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rocketing hospitalizations crippling california. hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is cnn "newsroom" and i'm anna c oororen. well, the u.s. is gearing up to distribute a second coronavirus vaccine as soon as the cdc director gives the final green light. that is expected to happen at any moment. the moderna vaccine is the latest weapon in the coronavirus. and it is badly needed. just look at the numbers. more than 18,000 americans died in the past week, adding to the more than 603,000 deaths in the pandemic and sky laurocketing

hospitalization rates and those that staff them to the brink. one says the entire u.s. is a coronavirus hot spot. british prime minister boris johnson has essentially cancelled christmas for millions in england. they're being put under severe tier four restrictions that essentially amount to a lockdown. nonessential businesses have to stay shut. people can meet only one other person from outside their household outdoors. england issent the only place clamping down ahead of the holidays. >> reporter: the worst nightmare before christmas. last-minute coronavirus restrictions, forcing travellers to unpack their bags and families to cancel plans. authorities in some european countries are scrambling to contain a rise in infection, with warnings of a third wave next year. in england, an 11th hour fears

amid a new strain of the coronavirus. prime minister says it could be up to 70% more transmiscible. >> given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus, the potential risk it poses t is with a very heavy heart, i tell you, we cannot continue with christmas as planned. >> reporter: and other effected parts of england, forcing residents to stay at home unless necessary and crucially travel in and out is banned. the british government also heeding advice from health experts to call off a planned five-day easing of restrictions over the christmas period. a day earlier, italy, sweden, and austria all announcing tough new restrictions to curb social gatherings. italian prime minister will put into force a nationwide lockdown during the holidays.

>> translator: it is not an easy decision. it is a painful decision to strengthen the regime, the measure is neglec measure is necessary for the upcoming holidays and to better protect ourselves. >> reporter: the government in austria says residents can celebrate christmas but must stay home for new year's eve. sweden, a country that has so far resisted pandemic measures will enforce its toughest rules yet, recommending face masks on crowded transport and alcohol sales must end at 8:00 p.m. the prime minister pleading with the public to exercise caution. >> translator: do not let there be an outbreak during christmas. do not meet relatives over christmas dinner. celebrate only with those closest to you. >> reporter: the question now is one of compliance. are these moves too little too late to contain the virus?

cnn, london. u.s. officials say trucks carrying the new coronavirus vaccine should start rolling out sunday. that means americans could start receiving it on monday. we spent the day watching preparations out of the facility. >> reporter: the moderna vaccine shipments start sunday and it all starts here. this is the company digs ributing for moderna. we're not too far from memphis. that's the headquarters of fedex. they'll be shipping to 6,000 locations across the country. this is larger than the pfizer roll out and operation warp speed is actually apologizing to states that did not get as much vaccine as they initially hoped. >> it was my fault. i gave guidance. i am the one that approved the forecast sheets. i am the one that approved the

allocations. there is no problem with the process, there is no problem with the pfizer vaccine, there is no problem with the moderna vaccine. it was a planning error and i am responsible. >> reporter: now, the moderna vaccine has a bit of an advantage over the pfizer vaccine. a regular freezer works just fine for storing this version of the vaccine. 6 million doses go out sunday and it all begins right here. cnn, olive branch, mississippi. with more than 1.8 million coronavirus cases and rising, california has a crisis on its hand. the state's health department recorded more than 43,000 new cases and more than 270 new deaths saturday. things are particularly bad in los angeles county, which one doctor says is quickly becoming the pandemic's epicenter.

hospitals are at breaking point with thousands that are sicker than ever. another doctor tells us what he's seen. >> this is by far the worse it's been in the past nine months. me to matter how we try, it seems like there's another four patients or sicker waiting for that bed. right now, we need l.a. to turn into the ghost town again. that's what we need so we can save as many people and heal as many souls. two more health workers in alaska have suffered adverse reactions to the pfizer vaccine. providence, alaska says it happened late last week. we're told reactions were mild and nonlife threatening. that brings the total reactions to five. we previously reported that three other health care workers had allergic reactions after receiving their doses.

israel is kicking off the coronavirus vaccination effort. prime minister benjamin netanyahu was the first to get the shot and says he chose to do it on live television to set a personal example. he's urging israelis to get vaccinate as soon as possible. that i believe reported more than 73,000 cases and 3,000 deaths. and tell us, elliott, hoy are israelis reacting to the vaccine? >> i can tell you in the hospital, health workers are celebrating the fact that this vaccine is finally here. actually, this event began with the health workers coming out w doctors and a dj and playing music. it felt like a bah mitzvah party and the vaccination campaign in israel has really truly begun.

prime minister netanyahu receiving the first of his two covid jabs on live television. after it, he spoke about it in several grandiose terms. that was a small jab for a man, a huge step in the help for us all. may this be successful. go out and get vaccinated. >> reporter: and there are two important reasons why netanyahu was doing that. to encourage as many israeli as posable to fallollow his exampl tool get vaccinated. he was formally the coronavirus staff. and he says they need 60 to 70% of israelis to be vaccinated to get on top of things. similar to what they require with the flu vaccinations. and says israel has some 4 million doses, enough for 4 million people with many more on the way. and i think the other reason netanyahu wanted to be seen doing this was political.

he playmade himself the face of fight and the number of cases after the economy reopened surged to among the highest in the world on a per capita basis and came into quite a bit of criticism. and the face of what is hopefully a successful roll out of the vaccination campaign that he will get more credit and that will boost his political fortunes. another moment too soon. and to voteen the budget and if that budget is not pass said, it goes to fourth set of elections in a space in >> and the white house meeting on the u.s. election takes a

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u.s. law makers say they're close to a deal for a covid-relief package. they had been deadlocked on on what to allow. they reached a compromise late saturday night. mitch mcconnell says they can now move forward with the details of the measure. and we learned what donald trump is looking for in his way to hold on to power. there was a contentious meeting at the white house friday, where they argued over highly controversial ideas on how to overturn the election. >> reporter: while president trump isn't just publicly refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, he's

grappling with ways to possibly overturn the results. and those ideas were floated during an oval office meeting the president held friday that grew heated and ugly at times as two allies of the president pushed some really deranged ideas about overturning the resu results of the election. the attorney that was part of the president's legal team and pushing the deranged conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, including suggesting the diseased venezuelan leader, chavez, was behind rigging the election. and the former national security advisor, who pleaded guilty to counts of lying to federal investigators before he was ultimately pardoned by the president of the united states. and the president discussed possibly naming him to

investigate voter fraud and discussed this idea, brought forward by michael flynn just a few days ago. >> within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election. it's not unprecedented. these people talking about martial law, like it's something we've never done. it's been instituted 64, 64 times. >> now too, be clear, there's no indication the president is going to be imposing martial law to rerun the 2020 election as flynn suggested. but the fact this was an idea being discussed in the oval auflgs with the president of the united states, a president refusing to accept the results of a democratic election certainly is alarming and generated quite a bit of pushback from several of the president's advisors inside the white house, including, we're told, the white house chief of

staff, mark meadows, and both pushing back on the more outlandish ideas of overturning the results. now, as the president is still hyping up claims of voter fraud, trying to overturn the results of a democratic election, he's down playing a cyber attack that u.s. government officials believe was conducted by russian intelligence services. the president tweeting on saturday that the cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality and he says he's discussing the possibility that it could be china behind the attack. that notion has been pushed back on by members of the president's own administration. it was mike pompeo, who on friday, said it was very likely

russia was indeed behand the attack. we're told white house officials were drafting a statement on friday to ascribe blame on the cyber attack to russia and now we know why the statement ultimately was not released. cnn, the white house. well, cnn national security analyst joins me now from new york. let's begin with the parent rugds hack. the largest hack in american history, which we should point out is still ongoing. tell us about the scale of this attack. >> reporter: well, we don't yet know the full scale of this attack. there's no ability to do damage control until the u.s. government understands the scope of the damage. despite what president trump says, these attacks are still ongoing. that means the fbi, department of homeland security, and director of national intelligence are working to identify the full scale and scope of compromise and entities.

in terms of what russia got from the operation, we know, at a minimum, that putin scored major p.r. points once this attack became public. the world now knows u.s. cyber defenses were not able to accurately detect and overt this attack. the world knows we did not protect the attack and that's a huge victory for putin because he's been peddling the narrative that the u.s. is weak. it appears they were able to monitor, at a minimum, u.s. government emails on an unclassified server. and if they had access to unclassified email addresses, they could use those in future. this fishing operation, for example. we don't know if they were able to disrupt any operations and fully assessing the scale of the damage will take months, if not years. >> this is believed to have

begun in march and only detected a few weeks ago. you have k d scribed this as a failure of epic proportion. >> it certainly says that the perpetrators of this attack, believed to be the russia cozy bear group, are advance persistent threat 29, which have deep ties the russia external service, the fdr, has highly advanced and sophisticated capabilities that were able to avoid detection by the u.s. russia is a sophisticated adversary and whether it was because we were distracted like securing our elections and covid-19, or because they're just better than us at this juncture, it's evident that russia is a -- and

president-elect biden is working on it as we speak. >> what's not to say there are other hacks taking place? >> that certainly can be the case. we know the russian attack is ongoing. we don't know who else is being compromised as we speak. the national defense authorization act. trump is threatening to veto it. that legislation will give you the ability to go in and hunt for hacks. they don't currently have that authorization. that can be critically important in identifying other hacks, rather than learning about them from a private security firm, like we did in the case of this russian hack. i think that's an important step in weeding out other intrugsion to our most private places. >> and reports that a screaming

match breaking out among trump aids and former national security advisor, michael flynn. what more are you learning? >> reporter: well, just from reading the headlines, which frankly, this all sounds like something out of page six t certainly appears that the wheels are coming off. trump is surrounding himself with sycophants that are spouting nonsense. and aids are increasingly alarmed about his behavior, yet, they're not quitting. they're just speaking with reporters. it's likely president trump will continue to rant and rave until he's kick saed out of the oval office january 20th. everything does seem to be on track for the next president of the united states to be sworn in on january 20th. we have to keep an eye on what damage trump tries to do between now and then.

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you're watching cnn "newsroom." the first vaccinations are just under a week away from many parts in europe. countries across the continent are finding skepticism. >> reporter: with infection rates in france and other european countries out of control, hope is around the corner. e.u. started the vaccination campaign december 27th, but it may not be that easy. >> i think vaccination is a question of trust and this is why in spain we are spending a lot of time and energy in building trust with the citizens. >> reporter: hence the campaign to convince the reluctant with polls showing only 41% of spaniards intending to get the vaccine. in italy, the figure is just 52%. authorities there going with the prim rose-based commercial, matched by primrose shaped pavilions to attract people to where the vaccines will be

dispensed. they say 70% of the population need be recovered from infection or have been vaccinated from herd immunity. frrbl as of this month, only one in two were willing to get the vaccine. in fact, europeans were among the most vaccine-skeptical on earth before the pandemic and the pandemic doesn't appear to have changed that. >> it's made worse tensions between people. people are afraid and when you're afraid, most of the time -- >> reporter: across europe, skepticism of not only vaccine, but by government. pushed by far-right parties and mistakes early on in the pandemic by governments. >> all of us didn't know-nothing about the virus. at that moment, any power, any

capability to fight with that. after some months, we are fully in power. >> reporter: but even though the vaccines have been tested, found to be effective and safe, skepticism goes deeper than you might think. >> it's something we tend to forget. doctors aren't actually not so different from the general public. lots of them are hesitant. >> reporter: it's europe's moment to announce the start of the eu's vaccination campaign. from december 27th, the first europeans will be able to get vaccinated. the question is how many will choose to do so. >> one-third of african-americans are hesitant to get the vaccine. the nation's public health leaders are trying to shift that thinking but they're up against

history and the government's role in fostering vaccine mistrust. the nation's surgeon general was vaccinated friday and says he understands the fear and reluctance. >> to truly promote confidence in the vaccines, we mugs start by acknowledging the history of mish treatment and ix politation of minorities by the medical community and the government. but then we need to explain and demonstrate all that's been done to address and correct these wrongs. >> and head of the coronavirus task force, joins us. there is deep mistrust in vaccines amid the african-american community. nearly one in three are hesitant about taking the coronavirus vaccine. why is this? and give osback story. >> there's a cause-and-effect

relationship to everything. they're trying to get us to get a vaccine but the reality is this just didn't start a couple of years ago. this started since the antebellum period, since we got off the boats. when you have one race that's superior intellectually, as well as some of the things that they did to us during that time as slaves, using our ancestors as medical projects, looking at the different organs they're teaching medical students off of our ancestors,ina native americ and most importantly, poor people. it's so sad they say you should trust-the country has an unbroken history of yeugenix. >> and i want to ask about the

tuskegee experiment. remind us about that study and how damaging it was. >> well, like i said it's so many different studies but that's the one that sticks out because it went until 1972. i was born then. this is not like it went on in slavery. this is when you have ohio players, the music we listen to now. so, when you look at, unfortunately, people getting a pill a placebo pill for a syphilis study and they want to see degenerative effects of syphilis on the brain and you have three different stages of syphilis where a person can lose their mind in the third stage. and they want to examine us, knowingly not giving us the treatment. thooez are the kind of things we're dealing with now with this vaccine. we have six vaccines. take the vaccine, take the vaccine. you don't want cube steak.

you want a filet mignon. you want the best treatment you can get. it's not just the vaccine. we don't want the one with the most effcases use for us and for poor people. >> how do authorities, pharmaceuticals, how do say the gain people's trust? >> number one, we've had a very segregated, stratified experience. with race. and culture. and the way to gain our trust is number one too, give us the information on all of the vaccines. it's not take a vaccine but we have to assess them with people that are from our cultures people who are from our communities, to make sure that

they're effcatious. we have a group of african-americans from all different dis pciplines of medicine that can look at this information. >> the u.s. surgeon jerome adams, an african-american, he had the vaccine on live tv. do you think more people like him, high-profile black americans need to be out thered a vkting the safety of the vaccine? >> let me be clear. we want the vaccine but america has six different contracts. you have moderna, the pfizer, which are ef indications. are we going the get the ones that aren't proven? those are the things i want to assess. so, before we say we want the vaccine, we need have people

from the community, that are verologists from our community, from the national medical association and so forth to assess the efficacy of all the vaccines. because of course that's the one that's 95% efficatious. >> thank you so much for sharing. >> we appreciate it and alpha alpha, dr. ward, we appreciate your time. >> well, coming up on cnn "newsroom". her husband died from coronavirus. but before his passing, he wrote her one final love letter. we do it every night. every night. i live alone, but i still do it every night. right after dinner. definitely after meatloaf. like clockwork. do it! run your dishwasher with cascade platinum.

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laredo checked in to a texas hospital with covid-19. he struggled to breathe and koonted to battle. as he his condition went from bad to worse, he wrote a love letter. if i don't make it, i want you to know i leave a happy, wonderful life with you. i wouldn't have traded it for all the riches in the world. i want you to continue to live your life without me with no regretsz. we had our time and it was wonderful. i love you and miss you very much. i will keep fighting. love, billy. sadly, a week ago today, he lost his battle with coronavirus and left his wife, sonia, behind. sonia joins us on a very emotional day. she laid her beloved billy to rest just a few hours ago. our deepest sympathies and respects. we're so sorry for your loss.

tell me about what you went through today, what you've gone through these last few months. >> well, it's been very difficult. because billy and i both, we tested positive and on the 16th of november and initially, i had no symptoms but initially i just thought billy had a mild version of it. for the first week, he was doing fine with mild symptoms but then you know, suddenly things turned. things changed. really overnight. that was thanksgiving morning in the middle of the night. and it's just been difficult since, trying really hard to fight for billy. i wasn't able to be there and be

by his side the entire time. so, that was even more excruciating because usually-your loved one is in the hospital, you're able to be by their bed side and that just made it even more difficult for me that i couldn't hold his hand, that i couldn't motivate him, that i could only text him and facetime him occasionally because he just was so exhausted to even be able to talk and communicate with me at times. so, a lot of my communication was communicating with the nurses and doctors when he couldn't communicate. i was trying to advocate strongly for my husband when he would text me and tell me his concerns. >> i can imagine what you have been through. and not to be able to be there and hold his hand and comfort him.

sonia, he was only 45 years old. i mean, that is relatively young. he clearly was a fighter. he said he was fighting every single day and he had so much to live for. when did he write this letter to you? >> he wrote it about maybe three or four days before he actually got into baited. you know, billy would always leave me little notes, bring me flowers. so t did not surprise me that he wrote the letter. i think it was just devastating the latter part of the letter that he wrote when he was saying if i don't make this, this is what i need for you to know about how much i care for you. and that was -- >> and tell me how you felt when

you read that letter for the first time? >> honestly, i felt hopeless because it was really kind of acknowledging that my husband might not ever come back and see me. and that was just difficult for me to accept. >> sonia, he said you were the most important person in his life and if he survived, he wanted to be a better man and husband. tell us about your husband, billy. >> billy didn't have to be a better man or husband because billy was -- he was a magnificent man. and many people, not just myself, loved billy.

everybody that i have ever known, who has known my husband, people that i would come into contact with, who i had never met would always communicate how much they love billy. and i entirely understand and identify that amount of love that they experienced because i felt that when i met him 21 years ago. so, he was -- i think that makes it even more difficult because he didn't have to i never doubted my love for billy. he was a man of honor a man of love, loved by many. i know everybody's struggling because many are lost but he was just one of those great people that you come across in your

lifetime that you just think not him. his life shouldn't have been taken. >> he sounds like a remarkable person, sonia. when did you realize he wasn't coming home? >> i think, um, honestly, i think a couple -- maybe the next day after they intubaeted him. he coded two times and they had revived him. they spent about an hour and revived him and at that point, i was mostly hopeful because i was just afraid to be entirely hopeful, afraid god was kind of messing with me.

and i guess he was. so, i think at that point, when he had coded, and he had come back, although i wanted to believe he came back for a purpose, and that purpose was maybe to spread the need of hey, you need take covid seriously, i thought we would do it together. i didn't think he message was going to come at the sake of his death. >> sonia, this pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 americans, including your husband. and despite the emergence of two vaccines, health experts say hundreds of thousands more will die. what is your message to anyone

who is listening to this? >> i think you cannot be negligent and you need to be extremely mindful and careful about just being precautious and taking all the necessary measures that i thought we took. but we're all human and i think sometimes we just become comfortable and we're not used to being so hypervigilant of ourselves when we're sick. and this pandemic is requiring us to do exactly that. the extremely hypervigilant to not only take care of yourself, but more importantly, to take care of somebody else that you

love, that you don't know how their budy -- because i don't feel it's just about preexisting conditions. because my billy had none. you just need to be vigilant about that this could harm somebody else and you don't know how their body is going to respond to this. virus. >> sonia, how would you like people to remember billy? >> remember that he was larger than life, magnificent man, who loved everybody and who made everybody feel loved. that was my billy. >> sonia, thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us, for sharing your story, your heartache, your pain, and your

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backpa-to-back hurricanes e and iota made hand fall in nicaragua. as cnn's rafael romo reports, that causing a major food shortage for thousands of people. >> reporter: what's left is on the ground or destroyed. as thousands of farmers were getting ready for harvest season in rural nicaragua, not one but two powerful hurricanes ravaged the region in november, flooding fields and ruining crops. "the rains washed away our crops. it destroyed our irrigation systems and our hearts. now we don't even have the drive to go on j." olivia gomez says since there were two hurricanes in the span of two weeks, farmers didn't have the time to recover.

mudslides covered half her six-6 hectare field. she wonders if she will make ends meet. "i pray to god there's a little left for us to eat. we are six people at home. we had dreams, but now our hope is gone." the situation is even worse on the northern caribbean coast where both back-to-back hurricanes made landfall. this farmer, whose farm is located 28 miles north of the port, says he lost all of his crops of yucca and plantains. "everything has been damaged." he shows us what's left of a yucca plant torn off the ground. he says he has no seed left, and even if he did, he would have to wait seven to eight months for the next harvest. last month the nicaraguan government estimated both hurricanes caused $742 million

in damage and economic losses. the regional director of the world food program says 260,000 people were affected by the hurricanes, and 95,000 of them don't have enough to eat. the hurricanes not only destroyed their homes, but also the farms they owned and their ability to make a living, he said. the world food program calls nicaragua a low-income, food-deficit country, and one of the poorest in latin america. 7 of 10 nicaraguans work in agriculture, according to the wfp. almost 30% of families in the country live in poverty. in the aftermath of the hurricanes, the world food program delivered more than 220 metric tons of food to the hardest-hit areas. last week, there was another 35-ton food shipment to the so-called mining triangle in northern nicaragua, according to the government. for farmers like flores and

gomez, the help is welcome but the need doesn't end there. their only hope that is next year's harvest will allow them to not only pay their farming loans but also feed their families. rafael romo, cnn. thanks so much for your company. i'm anna coren. kim brunhuber has more "cnn newsroom" in just a moment. definitely after meatloaf. like clockwork. do it! run your dishwasher with cascade platinum. and save water. did you know an energy star certified dishwasher... ...uses less than four gallons per cycle. while a running sink uses that, every two minutes. that means even small loads can save water. so why not do it? run your dishwasher every night with cascade platinum. the surprising way to save water.

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