protests turns to unrest in washington d.c. donald trump blames ante fa violence as his supporters protest an election he lost fair and square. states across the u.s. forced to act trying to mitigate the covid-19 surge that's piling pressure on hospitals. we'll tell you about new restrictions and warnings. and the rest of the world is also struggling as the pandemic rages. mexico becomes the latest country to surpass 1 million cases. live from cnn world head

quarters in atlanta. welcome to our viewers in the united states, canada, and around the world. this is "cnn news room". >> there's been a strong police presence in the nation's cap itl after protests. one person is in critical condition with stab wounds. the mayor's office reports two police officers were injured and at least 20 people arrested. sara sidner followed the unrest as it unfolded. >> reporter: really what you're seeing are several things. antifascists out, anti-trump as well. and when they see someone from this trump supporting side of things who come into the area where they are, we've seen

arguments unfold, and then sometimes violent acts unfold as well. we've also seen conversely some of those folks who are anti-trump walking the streets in large groups, and then we have seen trump supporters including the proud boys who he told to stand back and stand by during the very first 2020 presidential debate with joe biden, we have seen them running toward a group of people who were not being aggressive until confronted with a bunch of folks who were coming and screaming curse words at them and then it turned into a bit of a melee. what we've also been seeing is the police are very heavily involved in trying to stop the two sides from coming together. >> president trump blamed the violence an left wing agitators.

he claims his supporters and attackers running for the hills. as you can see in the upper right of your screen, the president's motorcade made a slow pass through the crowd on his way to the golf course. now despite what president trump and his supporters might think, he has no legitimate path to a second term. so far his many legal challenges have been tossed out of court for having no merit. he continues to insist he was cheated in a fraudulent election. officials have said repeat lid that isn't true. we get more from jeremy diamond at the white house. >> reporter: one week after joe biden was declared the winner of the presidential election, president trump is still are refusing to concede and admit defeat in this 2020 election. instead what we've seen from the president is continuing to falsely claim that he has won, falsely claiming there has been widespread voter fraud and this election was rigged against him. of course, these are the same

claims that we saw the president make in the runup to the election, but he has only continued to make these despite the clear and overwhelming evidence of this election. despite the fact that we've seen election officials, republicans and democrats in all 50 states make clear there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud and the 2020 election was one of the most secure to today. we've seen the president waiver when an attitude where he says he wants to continue the lawsuits and recount challenges in battle ground states and at other moments beginning to come to grips with reality. we saw a sliver on friday as the president spoke in the rose garden acknowledging the possibility of a future biden administration. >> this administration will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. >> on saturday we saw the

president drive through this crowd of supporters who were protesting in washington. parroting his claims of a stolen after election. after that the supporters digging in of a rigged election taking several tweets twitter has labeled as misinformation about the election and the president showing no sign he's prepared to concede this election publicly. jeremy indictment, cnn, the white house. president-elect joe biden meanwhile is staying above the drama coming out of the trump white house. his primary focus is on the pae pandemic. jessica dean has those details. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden spending the weekend meeting with his transition advisers earlier this week they announced the formation of their covid-19 advisory board as they looked toward the coronavirus pandemic and what they'll be able to do when biden assumes

office on january 20th. as it stands right now the general services administration which is the federal office, responsible for validating biden as the new president-elect and triggering this formal transition process has yet to do that. and what that means is the biden transition team cannot formally interface with any of the federal agencies including health and human services, the coronavirus task force out of the white house. that's important because when it comes to things like a vaccine distribution plan, plans are already being drawn up in health and human services for what that might look like and the biden people which will be in place once that starts is not allowed to talk back and forth with them. so what have they been doing? they've been doing work arounds and back channelling with local officials, governors, people in the medical community, trying to do as much as they can without interfacing with the official agencies. they're still waiting for that green light. but they will tell you they feel good about where they are with

their advisory board. the president-elect releasing a statement on friday saying urgent action is needed right now when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. it can't wait until he takes office in january. he urged americans once again to do all the things he's been saying. wear a mask. social distance. wash your hands. but acknowledge that he won't be in office until january but that the coronavirus pandemic is on its own timeline. jessica dean, cnn, wilmington, delaware. >> so to talk about all this, let's speak to a teacher of international politics at city university in london. thank you very much for joining us. i want to start with what we're seeing in washington, the trump administration and his allies refusing to concede, rallies by his supporters even isolated violence between pro and anti-trump factions. before the election you were cig tory to a letter warning the

president's refusal to accept the result of an election, you wrote, there could be a rapid increase in radical right extremism including increased risk of domestic terrorism. much of what you wrote about in that letter in october has come to pass. so how worried are you by what you're seeing now? >> well, i think it is worrying. the united states is -- it may not be an exceptional state, but it isn't an ordinary state. what qgoes on inside the united states and with other issues like race relations, they reverberate around the around. the united states right now appears to be sleeping -- sleepwalking toward a coup but an authoritarian president who is refusing to abide by a fair election result. and the leadership of the republican party, the principal leadership of it at the national and state levels is aiding and

abetting him. so the mainstream conservatives, so-called are aiding a much more right wing kind of pressure to not accept a democratic election result, and that is what is dividing the country. it's polarizing it. it's hardening the boundaries between the population. and whether or not president trump remains to remain in power despite the result, he's actually appears to be paving the way to making america ungovernable and releasing the proud boys and other right wing forces in that project. >> well, so, i mean, given all of that, where does the republican party go from here? you wrote trumpism will remain a major force in u.s. politics. how exactly like literally with trump running in 2024, or will someone else pick up the baton? >> well, you have 72 million

votes for president trump. he has a very very loyal base, probably more loyal than any president in american history. right the way through his presidency. he continues to come on support. 70% of them have been persuaded that the election has been unfair and fraudulent, and so on. i think either he's paving the way to return in 2024 for a second run at the presidency, or he wants to be the king maker of the party. that is, by sucking up whatever kind of tv networks or whatever he may be planning, he wants to remain a king maker. that's to way that president trump is going to be likely to be around, but the whole idea of trumpism and the manner of politics, authoritarian politics, populist politics, untruth politics, i think that's going to remain. he didn't invent that, actually, but he has harnessed it fully. and the republican party leadership is playing a dangerous game. i think they believe they can harness that trumpism but let

trump go gently and they have the georgia runoffs in the senate in january in their minds at the moment. but it's such a dangerous game with the mainstream conservatives playing a game of betting and appeasing the extreme right. we've seen historically what can happen when that sort of those two forces combine with one another with one thinking the mainstream thinking they can control that genie which they appear to be letting out of the bottle. >> add in the economy as well, and that's a potent mix for trouble. we heard from the fed chairman this week who said essentially the u.s. economy may never be the same again post co-vid. will that create the conditions for more political instability, especially since biden's hand might be tied as president by a senate? what affect will that have? >> i wrote an article with a colleague a few months ago

called america's perfect but terrible storm. a large number of factors are coming together. the legitimacy crisis which is underpinning the crisis are exacerbated by the pandemic and the effects. it's exacerbated by the police killing of george floyd and the protests which have been ongoing, and the economic conditions. americans are going hungry in large numbers, very large number being pushed into poverty. what we've got really here is a very, very deep crisis of multiaspect crisis. and that has given rise to people who feel like men of destiny or charismatic individuals like donald trump who are dangerous to democracy, and they appear to be using any means necessary to cling onto power. where do we go from there? my big question is where is the democratic party? where is the democratic leadership? the gop has made its stand, but

the democratic leadership i'm surprised, is playing a very softly game on this question. when if you feel like the greatest threat to american democracy appears to be going on right under their noses and they're pretending nothing has changed and they're going to be transitioning to power by january 20th. and i think that needs to be challenged. that narrative appears to be too complacent and needs to be challenged. and i think mobilizations may be required to bring that message home. >> well, we'll see. there's still some time before then, so we'll hope everything is resolved peacefully. thank you very much for your insight, professor. we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. the coronavirus pandemic is raging across the u.s. as thanksgiving approaches. just ahead, we'll find out how recent spikes in new cases have helped experts worried about the virus spreading during the holiday. and mexico passes an unfortunate

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the coronavirus pandemic continues to paint a grim picture across the u.s. daily new cases topped 100,000 for the 12th day in a row. hospitalizations hit a new high for the fifth straight days. overwhelming health care workers across the country. all the numbers have health official worried an unprecedented surge of new infections could follow the upcoming thanksgiving holiday. some states are limiting the number of people gathering in a household as well as stay at home orders through the end of the month. advisers to president-elect biden are also worried that a lack of leadership from the current administration could lead to more financial pain for americans. >> how are we going to help support our communities if we're asking them to reduce their work time, what is open? we need to protect the waitress

that doesn't have a job anymore. we need to make a conscious decision, are we going to open bars and restaurants or our schools. we need to look at all those issues collaboratively and with the financial support to basically make due what we have to. at this point i don't see that leadership coming, and it's going to take really unfortunately until january when president biden can get in and hopefully make a big difference. >> rising infection rates in new york are forcing officials to take drastic measures but conflicting guidance has many parents perplexed about how it affects schools. we explain the confusion. >> reporter: with the pandemic numbers heading in the wrong direction in new york, both the governor of the state and the mayor of new york city are talking about new restrictions. and there are two magic numbers. the first is ten. at 10:00 p.m. every night restaurants have to close to in

person dining. new restrictions handed out by the governor that began this weekend. the other magic number is three. if the seven-day rolling average of the infection rate crosses 3% new york city schools are set to shut down. that was the plan until this weekend. where the numbers have gotten close to that number, but haven't crossed it. today the governor said the 3% may not be the number anymore. he said testing is good enough inside schools to keep the schools open even if that number crosses 3%. but that's not a guarantee yet. so parents and teachers and students are wondering which number is going to be the number that keeps schools open or closed as everyone worries that the pandemic numbers could shet new york down again. cnn, new york. austria is set to enter a second national lockdown after

an explosion of new cases. it will be in place at least two and a half weaks. their infection rate was ten times higher than expected. rising infection numbers in greece have prompted them to close primary schools and nurseries on monday. and russia reported the most new cases in a single day since the pandemic began. well over 22,000. to talk about all that, let's bring in an associate professor of molecular virology. thank you very much for joining us from new england. i want to ask you hospitals in europe are filling up, in france, for example, some 95 % of intensive care units are treating co-vid patients. what do you make of what we're seeing across the continent? >> well, frankly the situation was entirely predictable and

predicted. many people with training like myself were shouting from the rooftops over the summer this is not what we should be doing because we anticipated it to lead to a large transmission as winter closes in. this is a respiratory virus. irt likes closed, dry spaces. people get indoors as they're doing and that's a result of the transmission starting. we also have an additional challenge that appeared in the last week or so in keeping people on message, because of that announcement from pfizer regarding the potential success, and function of the vaccine they're developing. >> how do you mean? you mean people are just jumping the gun here and thinking well, there's a vaccine, thinking basically it's like a cure that they can go out and do whatever they want?

>> yes. so that's precisely it. i think there's been a huge relief felt by a lot of people, and don't get me wrong. we're in a good position. we're seeing positive numbers emerge. at the same time, there's a lot of nuance in the data, a, that doesn't explain, for example, if the aged population is protected. if people with conditions that can make them more susceptible to co-khalid masovid are going protected. and there's b, the component of getting the vaccine out there. until a very large proportion of the population, meaning 75%, 80% of the population is vaccinated, we're not going to be in a position to pull our masks back in it for lack of a better phrase. we need to keep our guard up. we're in the same place and the most dangerous phase of the pandemic because transmission is happening as we see across the world, very strongly and we need

to curb that transmission. that's down to everyone doing what they're supposed to do. >> on that, i was speaking to a doctor earlier on the program, a doctor in a prominent position who is against any time of government intervention, that it should just be a matter of personal responsibility as to what measures you take to protect yourself. in other words, no mandatory lockdowns. no mask mandates. is there a case for that or is that basically how we got into this mess again? >> yeah. i hope that your controllers can put up the graphs that show the transmission decline in places like belgium over the last few days. so two weeks ago belgium was seeing a stratospheric increase of cases. the hospitals were overwhelmed. clinicians were going in even though they were positive because they didn't have enough staff to keep the numbers of people going in. belgium puts a strong lockdown down and there you go. it drops down like a led

balloon. if anybody keeps telling me government interventions doesn't affect the transmission, i'm sorry, it does. here's the data. look at it. can we all please do what we're supposed to do and help our governments rather than try to help ourselves in ebb joying something temporary against something that's good for the entire society? >> all right. very important note, thank you very much for joining us from new castle, we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. 46 passengers who tested negative aboard sea dream one were able to come off the cruiseship. a passenger said they disembarked in barbados to fly home. the cruise was the first to resume in the caribbean since the pandemic started and it was supposed to show it was possible to keep coronavirus at bay with proper safety measures except the virus had other plans. seven people on board quickly tested positive. well, that wraps up cnn news

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says it's now seeing the fastest rate of increase in new cases since the start of the pandemic. cnn is in l.a. and spoke with the city's mayor. are. >> reporter: here in the city of los angeles they've dramatically ramped up testing especially at donneller's stadium. the most testing site in the country. if you look behind me, you can see those are the six lines of cars that have filtered through here. earlier this week they had one day where they tested 8,000 people. another day last night about 7800 from what we understand. they're able to move people through rather quickly, about a 20 minute wait per average, and instrumental in getting this done for the city, the mayor, we super appreciate you taking the time and being here. this was an extraordinary measure you took. why? >> we see the tsunami come. the good news is we can hear the alarm. we set this up as the biggest testing facility with our core

group. it's been incredibly successful to people know when they have the symptoms and don't whether or not they're positive. right now this is right outside of dodger stadium, if this was a baseball game, we're in the bottom of the sixth and the game will be decided in the next couple innings. >> reporter: and the hospitalizations are going back up in los angeles county. almost up to 1,000 again. your concerns there? >> absolutely. our cases went from about 1,000 to today nearly 4,000. we're seeing this across the world and across the country. but when we expand capacity, and we send a wireless alert, we said get tested now so we can find out where the virus is living and do our best to make sure we can bend et down. >> you were a co-chair on the biden campaign. what is he relaying to you recently and what are your concerns now that president trump is not conceding and what sort of roadblocks that could cause? >> this election is over.

nothing will change that. it's not just about the information given to an incoming administration the american people. no more hide the ball. we need information to be public and anything that needs to be given to the next administration so they can prepare and continue a seamless transition. i think about george washington, one of the greatest things he did is how he exited power. and to me that laid down the foundation for our democracy. right now we need to see the better angels come out from trump and the administration. >> reporter: you're talking about exiting a position. in 2022 you will no longer be mayor and even right now the rumors are swirling would you entertain an offer to join a joe biden cabinet? >> you know, first i was savoring the minute of them winning and this moment of experiencing the change of what has been four years of war against america's cities and the values and the unity of this country. i'm too busy with this to entertain that right now. i never turn down joe's call.

if he calls, i'll answer the phone, but we've only talked about the election and right now my focus is on protecting lives and livelihoods. >> roughly 20% of the 5 million ballots cast in the presidential election have been recounted by hand. joe biden's lead over donald trump before the audit stood at over 14,000 votes. we are at one of the recount sites in georgia. >> here in fulton county at the georgia world congress center the hand recount is moving i along efficiently. i spoke with the director. he says the stated goal is to finish out by monday, a couple days earlier than the deadline. he said judges by the way things are moving, they could finish earlier. statewide, according to the secretary of state, things are moving at a smooth pace, but overall, the state is up against a pretty tight deadline to

recount 5 million blots cast. wednesday, 11:00 p.m. is the deadline for the hand audit. and friday, the 20 th, is the deadline to certify the final results. transparency in this entire process has been the priority for state election officials. especially as president trump and his campaign have been repeatedly trying to undermine the election process, claiming falsely that there has been widespread voter fraud. in fact, just a few days ago, trump's campaign alleged that four dead georgians voted on november 3rd. one of those individuals, it turns out, is alive and well. >> the president of the united states was accusing you of voter fraud. >> i know it. and i knew it wasn't fraud. >> who do you vote for? you don't have to share that. >> i voted for the democrats. for biden. >> i see.

>> i guess i voted against the other one, really. >> reporter: the trump campaign had claimed in a tweet that mr. james blablock in georgia voted even though he died in 2006. he never voted according to election officials. in fact, his wife who you saw there, she's been voting under that no, ma'ame according to el officials for years. on the floor here and in other counties, the carter center has sent out monitors. that's an unusual move by the carter center. this is the first time they've sent observered to observe an american election. typically what they do is send out monitors to countries where they feel like democracy is under threat. again, transparency, boosting confidence in the election system in the u.s. has really been the priority. back to you. as the trump presidency

winds down the future of his eldest daughter, ivanka, and her husband, jared kushner remains unclear, but after four years of serving in her father's divisive administration, the couple will likely find new york's high society unwelcoming. cnn's kate bennett explains why. >> reporter: when ivanka trump and jared kushner leave the white house in january, the question is will they return to manhattan. if they do go back to new york city, they'll likely receive a chilly reception. cnn spoke with several sources who say the they may not be welcome in the way they once were living in new york city. ivanka trump did build her brand on her name, but after four years in the white house and a contentious administration, he might struggle to get footing again, should she want to reenter that business. there are other options for the couple, of course. they might go to florida or new jersey, but returning to new york city will certainly be a challenge.

meanwhile, in washington, the couple's three children were withdrawn from their private school after the school noticed that ivanka trump and jared kushner were not abiding by rules for co-vid precaution. the school and the couple as well as other parents complained trying to make terms on how to keep the children in the school. however, kushner and trump decided the best move for their family was to withdraw the children rather than meet the demands of the school who was insisting that they follow the co-vid guideline. kate bennett, cnn, washington. it goes without saying al qaeda has plenty of enemies. we're keeping our eyes on two storms threatening opposite sides of the world. we'll have a live weather report coming up. stay with us.

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a shooting in iran last august sparked an international mystery. local media set a lebanese academic was gunned down with his daughter by attackers on a motor bike, but "the new york times" is among those reporting he was no scholar. they say he was a top al qaeda leader and killed by israel. we are unraveling this story in jerusalem. a secret killing, a coverup, geopolitical intrigue. help us unravel this. what do we know? >> reporter: all the details around this killing and, in fact, who was it that was killed remain murky at this point. that's because the actors here, the play yours involved haven't confirmed any of the details or that this happened. that would be israel, iran, and the united states and al qaeda. we know back on august 7th on the streets of tehran there was

a drive bishooting that killed a middle-aged man and his daughter. was it a leader of al qaeda, this might be part of the shadow war between israel and iran. on the streets of iran's capital city, the drive by took seconds. a middle-aged man and his daughter shot and killed in their car. the man was i.d.'d as a lebanese academic with ties to hezbollah, and then the story vanished. it seemed it didn't exist. there was no eulogy for him in lebanon, no academic by his name in iran. months later in mid october on obscure social media accounts the story resurfaced, but not about the man. the candidates said the man was really better known as the number two man in al qaeda. "the new york times" said it was, indeed, him, according to unnamed intelligence officials.

a senior counterterrorism official told us he is probably dead. he was on the most wanted fbi list. he was one of the primary planners of the twin bombings of u.s. embassies 22 years to the day before he was killed. according to the times, the drive by shooting was carried out by israeli agents at the behest of the united states. if true, it would be similar in nature to israel's reported killings of iranian nuclear scientists in the past. the israeli and american governments declined to comment and al qaeda has made no comment about losing a leader. iran's foreign ministry denied the report accusing the u.s. and israel of spreading lies that iran associates with terrorists. some analysts seesaw him as then who would take over from the

terror group's leader. and what about the woman in the car with him who was killed? it was his daughter, the widow of the deceased son of osama bin laden. what is al qaeda, a sunni terror organization doing cooperating with iran? al qaeda leaders have been there before. soon after 9/11 and in fact, this seems less about ideology and more about interest. al qaeda and iran view the united states as their primary enemy. could israel have carried out an operation like this in iran? that answer seems yes. not only because of the killing of iranian nuclear scientists attributed to israel but also because of israel's steeling of the iranian nuclear archive. that was a significant operation. >> a fascinating story. thanks for unpacking it for us. cnn's orn lieberman in jerusalem. a federal judge dealt

another blow to the immigration agenda and a security secretary chad wolf. wolf was not legally serving as acting secretary when he signed rules limiting applications and renewals for the obama era daca program. that means the rules according to the judge are invalid. daca stands for deferred action for childhood arrivals. it's meant to shield undocumented immigrants from deportation if they came to the u.s. as children. the so-called dreamers. turning to global weather now. typhoon vamco has made land fall in central vietnam packing winds of up to 93 miles per hour. at least 67 people were killed after it barrelled across the philippines during the past few days bringing with it devastating mud slides and severe flooding informal we're also keeping an eye on hurricane

iota. it's a destructive storm. for more, let's turn to our meteorologist derek van dam. what's the late snes. >> we're seeing the worst case scenario unfolding before our eyes. this storm has rapidly intensified within the past 24 hours. we'll talk about that in detail. here's the latest information from the national hurricane center 4:00 a.m. update. that's a big update. we always anticipate the numbers and whether or not a storm is strengthening or weakening. unfortunately, unwelcome news with hurricane iota. which at the beginning of my shift, late saturday evening, was a tropical storm. it is now a full fledged category one atlantic hurricane. 80 miles per hour sustained winds and becoming more and more organized as the minutes and hours turn over. to rapidly intensify a typhoon or hurricane or cyclone needs to strengthen by 35 miles per hour

in a matter of 24 hours. and it has done so by 40 miles per hour within the past day. it continues to rapidly intensify and, in fact, the old official forecast from the national hurricane center had this a category three land fall. now it's a category four. catastrophic winds are likelihood. the potential for storm surge. i'll show you values. we cannot forget the potential for landslides and mud slides. we saw what happened two weeks ago with hurricane eta as it made land fall in the same location where iota is forecast to make land fall. honduras border by early monday. 130 miles per hour forecast winds. maybe it goes up from there. we'll have to see what the latest forecast is coming up about 11:00 a.m. this morning eastern standard time. here's the rainfall totals. the potential to measure this in feet, not inches.

we're talking feet. maybe 24 to 30 inches in some of the more susceptible locations and when you have a storm of this magnitude, impacting the coast like this, perpendicular, 9 to 13-feet storm surge. concerns with that problem as well. the difference between this storm and eta from two weeks ago is it is forecast to move across central america and into the open waters of the eastern pacific. not posing a direct land fall threat to the united states. some good news there. speaking of the atlanta hurricane season, we've shattered all records. 30 named storm this is season and on the other side of the world in vietnam, they've had an active season as well. eight named storms making land fall in vietnam been the past two months. here's the latest typhoon vamco, a rainmaker, but it has the potential to bring flash flooding and strong, gusty winds. >> thank you so much.

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the pandemic has forced artists and musicians to find new and innovative methods to get their works to the public. some are wondering if museums and concert halls will ever be the same. we take a look. >> reporter: as lockdowns swept the world throughout 2020, music and arts venues were among the first to fall victim to covid-19 restrictions. now 11 months into the pandemic, venues are using new and innovative ways to bring in business. some simply socially distancing crowds. others taking phrase living in a bubble to a whole new level. then there's the question of whether you really need to be somewhere at all. thanks to creations like telepresence robots as seen in this london gallery. and other technologies are surging during the pandemic. like remote video streaming,

virtual reality, and holographic projections. >> i wanted to stage my exhibition opening using these telepresent robots as almost a sci fi vision of a possible future where we have a telepresent robot that goes into the world and we stay protected at home. i felt that was not -- an interesting way of genuinely making the show more accessible. >> reporter: the pandemic seems to have accelerated what some see as an already impending future. the digitizing of arts and experience. something that's long-been fuelled by streaming services and social media. and there's certainly no shortage of technology to keep venues distanced. or just empty using virtual experiences. still, many professionals and patrons alike are antsy for a return to the norm of crowded concert halls and face to face interaction. >> we are now offering a virtual selection, but this will never

replace the experience of the original. you can compare it to a crystal. there are techniques today to recreate crystals, but they will never come close to an original. it's the same for artwork and experiencing it directly in the museum. >> reporter: the question remains could all this co-vid era technology be the new normal? and if so, would it be that bad? a new digital era of consumption aims to bring more interactivity and access to everyone. >> this will be the first concert that i will be conducting without a public. physical public, but i know that in the background, there are hundreds and thousands of people watching from their homes. and maybe this is an advantage, because everybody will have front row seat watching this concert. >> most likely, a post pandemic future will bring a hybrid of both digital and in person events. and if anything, the pandemic

has shown that arts are nonnegotiable aspect of life. cnn. and from egypt, there's been some and gent artistry on earth. archaeologists discovered more than 100 ornately decorated coffins. and some contained mummies. they were sealed and exquisitely painted. experts say they were high ranking families. the public will get a chance to see them when they go on display at a cairo museum next year. that wraps this hour up. i'll be back in just a short moment with more news. stay with us. when you switch to xfinity mobile,

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the u.s. president is blaming ante fa for violence on the streets of the u.s. capital as trump supporters protest joe biden's clear and fair election win. meanwhile the pandemic rages. the u.s. posts six figure case numbers for 12 consecutive days with warnings that the worst is yet to come. and some other countries aren't managing this wave much better. europe trying to cope with new restrictions despite co-vid fatigue. live from cnn world head quarters in atlanta, back to you, our viewers here in the united states, canada, and around the