Of autumn. 5 a. M. In new york. Six weeks until the election and a day before the debate. The u. S. Is far outpacing the world no matter how you parse these numbers. America has lost more lives to get ready. Close to 6 million deaths. You cant look at that and say, thats terrific. There are signs of more trouble ahead. The 7day moving average of new cases has crept above 40,000 for the First Time Since labor day. Cases are now increasing in 24 states with the western half of the country a really big concern now. To put a face on these numbers, we want to share with you two of the latest victims. 67yearold johnny lee peoples and his wife kathy. The North Carolina couple was together for more than 50 years and they died just minutes apart holding each others hands. Of course, you cant escape the politics of this. Heres democratic president ial nominee joe biden. What worries me now is weve been living with the pandemic for so long, i worry we risk becoming numb to the toll it has taken o
Biden and kamala harris, by the way, also testing negative for covid19 out of an abundance of caution. Ali vitali is following the campaign from wilmington, delaware, for us. Good day to you. Does this change anything out on the campaign trail for the biden team . Well, i guess were going to see, alex. A few things stood out to me from the president conference we just heard from the president s doctor. There were very few specifics on the timeline here and one thing stood out to me when reporters kept asking if the president was on oxygen, the doctor kept saying, not right now. Finally, he was able to be pinned down that he wasnt on oxygen on thursday, friday or saturday, but again, a few vague details there. Well see joe biden later today. Hes doing a virtual town hall later this afternoon. Whether or not this comes up depends on if he takes questions from the pool reporters that are with him ierk imagine. But when you ask if this means anything different out on the campaign trail, we
Concerns about the current case level, the rise in new infections but he says a fall slide in hospitalizations and deaths is not inevitable. The advice, follow the data. Do what we know works. We have to keep that slope coming down and you do that by looking at where you are, in what region of the country, and acting accordingly according to the guide lines. Sanjay, thats not rocket science. It is pretty clear. If we warrant to enter the falld winter at a low level we have to act now to do the things that we have been saying. 200,000. 200,000 american lives lost is hard to measure. Hard to swallow. Thats the population of grand rapids, michigan. Huntsville, alabama. Salt lake city, utah. 200,000 americans lost to the coronavirus. Every single one of them a person with a family and listen to the president of the United States last night telling a crowd nobody died who wasnt already at risk. It affects elderly people. Urge, in some states nobody young vi. It is an amazing thing. That was
From coasttocoast states are implementing new restrictions in an effort to slow the virus spread like california, mississippi and iowa now, now implementing a mask mandate after months of resistance from the states governor. But it will get worse before any chance of Getting Better in all parts of the cant. T parts of the country. The numbers say so. The National Average is above 10 now. And five states are reporting positivity rates of more than 40 . You can see them highlighted on your screen there. All this as president elect joe biden says the situation will only get worse if the Trump Administration continues to block the transition. More people may die. If we dont coordinate. Look, as my chief of staff, ron klain would say, who handled ebola, a vaccine is important but its little use until youre vaccinated. How do we get over 300 million americans vaccinated . Whats the game plan . On cnn this morning the nations top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Anthony fauci, he reiterated the
Program with relative guesthouse interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. Dog, it is so good to be with you. I have the honor of talking to you about your new book the clock in the calendar. I am excited about it. Im glad youre here as well. It is an honor, we Work Together for a number of years and you were the ranking republican on the Judiciary Committee and we got to see a lot of the same things but we saw through a different lens. I want to talk to about the lens. It is so interesting. You are a humble person and always been a humble person and a lot of folks you teases in the book with the bakken here there you grow up and you are Georgia State trooper. You grew up in the south and you talk about the book. Im getting it to the one quote in the book. He went into the military, you were an air force and a chaplain in the air force and a lawyer. All of that gives you a great perspective on the events that were going to be talking about in that you talk about in t