hello, i am brianna keilar. i want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. we are a nation in free fall, in a crisis of historic proportions. 3,000 americans reported dead in one day, the most since the coronavirus began. this is equal to those who lost their lives on 9/11 and it is happening day after day. hospitals and front line workers are keeping the country afloat,

saving lives. they're witnessing suffering firsthand, day after day, while leaders in both the trump administration and congress failed to pass a much needed rescue package. these are just some of the stories of americans that we have lost from people they leave behind. >> this is so wrong. sometimes i am grieving for my husband and i realize my mom is gone, then i think i'm going to tuck in dennis, then he is gone. two people that would have been supportive are gone. they're both gone. they started giving him morphine and i turned him over, rubbed his back, i said i love you. he said i love you. i said you're going to go now, okay, you can finally be at peace. he took his last breath about 30 minutes later. and i bathed him, cut his hair, put clothes on him. then i left him.

there was nothing else, i couldn't save either one of them. >> that night was the toughest thing i ever been through. >> i mean, you bring your child into the world, i can remember the day she pushed her out. you never expect to see your daughter in a coffin. you never expect to see your daughter in the emergency room with her eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling, dead. we just -- we're young hparents. no one can prepare for it, we weren't prepared for this in our hearts. >> he went to work, that was the last time we saw him, last time his children saw him. we gathered in front of the hospital in the parking lot every evening at 9:00 p.m. and we would pray that he could come home. >> i always have a positive nature where he is going to be fine, he is fighting this thing off, he is fighting it, he will

be fine. he never recovered. >> i don't want to say it's been harder for us than it has for everybody else, but the truth is, it has. it has. it's not the same. it is not the same when you feel responsible for people's, whether it be their life or quality of life because you care. >> there's been a lot of tears shed in er rooms during covid because we are treating that person dying like their loved one dying, because they don't have anyone else, they need that grace and human touch and someone to be there when they're taking their last breath >> i told her, we talked to her, we just saw her, told her she didn't have to worry, i would be sure i take care of her kids, i knew she would have did it for me. >> i see this elderly patient is

out of his bed, trying to get out of the room. and he is crying. i get close to him, i tell him why are you crying. the man says i want to be with my wife. i just grab him. i hold him. i did not know that i was being photographed at the time. and he was just crying. eventually he felt better and stopped crying. >> we saw this coming. we knew the rise in deaths was coming. it always follows two other key metrics, new infections and hospitalizations and the united states broke the 200,000 barrier for new cases on wednesday. the second time cases went that high in a day. the other was last friday, the day after thanksgiving. the u.s. set a new record wednesday for hospitalizations, topping the 100,000 mark for the first time. 16 states and puerto rico setting records on wednesday for hospitalizations. california is one of those

states. hospitals there are running out of room, governor newsom says if the climb continues at this rate, his state will run out of icu beds by mid december. that means no more beds for patients in the most danger by christmas. stephanie elam looks at the dire situation in los angeles county. stephanie? >> reporter: brianna, los angeles county hitting a record number of hospitalizations yet again. this number is now above 2400 people hospitalized with the coronavirus, this as they say they have about 120 icu beds that are available. this is a county of about 10 million people. that's terrifying to health officials here. this is why they're saying we could run out of hospital beds by christmas, also why the mayor of los angeles, eric garcetti, says it is time to cancel everything and stay home. brianna? >> stephanie elam, thank you for that report. joining me, dr. mark morocco emergency room physician at the

reagan ucla emergency medical center in los angeles. doctor, thank you for joining us, talking about what you're seeing. tell us what's happening on the ground where you are, how stretched your hospital is. >> thanks, brianna. first thing i would say to everybody listening to all of us, don't panic. thank you to those people who we give permission to hear the stories you just ran. this is what we are dealing with every day. as you said, all across los angeles county, my hospital, everyone that i talk to, everybody had record number of hospitalizations, and everyone's emergency department and icus are filling with increasing numbers, and staff is really on heightened defcon level if you want to think of it that way. we really are at war. in terms of resources, we are well resourced here, but you look at the diversity across los angeles county and the country, emergency rooms and hospitals, there's great diversity in resource and sort of the line of supplies and line of troops if

you want to put it that way, people that will staff the ers, nurses, respiratory therapists, nurses, doctors, that staff the wards, and rehab facilities after people survive if they do, those can be stretched thin. i think you said in the beginning of the hour, this is a time for a national conversation. this is a darwinian event that we still have some control over, and i would reach out directly to president trump to say this is an opportunity for you to be the president you always said you could be for the next six weeks, to bring this country together with the president-elect, biden, and get a unified message so people can understand. what i am telling my friends, all the things we told you, masks, hand washing, social distancing do that. this may be six or eight week period to keep your family and yourself out of harm, shelter if you can, get through this. we can knock the top off the curve, help in some ways.

in some ways it has gotten out of control. we still have control, we don't want people to panic. we want them to do what's right for them and their family, that in turn will help us and every hospital in the country. >> that's very good advice. you said this is war footing and we talk on this show sometimes about how when you are talking about the military, it is a disproportionate, small number of americans who are shouldering the burden. it is the same case in this war against coronavirus. i think listening to some of the doctors and nurses and the folks who are working with people who are dying or close to dying, you get a sense of what that burden is that they're shouldering. how are they doing? how are they handling this? >> well, you know, to mix the metaphors, we're just coming out of a half time break in a long football game, so the most important part is ahead of us. our team members are very tired.

i know lots and lots of folks i work with, people i am in contact with, both here and los angeles and across the country where they're frankly showing signs of post traumatic stress disorder, but they're still in their jobs, doing what they're going to do, they're going to do them every day they can until they can't get out of bed or they just can't stand it any more, and that's a danger we're going to have to face, the same way military folks take their oath seriously, so do we in medicine. >> you wrote in a recent op-ed something that i think really exemplifies what's happening now. you said the fire burns all around us and we are dry grass from sea to shining sea. there are a lot of people who so far haven't been effected by this, even as they look at what's going on, they hear the stories. but they're the dry grass in a way. i wonder what it is like for you seeing even as so many doctors and nurses put their all into this that there are a lot of

people ignoring restrictions, that they're tired of this, so they're getting complacent. >> i understand that. we're tired too. every human being i know wants this to be over, we are so done with it. i say to my friends, the virus, like me, the virus doesn't care if you're democrat or republican, live in the west or the coast. you come to our er, you get the same. doesn't matter politically. it comes down to messaging and appeal to those folks in power now and folks that are in congress who can, you know, talk about war footing, defense budgets are often incredible deficit expenditures that you spend not because you have the money or want to but you need to do it now to win the war. people that run businesses, people with jobs who are worried about never being able to pay their rent and their kids, what are they going to do, this is where the government can spend money in ways to help people on

both sides of the political spectrum right now. so they need to help us. we are going to take care of our own. the post traumatic issues that some of my nurses, for instance, have been talking about for months, that stuff is going to continue for years, the same way you see the effects on soldiers in the military who come back for years. we're going to be dealing with this going forward. but right now we have a task and everybody can contribute, do not panic. you can help do this, whether you believe it is a hoax or not, please protect your family. if you are doing the right thing, please continue to do it. stay away from hospitals unless you're really sick, we're going to be taking care of people. we want to be sure if you become one of those sick people, we have a bed to take care of you in. >> doctor, thank you for being a messenger and for coming on. >> my pleasure. you be well and safe. everybody out there, hang in there, we're going to get

through this. >> dr. mark morocco thank you. a short time from now, president-elect joe biden is set to meet with dr. anthony fauci. and president trump erupted at bill barr during a contentious white house meeting, so what is barr's fate. are trump allies sabotaging the runoff in georgia? this is cnn, special live coverage. new neutrogena® rapid tone repair 20 percent pure vitamin c. a serum so powerful dark spots don't stand a chance. see what i mean? neutrogena®

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cnn has learned dr. anthony fauci will meet virtually with joe biden's transition team this afternoon. the pandemic, front and center, when the president-elect takes office in just 48 days. coronavirus cases are exploding nationwide and deaths reached an all-time high as did the number

of americans that are hospitalized. there is no time to waste right now. mj lee is following the biden transition for us. mj, what can we expect from this fauci/biden meeting today? >> reporter: brianna, first breaking news about something that will be appointed to a very important role under joe biden, jeff zein, top economic adviser expected to be named covid-19 coordinator for future president biden, also will be referred to as covid czar. you can't emphasize enough how important and critical this role is going to be. he will be the person speaking to the future president every day on all things related to covid-19, coordinating with different agencies and folks in the administration that are involved. again, cnn can confirm what politico first reported, that

jeff sooins will be named covid czar, we expect it in the next few days, possibly early next week. this is news that could break over the weekend formally as well. back to what you were saying about what we are expecting for today, dr. anthony fauci is expected to meet with the biden transition team virtually. obviously this is somebody who has had initial conversations with some of the biden folks, including incoming white house chief of staff ron klain. the contract here is interesting. as you know, brianna, fauci has at times been quite critical of the trump administration's handling of the virus whereas biden himself has emphasized over and over again that he wants to be listening to the scientists and the experts as he tries to get a handle on the virus, and of course timing is noteworthy as well. the covid-19 pandemic literally is in the worst shape it has

ever been since this became an issue earlier this year. that's on the schedule for the transition team today. i will also quickly note, we have been doing so much reporting on this, there's such a fury of lobbying we are seeing from different constituency groups, advocacy groups, pushing biden to appoint certain people to his future administration, whether it is the congressional hispanic caucus asking him to appoint certain people to hhs secretary, as attorney general picks. this is not unusual, we should be clear, for any incoming administration, they receive a lot of incoming lobbying because different people want to see different constituency groups reflected in a future government, but this is going to be a real test for joe biden because he himself has so forcefully said so many times that he would like the future government to look like america,

brianna. >> all right. mj, thank you so much. mj lee, following the transition from wilmington. we want to make a programming note. the president-elect and vice president-elect are going to join jake tapper for the first joint interview since they won the white house, tonight at 9:00 eastern here on cnn. right now at the white house, president trump is laser focused on his made up reality. he and attorney general william barr had a, quote, contentious meeting this week, cnn learned, after barr told the associated press he has not seen evidence of the widespread voter fraud that the president alleges has happened and that could change the outcome of the election. kaitlan collins is live from the white house. tell us about this meeting, kaitlan, what happened. >> reporter: well, it is interesting to hear mj talk about biden's staff choices, still talking about staffing choices at the white house, the president has only seven weeks left in office. the white house says there's a

chance he could fire the attorney general bill barr, he is that angry at him now. he was furious with him before the election because there was no report produced on the prosecutor barr tapped to investigate the beginning of the russia investigation. this week, what the president is furious about is comments undercutting his claims, baseless claims, that there's widespread voter fraud. when he said the justice department uncovered no evidence of that, the president is unhappy, saying bill barr hasn't looked into this and investigated this yet, barr said not only has justice department, so has department of homeland security as well. this raised questions, the president is privately talking about whether he is going to fire the attorney general. he was asked a few moments ago in the oval office if he has confidence in barr. listen to the way he paused when the reporter asked him that question. >> do you still have confidence in bill barr?

>> ask me that in a number of weeks from now. >> reporter: a number of weeks? there's only seven weeks left in the donald trump presidency. so whether or not something like that happens, it still is to be determined. a lot of people are telling the president he shouldn't fire barr, that there would be a ton of political blow back if he does, he is stung from when he fired james comey at the beginning of his administration. it is still to be determined what will happen. you can see the president's anger with people not playing into the charade he is putting on about voter fraud and potential outcome of the election, he continues to insist he believes there's going to be some change and that it is not going to be joe biden as winner. we know they're preparing for the transition. >> we can tell, kaitlan, even before the election he had given

up governing, especially when it comes to the crisis facing the nation. how is he spending time, what is he focusing on now? >> reporter: you talk to people around the president that speak with him often, they describe a president more unpredictable than his entire presidency. for donald trump that's saying a lot. they say he is consumed by the election loss that for almost a month now, that's been his single -- singular focus. today was a rare appearance that we saw the president, got to ask him questions. instead of focusing on the pandemic, holding events on that, he is basically singularly focused on what's happening with this. he is having lunch with the vice president, secretary of state. he had this meeting with bill barr at the white house tuesday, even though yesterday the press secretary couldn't say whether or not they had spoken. we are told they did. it was basically the president complaining about what bill barr said about the election. you can see that all his

meetings and basically all his time and phone calls is being consumed by one thing and it is his obsession with the election and his belief, conviction that he actually won, even though of course we know that he didn't, and the question is how much longer is he going to publicly maintain this. >> kaitlan, we shall see. seems like some time yet. thank you. next, we're going to roll tape on how republican senators didn't, quote, wait for the process to play out in 2016 when trump won. and a mayor in texas hops on a private jet, takes a trip with his family while telling people to do the exact opposite? now hear how he is responding. and getting word that the president is praising qano con speer cysts behind the scenes. the groups that believe they have a pedophile ring and drink the blood of children. x

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cash is flying in georgia. more than $320 million have been spent so far in the state senate runoffs as control of the senate hangs in the balance. the president plans to hold a

rally in georgia saturday on behalf of gop incumbent senators kelly loeffler and david perdue. if you listen to trump allies, they say republican voters should sit this election out. >> i think i would encourage all georgians to make it known that you will not vote at all until your vote is secure. >> they have not earned your vote. don't you give it to them. why would you go back and vote in another rigged election for god's sakes. >> amanda carpenter is a cnn political commentator, political columnist, and yes, amanda. this is real life. i just wonder if you've ever seen anything like this where you have these allies of trump actually urging people not to vote. >> this is strange but i mean,

donald trump made his name in republican politics by attacking fellow republicans. this is an extension of that. somehow the republican establishment leaders who want to keep control of the senate think they can find a way to navigate trump's attacks on their own people and still win. this is the direct conflict that the republican party has had with trump since he burst on the scene. >> do you think that there's any chance that there are republicans that just don't turn out in the runoff elections and that actually advantages democrats or do you think that may not actually be prominent behavior? >> we'll see. there are people that wanted to press the vote, hard to get people to turnout a special election, although republicans have been successful in the past, but when you have, it is not just donald trump and his fringy supporters, you have had the broader republican universe impacting the vote mail in system.

that's been going across on the fox prime time networks. yes, a lot of republicans lost faith in that system. what's really troubling to me is that you have these republican officials in georgia, the raffensperger, gabriel sterling saying we did it right and they're suffering consequences of that in the form of personal attacks from the fringe, in the form of death threats from the president. still, even still through that they're saying go out and support kelly loeffler and david perdue, when they're the ones perpetuating this rhetoric, integrity of the system. you can't unravel. when you have people running for office, david perdue, kelly loeffler, saying the election was rigged against the president, but still turnout and vote for me, you can't square that. people that go along with it, still facing violent threats of

physical violence saying go out and support them, you guys are in a mess. you can't get your way out of it, everyone is held hostage to what donald trump will go there on saturday and say, who knows what. >> he will be there saturday. i want to get your reaction to something the president said about conspiracy group qanon. sources confirm trump was in a meeting with senator mitch mcconnell and other aides about holding on to the senate and he mentioned georgia republican congresswoman margery taylor green, a qanon believer, and the president praised the group saying it is made up of people that basically believe in good government. that's a comment that was met with complete silence. what do you say to that? >> i'm not surprised that was met with silence. covid in qanon conspiracy thinking will be donald trump's legacy. he has egged all this conspiracy stuff on because he thinks it is good for him. this is his base, these are people that support him online,

a lot of people, not all of them, that turn out in rallies. they are stuck to him like glue. for as long as donald trump is head of the republican party, this is what the base likes, what he cultivates, what the party is. mitch mcconnell can keep staying silent. i think we give him too much credit when he stays silent. there's a built in assumption that republicans are scared of donald trump's base. i think it is something different. i actually think they're okay with it, i think they're down with it, because when i look at the escalating threats of violence, this is my bright line, threats of violence and attacks on the democratic system, when you look at something like charlottesville or egging on of militia men in michigan or the fact that people make a hero out of vigilantes in kenosha and you don't say anything for this long, i have to think you're supportive of it. i would love for mitch mcconnell to go to a camera and prove me otherwise. >> amanda, thank you for joining us.

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the president's conspiracy theories about the presidential election, various baseless claims about he and not joe biden actually won have echos of another dark period in american history, mccarthyism. ron brownstein in a column on cnn.com lays out eery similarities of joseph mccarthy's anti-communist crusade in the '50s and president trump's anti-election fraud crusade of the present. in both destructive campaigns, perpetrators were enabled by senate republicans. right now even as they privately admit joe biden is the next president, publicly they hedge. >> would you consider biden a president-elect at this point? >> well, two weeks from today he will be. >> but the question here, it's

already been answered by voters, by reality. the president has no standing to challenge the results right now. his own justice department says there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud he is alleging, republicans. they are not abiding by their own starred for acknowledging the next president of the united states and don't take my word for it, take theirs. >> do you accept the fact that joe biden is the president-elect of the united states? >> well, we're certainly moving forward as if that's what's going to happen january 20th, but the president wants to see this process play out. the president-elect technically has to be elected president by the electors, that happens middle of december. and then january 6th. >> i think we have more than enough time to reach an orderly resolution using existing legal procedures to ensure that every legal vote counts.

before we move on to 2022 or 2024, we should put 2020 on the books first. >> having spoken -- haven't spoken to the president-elect, had calls from foreign leaders, expect to speak to him in the coming days, add my voice to the congratulations. >> this is a contested election, the media doesn't decide who becomes president, if they did, you would never have a republican president forever. so we're discounting them. >> notably, the constitution gives no role in this process to wealthy media corporations. the projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over legal rights of any citizen including the president of the united states.

>> i hope you're having as good a day as i am. i want to particularly congratulate president-elect trump. we agree this is a stunning election. >> the media does not get to select our president, the american people get to elect our president. >> i am excited to work with president-elect trump. i had the opportunity to visit with president-elect trump yesterday, i visited with vice president elect mike pence yesterday and offered them my full and unequivocal support. we have a job to do. >> we have to pursue recounts, the legality of the recounts. if biden wants a legitimate victory, he should be for counting the votes, let's also check to see if anybody is dead.

>> senator, have you congratulated president-elect biden? >> first off, we need to count the votes, all the votes need to be counted. >> i spoke to president-elect trump yesterday. i'm glad we have donald trump as the new president, looking forward to having a partner in washington i get to work with. >> did vice president biden win the election? >> we don't know yet, do we? hasn't been certified. >> the president has every right to use all the appeals of recounts, legal measures that he is using. the election is a lot closer than many people thought. >> the media does not decide who the president of the united states is, the people decide who

the president is going to be. >> donald trump is going to have a very successful administration. donald trump and his team are going about putting this administration together the right way. >> senator, have you congratulated vice president biden yet? >> no. >> why not? >> for those in the media that are angry republicans won't just take their word for it that biden won, i think you need some self awareness. you spent four years claiming the russians hacked the last election. >> the voters have spoken. now it is time to govern. >> it is time to govern. that's right. couldn't couldn't be truer for the moment we're in now, the peak of a

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the mayor of austin is facing backlash. in november he posted this message on facebook. >> the thrust of the most important message is to get out to the community right now is

that our numbers are increasing, and everybody has to be aware of that, and we need to, you know, stay home, if you can. do everything you can to try to keep the numbers down. this is not the time to relax. >> so here's the problem with that. the mayor was in mexico when he posted that message. that is according to an argue in the "austin american statesman." polo sandoval is following this story. did the mayor give an explanation for his travel? >> here's the thing. the mayor at least says he did not violate his recent order in place in early november, but that's not the point here. even he recognizes it set a bad and quite confusing example. in fact, yesterday the mayor offered his regular austin covid update. he paused to apologize, saying he regrets going through with his travel to mexico. he offered the back story of how it happened.

his daughter married in austin, the wedding scaled down position and then after that, that's when an even smaller group of mostly family flew privately to cabo san lucas. this happened when officials were recommending limited travel. >> i recognize my travel set a bad example. i recognize the fact that i took that trip that at the same time was continuing to urge people to be cautious is confusing. it was a lapse in judgment. i want you to know that i apologize. >> the mayor not the only democratic politician apologizing. mayor london breed attended a party in napa valley just the day before governor newsom had entered the same restaurant with at least a dozen people from various households, newsom

addressing his behavior. yesterday, you rolled the tape for viewers, there are multiple democratic leaders now apologizing for not practices what they preach. >> yeah. they certainly got caught and now they seem very sorry. polo, thank you so much for bringing that to us. tomorrow night with vaccines nearly available, get your questions answered. join anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta at 9:00 p.m. for a new coronavirus town hall called "the vaccines." a couple boarded a plane, apparently they knew they had tested positive for covid, but they left the airport in handcuffs. the pandemic is the worst it's ever broadband. deaths, hospitalizations, cases all hitting new records. where do we go from here? but we didn't stop there. we made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. no matter what it does, or how it changes.

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a couple from how have been arrested for boarding a plane after testing positive for coronavirus. >> reporter: airlines have said over and over to not fly if you are feeling sick, but police in hawaii say a couple there took it one step forward. kawaii police say a couple boarded a plane after being

instructed to not fly. they say they were flying with a 4-year-old child. wesley marie and courtney peterson boarded a flight from san francisco to liheu. cnn has not been able to reach the couple. airlines have been trying to avoid situation like this, no case has been linked to a flight. united airlines have said they have banned the couple from flying again and are investigating. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states. we're a nation in free fall, in a crisis of historic proportions. nearly 3,000 americans reported dead in one day hospitals and frontline workers are saving