It is already here. Fauci also is set to receive his first dose of the vaccine in just about an hour from now. So you will see that live on camera. This comes, though, again, with devastating news in terms of the cases rising across the country. 190,000 new covid infections yesterday alone and nearly 1,700 people in this country died yesterday from covid. This just days before christmas where icus like this one in california are still at a breaking month. And in washington just days before millions of americans were set to lose key benefits, congress has finally acted on a relief bill set to be signed by the president. But we do begin this hour with more on this covid variant. We have team coverage, Fred Pleitgen is in moscow. First lets begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Walk us through the latest. What have we learned about this since yesterday . Good morning, poppy. This is moving so quickly. Lets get sort of a grip on what we know who far about this varian
It is meet the press daily and i am chuck todd. Were following a number of developments right now about the pandemic, on capitol hill, and on the Supreme Court. And were also following news that the president is about tosh to issue a few pardons. We begin with what could be the biggest hack of the u. S. Government ever. The list of Government Agencies and private Companies Reportedly breached by what is suspected to be a russian state hack is astounding, alarming, and, sadly, its growing. The agency tasked with securing our countrys Cyber Infrastructure is calling the hack, quote, a grave risk to federal agencies, to state governments, and for some private sector companies. Were going to try to get a definition of what grave risk means in a moment. They are also bluntly warning that we do not know the full extent of what was compromised, nor how it was compromised. Let me repeat. Weve been attacked and we dont know how they did it, we dont know what they took, and we dont know if theyr
Hbo max. Thanks for watching. Our coverage tcontinues. The breaking news, tonight. There are now two covid vaccines approved for emergency use, in this country. The fda gave the green light, just moments ago, to modernas version. We are now just waiting for the cdc to sign off on it. John berman here, in for anderson. We will talk more, in a moment, about how important this is with the pandemic now projected to claim 562,000 lives, by april. First, though, the president s silence, or even worse than silence, in the face of this largely avoidable, human tragedy. Nearly, 2,300 new deaths rort d reported so far, tonight. Covid is now the countrys leading cause of death, according to the university of washingtons institute for Health Metrics and evaluation. They are the folks behind that 562,000fatality projection which, itself, is up by more than 60,000, since the last model. Whats more, this new one predicts that, between now and april, 49 states will experience high or extreme stress on
Rivers at risk. As record hop dry summer threatens to bring some of the worlds most important inland shipping lanes to a full plus remembering to start in social impactable, libya. Newton joe, a singer actress an activist has died at the age of 73. 00. Ah hello, im terry martin. Thanks for joining us. Former us President Donald Trump says a large number of f b i. Agents have rated his moral log of the state in florida. His son, eric told us media. They were searching for documents as part of an investigation into trumps removal of official records from the white house. Trump said agents had broken open a safe on his florida property. Yet b, i has declined to comment on the raid. Trump is under official investigation on a number of fronts relating to his presidency and the january 6th capital riot supporters gathered near the resort to protest a raid which occurred while trump was in new york. Dw corresponded to me, so as canada is following the story from washington. The search of pres
So whats the Company Getting right that others arent . And if you build it, will the uninsured come . One small insurer is betting on it as it makes a big investment in those new health care exchanges. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for thursday, september 26th. Good evening, everyone. Big things sometimes come in small packages. That was the talk on wall street today. Stocks finally broke their fiveday losing streak, but it wasnt the Big Companies that lifted the markets. It was small cap stocks. They have quietly and steadily risen in value, and today the russell 2000 index of Smaller Companies closed at a fresh alltime high. So far, the russell index has surged 27 . Thats a lot more, 10 more, than the gains on the dow average this year. Also giving a boost to the markets today, good news about jobs. Initial jobless claims dipped to a nearly sixyear low. Looking at the closing numbers, the dow added 55 points, the nasdaq rose 26. And the s p 500 index up almost