European countries are being forced to tighten restrictions ahead of christmas following record daily cases and deaths this month. The netherlands has announced a new five week lockdown, while germany will enter a hard lockdown from wednesday. The latest figures across europe and elsewhere are bleak. The First Western country hit by the virus, italy, reported 816 deaths on tuesday, while new infections rose to 14,844 from 12,030. Deaths in turkey rose to a record 235. The country also recording 32,102 new cases, ranking it third in the world in the highest number of daily cases behind the us and brazil. France has replaced its Second National lockdown with a night time curfew as the number of deaths on tuesday rose by 790. And in brazil, 964 deaths were registered on tuesday and 42,889 new cases. Anna holligan reports from the hague. The dutch had been dreaming of a relatively relaxed christmas, but over the weekend, photos of crowds cramming into city centres combined with an infectio
Pressure is increasing for the uk government to revise its relaxation of covid restrictions from 23 27 of december. Talks with the devolved administrations will resume on wednesday to see if a four nation approach can be agreed. Its thought changes to the measures already announced are unlikely, but that there may be strengthened guidance to discourage excessive social mixing. Two of the uks leading medical journals published a joint editorial for the first time, calling for the government to stop any household mixing. They describe the current plan to allow three households to gather at christmas as a rash decision that will cost lives. Here are their editors. The real striking, stark truth of the matter is that our Health System is not going to manage if we allow the current trend to continue on top of the superspreader event that will be this five days of christmas. We are currently on course for around about 19,000 covid inpatients in english hospitals. At the start of the second w
Limited choices. And just this afternoon we learned that the possible quarterback of the irs conservative targeting scandal is calling it quits. So now that lois lerner has retired, what does that mean for the investigation . All those stories and much more coming up live on the kudlow report beginning right now. Welcome to the kudlow report. Request im larry kudlow. Were here live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern and 4 00 p. M. Pacific so lets get right to the late breaking developments from the senate. Cnbcs john harwood in washington joins us with all the details. Good evening, john. Good evening, larry. Youre right. The news that both john cornyn and Mitch Mcconnell will not vote to sustain the filibuster that ted cruz is mounting raises the odds that a clean bill will go back to the house, maybe sunday, maybe monday. Now, we dont know whether thats going to play out exactly that way, but we do know that Republican Leaders believe this is a disastrous strategy. If you look at the poll that we
Now that the president ial debates are over, it is clear each one of them had a plot line. At the first one, the president underperformed against governor romney. At the second debate, both men were amped up. And last nights plot line appears to be the president s Foreign Policy attack and mitt romneys movement to the center on a number of issues. Decreasing the policy distance between the two men as 60 million americans watched on live television. Starting today, there was a new sense of urgency out on the trail. Now, the travel becomes urgent and frenetic. Every Second Counts and so does every state. We have it all covered and we begin with nbcs Peter Alexander traveling with the Romney Campaign in henderson, nevada. Peter, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. As you just noted, nearly 60 million americans watched last nights debate. In fact, that was the smallest number of the three president ial debates. Over the next two weeks as they bounce across the country, effec
News for tuesday, august 20th, this is the cbs morning news for tuesday, august 20th, 2013. Captioning funded y cbs good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this wildfire season could shape up to be one of the most destructive on record. The National Interagency fire center said 3. 3 million acres have been destroyed so far, fuelled by hot weather and strong winds, there are currently 49 large fires burning in 11 western states. At least nine are burning in idaho. The worst is the nearly twoweekold beaver creek fire. Its destroyed more than 100,000 acres. The fire appears to be calming, hundreds of fires were evacuated in the resort communities of ketchum and sun valley, but some residents are being allowed to return. Now, its more worrying about the land and animals and the firefighters and how long is the smoke going to be here. You know, so the worry level is down. More than 1,000 firefighters are fighting the beaver creek fire with the help of 14 helicopters. An