Yeah, i dont have to remind you, 2020 is finally over. But so far, 2021 doesnt look much brighter. In fact, it looks worse, in some ways. Especially, here, in the United States. Just a litany of grim figures. From start of the year, the nation now surpassing 20 million cases. More than 100,000 hospitalizations reported, for the 31ststraight day. Several states, reporting record numbers of new cases, and sadly deaths. And while the vaccines offer, of course, some hope, actually getting them into people who need them has been a major problem. One republican senator called the rollout inexcusable. Now, the Trump Administration wanted 20 Million People vaccinated, by january 1st. But, the cdc reports, just under 3 million, so far, have gotten the shot. Cnns nick watt has more details about the state of the pandemic, as this new year begins. Reporter from wuhan, where all this began, to new york, not much fondness in the farewell to a terrible year. And 2020 is gone. And 2020 is freakin gon
Of republicans, trump loyalists mostly, on capitol hill Want Congress to try and overturn the Election Results by objecting to the certification of the Electoral College vote when they meet in a special session on wednesday. It is an effort that has been backed by the white house and it has dramatically fractured the Republican Party in ways we frankly have never seen before. President trump is expected to escalate all this turmoil when he speaks in georgia tonight at a rally ahead of tomorrows senate runoverrunoffs. He has been lashing out at more republicans, some by name, for not backing his efforts. There are also a number of legal questions about the president s actions and whether he may have violated local or federal law when he urged george geor ed ge to, quote, find the votes necessary to overturn the election. As he dangled vague criminal consequences over their heads. But the ballots are corrupt. And you are going to find that which is totally illegal. Its more illegal for y
Rick . Reporter were on 23rd street in the chelsea neighborhood of manhattan. This block still closed between 6th and 7th avenues. The explosion saturday night was behind me on this block, rocked the buildings here, blew out glass, injured 29 people. Of course, they found that that was a Pressure Cooker bomb and they found a second Pressure Cooker four blocks to the north of us on 27th street that did not detonate. This actually started with another bomb, a pipe bomb that went off in seaside park, new jersey, on saturday morning. Then there was another pipe bomb that was found in elizabeth, new jersey, last night. In a backpack with several other pipe bombs. Some of them did not detonate. Some of the bombs in seaside park did not detonate. They were able to connect these thanks to fingerprints and evidence left behind by the bomber who has been identified as ahmad khan are a rahami who shot this morning. He was involved in a shootout with Linden Police who were called to a bar because
preparing for the british royal family? we had a little incident on the south lawn, which started off the visit, and at the arrival ceremony, the president makes remarks first and greets the dignitary, in this case, queen elizabeth, and they are all standing out there, and then the queen stepped up to the microphone to make responding remarks. well, the chief of protocol, who s standing there with them was meant to pull out the step behind the microphone to raise her to the right height, and she had a lovely purple hat on that day with sort of a brim and stripes around it, and she s but he did not pull out the step. she went ahead and made her remarks, and, of course, in the paper the next day, it was the talking hat, but she had a great sense of humor and addressed the joint session of congress that morning, and as i wasn t there, but i was told that she opened by saying, i hope everyone can see me. and then we had one other cute story that no other visiting dignitary ev