Granddaughter and her husband. [applause] welcome everyone. To the barnum museum. Is this anyones first time here . Welcome to the barnum family. Were glad to have you on this Beautiful Day in the bridgeport, connecticut. It is pt barnums last museum. He started in 1842 and this is his last gift. Not just to the city of bridgeport but to the Global Community we serve. Many of you are familiar with the museum. In 2010, we were hit by a tornado. And of the year after that it was hurricane irene and then super storm sandy. I want to give a set out to our delegation. We are about to embark on a major of that beautiful barnum building. Thank you. [applause] and then to add to that, our congressmen has been really working hard with us to get the barnum building on the National Register but we are in the process of being reviewed to become a National Historic landmark. Theres only about 2500 in this country and that is a significant thing. Its reasons why we are here today because we are stil
Now the ball will drop to almost completely empty streets. Tonight its by invitation only and only a few hundred people will gather including frontline workers. Its a critical time as officials warn people against celebrating in high risk groups. The country again breaking records for covid19 deaths and hospitalizations. The cdc projecting another 80,000 americans could die in the next three weeks alone, but as those numbers spike vaccinations lag. The White House Task force admitting that the nations vaccine rollout is moving way slower than promised. Lets begin with cnns Paul Vercammen in los angeles with more. Paul, i know officials there are bracing for that postholiday surge as well. Reporter theyre petrified by the prospects right now, bianna. Lets look at this in the context of these national numbers. They are horrific. More than 300,000 deaths you see that in the u. S. Also the cdc is forecasting that we could get up to i want to correct that, that was 3,000 deads. 324,000 debt