Around the country today, even more people will receive their first dose of the Pfizer Vaccine. But even with that encouraging news, the reality today is bleak. The u. S. Reported more than 3,000 new deaths from covid just on tuesday, this marks the third highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. For the past week the country has averaged more than 212,000 new daily cases and set hospitalization records for ten Straight Days now. We will get to all of that in a moment, but lets begin with the breaking news this morning, so lets go to capitol hill. Our colleague cnn Congressional Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty joins us now. What do we know about negotiations, ie, are they going to vote on this soon and to jims really good point does it include direct stimulus payments . Reporter thats all of those things, poppy, that the negotiators and the leadership from the house and senate are sorting out right now, but they do at this moment appear very close to striking a deal. That expecta