The state of georgia once again finds itself at the center of u. S. Politics. Its already the site of two runoff elections that will determine the control of the senate. One is complicated by the coronavirus. Georgia is preparing for a recount in the president ial race. The Trump Campaign requested a second recount after an earlier audit found joe biden won the state by more than 12,000 votes. Joe biden claims trump is setting himself up to lose the state again. Last weeks recount reaffirmed georgia voters selected joe biden to be president. Any further recount will simply reaffirm joe bidens victory in georgia a third time. On saturday a federal judge in pennsylvania tossed out a case for having no legal merits. Well have more on that in a moment. In Georgias Senate runoff campaign republican senator Kelly Loeffler announced she tested positive for covid19 on friday. But another test on saturday was inconclusi inconclusive. She campaigned maskless on friday alongside mike pence, and d
Fight the coronavirus. A live report from london coming up. Good to have you with us. Well, across the u. S. , the coronavirus is raging as cases spike and hospitalizations reach record highs. On sunday, the u. S. Reported more than 175,000 new cases. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university, and in just the first five days of this month, it reported more than 1 million cases. It took 100 days to reach that same milestone when the pandemic first began, and as cases rise, so do hospitalizations. That figure rose to a record more than 101,000 on sunday. Thats according to the coviz tracking project. All of this has so many anxiously awaiting the authorization of a vaccine. The u. S. Health secretary says that could come very soon. Im very clear im going to defer to the fda career scientists on this. Im going to protect the independence of that decision making. I dont know of any reason why the system is in any way off track. If things are on track, the Advisory Committee goes well, i
Around the world. Im kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. After nearly a week of drama and uncertainty, u. S. President donald trump has finally signed the massive Coronavirus Relief and government funding bill into law. This comes after mr. Trump initially refused to sign the deal, throwing many into financial limbo and sparking fear of a government shut down. Now the 900 billion relief package is set to deliver funds to Small Businesses and millions of struggling americans. Cnns Jeremy Diamond has been traveling with the president and has the details from west palm beach, florida. After the president threw coronavirus inrelief into limbo the president has now signed that legislation. The president signing that 2. 3 trillion spending bill that includes 900 billion in Coronavirus Relief on sunday night here in south florida. The president , though, only signing this legislation after Unemployment Benefits for more than 12 million americans lapsed on saturday night after the president d
London. Welcome to all of you watching here in the United States and around the world. Im Kim Brunhuber and this is cnn newsroom. U. S. President donald trump has now signed a muchneeded Coronavirus Relief bill thats set to deliver desperately needed funds to Small Businesses and millions of struggling americans. But this comes days after mr. Trump initially refused to sign the deal, throwing many into financial uncertainty and sparking fears of a Government Shutdown. Jeremy diamond has the details. Reporter well, five days after President Trump threw billions of dollars of desperately needed Coronavirus Relief into limbo by suggesting he might not sign a massive piece of legislation passed by congress, the president has now signed that legislation. The president signing that 2. 3 trillion spending billion that includes 900 billion in Coronavirus Relief on sunday night here in south florida. The president , though, only signing this legislation after Unemployment Benefits for more than
They say ride it like a cowboy. Just ride it, ride that sucker right through. Thats where the 2. 2 Million People come in. Would have died maybe, but it would have been 1. 6 to 2. 2. And thats not acceptable. But there are a lot of people that said, i thought about it. I said, maybe we should ride it through. You always hear about the flu. I talk about it all the time. We had a bad flu season. Were in the midst of a bad flu season. You know we had a bad season last year as an example, a bad flu season. And you have 35, 36, 37,000 people die, sometimes more, sometimes less. But this is different. And part of this is the unknown and part of it also is the viciousness of it. I had a friend who went to a hospital the other day. Hes a little older and hes heavy, but hes a tough person. And he went to the hospital and a day later hes in a coma. I call. Hows he doing . Sir, hes in a coma. Hes unconscious. Hes not doing well. The speed and the viciousness, especially if it gets the right perso