It is a humbling experience many been expire but how he turn a happenout into a rapo lend a hand. It is no just graffiti. Sprau paint has become the tall of american protest. Meet the street artists of the social justice movement. Soledad im Soledad Obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. As covid19 batters nation pandemic is exposing a at that time health carr crisis. Rural hops overwhelmed and near capacity fighting it keep their doors open. Before pandemic nearly half of all rural hospitals were praulgt at a lossment 17 have been doctors to close this year and morning 400 others face saul fate. Texas has seen more closures than think or state in recent years. Our correspondent Jessica Gomez traveled to tights tight county in the northeast part of the state and spent the day at a rural hospital struggling to stay afloat. East texas far from the hustle of big city life but now the usual peace and quiet here shattered but a pandemic. As you know we have another surge in covid. Skraurbgs thi
Reported deaths topping a thousand. All of this is a critical lifeline for millions of struggling americans has now expired. A 600 unemployment benefit gone. Top Democratic Leaders and white house officials are meeting today to try to hammer out a deal. Meantime, theres a new problem emerging. Hurricane isaias is threatening coastlines and not just in florida. This is threatening coastlines from florida all the way on up into maine. The potential impact, some 70 million americans. We want to start in washington this hour where those negotiations for an important relief package have just wrapped up for the day. Lauren fox is on capitol hill. So we know weve heard a little bit from both sides after they came out of that meeting. Is there a sense that they are any closer to an agreement, lauren . What we are hearing from both republicans and democrats is that they are closer, but they are still far away from a deal. Thats not going to be any comfort for the millions of americans who have
Cases a day, a thousand americans are dying every day. This is all wholly preventable and my only plea to my fellow americans is we have to not become immune to this level of suffering, and we have to take more action. I think thats such a great pin point, we cant become immune to the level of suffering, we cant become immune to the numbers. We know theres fatigue out there, out there for weeks if not months. People are tired of having to go through some of these measures, but the reality is, dr. Jha, if we dont continue with them, it will become far worse. Thats the potential. It is absolutely and especially as we head into the fall months, and people are going to be spending more time indoors, the flu season will arrive, you know, i had a chance to talk to dr. Fauci on friday. He said if we do the basic Public Health measures weve been talking about we can go into the fall in pretty good shape. Alternatively we can continue to ignore a lot of them and we can have a really awful fall
This is a special edition of new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. And good morning everyone. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is a special Holiday Edition of new day. Merry christmas, everyone. Merry christmas to you. And you as well. This is a pretty unusual christmas, we hope you are having a lovely morning at home alone with your insular family. This christmas is different, but when and how can you expect to get together and celebrate with family again . We will talk about that in a little bit. We will also celebrate some of the heroes of this pandemic who have done so much to help and inspire others. So all of that and more ahead, but first lets get a check of your headlines at the news desk. Good morning, lets start with some breaking news overnight. The cdc announcing it will require all passengers from the United Kingdom to prove theyve tested negative for coronavirus before they can fly to the United States. The order is a resp
And how you can start to get together with the loved ones that you are celebrating with by zoom today. We will also celebrate some of the heroes of this pandemic who have done so much to help and of course inspire the rest of us. So all of that and more ahead, but first lets get a check of your headlines at the news desk. Good morning, everyone. Im alison kosik. The cdc announcing it will require all passengers from the United Kingdom to prove theyve tested negative for coronavirus before they can fly to the United States. The order is a response to the new covid variant that appears to have originated in the uk. Cnns Salma Abdelaziz is live in london for us. Whats the latest on that . Reporter i can tell you that the uk government is not going to be happy with that. Yesterday a brexit deal was announced and they need important trade relationships with countries like the United States. You can only imagine how this travel restriction when l. Only get that much more difficult for busine