Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. So, more americans have now tested positive for covid in a single day than at any point in the pandemic. Friday saw the largest number of new cases to date. Almost 228,000 newly infected people. Thats over 10,000 higher than the record set the day before. Now, the virus is so pervasive that u. S. Health Officials Say some people should consider Wearing Masks inside their own homes. Deaths in the u. S. Also have been soaring since thanksgiving. So far this month alone, the virus has killed 11,000 americans. And hospitalizations have never been higher. The covid tracking project said the number of patients being treated in the u. S. Facilities has more than doubles in the past month to over 100,000 patients. We get more now from nick watt. Reporter this week, covid19 is the leading cause of death in america. And its going to get worse. We have not yet seen the postthanksgiving peak. Reporter by the spring, more than 500,000 am
Communications director stepping down. That raised some questions. You remember a month ago, a white house official johnny mcentire issued this threat. All of that is gone. Staffers here at the white house from what we can tell doing our reporting theyre ignoring those threats from mcentire and others. Theyre starting to head for the exit. I talked to a white house official today, listen, the atmosphere in this west wing and inside the white house is getting more toxic by the day and people are turning on each other and theyre trying to settle scores. Thats one reason why staffers are leaving because of this toxic environment and others are leaving because they are fed up with the president. There are staffers who are saying they are sick and tired of the president not conceding this race. This is tarnishing his legacy and also undermining democracy because it is undermining peoples faiths in u. S. Elections and the practical fact the matter that people need to find jobs. The president
About this ask from the president . Reporter well, i can tell you one thing, ana, this is not what republicans want the focus of this rally to be here tonight. They were hoping that the president would come here with a clear and very specific message about republicans needing to get out and vote and support the two candidates running in the january 5th runoff. David perdue and kelly loeffler, the republican incumbents, they need to win at least one of those seats in order to maintain the majority in the United States senate so the fact that the president s focus, as he makes his way here to georgia, is the election that already occurred and the one that isnt about to happen is making republicans very nervous here in georgia. And this continues, ana, after that tweet that you played that you showed from earlier in the day with President Trump. Governor kemp actually responded to the president , and he said that he did ask for the signature match audit to take place and he told the presi
More toxic, by the day. Our jim acosta is there. He did the reporting. Joins us now. So, i understand this involves the president s staff. Whats going on . Thats right, anderson. We saw, yesterday, the White House Communications director stepping down. And that, i think, raised some questions because, you will he rememb remember, a month ago, issued this threat to white house officials saying if you leave your job, if we catch you looking for a job, you are going to be fired. All of that is gone. Staffers, here, at the white house, from what we can tell doing our reporting, they are ignoring those threats from mcatee and others, and theyre starting to head for the exits. And i talked to a white house official, earlier today, who said, listen. The atmosphere inside this west wing inside the white house is getting toxic more toxic, by the day. That, people are turning on each other, and they are trying to settle scores. That is one reason staffers are leaving because this toxic environme
On japan, the next day. Called it a date which will live in infamy. 2,403 american deaths at pearl harbor. Right now, the United States is averaging more than 2,200 covid deaths, a day. Thats nearly one pearl harbor, every 24 hours. By april of next year, the university of washingtons institute for health, metrics, and evaluation, projects the pandemic will have killed upwards of 100,000 more people in this country than all the american troops killed in three and a half years of the second world war. More than half a million dead. President trump is the one who likened this to a war. He called himself, in fact, a wartime president. But, that was a long time ago. Those were in the days he wanted to be see as commander in chief, leading the effort, when he took over the Coronavirus Press briefings. And then, stopped listening to the doctors who actually knew what they were doing. Now, the president doesnt seem concerned about being a wartime commander. If anything, he seems more like a d