Well, the stage is set for a showdown. The house of representatives passed a bill today that guts funding for the Affordable Care act. This is the 42nd time theyve held a vote. Today a temporary spending measure was added to the bill that funds the government until december 15th. Without a new spending measure in place the government would be forced to shut down after september 30th. The bill is split along party lines. 230 voted for it, 189 volted against it including one republican. Mike viqueira has more from washington, d. C. After a week of infighting today a show of unity for house republicans. We had a victory for American People and a victory for common sense. Their calls for celebration a vote to cut off funding for the new health care law. Something the gop has voted for more than 3 dozen times before. Its time to free americans from the shackles of obamacare. This time they think they have leverage. Tying the entire government to the elimination of the president S Health Car
With the unknown. That was a beautiful tribute to the hero. I am chris comeau and welcome to prime time. Lets break down the questions about how the coronavirus is being handled here or mishandled. When trump promises, weve got it covered. Thats good to hear. And it makes it disturbing to hear news of a whistleblower warning that we dont have it covered, that there are failures to protect our own employees. Now we have a question. Is there a potential link to that whistleblower claim and the first confirmed case in california . And another question in california, why are there more than 8,000 people in that state being monitored . Why dont they know whether or not they have this virus or not . Why are so many others across this country not being tested . The virus is not that scarey. Its the unknown. So what do you say . Lets get after it. All right. Lets bring in dr. Gupta. Always good to have you. The unknown spreads panic faster than any virus can. And we have questions about the pr
Here or mishandled. When trump promises weve got it covered, thats good to hear. And it makes it disturbing to hear news of a whistleblower warning that we dont have it covered, that there are failures to protect our own employees. Now we have a question. Is there a potential link to that whistleblower claim and the first confirmed case in california . And another question in california. Why are there more than 8,000 people in that state being monitored . Why dont they know whether or not they have this virus or not . Why are so many others across this country not being tested . The virus is not that scary. Its the unknown. So what do you say . Lets get after it. Lets bring in dr. Sanjay gupta. The unknown spreads panic faster than any virus can. And we have questions about the president s plan to deal with this. Cnn has not independently reviewed this whistleblower complaint but heres the part interesting to me. So solano county, california, its not 5,000 people but its not 5 million.
The global death toll from the coronavirus has surged past 350,000 people. Nearly 100,000 of those deaths are in the United States. And you can see the hotspots around the country here. Johns Hopkins University says there are more than 1. 6 million confirmed cases in the u. S. , and this comes as the centers for Disease Control and prevention warns antibody tests could be wrong up to half the time. Antibody tests are used to determine if people have been infected in the past with the virus. But the cdc says they could be generating false positive results and are not Accurate Enough to make important policy decisions. Across the americas, the virus is raging. Latin america has overtaken the u. S. And europe as the new epicenter of the pandemic. Regional Health Officials say they are particularly worried about brazil, where for two days now, the daily number of deaths surpassed those in the United States. And we will have much more on brazil just a little later. But first, states in the
Unreliable tool to determine those people who have been infected and could be immune. President trump mocks biden for wearing a mask in public and wont wear one himself. Stand by for that. Lets get more from california. The centers from Disease Control and prevention raising a red flag about those antibody tests. Reporter wolf, basically saying they are no better than a coin toss. They can be wrong about half of the time. I am booked to get one tomorrow morning like many others, hoping that i have had it, but the cdc is now saying these tests are not good enough to make any policy judgments. They are not good enough to tell if somebody should go back to work or back to college. They are, frankly, not fit for purpose. Anyway, we still dont know if you had it, if you have the antibodies, if you are immune. This is another setback. Meanwhile, the socalled transition to greatness, the reopening, rolls on. We are nearing 100,000 dead and we are reopening. While the rate of new cases still c