Home as covid19 cases increase across the nation. More than 13 million americans have been diagnosed at over 2,000 americans are dying every day from the virus. As states brace for an uptick in cases due to holiday gatherings the nations most populous county, los angeles county, is set to impose strict stay at home rules that will take effect tomorrow. Meanwhile, health way be on the way as the first doses of pfizers 1ir9 vaccines are headed to the u. S. From belgium, but keep in mind a vaccine isnt expected for wide distribution until later 2021. A cdc panel will meet on tuesday to decide how the initial supplies of the vaccine will be allocated. Joining me now Emergency Room Physician and california congressman and a good friend raul ruiz, cardiologist dr. Bernard ashby on the committee to protect medicare, dr. Mercedes carnethon from Northwestern University and dr. Corey hebert, former cochair of the louisiana governors covid19 Minority Task force. We should also note that dr. Heber
our country. maybe if you just oppose the republican party and you never want it to win another election, you are cool with that. but we will go deeper. that s coming up later tonight. i will explain more. i wanted to tell you off top, it s special. i hope you will stick around for it. the top story right now, it relates to the accountability crisis on the far right and another chunk of the gop as long as it s tied to donald trump. it involves, of course, all the different ways that there are boundaries in american life. others may wish they weren t held accountable this way. it is the lies that hurt donald trump and the lies that caused the insurrection and the lies that george santos was peddling that are getting smacked down in court. today, congressman santos dodging criminal prosecution in brazil after surrendering to authorities this week in new york. he pled not guilty on those 13 counts. he is claiming it s a witch hunt. that was new york on wednesday. now he confesse
If Brett Kavanaughs confirmed to the Supreme Court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, Womens Rights and Voting Rights for decades to come. All i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. In the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. You live in unusual times as i do. You should get more than 90 votes but you wont, and i am sorry it has gotten to where it has. Its got nothing to do about you. If you dont mind, and you dont have to, what did you tell your children yesterday about the hearing . They did as they ill tell them what they told me. They gave me a big hug and said, good job, daddy, and margaret, before she went to bed made a special trip down and gave me a special hug. I just wish if we could have a hearing where the nominees kids could show up. Is that asking too mu
Began in wuhan. In that time, the number of global cases have surpassed 100,000. Roughly 3400 people have died and the World Health Organization has declared a global emergency. Here in the United States, there are now 335 confirmed cases across 28 states. 17 people have now died from the virus, 14 in washington state, one in california. And most recently, two people in florida. The first fatalities outside of the west coast. Washington, california, maryland and utah have all declared a state of emergency. The federal government rushed covid19 testing kits to a cruise ship that is quarantined off the coast of california. There are more than 3500 people on board that ship. Vice president mike pence confirmed that 21 people on board that vessel have so far tested positive for the coronavirus. Meanwhile, President Trump visited the cdc headquarters in atlanta hours after signing an 8. 3 billion emergency funding bill to combat covid19. That bill overwhelmingly but not unanimously passed t
Deliberations for the day and will resume at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time tomorrow. Theyve already asked the judge a question, in the short time since their deliberations began. They requested a list of all the evidence they were presented with and the judge arranged to have that list delivered. Today we saw the dramatic conclusion of the case as the defense attorney mark omara presented his Closing Argument and prosecutor john guy gave the states rebuttal. So this is what happens in a criminal case. The state has to take you from somewhere down here before theres any evidence, and he sort of presumed to be not guilty, all the way up the list in your mind. The person who decided that this is going to continue, that it was going to become a violent event was the guy who didnt go home when he had the chance to. It was the guy who decided to lie in wait, i guess, plan his move. Does it really help you decide this case when somebody who is not George Zimmermans voice screams at the you or yells