Its ranks. More on the investigation and why a multimilliondollar program created to help survivors is not working. And dancing through pain. Sam smith on how they turned heartbreak into hope and found a way to express their true self on their new album. Cant wait to hear from sam. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Too many people still seem to think covid19 is a hoax. There is no way to sugarcoat any of these numbers. We need to redouble our efforts. More than a quarter million americans have died from the coronavirus. We are in an absolutely dangerous situation. This is not crying wolf. This is the worst rate of rise in cases that weve seen in the pandemic. Joe biden met virtually with Frontline Health care workers as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. As many as another 200,000 dead by the time we get sworn in. Its skyrocketing. It is skyrocketing. The u. S. Army is responding to an exclusive cbs news investigation into Sexual Assault in the military. It
Lets do the right thing and lets do it the right way. With that i will yield the floor. I come to the floor today in opposition to the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. I am truly disappointed my republican colleagues have chosen to grandma through this aminee in the middle of pandemic when an election is underway and tens of millions of americans have already cast their ballot. The senate should be focused on a bipartisan relief package to help americans across the country who are struggling to pay the b bills and put food on the table during the pandemic. Instead, the only priority has been to push through a nominee who will alter the balance of the court and affect the lives of generations of americans days before the ballots will be counted to decide the next president of the United States and the makeup of this very body. The stakes in the nomination couldnt be higher. I want to read an excerpt from tuan email i received from a constituent this is from da
Were concerned. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im anna dates. Thank you for joining us. Concern over coronavirus has the city of San Francisco taking a surprising turn, backward. Mayor london breed says at the end of the day friday, the city will eliminate Indoor Dining, reduce capacity at gyms and movie theaters and pause reopening at high schools, elementary and middle schools can proceed. Heres the reason why. Three weeks ago, there were 3. 7 cases per 100,000 people in San Francisco, and now there are 9 per 100,000. San francisco is averaging 80 new cases a day. Thats up from 32 a day in early october. City Health Officials say that rate is increasing more quickly than the summer surge. It is entirely plausible that we will face a situation where our Health Care System could become overwhelmed and reverse the current progress that weve made. The hard choices that we make now will help make things better for us in the future. It will get our city open. It will get our businesses o
Healthy. Thats a challenging goal during a pandemic. The coronavirus keeps coming back threatening to beworse than before. California is approaching a million diagnosed cases total and the new cases are rising once again as you can see on the graph. We added more than 5300 in the past day and the state just reached another milestone, more than 18,000 deaths from coronavirus. However, there is optimism about a vaccine being ready but that wont fix everything as were reminded by dr. Patel. When its time to get the vaccine, we need to be in a much better place than we are right now to make sure that we go and get the vaccine and we can get back to normal faster. Because of the pandemic, Health Officials recommend you stay home this Holiday Season but for those intent on traveling, covid19 test appointments right before thanksgiving may be hard to come by. Melanie woodro did the research. Reporter tis the season but this season travel for thanksgiving could look vastly different. Just have
Quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer well, mr. President , for more than a year and a half, leader mcconnell and Senate Republicans have refused to take action on the housepassed for the people act. At a time when our democracy is under siege in so many ways, the for the people act is a bold proposal that will restore Peoples Trust in our democratic system, a trust that is fading. It is under it is for the people. In order to make a more perfect union. It would shore up our elections from threats from abroad. Thats something we have just recently read more and more about. Why arent we doing more on that . In fact, when senator van hollen a few days ago put on the floor the an act u. C. Of an act that would say russia should have sanctions imposed on it if they interfere with our elections, the other side blocked it. I hope theyre not following Donald Trumps obeisance to russia and his view that putins just okay. It would also dismantle systemat