All around the world. Im paula newton, and this is cnn newsroom. Iran is accusing israel of carrying out an assassination of its top scientist and vowing, quote, severe revenge. President hassani told the cabinet that iran will respond in time and irans Supreme Leader promised retaliation. So far, israel, has been silenced about the ambushed killing of the mastermind of the government. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh explains. Reporter the scientist lived largely in the silence. Gunned down friday in an apparent assassination according to state media. He was travel in the city east of tehran, when reports say his car was targeted by gunfire and a vehicle explosion. Irans Defense Ministry says he and his bodyguards were gravely wounded, succumbing to their injuries at the hospital a short time later. Believed to be 59, hes said to have headed the research of new technology in the countrys elite revolutionary guards. Israel Intelligence Services say he was the mastermind behind project ahmad, a de
Its monday, november 30th. Its 6 00 here in new york. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday. If you traveled at all, assume youre infected with coronavirus. Thats not my warning. It comes from dr. Deborah birx, the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus task force. Assume you are infected and stay home. Dr. Birx, dr. Anthony fauci and others are warning of a surge upon a surge of cases after families gathered for thanksgiving. This morning, more americans are hospitalized with the virus, more than ever before. Look at that chart. It is flatout alarming. The cases of hospitalizations, hospitalizations have more than doubled in the last month. One official tells cnn, this is like a Natural Disaster occurring in all 50 states at the same time. More than 4 million new cases reported in november. Thats more than double the month before. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris will get their first president ial Daily Briefing on National Security today. And they w
Choose the president. President trump himself is reversing course now saying president elect joe biden can only enter the white house if he can prove he got 80 million votes but that is not true. Despite the president s baseless claims biden is moving forward with the transmission and expected to name an Economic Team next week and get his first president ial daily brief on monday. Lets get more with jm lee. We are expecting key announcements about the future Biden Administration, arent we . Reporter thats right p. M. Joe biden has spending thanksgiving weekend here in rehoboth beach, delaware. Its been mostly quiet today. We know there has been a lot of work under way ahead of when is expected to be a busy week. We expect more Personnel Announcements to come next week. And the start of classified briefings. We have had a long, long tradition of traveling in nantucket with our big family, a large family every thanksgiving. President elect joe biden skipping his annual thanksgiving gath
Biden but the president stopped short of conceding, claiming once again without veoffering a proof there was massive voter fraud and those repeated denials are not stopping the bide n wit another round of cabinet announcements next week. President trump choppered up to meet his family to play golf and avoiding reporters as Kaitlan Collins reports. Reporter before joining his family at camp david, President Trump spent the day at his golf course after claiming president elect biden cant enter the white house until he can prove he got 80 million votes. That tweet came after trump confirmed he will leave office if the Electoral Office certifies bidens win. Certainly i will. Certainly i will. And you know that. But i think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th. Reporter trump took questions thanksgiving night for the First Time Since the election and three weeks later, he still is denying reality. I did win by a tremendous amount but it hasnt been reported y
And now to a conversation about our brands Nuclear Program. I appreciate the work you do. I am going to stay off camera. I just had an eye seizure. I procedure eye program. Talking about reentering the expiring nuclear accord. They appear to be exploiting this into extinction. Y off camera. I just had an eye procedure. With that, Irans Nuclear program has been advancing quite rapidly under president s watch. It is good to go over some of the advances since the original record. They seem to be exploiting the administrations will and makes to lift sanctions. Edits just waiting for an extreme amount of concessions when the deal will be too good to pass up. Since biden has been in office, it is now 60 purity. They have enough enriched uranium to make more than five Nuclear Weapons and they have installed at least 1500 of their faster centrifuges at highly four to five highly four to five underground sites. They have been reducing monitoring of their activities while openly extorting the ia