Colors only on cbs this morning. The singer reveals the lineup for her latest concert to help lgbtq kids who dont have a home. Its a good one, but first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I want to be very frank to the american people. The vaccines critical. But its not going to save us from this current surge. The sweeping new lockdown in california. Doctors and nurses across the country are being pushed to the brink. Were not likely to see a peak in the number of infections in hospitalizations until probably at some point in the middle of january. As bad as things are right now, theyre going to get a lot worse. Rudy giuliani says hes getting great care and feeling good as he recovers from coronavirus in the hospital. President elect joe biden is poised to nominate California Attorney general Xavier Becerra as health and Human Services secretary. To the last line of defense. All eyes on two critical runoff races in s is in georgi will determine which party control
Plainfield, illinois. Towe take you live now california, where governor gavin newsom is updating the state on coronavirus. Governor newsom we are experiencing all across the united states. To put this in perspective, our ofen day average is north 14,000, 14,600 seven, to be precise. Day case number is roughly in line with that sevenday average, 14,034. To put that in perspective, when you look back at the peak we experienced at the beginning of this pandemic, the seven day previous week was to1, compared to the close 15,000 cases we are now experiencing over seven days. We anticipate, based on what occurred over the course of the last number of days, that within a number of weeks, onetwo weeks based on thanksgiving activity and all the efforts to educate people against activities and anherings, that we will see increase in cases. It is important to put in perspective california as a state visavis other states just for purposes of comparison. People have inquired and asked how we are do
That. Governor will have to let us know when hes ready for it. Otherwise, we cant be delivering it to a state that wont be giving it to its people. I know the people of new york very well. I know they want it. So the governor will let us know when hes ready. Hes had some very bad editorials recently about this statement and what has happened with respect to nursing homes, and i hope he doesnt handle this as badly as the nursing homes. But we are ready to provide it as soon as they let us know they will actually use it, and it is a very safe and great vaccine. We have among the lowest case fatality rates anywhere in the world, the entire world, and we performed significantly better than our peer countries. Also madetration has critical investments in therapies that have helped reduce the mortality rate by 85 . That is one of the most exciting things. It is incredible, some of the antibody vaccines and others that have come out and help people. Last month, the fda approved remdesivir and
U. S. History, high nearing, manufacturing therapies and vaccines and record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before. The medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has never been achieved before. This rapidly, this quickly. We are very proud of it. Ive had tremendous help from the military. Generals and admirals and many other great people at the white house. Operation warp speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world. Leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we have been able to do. We have helped many countries with their ventilators and all of the problems that they were having. I would like to congratulate everyone involved in this effort. It has been an incredible effort. As a result of operation warp speed, pfizer announced on monday that its china virus vaccine is more than 90 effective. And all exceeds any expeditions. Nobody thought that they would get to that level. We have others coming, and that we think will be coming at equal
Election, Vice President pence spoke at a rally wednesday in flint, michigan. This is just under an hour. Be in the showo gom ready to gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States of america, mike pence dont you worry , babyght long all rightight now now, baby its all right now i took her home to my place watching every move on her face plosions] she said, look, whats your game, baby are you tryin to put me in shame . I said, slow, dont go so fast dont you think that love can last . She said love, lord above now youre tryin to trick me in love all right now, baby its all right now all right now, baby baby, its all right now s all right now vice pres. Pence hello, michigan. Its a great crowd. Thank you all for coming out tonight. I restate party chair, laura cox. Although all the wonderful michiganders who are here from near and far. It is great to be back in the wolverine state. We are just six days away from a great victory all across ,ichigan and all across america lynn we vote