american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who s been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia s election interference? reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we assess that the russian president vladimir putin ordered this, directed this, much as the intelligence community assessed in 2016. let s then go onto what russia did to interfere. it says they conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating president biden s candidacy. reminds you of what they did in 2016 in terms of denigrating hillary clinton. but also denigrating the democratic party, supporting
sign it tomorrow after he was going to speak in prime time. this makes more sense on the timeline, getting to talk about already having signed it for his speech tonight. this is a singular achievement for his first 100 days in the agenda. as we keep talking about, a year ago today, a freight train was essentially about to hit this country. we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. we have therefore met the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. is the worst yet to come, dr. fauci? yes, it is. can you elaborate? we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. we are moving very quickly. the vast majority of americans, the risk is very, very low. and just look at how startling a year it has been in this country as measured by, well, every single metric you can come up with. infections, multiple sushlgs in cases, each one with more confirmed cas
Tonight, the u. S. Now surpasses 136,000 deaths from coronavirus. And tonight, the head of the cdc warning that this coming fall and winter will probably be, quote, one of the most difficult times that we will experience in American Public health. Also, the new images coming in tonight, inside hospitals across the south. Icus running out of space. In one hospital alone, 29 patients waiting for a bed. Hardhit florida reporting a Record Number of deaths in one day. Los angeles on the brink tonight of ordering a stay at home order. And this evening dr. Anthony fauci on any potential vaccine and his sobering prediction on when americans may no longer tonight on a key vaccine being tested. What weve now learned. Tonight, inside the school board meetings. Teachers fearful for their own
health if they go back too soon. The teacher who served eight years in the military who said she did not sign up to teach to fear for her life going back to the classroom. The school board in one of the countr
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