Breaking news. The u. S. Tonight is reporting the first case of highly infectious strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a recent surge of cases in the uk. That first case of the covid reported in the state of colorado. Health officials there say the case involves a man in his 20s with no travel history. This comes as president elect biden is warning that the United States is woefully behind when it comes to vaccinations. The Trump Administrations plan is to give vaccines is falling behind. Far behind. A few weeks ago, Trump Administration suggested that 20 million americans could be vaccinated by the end of december. With only a few days left in december, weve only vaccinated a few million so far. According to the cdc, only 2. 1 million doses have been administered so far. In just over 11 million doses have been zriblt distributed. Thats not close to the goal of 20 million doses that operation warp speed set. Just a short time ago, the president responding on twitter he said it
Action, though we are told its going to be all of the president s demands put to the with that request for those 2,000 checks. Thats something that democrats simply do not want to see. So whether or not this is actually going anywhere or just hang in limbo for the next few days is really the ultimate question right now, jim. Tonight republican senators are feeling the heat from the very top. We didnt expect to be in session this week but we are. Reporter President Donald Trump now says unless republicans have a death wish and it is the right thing to do, they must approve 2,000 asap, 600 is not enough. That is forcing Senate Republicans between defying the president and getting behind big are stimulus checks that many at first resisted and a growing number are supporting. That includes two republicans days away from a heated runoff in georgia who both sided with the president today. I said absolutely, we need to get relief to americans now. Reporter the fate of the stimulus checks is i
We need meaningful background checks. So that sick people dont get guns. Okay. So today you heard him, President Trump used the word meaningful 17 times. 17 times he used the word meaningful when talking about background checks. But if he means what he says, then he can take a stand, right. He could write the executive order now. Let the nra and some in the gop fight him. Take it to court, lose but stand. So tonight trump has a big choice to make, whether or not to be a president of his word because here are his words 18 months ago after the parkland mass shooting. Were going to do very strong background checks. Very strong. Got to do background checks. Again, that was nearly 18 months ago. And he has done nothing since then on background checks. So his lack of action, brekeen promise, is actually odd for at least one really important reason. And that is a reason the president knows. Here he is again today. On background checks, we have tremendous support for really common sense, sensi
Clear who he was aiming for as he fired direct shots nearly a week after the shootings in texas and ohio, President Trump claims theres tremendous support among rms fepublicans f tightening background check laws. But the senate gop leader has not endorsed anything specific. Also breaking, the white house is conducting immigration officials to conduct more raids on undocumented workers after hundreds were arrested in mississippi this week. Ill get reaction from democratic congressman, roe kana, and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First to cnns brian todd in el paso. Brian, you have new information from police and from the walmart manager. Right, jim, weve been working sources on the ground, including the manager of this walmart. Weve been digging up some important new documents on the suspects arrest. We have new details tonight on the chaos on this store and on who the suspect said he was targeting. Tonight, cnn has obtained an arrest affidavit of the expected sho