December 14th is the day already marked in the history books. Its the tragic anniversary of the massacre as andy hook elementary school. December 14th happens to be the anniversary of the death of george washington, who died on this day in 1799. But when the history of these times is written, december 14th, 2020, will warrant a double entry. Today, december 14th, 2020, the day that we passed the solemn milestone of 300,000 Coronavirus Deaths right here in the United States. Also marks the first day of the Vaccine Rollout in this country for the deadly coronavirus pandemic. These images of Front Line Health Care workers and residents of Nursing Homes are filling our televisions today and providing a realtime solve to our pandemicweary nation. Fridays latenight approval of the pfizer vaccine, which is expected to pave the way for approvals of similar vaccines in the coming weeks and months. Today, december 14th, 2020, also marks the day that is typically noted by broadcasts like this one
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good morning, everybody, it is 11:00 a.m. in the east. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m yasmin vossoughian. it s good to see you. in just a couple of minutes, the president is set to deliver remarks on this memorial day at arlington national cemetery. we re going to bring you that live, and you re seeing live pictures there. but first a major breakthrough on the bipartisan effort to raise the debt ceiling and save the economy from what would be a historic debt default. and now the race is on to get enough support from congress. we re going to talk to congresswoman jan schakowsky about that and much more. in south carolina a state judge has pressed pause on the state s restrictive new abortion ban. we re going to break down what s next in the battle over abortion rights, and then in turkey, president erdogan has won an unprecedented third term in a hotly contested election. we ll take you live to ankara. we re keeping a close eye on arlington national cemetery where president biden is
coming out of washington, dc, at about ten minutes past the hour. we ll be monitoring that as well and we also know that republican leaders and republican leaders and republican lawmakers will be holding a call around 9:30pm eastern time, so it about 20 minutes, and there will be briefing republican lawmakers on the deal that has been agreed in principle. i believe we also have a tweet from the republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. he might be giving some more information on what could be an ideal, what we are expecting next, but again, this is something we have been tracking for many days and weeks and months in terms of what could be in this deal and whether or not lawmakers could come to an agreement about raising the debt limit here in the united states. of course we know that the deadline had been extended to june five, when know that the deadline had been extended tojune five, when the us treasury said that essentially the country would no longer be able to me