New cases two weeks in a row. Hospitals are teetering on the brink of disaster and administrators are warning in just one month, in time for christmas, their beds will be full if there are not serious moves to flatten the curve right now. There is a vaccine just around the corner. Robert redfield says the first doses could go to Nursing Homes as soon as next month. And President Joe Biden says he will work with the white house to make sure the Distribution Process is teamless. Yes, help is on the way, but help is not here yet. Right now the best help you can get and give is by staying home and staying safe. Let us start in delaware with nbc news political reporter. Were expecting joe biden pretty soon. Walk us through what is going on here. The focus on the reality that is happening r if so Many Americans right now. Especially if theyre listening to the guidance that you just mentioned that those small gatherings at homes, seeing family that are normal for thanksgiving are not the best
Secretary and secretary of state. We heard treasury geithner will leave his position by the end of this month. The debate has renewed on sunday morning and around the country on gun violence. We want to ask you just what are the solutions . It is an issue the president says will be a top priority in the year ahead. Our gone lines are open with the numbers on the screen. You can send us an email at journal at cspan. Org. Or facebook. Com cspan or cspanwj. Another shooting that took place in aurora, colorado, a town hit by the mass shooting at a movie theatre. This from a barricaded gunman and three people found dead in aurora after police exchanged gunfire with the gunman that took place yesterday. A woman earlier in the day escaped uninjured from the home saying she saw three lifeless bodies inside and said the man was firing shots at the residents before 3 00 in the morni morning. During a subsequent standoff the gunman behaved irrationally, ignored commands to exit the premises. Tear
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. They will appear before lawmakers just, at that point, less than two months before the election again, i understand theyre going to ask some more questions, some more hearings. What is congress prepared to do to stop this, to say were do everything you possibly can to make sure there is not outside influence in our elections . Well, Lindsey Graham told me this shows we need an olive government approach. Introducing this legislation in part. Trying to get the president to joinest. He wants to see more pressure being put on russia. Were also hearing that some of these pages have been identified, and russia is an equal opportunity offender here. That our Political Leadership not to necessarily follow the rabl trail that the russians are
from the white house on this issue. Donald trump had his First Ever National security meeting the other day devoted to this subject. Didnt make any statements, didnt give any orders a
And alexis, a staff writer. I want to begin with you. The big question is about how long it will take for america to get to capacity for testing, for tracing. Where do we stand at this moment . The first issue with testing is unfortunately, its going to be a bit longer than we hoped. I think all of us were hoping at this time we would have enough to do what we think of as surveillance testing. Basically, testing enough people to figure out what the real incidents or positive rates are. We know were really still far away from that. There are glimmers of hope that within the next several weeks as were getting more and more tests on board that will happen but as you pointed out shs par s s of the country are already prematurely opening up. To the point about tracing, we know if you use new york citys estimate of 30 tracers for 100,000 people, most of the country falls short for anywhere near that number. Tracing means we will Contact People that are positive and look back, at least 14 day
Bullpen anything he has said about the khan family and giving critics who say he has thin skin and more ammunition. Speaking to the Washington Post he declined to endorse gop candidate john mccain or paul ryan who has criticized him saying, quote, i like paul, but these are horrible times for our country and we need very strong leadership and we need very, very strong leadership and im just not quite there. If that wording sounds familiar to you, youre right. Speaker ryan once said the same about donald trump. Im just not ready to do that at this point. Im not there right now. Paul ryan spokesman this evening said the speaker has never sought trumps endorsement. As for senator mccain whom he mocked youll recall for being taken prisoner by the north vietnamese trump said he hasnt been good enough for veterans. There is a lot to impact. Joining us, Phillip Rutger who wrote for the Washington Post. A lot of focus on the words he used for paul ryan. Im not quite there yet, obviously very s