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this is "cnn newsroom". >> there's been a strong police presence in the nation's capital after a violent confrontation between pro trump supporters and anti-trump protesters. officials say one person is in critical condition with stab wounds. two police officers were injured and at least 20 people arrested. sara sidner followed the unrest as it unfolded. >> reporter: really what we're seeing are several different things. you're seeing anti-fascists out, anti-trump as well. and when they see someone from the 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 who are 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, you know, curse words at them and then it started to turn 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 on left wing agitators. he claims his supporters sent attackers running for the hills. the unrest erupted hours after a protrump rally to protest his election loss. 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 a golf course. he has no legitimate path to a second term. so far his legal challenges have been tossed out of court for having no merit. he continues to insist he was cheated in a fraudulent election. the officials have said repeatedly and emphatically that isn't true. we get more from jeremy diamond at the white house. >> reporter: well, one week after the joe biden was declared the winner of the presidential election, president trump is still refusing to concede and admit defeat in this 2020 election. instead, what we've seen from the president is continuing to falsely claim he's 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 those 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 that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud and in fact, the 2020 election was one of the most secure to date. during this week, we've also seen the president privately according to our sources, waiver between this attitude where he says he wants to continue pursuing the lawsuits and recount challenges in key battle ground states and then also at other moments beginning to come to grips with reality. we saw a sliver of that on friday as the president spoke in the rose garden. acknowledging the possibility, at least, of a future biden administration. >> this administration will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully the -- 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. >> reporter: on saturday the president drove through a crowd of supporters protesting in washington, parroting his claims of a stolen election. after that the president seemed to be buoyed by the supporters

digging in on his claims again of a rigged election taking to twitter and making several tweets twitter labeled as misinformation about the election and the president showing no sign he's prepared to concede this election publicly. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. president-elect joe biden is staying above the drama. his primary focus is on the pandemic. cnn's 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 january 20th. as it stands the general services administration, 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 that the biden transition team cannot formally interface with any of the federal agencies. that includes 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 team is not allowed to talk back and forth with them. so what have they been doing? we know they've been doing work arounds. they've been back channelling with local officials, governors, people in the medical community, trying to do as much as they can without interfacing with these 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 acknowledged that he won't be in office until january but the coronavirus pandemic is on it own timeline. jessica dean, cnn, wilmington, delaware. to talk about all this, let's speak to a teacher of international politics at city university in london and a visiting professor at the london school of economics and politics. thank you 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 and isolated violence between pro and anti-trump factions. before the election you were a signatory to a letter, you wrote there could be a rapid increase including in domestic terrorism.

much of what you wrote about in that letter in october has come to pass. how worried are you by what you're seeing now? >> well, i think it is worrying. the united states is -- may not be an exceptional state, but it isn't an ordinary state. what goes on inside the united states and the system of democracy as well as other issues like race relations and so on, they reverberate around the world. and so the united states at the moment appears to be as a professor from yale university said, sleepwalking toward a coup by an authoritarian president 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 conservatives, the mainstream conservatives -- so-called are aiding a more right wing kind of pressure to not accept a democratic election

result. that's what's dividing the country and 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 very very right wing forces and white supremacists 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 command support.

70% of them have been persuaded the election has been unfair and fraudulent and so on. and 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 and tv ministry or whatever he's 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 populist and authoritarian, untruth politics, i think that's going to remain. he didn't invent that, but he's harnessed it, and the republican leadership is playing a dangerous game. i think they believe they are 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 abetting 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. >> our thanks to the professor who joined me earlier. the coronavirus pandemic is raging across the u.s. as thanksgiving approaches. just ahead, why recent spikes in new cases have health experts worried about the holiday. stay with us. [man] honey... [woman] honey that's why there's new dayquil severe honey. it's maximum strength cold and flu medicine with soothing honey-licious taste. dayquil honey. the daytime coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, power through your day medicine. that life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look... ...with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic.

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lack of leadership from the current administration could lead to more financial pain for americans. >> how are we going to help support our communities out there 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. >> texas is swamped with coronavirus hospitalizations, and new infections. it was the first state to pass 1 million cases. texas crossed that marker tuesday. days ahead of california even though california has roughly 10

million more people. more than 7,000 texans were hospitalized due to covid-19 as a friday according to the state's health department. the senior vice president and dean of clinical affairs at bay yolor joins me. we've seen how bad the situation is in texas. places like el paso with mobile morgues and there aren't enough nurses to help patients. hospitalizations are surging in houston where you are. and this week you wrote a message to your medical community that caught my eye for a couple reasons. the first was the stark assessment of where we are. the title is "winter is coming". you wrote if this were a flood, most of our neighbor's houses have already flooded. we hope ours will not but quietly believe it will. give us a sense of how bad that flood is right now j so to speak, and where we could be in

the next weeks and months. >> yeah. keep in mind in houston we've lived through this twice. we had a surge in april and july. we're surging again, i believe, but it's a slow surge. it's been going on for nine weeks. we're at about 700 cases a day. that's about double what it was six weeks ago. but on a per capita basis, i know you had a physician on from el paso a couple days ago on your program. the situation is terrible there. they're seeing case rates 10 to 20 times per capita compared to houston. it's hard to believe we can see so much growth in the virus around us and not think it's going to hit us in houston. i think it will eventually. >> there are plenty of reasons for worry from what you said, but there are also reasons that we might have to be a little more optimistic, shall we say. in that letter i was struck by your hopeful tone. you said there was cause for optimism. even though things look

especially grim, that we shouldn't give up hope. why is that? >> so i write this message to the baylor college of medicine every week. i try to remain apolitical and realist in my assessment of where we are but also try to look for the future. i think there's cause for optimism. our hospitals are battled hard. we've been here. we have therapeutics we didn't have before. hospitals have surge plans in place. they don't have to reinvent them. we're ready for whatever comes down the pike. i think second, at least in houston i'm sure it's true in most areas of the country, our community leaders are pulled together. the religious community, the faith community, city and county health department, we all know each other. we're on the first name basis. we have each other on speed dial. we're well prepared to respond. and i think our public health

organizations have substantially improved. and as an example in houston, we monitor waste water and can pick up viral products in waste water. that predicts where we're going to see a hot spot one or two weeks in advance. the health department can mobilize the resources to try to extinguish that hot spot. that's a huge advantage. and i think fundamentally, although masks may have become an issue and political, i went to the zoo with my daughter this weekend. it's time industry. there was lots of spacing. everybody was wearing a mask. i saw mothers telling their children, wear your mask. i think the public in most communities by and large, enough people have bought into this that we're in far better shape than we were three or four months ago. >> i want to go back to -- i want to go back to something you said about community response, because that struck me. perhaps people have come together in houston, but i'm

looking around different communities in texas, just as one example in el paso, you know, there was a stay at home order. and then that was overturned. the judge in his decision wrote a servant cannot have two masters, a biblical reference. that gets to the crux of the problem that there's no one authority here. we have different levels of government often disagreeing about what should be done. how hard does that make it when there's still eight months after coronavirus hit the country, we still can't come together and agree on even the basics. >> yeah. i guess i would say to people in general, you know, this is not that hard. what do we have to control the virus right no? masking and social distancing. that's it. that's why we're doing as well as we are right now in some communities. it would certainly be useful if government officials reunified that message for whatever reason we're not. but we also in texas, we are proud of our independence and we

don't like the government telling us what to do in houston. i think this is really a matter of personal responsibility. i don't necessarily care what the state or federal or local government is saying. if i walk into a place of business and people aren't wearing masks and they're elbow to elbow, that's not a safe environment and i should turn around and walk out. if we have 70% of the population that feels that way, then we're going to be in good shape in terms of viral control and the politicians can argue about who is right and wrong, and history will decide. but i think it's more about personal responsibility than waiting for the government to tell us what we can and should do. >> all right. very texas response there. thank you very much for coming on, and talking to us and giving us at least a few causes for optimism there. thank you so much dr. james mcdevit. appreciate it. >> thank you. mexico has now passed 1 million coronavirus cases and nearly 100,000 people have died

there because of the virus. with numbers going up and up, parts of the country are reimposing restrictive lockdowns. matt rivers has more. >> reporter: here in mexico city officials have announced for the first time since this pandemic began that mexico has recorded more than 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. this as the 7-day moving average of new cases and new deaths, both of the metrics continue to steadily rise. and just this week we saw on a single day this week, more than 7 600 cases confirmed in a single day. that is one of the highest single-day case increases that we have seen since this pandemic began. as a result of that, multiple states across the country are moving back into more restrictive lockdown measures all the way from the country's north to here in mexico city. with the mayor of mexico city saying this week, that she could impose even stricter lockdown measures should the numbers that

we've been seeing recently continue to move in the wrong direction. matt rivers, cnn, mexico city. an explosion of new cases forced austrian authorities to declare a second national lockdown. the restrictions go into effect tuesday and last two and a half weeks. they reported an infection rate this week ten times higher than expected. rising infection numbers in greece prompted authorities to close primary schools and nurseries starting monday. and on saturday russia reported the most new cases in one day since the pandemic started, well over 22,000. but there are a few encouraging numbers coming out of other countries. melissa bell is in one of them. that's france. from where you are in paris, you know, it's some good news, but looking across europe, decidedly mixed picture we're seeing here. >> reporter: that's right. there are those countries

france, germany, belgium, spain, the czech republic where there's been a stabilization of infection rates. and those countries things are going bad to worse, austria, where the country's system of tracing has not fugsed as it should. 77% of infections simply couldn't be traced. they couldn't work out where they were coming from, hence the lockdown. greece announcing some of the younger school children are stopping school from this week. their classes are closed. in poland a single day record in terms of the number of covid-19 related deaths on saturday. italy as well has extended the number of parts of the country under partial lockdown with a record that was reached on friday and another large increase on saturday. so a number of countries continue to see a worsening situation even as some are seeing the beginning of a stabilization as a result of the partial lockdowns in place. >> all right. thank you so much. cnn's melissa bell in paris.

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welcome back. police in washington d.c. have been out in force after violent

confrontations between pro trump supporters and anti-trump protesters. one person has stab wounds. two police officers were injured. at least 20 people have been arrested. the president plam blamed the violence on left wing agitators. . the unrest erupted hours after a pro trump rally to protest his election loss. the president's motorcade made a slow pass through the crowd on his way to a golf course. the firing of the u.s. defense secretary and other government officials have set audiotape alarms. one official called it a dictator move. a historian joins us from new york. as i mentioned with trump's refusal to acknowledge the results of the election, many people have been throwing around the term dictator, trump is a

dictator. that's why i wanted to have you on. you've studied modern authoritarian leaders. you say during his four-year term, i guess so far he's been following a authoritarian play book, the hyper masculinity. in your book there's a frightening symmetry in the similarity between mussolini and what's happening now with president trump. explain what they have in common. >> so when we think of fascists, we often -- our mind goes straight to hitler, and there's good reasons for that. but mussolini who laid down the template of this rule is a better -- we can understand better the way that authoritarianism develops today. because he was a prime minister in a democracy for three years and during those years, he chipped away at the institutions and built his personality cult, and then he declared

dictatorship in 1925 to escape a special investigation that was going to send him no jail. >> and there was also appeal to christians as well. right? there are other things that sort of make them similar, too? >> yes. and mussolini was along with the communists who were doing this in a parallel fashion. the first to really develop a personality cult, and he was extremely savvy with the media. he'd been a journalist. the cannons of the personality cult haven't changed over 100 years. you have to be the man of the people, approachable. mussolini was a man above all other man who was said to rule with a divine benediction. although he was profane an an atheist, he made peace with the church, with the catholic church. there's many, many similarities and it was very interesting to me when donald trump who

certainly didn't have a pie yas past, he's there with god's will to save the nation by orthodox jews and evangelical christians. >> another word we use is ccoup. many people are nervous. at what point does it become a coup, or since he's already in office, an auto-coup. >> the age of coups is mostly gone, and it would be a kind of self-coup where somebody is already in power and they're trying to stay there by illegal means. to pull that off, you need the collaboration of law enforcement and the military, and the other

day the general milley of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff made a clear statement that the armed forces is going to obey the constitution and not an individual. so i don't think he will pull this off in the end. but we should all be very alarmed that he is trying to invalidate the election, and he has the support of the gop. and this is one thing i'd like to emphasize, that although he came, he didn't start the gop. mussolini started his party. donald trump came from the outside, and within four years he's wrapped the gop around his finger. so they acquitted him in the senate trial, and now very few republican senators have accepted the results of the election, even though foreign leaders like modi and erdogan have. >> there's one thing that i hear often in discussions with

democrats, that the trump administration itself was kind of incompetent and couldn't achieve most of the goals whether it was ending obama care, even building the wall, and they always shudder about what could happen under the rule of a competent, a smarter trump, i guess. you see things differently. we're using the wrong criteria to assess his competency? >> yes. and it makes perfect sense that americans would use a democratic frame of reference to think about trump, because we've never had foreign occupation or national dictatorship. all we know is democracy. this is the play book. but i've said since before he was even inaugurated that he's following an authoritarian play book, and his goals as president have not been the goals of regular democratic presidents. whatever party they are. he has been in office to make money for trump organizations. so when he goes golfing, people say oh, he's lazy.

he just go golfing. what he's doing is at taxpayer's expense he's traveling to promote trump's private businesses. these are trump branded properties he goes to. he's been building his personality cult. he's been successful at that. 70 plus million people voted for him. and he's spreading hatred to encourage polarization, because then people remain dependent on him. so when we think if the metric is what a regular democratic president would do, he doesn't suit any of these things. >> yeah. well, we'll have to leave it there. i just wonder we'll have to see what happens after trump does this era sort of end, or do people who wanted this authoritarian leader just wait for the next one or maybe for trump 2024? we'll have to see. thank you so much. i really appreciate you joining

us. >> thank you. in just 66 days president-elect joe biden will be sworn in as president. so what happens in those day leading up to the inauguration? and who does what? tom foreman takes a look at the complicated process that lies ahead. >> reporter: from now until the second week of december states should settle their vote counts and vert if i the results. they all have their own particular deadline so it won't happen all at once, and of course, if there are local rules or a legal challenge requires a recount, it could produce delays. they're all headed for the same goal, saying within a few weeks we settled all disputes and this is our final tally for each candidate. they must have that complete by december 14th, because that is when the electors must vote. who are they? they are 538 people from all 50 states chosen by the parties and they mirror the number of

senators and representatives in each state. this is the electoral college. typically they gather at the local state houses and award their electoral votes in most cases to whoever gathered the most popular votes in their state. although occasionally some break from that and cast rogue votes, becoming what we call faithless electo electors. the supreme court ruleed this year they can be punished her removed for that action. in any event, the results must be sent to washington no later than december 23rd, and then on january 6th, those electoral votes are counted during a joint session of congress under the watchful eye of the president of the senate, meaning vice president mike pence. and when that count is done, he will be the first person to officially announce the names of the next president and vice president. and then on wednesday, january 20th, at noon, as prescribed by the constitution, the big finish.

the president and vice president will be sworn in at the u.s. capital and begin four years of leading the country, or at least trying to amid these challenging times. tom foreman, cnn, washington. as the trump presidency winds down, the future of his eldest daughter, ivanka and jared kushner remains une clear. after four years of serving in her father's divisive administration, they will likely find new york's high society unwelcoming. >> reporter: when ivanka trump and jared kushner leave the white house in january, the question is will they return to man hat snn if they do go back to new york city, they'll likely receive a chilly reception. cnn spoke with several sources who say the trump and kushner 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, she 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. they may go to 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 set rules for co-vid precaution. the school and the couple as well as other parents complained and tried to meet 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. well, wherever jarod and ivanka go, they likely won't wind up as far away as some

fellow citizens. some citizens are thinking of moving to italy to replace their lifestyle. we explain why the italian sweet life is so attractive. >> reporter: they call it the beautiful country. americans have always loved to visit italy and now some would also like to settle here. in a busy office in the this northern town, the staff struggles to keep up with demand of americans from italian origin. this man hired 60 additional people to handle the workload. >> how much has your business increased since 2016? >> we were getting about 20, 25 requests per day on average. now we're averaging 100 requests roughly every day. >> reporter: italy appears stable compared to the u.s., and

while coronavirus hit italy hard, it seems to be handling it better. >> the university education which is also free in italy. >> reporter: this professor, a dual u.s. italian citizen questions old assumptions. >> there were decisions about how a state should be run that i think are becoming more and more clear to people in the united states and people are beginning to question is this the best place in the world to live? and i think the answer increasingly to that question is unfortunately not necessarily. >> reporter: the benefits of italian citizenship include basically free universal health care, affordable university tuition. the right to live and work anywhere in the european union. and if you have one of these, at the moment you can travel to many more countries than you can with an american passport. earlier this year, christen and gregg and their daughter moved to this town. a novelist, christen obtained

citizenship through her grandfather. >> we started the process before coronavirus, but the political situation has been less than ideal for a number of years. it didn't really weigh into our decision. it was more world travel and experiencing other cultures outside of just the united states. >> reporter: they have no regrets. >> in the u.s. wearing a mask, something as simple as that to become political seems pathological. to be as far away from that as possible during this crisis i think is a good thing. >> reporter: in a bitter time of pandemic and uncertainty, here you can still have a taste of la dolce vita. coming up, we're keeping our eye on hurricane iota as it

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we're tracking two major storms right now on opposite sides of the world. typhoon vamco is on track to cause havoc in southeast asia. it made land fall in central vietnam packing winds of up to 92 miles per hour. at least 63 people were killed during the past few days bringing devastating mud slides and flooding. we're also keeping an eye on hurricane iota. it's intensifying and will likely make land fall along the honduras border late monday night as a destructive storm. let's go to our cnn meteorologist. where do you want to start? >> across central america. this is some of the worst case scenario playing out before our eyes. this storm is rapidly intensifying for the already

storm-battered regions of nick raug ga and honduras. less than two weeks ago major hurricane eta devastating this region with mutt slidd slides a winds. a repeat not 14 days later. 80 miles per hour winds with iota becoming more and more organized. it's intensified rapidly. there's a narrow window of storms that do this, and when they do, they have to achieve 35 miles per hour strengthening in a 24-hour period. this storm has done just that. in fact, 40 miles per hour strengthening just in one day period. so if you go back to the start of my shift, i've been monitoring this storm all night, it began as a tropical storm. it's now a category one hurricane and continues to get stronger from here. it was projected at the start of my shift to make land fall as a category 3. now it's projected to be a

category 4. the trends are concerning. they go up. the national hurricane center focusing the attention right near the border of honduras and nicaragua for the potential of a major hurricane. it's becoming more and more likely, in fact, inevitable the storm will make impact. all the computer models, the american and the yeuropean modes showing the land fall in the same locations. the only difference is the size of the storm as it makes land fall. the other concern, not only the catastrophic wind but the excessive rainfall. we're measuring this in feet. the potential exists, 20 to 30 inches. that's over two feet of rain. of course, that will bring catastrophic flooding to this region that is so susceptible to landslides and mud slides. storm surge to 13 feet. coastal problems. the only difference between iota and eta is this forecast track

brings it across central america, reemerging into the warm waters of the eastern pacific. where it goes from there, only time will tell. not a direct threat to the united states. the other side of the world, we have an active season for the tropics over vietnam. they've had two or at least 8 named storms make land fall within the last two months. typhoon vamco is going to be a rain maker with gusty winds going forward. very active at the weather center and across the tropics. we think about the people being impacted. >> absolutely, and we'll follow that throughout the day. thank you so much. just ahead on cnn, the final round of the masters is about to get underway. we look at the runaway leader dustin johnson and his chance to wear the green jacket. stay with us. as bristles that can leave cleaning gaps and wrap hair. so shark replaced them with flexible power fins to directly engage floors and dig deep into carpets.

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the final round of the masters wraps up later today at the historic augusta national golf course in georgia. it looks as if the world's number one is on the way to winnewi winning his first green jacket.

but dustin johnson knows victory can slip away. >> this master's tournament is dustin johnson's to lose. taking control of the tournament in saturday's third round with an eagle and five birdies to end the day at 16 under par. that ties the 54-hole record. looking for his first evergreen jacket after tieing for second last year. no world number one has won the masters since tiger did it in 2002. d.j. doesn't have a great track record when leading after three rounds in majors. he's 0 for 4 in converting the leads to wins but hopes this time will be different. >> if can i play like i did today, i think it will break that streak. i put myself in the situation a lot of times. i know what it take, and i know how i respond in the situations. so i'm comfortable with having the lead. it would mean a lot.

it's -- what a great event. it's the masters, a major. i grew up down the road. this one would be very special to me. >> tiger woods not able to vault himself toward the top of the leaderboard on saturday. tiger had to finish eight holes from his second round in the morning before starting his third round and not able to get anything going. had some opportunities but finished the third round at 5 under for the tournament. barring a miracle, he will not be repeating as masters champ. will he be putting the green jacket on dustin johnsen for the first time? d.j. has a four shot lead. he might not feel that normal pressure of trying to close out a masters tournament, because there's no fans here. so he's not going to have to hear the big roars from the crowd around the course and wonder if other players are catching up. >> that wraps up this hour of

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