so my first guess is going to be washington, d.c. it s got to be. i haven t seen the list yet. it s got to be d.c. it has to. andrew has experience. i do have experience. i ve been there for six months and i ve seen more rats than my entire lifetime living in new york. you hear that, washington, d.c.? andrew is joining us from washington, d.c. this week. you ve seen plenty of his stories covering the impeachment trial, covid-19, everything coming out of the white house. before that, you were in miami. i was. you were a florida man. i still am a florida man. but not florida man, you know. there s a difference. you were in portland before that, so you ve been making the rounds. you were also in new york. welcome back. i love new york. i m glad to be back. we re excited to have you for the rest of the week. let s start this half hour with the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic. more than 219,000 american lives lost and more than 8 million confirm
lockdown. the nation s governors asking the trump administration its plans on distributing the vaccine. and how two of the country s biggest drug store chains may be involved. overseas tonight, thousands paying tribute to the middle school teacher killed on the street by a suspected terrorist in france. cell phone video showing police confronting the 18-year-old suspect before he s killed, lunging at officers with a knife. 11 people now being detained by authorities. back here at home, wildfires raging in the west. colorado s cameron peak fire, the largest in state history, now destroying more than 200,000 acres. two new wildfires breaking out in utah, destroying homes, forcing more evacuations. news breaking late today in the search for a missing mother found alive nearly two weeks after vanishing at a national park. what authorities are now saying. small businesses sending out an sos. tens of thousands in danger of closing forever because of the pandemic. one busine
weeks of warnings from scientists and doctors to get the case number is down before flu season hits and cold weather drives people inside. unlike past spikes, this one is happening as colder weather is upon us. indoors is riskier setting for the spread. this outcome is predictable, preventable, but is it unstoppable? top experts worry that yes, one saying the next 6 to 12 weeks will be the darkest of the entire pandemic. moment ago, dr. anthony fauci, the top infectious disease expert, says much of the country is at risk from having sickness from coronavirus. in the united states, 30% of u.s. adults are susceptible to severe covid-19 disease, on the basis of underlying conditions as well as aging in individuals, even those with overlapping compromised conditions. so the idea of being able to let this infection go through the community, only be concerned about those in nursing homes clearly is flawed. there are so many people generally in the community who are susceptible to
this, i m very reluctant to see how far the finish line is and now there s something nerve racking when the fin, liish lin getting so close. this is when we re supposed to be looking at it in a positive way but it all too tense. this year is logistically. that part of a vote is cooked and that s a really big slice of the vote. so it actually is vsomething a little bit different in terms of when the election comes. for 30 million of us, it s already arrived. it s setting records everywhere on the early voting. we re going to be hearing about that later in the hour. we have jamie harrison joining us, john osuf joining us for the fight in the united states senate and early voting is the key to their races. absolutely. well done. thanks, lawrence. thank you, rachel. well, until i m voted out or until they re successful in assassinating me, i m hoping to do what s right for the people of wichita. that s what the mayor of wich a wichita, kansas said after a man was arrest
well, until i m voted out or until they re successful in assassinating me, i m hoping to do what s right for the people of wichita. that s what the mayor of wichita, kansas said after a man was arrested on friday in a plot to kidnap and kill the mayor of wichita because the mayor of wichita supported a mask rule for wichita. the mayor of wichita will join us later in this hour. also joining us later in the hour are two people who can change the course of american history if they win their campaigns for the united states senate in south carolina and georgia. if the polls are correct and joe biden crushes donald trump in the election, exactly nothing on the biden legislative agenda will pass the congress and get signed into law if mitch mcconnell is still the majority leader of the united states senate. nothing. the only way to undo the legislative damage that donald trump has done is for democrats to win control of the united states senate. democratic senate candidates jaime h