Actor lost his leg to the disease. His wife tells us why she believes he will pull through. Saluting captain tom. The skyhigh tribute to a hero of this pandemic as the world war ii veteran celebrates his 100th birthday. Thats a lot of candles. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is going away. Were going to come up with vaccines but this is going away. And when its gone, were going to be doing a lot of things. A new drug is showing positive results for fighting covid19. The data shows that remdesivir has a clearcut significant, positive effect. Diminishing the time to recover. An additional 3. 8 million americans filed for unemployment claims. That brings our sixweek total to over 30 million. Just days after beaches reopened in california, the governor is set to close them. Hospitalizations went up again. Number of deaths, again, went up. Harrison ford now under investigation by the faa. Ford crossed a runway while another plane was about to land. Ncaa board
Protest march that had an ugly ending. An observer out of raleigh reports aof racially diverse grp were participating in a march to the polls. A warning the video im about to show you ise disturbing. Law enforcement user pepper spray including on a woman in a motorized chair. The video was shot by the documentary filmmaker, the news and observer reported that several children were also pepper sprayed. In texas the Biden Campaign was forced to cancel events after a group of Trump Supporters went aftermp the Biden Campaign bus themp highway. The president tweeted out this video with the comment, i love texas, in all caps. As you can see it shows the trumpthemed trucks surrounding the Biden Campaign bus on a texas highway in an apparently dangerous confrontation that reportednt a collision. Reports the fbi is looking into the incident. And all of this as early voting continues to shatter previousti records. Nbc news reports 91,746,538 voters53 have cast their ballot through early inmail,
We know that situations will occur. But we will figure it out together. All right. So from what were hearing, its likely that most average americans will not see their first dose of the vaccine for at least a couple of months. So use san tan sizhand sanitizer mask, practice social distancing. This morning, infections in the United States now sole 16,136,409 since the start of the pandemic. The death toll is 298,579. Were getting more than 2. 5 thousand a day. Supporters of the outgoing president , donald j. Trump, took to the streets in washington, d. C. Large crowds gathered near the white house demanding that the results of the 2020 president ial election be overturned just ahead of the official Electoral College vote, by the way, which will seal joe bidens president ial victory tomorrow. Trump ally former National Security advise and her recent pardon recipient Michael Flynn addressed the cloud which included many maskless rallygoers, defying a city order which demanded masks. The S
Deal earlier this week. The legislation is expected to include 600 in direct payments, a federal unemployment bonus of 300 a week, and more funding for struggling businesses and vaccine distribution. Joining me now for an update on the stimulus package and more, msnbc correspondent garrett haake. When i went to bed last night there was no deal, there was still a stalemate. I wake up this morning and there appears to be a deal. What happened . Reporter well, jonathan, as you mentioned, this fed lending provision was the last major substantive disagreement between the parties on what should go in this Coronavirus Relief bill. While they are posturing about who backed down in this game of chicken thats lasted the last couple of days, with that out of the way it does look likely that congress will finish the job it started weeks ago in passing this 900 billion or so stimulus package. Look, you would never lose money betting against congress to finish their work before the absolute last sec
Outright fear. Were here to provide transparency and to get straight answers to questions we may have about keeping your loved ones safe. I dont know if you know this, i received the vaccine today at the hospital where i work. Ill tell you about later in the show. I saw that. Its important, especially with someone with your profile and knowledge to get it so people can see it is okay. We got a lot to talk about tonight. Joining us tonight were going to get some answers to the vaccine theyre going to answer your questions and hopefully allay some of the fears from dr. Anthony fauci, perhaps the foremost Infectious Disease expert and the Surgeon General, jerome adams, who got vaccinated today as well, sanjay. Also joining us, other leaders in the medical field, including moore house in atlanta and a historic first, one of the first people in america to get the vaccine this week. So we want to hear from you. So make sure you do this. We want your feedback and your questions. Tweet us your