Again starting to climb. 3,725 deaths is a new american tragedy and a new singleday record. Look at these numbers. A Record Number of patients, nearly 125,000 in the overwhelmed hospitals, makes 4,000 deaths in a single day an alltooreal possibility. Among all of these lives lost, a congressmanelect from louisiana, luke letlo. He was just 41 and had announced his diagnosis on december 18th. 11 days later, hes gone, leaving behind a wife and two precious children. Vaccines are the way out of this nightmare, but already a new theme emerging in the early days of the rollout. Promises made, promises not kept. Operation warp speed promised inoculations for 20 million americans by the end of the month. Last hour, operation warp speed says that they are well short of that number. And the groups top adviser says that he knows the u. S. Effort so far isnt good enough. We agreed that that number is lower than what we hoped for. We know that it should be better and were working hard to make it be
House democrats Just Announced that they will call on mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment and pence they are giving them 24 hours to respond. President trump has ten days left in office. Speaker pelosi spoke earlier tonight to cbs news about why impeachment is still so critical. What if he pardons himself . What if he pardons these people who are terrorists on the capitol. Or pardons himself . He can only pardon himself from federal offenses, and not the state, and hes being investigated in the state of new york. Theres a possibility that after all of this theres no punishment, no consequence and he could run again for president. And thats one of the motivations that people have for advocating for impeachment. Wont that take more than the ten days . Does it actually make sense . I want to point to the amendment because it gets rid of him and hes out of office. Lets bring in our reporter on capitol hill, and Jeremy Diamond is joining us over at the white house. Ryan, the statement f
Taking away blue mailboxes around the country. Postal Officials Say its necessary because of security. And protests being planned across the country in the days leading up to joe bidens inauguration. The threat not from foreign enemies, but from americans. Domestic extremities, furious that donald trump lost the president ial election, and refusing to accept it as legitimate. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is in washington near the capitol for us. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house. Shimon, were getting more details on the arrest that have virginia man not far from the u. S. Capitol. Youre there on the scene, give us the late breaking developments. Reporter yeah, wolf, so the man did have a Court Appearance and also the Capitol Police are issuing a statement on the incident, saying that when this happened yesterday at 6 30 last night, on friday, that he came upon a checkpoint, a secure checkpoint. Because of the inauguration, all the increased security, he presented a nongovernment i. D.
This is bbc news. Ifjoe biden has a very good night on november the third, the jewel in his new crown would be georgia. The Southern State is changing, becoming less republican and more democratic. Once a bastion of the old south, the state is younger, more diverse and more urban. The peach state is turning purple. Manchester is placed under the highest level of covid restrictions despite pushbacks from local leaders. Business owners there say they may not survive. Also in the programme. Scientists in the uk will deliberately infect volunteers with covid 19, as they seek to better understand the virus and how future vaccines might fight it. And we will tell you about
kattys hugely delayed fight from miami to atlanta, and all because a passenger refused to wear a mask. Hello im katty kay in atlanta, georgia, Christian Fraser is in london. Weve talked about whether the polls are wrong and whether trump can still win this election. But theres another possibility a huge repudiation of Dona
Thats a challenge for newsrooms like this one and many others. Right now we near cleareyed no nonsense News Coverage during this crisis. Consider where we are versus a week ago. This time last sunday, there were 89 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, half of those from the cruise ship. Now theres at least 450, according to cnns count. The truth is no up with knows the exact or full number because of testing failures. Thats why these kinds of headlines are important to make clear about whats going on. Health officials are sounding alarms because they dont have enough test kits. This story said the flawed rollout of test kits snowballed into an embarrassing fiasee yaf. The Washington Post says the Trump Administration has squandered time and lost control. Lets just pause on this. Weve seen this before. The other day, the New York Times said trump has dealt with the coronavirus the first external crisis of his administration by repeating a string of falsehoods. Falsehoods