The more greater titans over the last century. His youthful spirit and his fight was very con tanl us and filled everyone up that was around him. Good sunday morning to you. Im victor blackwell. Youre watching new day. Its july 19th. Im abby philip in today for christi paul. So the coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 600,000 people around the world. But the epicenter is right here in the u. S. Covid19 is killing hundreds of americans a day. For a fifth day in a row, texas reported more than 10,000 new cases. In an effort to speed up testing, the fda approved new pool testing. That means samples up to four people could be tested at once. In an interview scheduled to air today, President Trump will not consider a National Mask mandate because of his investment in pefrrsonal freedo in the meantime, a new senate bill is pitting the white house against senate republicans. A source tells cnn that the Trump Administration wants to block further funding for the c Contact Tracing in s
Following other holiday weekends. We dont want to see a surge under any circumstances, but particularly as we go on the other side of labor day and enter into the fall, we want to go into that with a running start in the right direction. We dont want to go into that with another surge that we have to turn around again. Dr. Faucis message comes as the United States surpasses 1,000 deaths in a day. Cases are on the rise in 18 states, concentrated mostly in the midwest and the northeast. Iowa, as weve been talking about the last couple of days, that is still a major concern, averaging its highest average number of daily infections since this pandemic began. And another state were watching closely here is missouri. The White House Coronavirus Task Force Says that that state is in a red zone with high transmission and rural and urban communities as well as Major College towns. And all of this is happening here as concerns grow that the Trump Administration will put politics over Public Heal
Christian holmes. What more can you tell us about what this means . There are four members, right, and so one republican member has expressed his or her intentions . Thats right. So, essentially the board of canvassers is four people. Two democrats and two republicans. And this is really seen as a formality, to certify the results of the election. But that is not the case this year. This year, of course, as we have seen the Trump Campaign continues to challenge as well as michigan republicans and the rnc all challenging the results in the state of michigan, which joe biden won. So, essentially heres what we have learned. A republican congressman, who has spoken to one of the republicans on the board of canvassers, says last week his intention was to vote against certified the election. Is that means at least one person voting against it we have two democrats who we believe will vote for certification. That means one last republican, thats the question, what will that person do . Cnn ha
There were many ballots thrown away so i got much more than that. Its going to be a very hard thing to concede, because we know there was massive fraud. So meanwhile, president elect joe biden is looking ahead with his transition team, planning the next rollout of cabinet nominations and preparing to take the lead in the National Effort to defeat the coronavirus pandemic. Joining me now, msnbc political reporter ali vitali who is with us in delaware. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell at the white house for us. Reuters White House Correspondent jeff mason. Beth fouhy and chris lu, a former aid to president obama. Good to see all of your faces after thanksgiving, thank you for joining us this afternoon. I want to start with you, kelly, because as we normally think of thanksgiving, we think of it as a quiet day, a day of reflection to spend with family. Nonetheless, a lot of ticktock happening from the president. Take us through what happened yesterday. This was strikes because it happened after an eve
In the fight against the pandemic. Here he is, dr. Anthony fauci rolling up his sleeve to get the shot. I feel extreme confidence in the safety and the efficacy of this vaccine and i want to encourage heereveryone who has opportunity to get vaccinated to have a veils protection over this country that would end this pandemic. While the vaccine is making its way to Health Care Workers, theyre also overworked and dealing with record numbers of patients. Were exhausted. Were frustrated, and we need the public to really respect Public Health guidelines. This is happening as Public Health officials are trying to quiet fears about this virus variant that emerged in the uk. Biontech ceo says they are confident pfizers vaccine will protect against this mutation. Today the white house deciding whether to show proof of a negative covid test coming from europe. Dr. Fauci says it may already be here in the u. S. Either way the country goes into the Christmas Holiday with more than 1 18 million case