In new york. Six days until election day. Today is the deadline to request your absentee ballot in massachusetts, washington, arizona. One week from now the country will be waking up from election day. We may not know who won but we do know the pandemic is driving americans to vote early in record numbers. About 69 million votes already cast. Remarkable. Thats more than half of the entire vote total from 2016. Overnight americas terrifying new normal was on display again. Over 73,000 new coronavirus cases reported. That is the fourth highest total. Almost 227,000 americans have died and yet the white house astonishingly is claiming credit for ending the pandemic on the list of science and technology accomplishments. Thats right. The white house according to the white house, the pandemic is over. Reporter on the flip side, joe Biden Campaigning in atlanta at a socially distanced rally. Hes trying to expand the map to nail down 270 electoral votes. There arent a lot of pundits who would
Im paula newton and this is cnn newsroom. The apparent assassination of irans Top Nuclear Scientist has sent shock waives around the world. With joe biden to be the new president , great uncertainty how iran may retaliate. He told his cabinet iran will respond to the murder, as he calls it, in time. Irans ambassador to the United Nations demands the u. N. Security council condemn the killing of him. His vehicle was ambushed on friday on a highway east of the capital tehran. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but iran is pointing the finger at israel. So faris rail has said absolutely nothing. Anything peyton walsh explains the ice railly government has been complaining about him for years. Reporter irans most Nuclear Scientist lived largely in the shadows, the force behind the Nuclear Weapons program gunned down friday in an apparent assassination. He was traveling east of tehran when the reports say his car was targeted by gunfire and a vehicle explosion. Irans Defense M
Right now are becoming infected with the coronavirus and surging into hospitals all around the country in disturbingly high record numbers and this is startling. Get this. In just the past five days, the first five days of december, more than 1 million americans have now tested positive for the coronavirus, five days, more than 1 million people. At the same time, an unprecedented amount of Covid Patients are currently in hospitals all around the country. Today marks the fourth state day with more than 100,000 americans hospitalized with the coronavirus. Covidlinked deaths are also on the rise. Today the United States surpassed 281,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths. Lets go out to california right now where millions of people are facing some of the toughest lockdown restrictions since the spring. Starting tomorrow, new restrictions go into effect. New coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are exploding, putting an already stressed Healthcare System in even greater dire straights. Lets g
Is often what we talk about in this weektoweek comparison. This is the number of people dying from coronavirus from week to week with the sea of red lighting up the country. A vaccine is likely to be approved soon, possibly this week, Health Experts say the dangers right now could not be greater. I think it could be more of a challenge than what we saw with thanksgiving. So i hope that people realize that, and understand that as difficult as this is, nobody wants to modify, if not essentially shutdown their holiday season. But we are in a critical time in this country right now. We have to not walk away from the facts and the data. This is tough going for all of us. We need you to hang on just a little bit longer because we have vaccines coming but we want as many people to be alive to get them as possible. And a lot of that is going to depend on your behavior. That is such a sobering statement of reality right now coming from the outgoing surgeon general. President elect joe biden ann
Investigate if there was a coordinated plan to capture members of congress. And with more than 28,000 u. S. Lives lost already, january is on track to become the deadliest month in the pandemic. Our president elect joe biden plans to tackle his most urgent challenge. Good to have you with us. Democrats say the violence last week at the u. S. Capitol means u. S. President donald trump must be removed from office as soon as possible for the good of the nation. In just a few hours they will introduce a resolution demanding the Vice President invoke the 25th amendment. If he doesnt, they are ready to impeach mr. Trump for a second time. Its unclear how many republicans are on board, but outrage is growing over wednesdays insurrection. We are learning new details about the deadly violence and we have new images showing a Police Officer dragged down by the crowd and beaten. The video were about to show is graphic but its important to see the reality of this attack. The officer is beaten merc