Postmaster general of the United States. In a heated hearing, he told senators his top priority is delivering ballots on time, but he didnt reveal any plan to accomplish that or to counter President Trumps efforts to undermine confidence in voting by mail. Lets go straight to our National Correspondent athena jones. Shes working all of these stories for us. Athena, as more americans are now dying of coronavirus, the cdc is now offering some major new guidance to schools across the country. Reporter hi, wolf. Thats right. These are new, more detailed guidelines from the cdc. Among other things, they address what schools should do if there is a case of covid among students or staff. They suggest rather than shutting everything down immediately for a long period of time, one option is a short term class suspension, cancellation of events and afterschool activities to give leaders time to determine how widespread the infections are. As College Students head back to campus, coronavirus outb
And, yes, virginia, there is a santa claus. The real story behind what might be the most famous newspaper editorial ever written. All that and more ahead, but first lets get a check of your headlines from the news desk. Good morning, everyone, im alison kosik. Breaking overnight, the cdc announcing it will require all passengers from the United Kingdom to prove they have tested negative for coronavirus before they can fly to the United States. The order is a response to the new covid variant that appears to have originated in the uk. Lets go live now to london and bring in cnns salma abdelaziz. Salma, so whats the reaction there about this new requirement . Reporter well, alison, of course, there is often flights between the uk and the United States, but the United States is kind of late to the party here. Theres over 40 countries that already put restrictions in place and its important to remember that Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced these new rules or rather this new variant l
Additional boost to talk about which well talk about now. Yeah, certainly did. Joining us now to help break down the day is mark travis from Intrepid Capital fun, steve grasso will join us, and Rick Santelli is with us as well. Mark, begin with you. Nice to see you. Glad to be here, scott. This whole day into perspective and what youre thinking about the market, given everything thats out there, syria, taper, you name it. Well, i think that the market has decided maybe syrias not going to happen after all. If it is, it will be kind of a pinprick. And the jobs report on friday, let the air out of the taper bubble . Yeah. Taper talk . And so, you know, youve got a relief rally at this point that, you know, makes us feel better. Im not sure were not just spinning in place, which has been my point of view really since may when rates started to rise. So youre cautious now still . Because an hour ago we had a panel on. They were 100 bullish. Biggest bull market in our lifetime or our careers
Swore in senators, each pledging impartial justice in the impeachment trial of President Trump. House managers formally read the charges against mr. Trump, who becomes just the third president in American History to face a senate trial. But the first to do so while running for reelection. But just as history was unfolding on capitol hill, a Government Agency ruled the president broke the law by withholding aid from ukraine, and tonight, there are explosive new accusations by a witness who says the president knew everything about efforts to dig up dirt on joe biden. We have all the developments covered tonight. Ben tracy is at the white house, but were going to begin with nancy cordes on capitol hill. Reporter norah, even as this trial gets under way, new evidence continues to emerge, and what these 100 senators are going to have to decide at the end of the day is whether all the evidence, taken together, warrants the removal of the president from office. Od . D repord u after chieftice
Sounds like it was a team effort and very difficult to accomplish. Right now, this site behind us, this ship that we want to show a little closer view of, its a sight that stops you in its track. This is one of many cargo ships that pass here on a daily basis that locals see, but never have they seen a ship not going anywhere, on its side. You can see right now that the u. S. Coast guard is kind of on standby right outside the ship there. And you mentioned, they had to put a hold on their rescue mission on the ship. And thats because earlier today, there was black smoke and flames visible. Lieutenant phillip van der white of the u. S. Coast guard told me that there was possibly even multiple fires. So because of that, they had to get off of the vessel and stop that operation for now. Just about an hour ago, the u. S. Coast guard did tweet that they have a Damage Assessment team coming from station brunswick. And so thats the team thats going to have to come here and make sure its safe