Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
Home or order earlier than required so starting tomorrow, San Francisco santa clara and Contra Costa County stay at home orders will go into effect at 10 00pm then on monday just after midnight Alameda County state home order will kick in then on tuesday marine countys order will go into effect at noon this news comes as the bay area region including monterrey in santa cruz counties. Have not yet reached the states icu threshold. Health officials here in the bay area say they need to take action now so hospitals do not become overrun with patients. Here are the very latest numbers of icu bed capacity is across the state. Northern california and the sacramento regions are a little more than at 24 capacity. The bay area region is close to 22 regional stay at home orders in San Joaquin Valley and Southern California will go into Effect Tomorrow because capacity in those 2 regions now sit at below 15 . A stay at home order means that personal Services Like hair salons and barber shops must
Across the u. S. Announce more restrictions as the country hits a new high of daily covert cases. And President Trump supporters take to the streets, backing Election Fraud claims, but he makes little progress in the courts. We begin with breaking news in a dramatic escalation in the civil war. In ethiopia, at least 3 rockets have been fired from ethiopia into eritrea, adding a regional dimension to the conflict. Diplomats in the region say 2 of the rockets hit the eritrean capitals, airports. It comes on the 11th day of fighting between Ethiopian Government forces and leaders in the 2 gray region. The to grand Peoples Liberation front had earlier threatened eritrea. Where fighting between to grain Ethiopian Forces has killed hundreds, and to grand leader has admitted its forces struck 1st, prompting ethiopia to launch an offensive in the region. The t. P. I. Left also said it was behind rocket attacks on 2 airports in the neighboring region. There are reports of massacres and both sid
You know, and the nasdaq, of course, moving ahead here. But right now the dow and the s p are the ones poised for a gain on the week. And we got that hand count underway right now in the peach state as Networks Finally do what fox has done and call that race in arizona, indeed, for joe biden. So that is not going down well with team trump. Well take a look at whats happening on the count, where he might place his bets right now in this increasingly unlikely bid to secure another four years of the white house. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis first i off on those spikes in cases right now that just get bigger and bigger and more worrisome literally by the day. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Well, presumably, the president will be briefed on that. Its supposed to happen i any moment now regarding operation warp speed. But, of course, its a closed briefing, and many are questioning why joe biden, president elect, wont be involved. Thats a separate conversation that we could have
Cnns justice correspondent Jessica Schneider is following this. What more can you tell us, jess . Reporter brianna, since this happened on january 6th, the fbi has been releasing more and more information. Theyre now saying the bombs were placed near both of those headquarters, dnc and rnc, between 7 30 and 8 30 p. M. On january 5th, the night before the capitol attack. Authorities have been hunting for whoever placed these pipe bombs now for more than three weeks. Today is the third time theyve increased their award for tips leading to any arrest. It is now 100,000. This really speaks to how much difficulty the feds are having tracking this perpetrator you can see in this picture. This is the picture that has been released from the fbi. And now the fbi releasing a bit more detail about the picture itself. Theyre saying the suspect is wearing a light sweatshirt, their face and head mostly covered. As you can see there, that is Surveillance Video that was obtained by the washington post