Out of an abundance of caution during the covid19 pandemic, there is no in person audience today and certain ceremonial elements have been prerecorded. Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by Sergeant First Class jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through t
Its ranks. More on the investigation and why a multimilliondollar program created to help survivors is not working. And dancing through pain. Sam smith on how they turned heartbreak into hope and found a way to express their true self on their new album. Cant wait to hear from sam. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Too many people still seem to think covid19 is a hoax. There is no way to sugarcoat any of these numbers. We need to redouble our efforts. More than a quarter million americans have died from the coronavirus. We are in an absolutely dangerous situation. This is not crying wolf. This is the worst rate of rise in cases that weve seen in the pandemic. Joe biden met virtually with Frontline Health care workers as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. As many as another 200,000 dead by the time we get sworn in. Its skyrocketing. It is skyrocketing. The u. S. Army is responding to an exclusive cbs news investigation into Sexual Assault in the military. It
Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
See moraine county is the only bay area county outside the purple tier and still in the red there is a flurry of speculation about what the new stay at home order restrictions will look like ground force dan kerman talk to medical experts tonight about that as well as how it might help slow the surge that were dealing with an joins us now dan. Well medical experts seem to agree that some sort of a rollback is necessary, especially to put off that overcrowding of hospitals to the point where there might not be any hospital beds left in 2 weeks in the bay area. They also talk about various levels of a stay at home order it does not necessarily have to be the draconian one we saw in spring, but it could be something more limited like what were seeing now in Santa Clara County. One version of a stay at home order could look like this abandoned streets like we saw back in the spring. But while affective on slowing the spread of covid19 his Economic Impacts could prevent the state from repea
Over optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over its not weve got to stick to our winter plan u. S. Officials say they hope to have around 40 percent of adults immunized by the end of february that seems developed by pfizer and the dirt there are expected to be approved next week the u. S. Now has a record 100000 people being treated in hospitals because at 19 as cases or across the country the head of the u. S. Centers for Disease Control has warned they could be another 200000 deaths by february. So were in that range potentially now starting to see if jeanne 100 to 2000 to 2500 deaths a day. From this far so you know the mortality concerns are real. And i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to foreign 50000 americans have died from this virus us President Donald Trump has released a 46 minute speech on social media outlining why he believes the election was stolen from him it continues to make baseless allegations of voter fraud which