And tests are not effective. This is of course being a problem throughout the country. You told my colleague Savannah Guthrie about ten days ago that the major problem was that commercial labs were behind on the processing, that you were going to be exerting a lot of effort to get those labs up to speed with people including our own willie geist actually saying he had to wait ten days, saying that today, to get his test results. How can you get this lag time down to the optimum of 24 to 48 hours . So, thank you, and its really the Perfect Question to ask. And all of us are completely aligned on reducing that turnaround time. Were doing about 770,000 tests a day, pretty historic but we still have to work on the turnaround time. One effort is to improve point of care testing. A quarter of our tests right now are done as point of care. Youll see that going up pretty dramatically over the next month or so. Indeed we announced this week were sending point of care tests to every single nursi
After the shooting of jacob blake. Well cover it all, but well start with Donald Trumps convention, which featured uniquely president ial acts and trappings, such as an official president ial pardon, a rose garden address from the first lady, a speech from the current sitting secretary of state, delivered on foreign soil, a mini naturalization ceremony, wherein the president , who has separated families and caged children, was flanked by his acting Homeland Security secretary, chad wolf, and made a show of embracing immigrants to this country. An event described in todays prank coverage as both highly irregular and gallingly hypocritical. Michael shere in todays New York Times writes this, quote, it was not the first time mr. Trump has presided over such a ceremony, but the willingness to use the trappings of president ial power during a Campaign Convention was a stunning departure from the past in which prior president s have avoided seeming to blur the lines between official xactions
Ask in particularfor and further aid forthcoming and we ask in particular for economic support where an area goes into a tier 3 and that is exactly what i announced with respect to lancashire and of course that is part of the discussions that we have with local authorities when further actions are needed. So, absolutely my mr speaker, more economic support from this governance, yes my more work with local authorities to deliver the local approach that is needed, yes, more testing capacity, yes, these are all the things that the government is delivering and i behold the honourable gentleman to acknowledge and support them since we are all clearly trying to deliver the same thing which is to suppress the same thing which is to suppress the virus and save lives. Canl can i congratulate the speaker on the news about the testing which is the news about the testing which is the most significant potential news this house has heard on the fight against a virus for many weeks. Given the dangers
Out front tonight, more people may die. That is the warning tonight from joe biden. The president elect using some of the strongest language yet since the election, telling President Trump it is time to start to transition now or risking losing more american lives to the virus. More people may die. If we dont coordinate. They say they have this Warp Speed Program that not only dealt with getting vaccines but also how to distribute this. If we have to wait until january 20th to start that planning, it puts us behind over a month, month and a half. The idea that the president is still playing golf and not doing anything about it is beyond my comprehension. The virus is spreading at an alarming rate. More than 100,000 cases for the 14th day running, far outpacing any increases in testing. At least 14,951 americans have died since election day. People were alive coming in, now dead. Yet the president is ignoring the urgent calls not just from biden but from dr. Fauci. Obviously, its someth
Time for a look at the weather. Heres sarah keith lucas. You wont be too surprised to hear that there is yet more wintry weather in the forecast, especially over the next 2a hours. Eventually, things will turn a bit milder as we head into next week. For now, there we re head into next week. For now, there were scenes like this in staffordshi re were scenes like this in staffordshire a beautiful wintry weather there, but we have had icy conditions on any untreated surfaces, and freezing fog patches. For the rest of the day, it will feel cold wherever you are. There will be some sleet and snow, but we we re will be some sleet and snow, but we were not all be seeing it. We have had quite a bit of snow across parts of scotla nd had quite a bit of snow across parts of scotland and Northern Ireland overnight as this weatherfront pushed further south. It is now bringing outbreaks of snow across parts of Northern England and parts of wales as well. Some of that is falling as rain or sleet clos