All yours. All mine . Great. Good afternoon. ,nd thank you, secretaries are for joining us today at cbc headquarters. It is a privilege to have you with us and we appreciate your leadership throughout this unprecedented response. The most significant Public Health challenge our country has faced in more than a century. And the pandemic is not over. Earlier this week, covid virus cases reached over 40 million globally. Here in the United States, we are approaching a critical phase. Butler, moments, dr. J cadc director for Infectious Disease and the former incident cdcsr of the cbcs covid19 response will provide you an update of our current situation. I know it has been a difficult year for americans, but we are going to come through this on the other side. I am also optimistic that we will have a limited supply of one or more covid Vaccines Available for distribution before the end of this year, but were not quite there yet. That is why it is so important that all of us remain diligent
Possession of a laptopthat belonged to hunter biden. How will that topic come up in tomorrows debate . Mark meadows standing by. He will join me. We have the latest on hunter biden and first back to john roberts. Theres a lot of optimism about the potential of the white house and nancy pelosi to reach the frame work for a new Coronavirus Relief bill. Getting relief out to the people that are being squeezed so terribly by the coronavirus. The economy is quite another thing. Heres what mark meadows said earlier this morning. While we have not seen a lot from Speaker Pelosi, weve seen more movement from the rank and file democrats in the house. I can tell you that negotiations have entered a new face on trying to get the language right if we can agree on the numbers. Were still apart, still a number of issues to work on. The last 24 hours have moved the ball down the field. While the ball has been moved down the field, Administration Officials say they dont think nancy pelosi has any inte
Fact check, raffensperger does not have a sibling who works for china. Thats just another person with the same last name. Donald trump and president elect biden are both expected to travel to georgia in the final days as the conservative wall street journal editorial page is already blaming donald trump if both republicans lose on tuesday, writing this. Quote, well see how this plays out in georgia, but the fault here isnt Mitch Mcconnells, the political damage to the gom comes from donald trump who is lashing out at all and sundry in defeat no matter if it all helps to elect a democratic senate. Democrats are feeling cautiously optimistic about their prospects in those runoffs. Politico reports, quote, the early vote numbers show positive signs for ossoff and warnock with black voters making up a larger percentage of the electorate compared to novembers election and higher early turnout in Democratic Congressional districts. As gop senator josh hawley today announced he would join tru
From nbc news headquarters in new york, im Joshua Johnson. Welcome to the week. Tomorrow President Biden will announce new covid travel restrictions. The new order blocks most noncitizens if theyve recently been in south africa, where a new covid variant was recently discovered. Mr. Biden will also reinstate a similar ban affecting International Travelers from the uk, ireland, brazil, and much of europe. Meanwhile, the legislative focus remains on the American Rescue plan, including direct payments of 1,400 to most americans. Also it would increase the federal weekly Unemployment Benefits of 400 a month through the end of september. It would raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, and it would provide billions of dollars for state and local government aid including for schools, covid testing, and a National Vaccine program. This afternoon President Bidens top economic adviser discussed the relief package on a call with a Bipartisan Group of 16 senators. Sources tell nbc news the conversa
Welcome to the week. Tomorrow President Biden will announce new covid travel restrictions. The new order blocks most noncitizens if theyve recently been in south africa where a new covid variant was recently discovered. Mr. Biden will also reinstate a similar ban regarding International Travelers from the uk, ireland, brazil, much of europe. The legislative focus remains on the American Rescue plan including direct payments of 1400 to most americans. Also it would increase the federal weekly Unemployment Benefits of 400 a month through the end of september. It would raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour and it would provide billions of dollars for state and local government aid including for schools, covid testing, and a National Vaccine program. This afternoon President Bidens top economic adviser discussed the relief package on a call with a Bipartisan Group of 16 senators. Sources tell nbc news the conversation was robust and that it was a great first meeting. Heres what one member o