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Its consistent with the trend weve been warned about. Five Straight Days now of record breaking new cases, new highs at hospitals as well as many reach critical capacity and staff is stretched thin. President elect joe biden is making the pandemic his top priority. One of his advisers calling the coronavirus a National Security threat. Yet despite that very real threat the Current White House is refusing to cooperate, still refusing to low the Transition Team to classified information, information that could be vital in helping to stop the spread of the disease. Today biden meet with his transition advisers to go over their next steps which include speaking with former meantgon officials who worked under former defense secretary jim mattis in the hopes of gathering crucial information. Our reporters are covering all of the latest developments unfolding across the country. We begin our coverage with cnns Poola Sandoval and the alarming rise in cases. Set the stage for us this morning. W
The inauguration . Arrested for conspiracy what were learning tonight about the man accused of coordinating the capitol assault. Plus how militia members the hill. Extraordinary rebuke the senates Top Republican says President Trump is responsible for the riot. The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. Odonnell less than 24 hours as president , and who will trump pardon as he hints at the future . The race to vaccinate well show you a car repair shop thats now a Vaccination Center as new york city says it will run out of doses by thursday. T,nighls hed bois. To li earns her a spot at the inaugural celebration. Ral celebt this is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. The next president of the United States arrives in the nations capitol tonight, facing a city on lockdown, and a country in crisis. With just hours to go until jo
Is beginning his inauguration with a remembrance of those who have died. And it will be such an important moment for this country. I dont think any of us have talked about the dead enough. We talk about them as this mass of people, 400,000 dead. But we dont talk about them enough as individuals, nor do we see how many people that is, right . If you think about 400,000 dead, the mothers and fathers and kids and grandparents, the magnitude of that loss, and i think it is poignant that biden, who has himself experienced such loss in his life throughout his life, that he will be doing that for a nation that has needed to do that over these many months, as weve lost our neighbors and friends and mothers and children and fathers and grandparents of this terrible, terrible pandemic, as you said, this Outgoing Administration downplayed. Listen, i thought it was also interesting the way in which this biden sees himself as a figure in advancing multiracial democracy. He talked about meeting a bl
His first and last item of Business Today in washington, a tribute to the 400,000 americans who have lost their lives to coronavirus. America passing the 400,000 death mark, a grim milestone today on the last full day of trumps presidency. And biden, a man who of course has dealt with incredible personal loss himself spoke to the nation seeking to heal. To heal, we must remember, its hard sometimes to remember but thats how we heal. Its important to do that as a nation. And that is the National Mall tonight. Powerful, lit up to remember each of those lives lost. Every single one of them alive one year ago today, a loss this current president has not fully acknowledged. Trump whose tumultuous presidency will come to an end in 17 hours at noon tomorrow, just a short time ago releasing his farewell address. In it he does not mention joe biden by name. He does however list this as one of his accomplishments. Im especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wa