Is an uncontrolled pandemic. The numbers are trending in a very disturbing direction. The latest data from the covid tracking project shows more than 83,000 new cases diagnosed just today. Thats an alltime high even for us, even more than the record set during the summer surge across the american sunbelt. And this headline from the New York Times reads the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus in the u. S. Up by 40 in the past month. More than 8. 5 million americans have a confirmed case of this. Over 225,000 souls lost. Yet just hours after coming under such heavy fire for his response to the pandemic, donald trump was back at it. Packed rallies on the road. He held backtoback florida events, pensacola and at the villages, the largest Retirement Community in our country. Yet his messaging on the virus sounded nothing like much of what the nation now faces. Were rounding the turn. With or without the vaccine we have the vaccines theyre going to be great. But with or withou
More than 8. 5 million americans have a confirmed case of this. Over 225,000 souls lost. Yet just hours after coming under such heavy fire for his response to the pandemic, donald trump was back at it. Packed rallies on the road. He held backtoback florida events, pensacola and at the villages, the largest Retirement Community in our country. Yet his messaging on the virus sounded nothing like much of what the nation now faces. Were rounding the turn. With or without the vaccine we have the vaccines theyre going to be great. But with or without them, were rounding the turn. Normal life, thats all we want, fully resuming. We want normal life to fully resume, and thats happening. We understand the disease. I understand it better than you. I had it. Joe bidens plan will crush america. My plan will crush the virus. The seniors that trump spoke to earlier this afternoon, that event at the villages were key to his victory four years ago, but the polls show their support is anything but solid
Awaiting the final definitive call as to who will be our next president on january 20th. Right now former Vice President joe biden is on the verge of reaching that goal. That much we can say. By our count biden still has 253 electoral votes. Donald trump with 214. That means the former Vice President just 17 shy of the magic number of 270. That means that the 20 electoral votes in pennsylvania to name one commonwealth would do it. And if you were watching you know a short time ago biden offered an update on this unusual situation. We dont have a final declaration of victory yet, but the numbers tell us its clear. Tell us a clear and convincing story. Were going to win this race. Were going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us. Weve gotten over 74 million votes. Let me repeat that, 74 million votes. Thats more than any president ial ticket has ever gotten in the history of the United States of america. And whats becoming clear each hour is that Record Number of
Earlier today, mayor de blasio reminding everyone there are consequences to violating these restrictions. People know the rules. They should follow the rules. If they dont, were going to have to be very, very rigorous in terms of the consequences. We are going to keep doing very aggressive work to stop at events, we will do aggressive work to make sure people observed quarantine. Theres going be caught will not cause sconces and financial penalties. If it comes down to needing to go with individual fines, we always reserve that right. Molly jeff paul is live in santa monica, california, with more on how businesses are feeling about all this today. Jeff . Molly, there is frustration and concern among restaurant owners. Not only for the survival of their own business, but also about the survival of their employees. They put a lot of effort, as you can see come into these outdoor set ups, putting up tables, canopies, some trees and other things to make people welcome to come in and spend
He is a grown man. He is the smartest man i know. I mean in pure intellectual capacity. And as long as he is good, were good. The American People i think they can smell the phoniness, smell what is true and what is not true. Harris meanwhile, g. O. P. Senator Lindsey Graham again insisting a special counsel is needed to hold democrats accountable. Its bigger than not paying your taxes. How deep was it regarding hunter biden and the efforts to do business with china . What did biden know . When did he know it regarding the ukraine and china . If you think that the Biden Administration believes this will suddenly go away, you are wrong. This is like political fly paper. Its going to stick and stick and stick. As much as i like joe and jill, as much as i hate this, we are not going to sweep this under the rug. Harris former House Oversight chairman trey gowdy who made news with what he had to say about this is on deck with reaction. First, im going to begin with rich edson live with the n