Surpassed 14 Million People infected with coronavirus and, right now, a Record Number of hospitalizations, too. More than 100,000 people with hospitals running out of space. And as cnn erica hill reports its only going to get worse from here. We are at high tide, and the hurricane is hitting. New cases wednesday topping 200,000. More than 100,000 americans sick enough with covid are now in the hospital. Just over 2,800 deaths reported in a single day. Records that, sadly, may soon be shattered. Im so terrified and very anxious about what is going to happen in the weeks ahead. Many hospitals already reaching critical levels. Currently there are zero staffed icu beds in our states southwest region. Its not just kansas. More hospitals in this country are right on that edge of not being able to provide that care. Thats when the number of deaths will really go up. The cdcs forecast now projecting up to 329,000 americans could die by december 26th. We shouldnt expect something different. Wer
United states and all around the world. This is new day. It is friday. Yes, it is. Youve made it. Weve got here much more quickly than we have the last couple of weeks. I dont know how to explain that. 6 00 here in new york. This morning, we have a cnn exclusive. A window into what america will be like in 47 days. A sense of real changes that will have a direct impact on your life and maybe a direct impact on the pandemic. Jake tappers exclusive conversation with president elect joe biden and the Vice President elect Kamala Harris revealed a ton of new information. The president elect announced he will ask all americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his presidency. He will make masks mandatory in federal buildings. Hes calling on congress to pass a express relief package before he takes office. Well bring you highlights of this exclusive interview throughout the morning. Also breaking overnight, the u. S. Again shattered its covid records. 2,879 american deaths were reported
Would not offer the official aser entertainment for a number of weeks. So these review teams working for the biden transition, they were already late getting their access to some of this critical information. And now biden today after he was briefed by these teams saying yes from some parts of the government the cooperation has been just as it should be, getting all the information we need. But from other parts of government this has simply been obstruction. Heres what he said. For some agencies our teams are seeing exemplary cooperation. From others most notably the department of defense we encountered obstruction from the Political Leadership of that department. And the truth is many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. Many of them have been hollowed in personnel, capacity and in morale. And just more broadly speaking about Foreign Policy and National Security biden really emphasizing that these International Alliances with other countries