President and his allies continue their efforts to discredit an election that trump lost, efforts that are failing one by one in michigan. Michigan, pennsylvania, georgia, other key states. Our coverage begins this morning with Senior National correspondent Alex Marquardt in washington. Reporter chris krebs might not be a name that most American Voters know, but he played the biggest role in making sure americans could go to the polls and cast their votes safely and security as the head of the cyber arm, krebs has been pushing back more and more agrees civil 4ri6 in the days following the election against claims that the vote was rigged, that votes changed and were fraudulent and that Voting Machines were manipulated. On the last count on tuesday krebs tweeted a letter from top Election Officials saying in part these claims have been either unsubstantiated or technically incoherent. Perhaps the biggest crime in the president s eyes that led to krebs getting fired by a tweet was his age
The death rate soaring to levels we havent seen since late spring. Infection rates are rising that new york citys mayor shut down the entire school system. Cnns nick watt has more. New york city is the Biggest School district in the nation. So many parents right now scrambling to balance work with child care for the morning. Thats the law. An orange zone and a red zone. Follow the facts. Im confused, parents are still confused as well. Theyre not confused. Youre confused. Reporter meanwhile in iowa. I want to make sure you dont have a blood clot in your lung. Reporter more than 76,000 americans now hospitalized with covid19. Thats an all time high. In some waplaces, were alrey out of beds and room to put even new beds. Reporter so montanas mask mandate goes statewide friday. In michigan, a threeweek pause kicks in. No more indoor dining, bars, movie theaters. Inherently dangerous situations are when you are inside with people from a different household or many different households for
Says cases are falling but the continent is not out of the woods yet. We are live yet in paris. Good to have you with us, well, soaring cases, rising hospitalizations and now a u. S. Death toll from covid19 that surpassed a quarter of a million. A grim picture, as officials warn, the worst of the pandemic may still lie ahead. Right now, there are more than 11 1 2 million cases in the United States which continues to lead the world in both the number of cases and deaths. The assistant secretary of health and Human Services who spoke with cnns erin burnett anticipates the situation will deteriorate even further. This will get worse. We have had 1 million cases documented over the past week. Our rate of rise is higher than it even was in the summer. There are so many more cases that we have that deaths are going up, and unfortunately we do anticipate this to continue at least for the next couple of weeks. And that dire warning comes as the pandemic rages in many parts of the United States
Term contract required. Click or call today. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. You are watching cnn newsroom and im rosemary church. Ahead this hour, youre fired by tweet. Donald trump takes his revenge on a senior official who had declared the 2020 vote free, fair and without fraud. And covid rages across the United States. Now the states which placed personal freedoms ahead of restrictions are getting hit hard. We have a report from iowa. Plus, the good news, the vaccines are on their way. The next question, do we have the logistics to deliver them around the world . Good to have you with us. U. S. President donald trump is ramping up a purge as he refuses to concede defeat in the president ial election. He announced the firing of senior Homeland Security official chris krebs on wednesday. Krebs had rejected the claims of widespread voter fraud. His Deputy Director is leaving. He chris krebs might not be a name most people
Garage at talladega was not a hate crime. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im Laura Jarrett. Christine romans has the morning off. We begin with the u. S. Entearing critical phase in the fight to slow coronavirus. There are now 26 states headed in the wrong direction. We say it every morning but this is a count that keeps ticking up daybyday including new case records in california and texas. The most populace states in the nation. The governments leading voice on the pandemic dr. Anthony fauci telling a House Committee hes worried about complacency. The curve that americans once flattened is rising sharply again. Were now seeing a disturbing surge of infections that looks like its a combination but one of the things is an increase in community spread. We were going down from 30,000 to 25 to 20 and now we sort of stayed about flat and now going up. A couple of days ago there were 30,000 new infections. The next couple of weeks is cr