Cnn newsroom. Tropical storm isaias just shy of hurricane strength is already being felt as it approaches south floridas east coast right now. It is a major concern in a state struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Covid19 has already infected more than 480,000 people in florida and killed more than 7,000. Even with strict safety protocols in places, evacuation shelters, Health Officials fear the virus could spread further among those inside. With the storms full impact expected in the coming hours, the state has temporarily shut down its Virus Testing sites. Officials are concerned theyll see a new surge of cases once the storm has passed and testing resumes. Lets get the latest on the storm, where its headed and its strength from tyler malden joining us now. Good morning, natalie. It is a 70mileanhour storm. You can see the rainstorm here just lashing the bahamas. Its beginning to fill in here in some parts of the bahamas. Crossing over here to south florida. Speaking of sou
2,768 new deaths were reported overnight. The five deadliest days of the pandemic all occurred within the last week. And the number of americans hospitalized continues to soar. That almost certainly means that more death will follow. According to data from health and human services, one in three hospitals nationwide reached 90 icu capacity last week. Keep in mind that doesnt just affect covid patients, it affects people who need emergency help, pregnant moms. The effects on our Health System are far and wide. Heres a sobering warning now from the director of the cdc. We are in the time frame now that probably for the next 60 to 90 days, were going to have more deaths per day than we had in 9 11 or pearl harbor. This is really, as i said, this is going to be a real unfortunate loss of life. Its that time of year when normally the country would be coming together. Getting ready for the holidays. Instead, states have to revert back to the rules of the spring that keep people apart for the
The race that will decide whether democrats take control of it. You have democrat jon ossoff leading republican senator david perdue in that key georgia runoff race. Its still too close to call at this hour. However night, nbc news projected Raphael Warnock the winner, making him the first black senator to represent georgia. Our team is following all this for us. Msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki is at the big board. Leigh ann caldwell is posted up on capitol hill. Kelly odonnell is at the ellipse next to the white house. Historic win for reverend warnock. Everybody looking at the race between david perdue and jon ossoff. Its going to control which Party Controls the senate given Kamala Harris role that will be the tiebreaking vote as Vice President elect. Weve been waiting for critical votes to come in. Where does that stand . Still waiting on the vote. The setup for this looks pretty clearcut. Jon ossoff, the democrat, has a lead of 17,000 votes. What were waiting
Along with joe, willie and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere. Cofounder and ceo of Axios Jim Vandehei and conservative lawyer, cofounder of the Lincoln Project and contributing columnist to the Washington Post, George Conway joins us this morning. Well, a lot to get to, joe. I think the first we should start with is that donald trump is expected to become the first u. S. President to be impeached twice after Vice President mike pence informed at this point the House Speaker nancy pelosi that he would not go forward with the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. In a letter to Speaker Pelosi just hours before the house passed a resolution urging pence to invoke the 25th, the Vice President wrote that such action is not in the best interest of our nation and would set a, quote, terrible precedent. I question his oath of office at this point, but that is what he did. The house convenes at 9 00 a. M. Debate on the impeachment resolution is se
His son, harrys service in afghanistan. I worry every time. And he looks ahead to life as a grandfather today, monday, january 7th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with is Savannah Guthrie live rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer alongside Savannah Guthrie, al roker and natalie morales. The gang is back together in a long time for a really long time. Not since last year. That old thing . Ive never heard that. Two, three weeks, though. Really. Everybody have nice trips . Yeah. Reporter only natalie got slightly injured. Little skiing accident. You should see the other guy. Thats a good one. Anybody caught home with the flu, perhaps . Not good. A lot of people do. Cases are very widespread, in 41 states now. Coming up, why doctors expect it to get even worse in the days and weeks ahead. A criminal case has rocked a small town out in ohio. Two High School Football players were accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student