Effective. But we are still urging people to be cautious. Matt gaetz adding two new York Attorneys to his defense team. Federal investigators are looking into Gaetzs Role into an alleged Prostitution Ring as part of a wider probe of the congressman and his associates. They lie about me because i tell the truth about them, and im not going to stop. The funeral, we now know will be next saturday. The public arent invited. There wont be any crowds. Thats really because of the pandemic. Im Pamela Brown in washington. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world on this saturday. You are live in the cnn newsroom. And tonight, michigan is facing a crisis. It leads to nation in coronavirus infections with a Positivity Rate of 18 . And now we are learning the federal government plans to help with this surge and new cases. A senior Administration Official telling me tonight that 160 Fema Vaccinators will head to michigan. Thats people delivering the shots, but more vaccines,
currently ranked number two at u.s. news and world report. 19 that strommer, a professor asked her student what is they thought the average american makes in annual wages. think about that, how would you have answered that question? well, she then tweeted their response, quote, i asked wharton student what is they thought the average american worker makes per year. and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. one of them thought it was 800,000. the professor said the real number is $45,000. and the washington post reported that according to the social security administration, the average u.s. annual wage was in fact $53,383 with the median wage at $34,612. we don t know how many students responded to professor s question, that 75% of the students, three quarters of the class got it right been placate the blogosphere. as one tweet put it, that s the average of who they know, which is why rich people usually don t feel rich. this was borne out by another who pointed out t
however, are dropping. one reason for optimism, merck says its new antiviral drug cuts the risk of hospitalization and death by 50% for covid patients. the company plans to submit a request for emergency use authorization to the fda as soon as possible. experts say this is a major development in fighting the pandemic. this is the most impactful result that i remember seeing of an orally available drug and the treatment of a respiratory pathogen, perhaps ever. i think getting an oral pill that can inhibit viral replication, inhibit this virus is going to be a real game changer. it s going to be used like tamiflu. people get vaccinated for flu, but some develop, and tamiflu helps mitigate symptoms in those individuals. dr. gottlieb and other health officials are stressing an antiviral pill is not an alternative to getting the vaccine. cnn s polo sandoval joining me now from new york, what more are you learning. with over 700,000 deaths reported now, that means the u.s. co
no question. so before we go, you mentioned that aid. what happens to that aid? will it get delivered? we re hoping so despite the incident, we re going to try again, hopefully this weekend, we re putting in another coordination requests because it s just too important to give up. we ve got treatment that we know can help the malnourished children in the north of gaza. and we desperately want to get it up there well, thanks so much for your time for joining us. and as i said last time we spoke please keep yourself and your team as safe as you can. thanks, jim. the news continues right here on cnn i d probably next breaking news, we have exclusive new details about new york city at this hour, prepare for the first criminal trial of a former president. this has the president s legal team is zeroing in on what may be their only hope plus oj simpson s longtime manager is out for us he has 70 hours of footage of his former client and he s going to share the details of th
it s 8am here in singapore and 2am in paris, where emanuel macron is set to be youngest ever president in french history. in a televised address, mr macron promised to fight the divisions in his country, re build the links between the eu and its citizens, and to combat threats posed by terrorism and climate change. results are still being counted, but projected results show mr macron has won more than 65% of the vote after sweeping aside the challenge of his far right rival, marine le pen. our coverage begins with this report from our europe editor, katya adler in paris. young, dynamic and very, very confident. emmanuel macron, said to be the youngest leader since napoleon, took the crowd by storm. translation: in the face of extremism, i know there are disagreements and i will respect this. and i will be faithful to that commitment taken, i will protect the republic. this is an incredible moment. the mighty france, an economic and political world heavyweight key eu nation wi