Patients. And the shelters bracing for the storm, how theyll screen for symptoms of the virus. Rob marciano in the storm zone with the newest track. The president moments ago on the coronavirus. It comes after a member of his own team, dr. Deborah birx said what we are seeing today is different from march and april, adding, it is extraordinarily widespread, its into the rural as well as urban areas. The president lashing out at dr. Birx for the first time. And just as the first students return to school in this country, the one Georgia School district where nearly 300 teachers and staff are out sick. Either testing positive or having been exposed to someone who did. And the Georgia High School Football Player who was asymptomatic, both his patients already testing positive, he lost both of them. Late today, also news of a major hot air balloon disaster. The images coming in now. Three balloons carrying dozens of passengers going down. Several people rushed to the hospital. Children amo
Im ana cabrera in new york. Brandnew questions, very Big Questions today, swirling around President Trumps Urgent Medical care. What the public doesnt know at this hour is how sick the president is, and doctors are going back and forth about exactly when the president and others knew about his covid diagnosis. Weve had very little clarity on that earlier today when the president s personal physician and other walter reed doctors came out and talked to reporters. They tribed the president as doing very well, in good spirits and feverfree. What triggered the new questions was something the president s doctor now says was a mistake, the timeline. When the president was diagnosed, when he started initial treatment. And he side stepped answering multiple direct questions about whether the president was ever given oxygen to help him breathe. Lets get out to White House Correspondent Jeremy Diamond outside Walter Reed Medical Center right fou had. The president s not repeatedly not saying whe
More than 211,500 americans. Meanwhile, his doctor continues to down play the president s condition and basic information to the public. When was his last negative test and what was his viral load . I know. Everyone wants that. Dont get mad. Get e trade ithe first full prescriptionis pstrength nonsteroidal antiinflammatory gel. I dont have his viral load. Available over the counter. Voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel. Hippa prevents me from going into too much detail. Voltaren. The joy of movement. At some future point, maybe. But today, sorry. I think thats it. Doctor, what was the date of the president s last negative test . I wont get into the testing going back but he and all the theres a lot going on. We want to share an update. Staff are routinely tested. Were excited about here around trump wanted to leave the beat. Isolation and work out of the senator Elizabeth Warren is back on the program. Its going to be a special oval today and aides pushing back on that t
Issue, it is really an issue of how the transition can do its work would unfettered access to the kind of information both at the staff and agency level as well as at the president ial and Vice President ial level to get this transformation going. We know that biden is not getting the classified president ial daily briefings and the same goes for kamala harris. Biden said that is not a bad thing right now. Hes been in the rooms before. Officials have cautioned us, he knows his way around things like the situation room and Foreign Policy. Biden has said it is not like he could act on this information anyway right now. But that being said, there are real impacts on the front of transitioning and specifically trying to figure out the pandemic response, especially as it relates to Something Like a potential vaccine in the early part of next year, ron klain who was Just Announced this week as Bidens White House chief of staff pointing out that some of the agencies in the government, specifi
The pandemic is only going to get worse. The nation just marked the deadliest day of the pandemic since midapril. More than 2,100 died yesterday and for the 15th straight day, the u. S. Broke its own hospitalization record with more than 88,000 Covid Patients nationwide. That is what is driving dr. Anthony fauci to offer this final message ahead of thanksgiving. The final message is to do what really weve been saying for some time, to the except possible, keep the gatherings, indoor gatherings, as small as you possibly can. We know how difficult that is because this is a traditional holiday but making that sacrifice, you will prevent people from getting infected. The contrasts dont stop there, the dow hit 30,000 for the first time yesterday. Yet a Record Number of americans are waiting in long line food banks across the country. The situation is so dire that feed america, a network of more than 200 food banks, said the u. S. Faces a shortage of up to 8 billion meals in the next 12 mont