Prompting new efforts to better deal with the new realities. Michele miller reports. Reporter hospitals were always designed to treat the ill. But battling covid19 over the last seven months pushed many to their limits. The assumption if you get sick we willor you is a false assumption. Reporter hospitals like chicagos Rush Medical Center have began to spring into action. We created a command center to bring together all of the people in the organization that represent all of the potential landmines and unmet needs that we may have. Reporter president and ceo at rush. Then we just took a giant board and we wrote down how do we physically change the hospital to take care of larger numbers of people. The process started eight years ago, long before the pandemic when rush added a new wing to their hospital. When you build something for the future of health care, you try to add something with flexibility or agility in it and we built an 830,000 square foot building in the city that has the
One possible snag. The signature test. Its something all ballots must go through, especially right now as mailin ballots pour in by the millions to election offices. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. In the 2018 general election nearly 23,000 mailin ballots were rejected across the bay area. The big three mistakes, no signature on the ballot or envelope, signature doesnt match Voter Registration card, or ballot isnt returned in time. As President Trump erroneously claims that mailin ballots are not reliable, we wanted to look at the verification process, especially the signatures. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Friedman is on the story. Reporter youre looking at the largest early voter turnout in marin county history with more than 100,000 ballots cast already. Thats more than half the registered voters. Panner lowe was one of them today but after talking with us she did have some questions. Are you worried . Well, now i am. Reporter and all because of he
Concerns about the diagnosis and treatment of some Service Members traumatic brain injuries from iraq and afghanistan. Why a whistleblower decided to speak up. And a new mission for veterans, how a former marine is giving fellow vets a sense of purpose by offering them a chance to make a difference in disaster zones. But first, heres tie eyeopener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The news of the vaccine should not get people to say that we dont need to continue to do the Public Health measures. More than 60,000 americans in the hospital, sick with covid. The most ever since the start of the pandemic. I just think its an embarrassment. Biden slamming President Trump for refusing to accept defeat. You said there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump Administration. Were you being serious there . Well see what the people ultimately decide when all the votes have been cast. The Supreme Court signalled their unlikely to strike down the aca in its entirety. This doesnt need to be a par
Cases rise in the United States. Stocks plunging americans sick main street hurting. Has the economic pain finally caught up with wall street who here is voting for trump . This is not political its patriotic the message and the money whats the president ial ad war telling us in this final week of the race live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith. Hurricane zeta roaring inland it crashed ashore in Southeast Louisiana less than two hours ago as a powerful cat 2 storm, the nbc climate team expecting extensive damage zetas hammering a region still recovering from two major hurricanes this year Nbc Universal coverage coming up first tonight, from our new studios at cnbc Global Headquarters, a dire warning from the former head of thefda the pandemic is about to get much worse and were at only the beginning of a steep curve were about, you know, maybe three weeks behind europe, maybe a month at the most. See were on a trajectory to look a lot like
Main street hurting. Has the economic pain finally caught up with wall street who here is voting for trump . This is not political its patriotic the message and the money whats the president ial ad war telling us in this final week of the race live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith. Hurricane zeta roaring inland it crashed ashore in Southeast Louisiana less than two hours ago as a powerful cat 2 storm,o ago as a powerful cat 2 storm, the nbc climate team expecting disgist it is gist just one mile show of a category 3 the nbc climate team expecting extensive damage zetas hammering a region still recovering from two major hurricanes this year Nbc Universal coverage coming up first tonight, from our new studios at cnbc Global Headquarters, a dire warning from the former head of the fda, the pandemic is about to get much worse and were at only the beginning of a steep curve were about, you know, maybe three weeks behind europe, maybe a month at