Are off today. We begin 2021 with more than 125,300 people hospitalized with coronavirus, thats a record high. The u. S. Is set to pass 20 million confirmed cases today. That benchmark is a sobering indication despite turning the page to this year the u. S. Has not turned over a new laeaf. More than 10,000 deaths were reported in the final days of the new year. The worst is still ahead of us. More than 6 Million People boarded airplanes over the last six days as experts identify evidence that the new covid19 strain, that that originated in the uk is here in the United States. America is suffering as President Trump prepares to send and spend his final 20 days in office, pushing his effort to overturn the election results. Cnn has now learned that at least 140 House Republicans will back him up by objecting to congress certification of president elect joe bidens victory. More on that, but first lets go to nick valencia, who joins us from a Convention Center turned Field Hospital in atla
Congress, but this is where the president is focused. And he is getting help from many republicans in congress on this futile effort at more political power and undoing democracy, as Cnns Kaitlan Collins reports. Reporter mr. President , will you take our questions . Without answering a single question from reporters, President Trump cut his florida vacation short today and left behind a ballroom of disappointed guests at maralago for tonights new years eve party. Instead of walking the red carpet like last year, trump will ring in the new year in washington, after spending most of his time in florida, in an irritable mood, fuming about everything from his election loss to first lady melania trumps renovations. Sources say trump is almost singularly focused on a plot by his republican allies to disrupt congress certification of joe bidens win next week, which democrats are dismissing as absurd. Theyve got to choose here. Its real simple. Theres only two choices. You choose democracy of
A constitutional formality is on track to become a fullblown political spectacle on wednesday when a joint session of congress meets to formalize the results of the 2020 election. And breaking this afternoon, 11 sitting and incoming republican senators now say they will join senator josh hawley of missouri in an unprecedented and unwarranted effort objecting to the certification of joe bidens electoral victory. Here they are. Ted cruz of texas, ron johnson of wisconsin, James Langford of oklahoma, steve days, john kennedy of louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of tennessee, mike brawn of indiana and senatorselect Cynthia Lummis of wyoming, Roger Marshall of alaska, bill haggerty and tommy tuberville. There is no major issue with the election. In fact, multiple court cases, dozens of court cases have been thrown out for lack of evidence, and these lawmakers arent even claiming they have evidence. This is just one more vain attempt to thwart the free and Fair Election of joe biden as the 46th pr
At the New York Stock Exchange. Nicole we have the new members today. Alcoa, bank of america, hewlettpackard now out. We have seen Goldman Sachs. Financials are drinking on this market. Goldman sachs is one of the big lagers on the dow today. I was chatting with mark newton. He was saying that the market is facing some headwinds recently. The banks are weaker. We are watching names like Goldman Sachs, citigroup, bank of america, jpmorgan. Overall, the financials are weaker. Dagen thank you. How much of this has to do with the Federal Reserve. Now we have new York Federal Reserve bill dudley talking in a speech this morning. He is saying that we have yet to see any meaningful pickup. Peter barnes joins us now here in new york. Peter we are here at fordham university. Basically because the economy is not chugging along as high as he would like it, dudley voted against tapering. That was, of course, a surprise shock decision to the Financial Markets after months of hints that the fed offi
It will feel chillier this morning. 26 at the airport. We will see some sunshine to start the day. It will become mostly cloudy with high temperatures in the low 40s. Well talk about the big coastal storm in just a moment. Good morning. Not a lot happening at the moment. 55 on the north side. The entire beltway is delay free. No problems to report around the airport. Now weather and traffic together on the 1s. 295 295 checking out ok. 83 looks good as well down from mount carmel and the speech continued down to the beltway. 95 in the white marsh area has light volume down to the beltway. Seven minutes travel time to the fort mchenry from 795. That is the latest on traffic pulse 11. A man is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. Police discovered several assault weapons at his home. Kim dacey s more details. Police said it happened on monday. Justin beaumont filed an employee into the back door. He was approached by another employee and the School Resource officer. He said he was bullied