100,000 plus for 34 days straight. all of our hospital are feeling the impacts. this is new day, with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it is tuesday, january 5th, 6:00 here in new york. you know what that means, john. it s election day! it s decision day, finally! we ve been talking about it forever. this is in georgia. those two high-stakes runoff races which will decide which party controls the u.s. senate. polls open one hour from now. democrats must win both seats to effectively win a senate majority. president trump and president-elect joe biden both campaigning there last night. biden stressing that the future of his agenda hinge on what happens today. mr. trump promised he would present evidence of his conspiracy theories, but strangely, he did not do any show and tell. instead, he spent most of his 90 minutes on stage spewing more delusional theories and attack
this is cnn newsroom. in cities across the u.s., the pain and shock are still raw from this week s deadly shooting spree here in the atlanta area. people joined rallies across the country on saturday to mourn those killed in three spas and to denounce violence against asian-americans. authorities are still investigating the motive behind the shootings that left eight people dead including six victims of asian descent. the 21-year-old suspect from georgia told investigators the shootings weren t racially motivated, but community leaders and anti-racism advocates say the violence is added to fears asian-americans already felt crimes against people of asian descent in the u.s. surged with racist rechetoric since the pandemic started. some have been blamed for covid-19. meanwhile, we re still learning more about the victims of the deadly attack. cnn s natasha chen has that part of the story. reporter: four of the eight people killed were here at two different spas in atlant
uk and north america, presumably canada. i ll get reaction to the former spokeman to the queen. anna stewart is live in london. the queen issued rather personal statement today. yes. bu bucki buckingham palace released a statement. a much more personal statement which i ll read to you now. it says following many months of conversations and more recent discussion, i m pleased together we have found a constructive and supportive way forward for my grandson and his family. harry, meghan and archie will be much loved members of my family. i recognize the challenges they have experienced as a result of intense scrutiny over the last two years and support their wish for a more independent life. i want to thank them for their dedicated work akroscross the country. i m proud of how meghan has quickly become one of the family. it s my hope today s agreement allows them to build a happy and peaceful life. it feels personal and final. it feel thes like a clean break from the royal fam
beginning. a report this morning that doctors at a major hospital right here in new york city are being told to think very carefully about who does and does not get a ventilator. it is another symptom of a nationwide problem hospitals just don t have what they need. yeah. rationing, amazing we re getting there. in cities across the country, field hospitals are now going operational because of the expected overflow at hospitals in convention centers, even in new york city s central park. and next hour the navy hospital ship comfort will take on its first noncoronavirus patients to help take the pressure off other new york hospitals. cases are surging across the country, in new emerging hot spots. three out of four americans now are under stay at home or shelter in place orders. and signs in california that the social distancing guidelines may be working. we have got a lot to get to this hour. all of us here doing our part. let s begin in new york with cnn national corres
announcer: this is new day. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it s thursday, april 16th. 6:00 here in new york. we begin with the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. and the debate over when and how to get americans back to work. president trump will announce new federal guidelines today. but governors and even major business leaders are warning that they are nowhere near being able to reopen. dr. deborah birx on the white house task force have identified nine states with fewer than 1,000 confirmed cases. she didn t spell out a time exactly which states those are. but they could open sooner than others. but business leaders are warning that testing is still inadequate and needs to be ramped up before people can go back to work. the u.s. is still testing at a far lower rate than other countries, john. there are two stories, the economic and medical one. they re the same story. the economy needs