Days away, we visit the usually reliable red state of arizona, where theyve been tabulating early votes here for almost two weeks. Millions of them have already been processed. So, on tuesday evening, if you want an early read about the future of the presidency, just look west. ticking this facility was ground zero. 60 minutes has been allowed inside americas first known covid hotspot. The world turned its attention from china and europe to a five star, Skilled Nursing facility in a Seattle Suburb, where residents were getting sick and dying at an alarming rate. I felt like i was standing on the beach looking at a big tidal wave coming at us. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im john dickerson. Im scott pelley. Those stories and more, tonight on 60 minutes. ticking epclusa treats all main types of chronic hep c. Whatever your type, epclusa could be your kind of cure. I just found out about mine. I knew for years. Epclusa has a 98 overall cure rate. I had no
We are always at threat for the next pandemic. These viruses exist out in nature. As people go out in nature they get infected and then move their way back into humans. If we were to imagine the origins of covid19 as a movie, it would begin at the end of the contagion movie. Exactly that process of bulldozing down the forest, bats flying off infecting livestock that then we get infected. That happens every day, every week. Thats how these things begin. With yuhaith you wuhan is a majn the wildlife trade pathway. Its close to hot spot areas for new coronaviruses. Ever since the covid pandemic hit, weve been trying to determine if anybody knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last fall and when did they know it. Researchers looked at Satellite Photos of wuhan hospitals in october of 2019. And what they show are packed parking lots. All those red dots are cars. And we took those photos and we put em next to october of 2018. Mirror images. And you can clearly see in some t
This is just over two hours. Let me begin by thanking our panelists and members of at todays briefing. 40,000, the latest estimate of how Many Americans in Nursing Homes and other longterm care facilities have lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The men and women who died at these Nursing Homes were parents and grandparents, who sacrificed to provide for their families. Some were veterans who fought to protect our country. Many were essential workers who kept showing up to care for the elderly and the sick, even when it meant risking their own lives as our nation faced more deaths from coronavirus than any other country. Lets be clear. These 40,000 americans deserve better. Their deaths in our nation to protect our people. There were warnings. In february the coronavirus attacked the Life Care Center in kirkland, washington. Three quarters of the residents at that facility became infected, along with dozens of staff. 37 people died. Four months later nursing home
Nursing homes. We are joining this hearing in progress. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. As one basis for work authorization. U. S. Cis has used deferred action in medical and humanitarian cases for decades. The idea is longstanding, and, in fact, customary. In one data set i received in 2011, nearly half of the cases i could identify involved serious medical conditions. And many of the cases involved more than one factor. For example, deferred action was granted to a 47yearold schizophrenic who overstayed his visa, was the son of a lawful perm resident, and had siblings who were u. S. Citizens. Over 100 of these cases involved people whose homes were destroyed by an earthquake in haiti. In another data set, a 578 cases obtained from u. S. Cis in 2013, 336 were based on medical issues. One case involved a mexican female who entered the United States without inspection and had two u. S. Citizen children. One of her children had down syndrome, and the other child had serious medic
Area, and while we were taping, another Public Health crisis hit the us all a deadly new virus called covid 19. Embedded with the king county seattle Public Health director, we kept our cameras rolling, as officials began to grapple with the enormity of the threat, and the challenge of protecting the most vulnerable. Stevie habedank weve got thick blankets. Weve got a sleeping bag. I think it was, what . Yeah. 36 six out. And i mean, i was fairly warm back there. Were you warm, kiddo . Alexa kind of. Stevie habedank kind of. Casey ballard merry christmas. Stevie habedank since ive been out of work, this has all been really hard. Trying to put gas in the car, trying to feed my daughter. People feel that Homeless People are junkies and alcoholics, and im none of those. Theres a lot of us out there that are just trying to get stable and on our feet so that we can live a normal life. Dow constantine seattle has a housing and homelessness crisis, and a lot of it really is tied up in the suc