In cases, the scale of which we havent seen in six months. The u. S. Is now averaging more than 107,000 new covid cases a day, meaning were now in the second highest peak of the whole pandemic. As a result, hospitalizations are back up nearing levels weve seen in previous peaks. The silver lining, last time cases were this high, there were about 14,000 more people in the hospital. But on the ground, its no less dire. In texas, a Parents Nightmare played out. Houstons pediatric hospitals at full capacity. So an 11 month old had to be air lifted, even though the child had covid 150 miles away. In florida, the countrys covid epicenter, record high in hospitalizations after covid cases skyrocketed this week. More than 134,000 covid infections in florida. The states highest for cases recorded over any seven Day Period throughout the pandemic. Despite the deteriorating situation, governor Ron Desantis Wont budge from School Mandates choosing political fights over pandemic preventions, so pri
Couldn t have been sexually assaulted before that. a simplistic argument, not particularly compelling and remember, there are 11 complainants here. only heard any kind of response to two of them from the defense team at this point. they ve got a mountain of evidence that they re going to have to deal with here, jim, and i m not seeing anything particularly convincing from them just yet. elie honig, thank you so much for that. make sure to tune in tonight. one of our guests this evening with my colleague, pamela brown, will be one of governor cuomo s attorneys, later on tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern and coming up, cnn will be speaking with my f pillow ceo mike lindell that china traded votes for biden. calling out on this nonsense, that s coming up. can you be free of hair breakage worries? we invited mahault to see for herself that new dove breakage remedy gives damaged hair the strength it needs. even with repeated combing hair treated with dove shows 97% less breakage.
reporter: and you have the proof. yes. reporter: that will show i have the whole actual exchange of votes. yep. 100%. 100%. reporter: it is, of course, complete nonsense, despite every piece of so-called evidence lindell has presented so far, three videos, a lawsuit, screen shots he sent to cnn, there s still no proof that the election was hacked and that s according to two dozen cyber experts and election officials contacted by cnn. 100% evidence. reporter: when lindell released so-called evidence, in videos like this, fact checkers quickly found out it was evidence of nothing. these images are just publicly available voter data, scrolling across the screen. not proof of election hacking, so lindell changed his story saying streamed live with mypillow discounts available throughout.
Was there. she was eating snacks, and she even offered to stay longer at the mansion when her work was done. the governor deserves to be treated fairly. like anybody else in this country accused of something. he is 63 years old. he has spent 40 years in public life. and for him to all of a sudden be accused of a sexual assault of an executive assistant that he really doesn t know doesn t pass muster. time now for our weekly cross examine segment with cnn legal analyst elie honig, a state prosecutor. one of our viewers wants to know what legal consequences could andrew cuomo, the governor, could be facing and what would have to be proven against him for each of those issues. yeah, jim. so the governor is now facing a pile of legal problems. let s break it down. first of all, there are potential criminal issues here.
Should do whatever it can to get people vaccinated. this entire surge we re seeing now, the hundreds of deaths that florida is experiencing every week, all of that is unenforced, all of that is unnecessary. that is truly the horror here is that all of these things we re feeling and we re seeing are unnecessary and could have been avoided if simply political leaders got on the same page they do with almost every other kind of major challenge. well, we re certainly a nation divided when it comes to responded to this pandemic. something we ll be talking about throughout the show for the remainder. mayor dan gahlver, we appreciate it. thank you, jim. coming up, new york governor andrew cuomo fires back at sexual harassment investigation that has put him on the verge of impeachment. the message from his lawyers. plus, he s made a name for himself by selling pillows and pushing the big lie. see what happens when cnn