Plus, our knew reporting on the u. S. Mail slowdown across the country. And cheating to win. Bad news for trump on his taxes and what we now know definitely about his russian collusion. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Im going to be honest. The last four days of the Democratic National convention went a lot better than i thought it was. It was a real open question, right, how a fully Virtual Convention was going to go. Over the last nearly 70 years of televised conventions, there is a predictable program, there is a frame work in place, right . You have a big arena. Its packed with delegates and the press. There are speeches and signs, a lot of pomp and circumstance and the whole thing always, always, always ends with a balloon drop. So you know what it looks like. There is a visual grammar for everyone to use, right . This year, with all that out of the question due to the ongoing pandemic, most of us, myself included, just had no idea what is
The country. And cheating to win. Bad news for trump on his taxes and what we now know definitely about his russian collusion. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Im going to be honest. The last four days of the Democratic National convention went a lot better than i thought it was. It was a real open question, right, how a fully Virtual Convention was going to go. Over the last nearly 70 years of televised conventions, there is a predictable program, there is a frame work in place, right . You have a big arena. Its packed with delegates and the press. There are speeches and signs, a lot of pomp and circumstance and the whole thing always, always, always ends with a balloon drop. So you know what it looks like. There is a visual grammar for everyone to use, right . This year, with all that out of the question due to the ongoing pandemic, most of us, myself included, just had no idea what is this thing . Like how do you program a Convention Like thi
Alarming new numbers in the coronavirus crisis. 278,000 americans have now lost their lives to covid19 and the country is facing more than 14. 2 million confirmed cases. It is now the leading cause of death this week in the United States. Covid killed nearly as Many Americans just yesterday as died on 9 11 almost 3,000 people. That has the cdc using its strongest language yet to encourage the use of masks, calling them critical and saying in some cases masks should even be worn at home. And just a short time ago president elect biden talked about the pandemic. He told reporters he has not yet seen any detailed Trump Administration plan on how to, quote, get the vaccine out of the container into a syringe and into somebodys arm. Biden also said the u. S. Will be in what he called dire, dire, dire straits unless congress immediately passes a new pandemic stimulus bill. Lets begin this hour with the breaking pandemic news. Cnns nick watt is joining us from los angeles. Nick, there are new
African variant. The number of children of key workers who are still going into Primary Schools is undermining the lockdown, teaching unions have warned. And some nurseries looking after the very youngest children question why they have to stay open and say they need more help to deal with the pandemic. A change in tone from President Trump he now condemns the violent storming of the us capitol by his supporters. Hello, good afternoon. The latest r numberfor the uk has been published and government scientists estimate it is currently between 1 and 1. 4 that means that on average every ten people infected with the virus will pass it on to between 10 and 1a people. Before christmas it was estimated to be between 1. 1 and 1. 3. Scientists advising the government said the estimates of r and growth rates are based on the latest Data Available up to january 11th and do not include any impact of the Current National lockdown. The mayor of london, sadiq khan, has declared a Major Incident in t
Important, timely issue that the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs on africa, republican chris smith, decided to hold this hearing, called combatting the ebola threat. He put out a statement saying, the ebola virus had been contained in one small area of Central Africa for years. Even when there was an outbreak such as in uganda, International Cooperation was able to prevent a broader spread. This hearing will examine Current International efforts to meet the challenge of the worst outbreak of ebola in history. Among the witnesses today, director of the centers for disease control. Then a second panel representatives from samaritans purse and s. I. Mimplt, the two organizations whose missionaries were infected with ebola and returned to the u. S. What about this experimental vaccine, i would suspect theres going to be some questions on that, as well. Reporter likely. Is it working and ask there more of it . Spanish officials are saying theyre watching to see if it helps the america