas with a budget that would go till the end of the year. Usually we load up the Christmas Tree with democrat votes. We want to avoid that. That will help us. This is intertwined with the tax reform effort because some conservatives from the House Freedom caucus withheld support about this spending dilemma. It was a big surprise that they did that. Now democrats in the senate say it could be avoided if theyre given