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of a worldwide travel ban and massive food shortages. the uk has been virtually cut off from the world, as nation after nation halts or restricts travel to and from britain because of the new covid-19 variant. many flights are now suspended and with the british government tightening covid restrictions further, people in the uk and beyond are scrambling to reach their loved ones with the christmas holiday just days away. meanwhile in the united states, it's the relief so many americans have been waiting on for months. after weeks of haggling and bickering, congress has reached a deal on a covid relief package, totalling $900 billion and we'll look at the most significant parts of that plan later this hour. let's start with the situation in the uk. cnn's nic robertson joins us live from london. we've seen those chaotic scenes coming out of london as people try to get out before the lockdown came into place. flights have been cancelled to the uk to stop the spread of

that variant. and now we're learning that france has imposed a 48-hour truck freeze. tell us about the immediate impact. >> reporter: it's a big concern for the british government. one of the central reasons why boris johnson will be holding that important cabinet meeting today, with top cabinet officials and chief advisers, because fresh food and produce, frozen food and produce and items destined for british factories come in daily across the channel crossings, about 10,000 trucks cross every day. now, the uk can survive obviously without some of those products coming across the border, the things that would come across this time of the year in bulk would be brussel sprouts, cabbages, those sorts of things. but the idea that the uk can suddenly, without warning, be shut off from those food products and many medical products, of course, coming in from the continent, they're just naturally over the past number

of decades flow into the country. that's a major concern. it certainly will be causing concern in government and in the population. people here have been very disconcerted to say the least by the sudden imposition of a new tier of restrictions and the prime minister just in the past couple of days, over the weekend, telling the country that the christmas he had promised them where they could have three different households in one household for christmas is no longer an option. so the immediate impact of france not allowing trucks to cross through the channel tunnel and cross for the next 48 hours is of immediate concern. the government is going to want to figure out how it can mitigate against what is happening against an unexpected circumstance. >> the prime minister will be meeting with his cabinet and holding that meeting. are you expecting any further announcements in relation to further restrictions, if that's even possible in the uk?

>> reporter: we heard overnight from the ministry of transport that add vised truckers to avoid going to kent, the county where dover is, and some of the other channel crossings. because the government is very concerned about, you know, the backlog of trucks that will just pile up in long lines of traffic on the major highways there, because of stockpiling there were lines of traffic five miles and longer. so what we would expect to come out of this i think is the prime minister essentially to take stock, look at remedies, and, you know, one would expect him or others in the cabinet to try to reassure people in the united kingdom that this is a temporary glitch that they're working with their neighbors to get around this. of course, this falls at a time when britain is negotiating a very tough brexit deal with eu negotiators.

there's a lot going on, anna. >> nic robertson joining us from outside 10 downing street in london. good to see you. many thanks. joining me now is an infectious disease and global health expert at the university of oxford. good to see you. tell me, how concerned are you about this variant spreading in the uk? >> well, there's a lot we don't know about this variant, but it certain hi appears to be the case. there's been a rapid rise in cases in and around london in recent days and weeks. that appears to be driven be i this new varniant. we're hearing it may be up to 70% more transmisible and more infectious than the presiding variants that we've been seeing. even if it's not causing more severe disease or more deadly and that's our understanding, if

it were to spread more quickly, that is a cause for concern. that's why we're seeing such aggressive action both been the country and the new lockdowns and hopefully some of these temporary border measures until we can learn more. >> peter, we have seen other cases of this mutation pop up in other countries. but i guess why the level of alarm in the united kingdom? >> you know, mutations are a normal part of the life of a virus. viruses normally evolve, especially when they're in a new host, in this case humans. so there are hundreds of variants that have been being monitored. the reason for concern with this one is because of the potential association of spreading much more quickly, that we're seeing it become the dominant strain in some areas. and there's some evidence that it may spread more quickly. another thing to note, there's a

variant in south africa end independeibl independeibl -- independent of the one here in the uk, that appears to be spreading more quickly. there's a lot more research that needs to be done how this particular variant -- at this stage, i think caution is warranted. >> of course. the mutation of viruses is not uncommon, but as you said, it's highly infectious nature of this variant that is causing alarm. does it come down to human behavior or the variant itself? >> it could be a combination. so if -- it could be that you have a new variant and because of human behavior, because of perhaps certain super spreader type events, variant spreads more quickly but the behavior of the virus may not be that different. that's probably not enough to explain the rise of this particular variant, but it's

something that needs to be ruled out. >> peter, we've seen these scenes coming out of london, of people fleeing the capital before that lockdown came into effect. people cramming onto trains, lines up at airports. surely that is a recipe for disaster in spreading this variant around the country and possibly around the globe. >> yeah, it's really unfortunate those scenes of thousands of people fleeing london just before the new restrictions came into force a couple of days ago. and there's a real risk that that could be a recipe for spread thing virus all around the country, the same reason we're closing off -- our international borders are being closed off. i fear that we might see rises of this variant in other parts of the country. >> peter drobac joining us from oxford in england. good to see you. thank you for your insight. we appreciate it.

>> thank you. millions more doses of covid-19 vaccine are making their way to states around the united states. moderna's vaccine is the second to get emergency use authorization. carriers are delivering the supply to thousands of locations, hours from now americans should start getting the shots. pete is in memphis, tennessee, with details on how the moderna rollout will compare to the one we've already seen with the pfizer/biontech vaccine. >> reporter: two truckfuls of the moderna vaccine came straight here just over the state line in mississippi. now the moderna vaccine is going out to 3,000 locations across the country. those are places like hospitals, pharmacies, cvs and walgreen's. the deliveries began on monday morning. this rollout, about four times as large as the initial pfizer rollout of last week. the moderna vaccine has a bit of

an advantage over the pfizer vaccine in that it doesn't need to be stored in super cold temperatures. a regular refrigerator will be fine in this case. so that opened this up to the rural communities without deep freezers. fedex says that difference does not change how it will handle this. >> it doesn't matter whether you have to be ultracold or not. our job is to get the package from point a to point b as expeditiously and safely as we can. and to deliver it to those that are going toed a minister it. >> reporter: 6 million moderna doses are going out right now. the department of health and human services says that means about 20 million people could be vaccinated by the end of this month. you have to remember, this is a remarkable achievement. we are seeing the rollout of two coronavirus vaccines in roughly the plan of a week. pete monteen, cnn, memphis, tennessee. lawmakers with a deal, ahead

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in the coming hours, u.s. lawmakers are expected to vote on a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill. the agreement comes after several days of frenzied negotiations and just hours before the government would have had to shut down without additional funding. the measure includes stimulus payments to individuals and a boost in unemployment benefits. but democratic leaders still say more will be needed to revive the economy ravaged by the pandemic. >> we consider this a first step and that, again, more needs to be done. we're so excited that will be happening. >> cnn's manu raju has more. >> reporter: congressional leaders, after months of division and stalemate, reached

a deal that could give relief to americans who are struggling in the middle of this pandemic. $900 billion, one of the biggest in american history, reached after members of congress spent days in tough negotiations, cutting a deal and they really have only been discussing this for a matter of days, because for months, they were at loggerheads, they weren't talking for a period of time, even as this crisis continued to rip through the united states. but nevertheless, the moment we expect this proposal to pass, possibly both chambers as soon as monday and the president would have a decision to make whether to sign this into law. well, this plan includes more than $300 billion for small businesses to apply for emergency loans. it provides relief for farmers and others who have been hit hard from this pandemic. also people unemployed and getting jobless benefits and seeing those benefits expire. it would extend those benefits and include $300 a week for

people starting december 27 add a one-time direct payment for individuals up to $600, assuming they make less than $75,000 a year, and a family of four could get up to $2400. this proposal also is important for vaccine distribution. this comes a t a critical time states and cities have been asking for more funds to help so that voters in their state are inoculated. we expect that to include billions more to help with that. this, of course, came after both sides had to drop some key sticking points, key provisions they were looking for. one, state and local aid. democrats have wanted hundreds of billions to states and cities. they dropped that because republicans pushed back. republicans asked for a big liability shield for businesses

and others that opened up during the pandemic. the democrats viewed that as a way to protect corporations who could be sued. that was put aside. those fight also be punted to the new year. already democrats are having to talk about doing a big package when joe biden becomes president january 20th. so this fight will be delayed until then. this was a hard-fought battle. ultimately a deal will be reached. we expect it to be approved in a matter of days, money getting into the pockets of americans. we'll see if it's enough. cnn's correspondent joins us from johannesburg with more. as manu said, it was a hard-fought battle but finally congress passed this stimulus deal. what details are you learning? >> reporter: yeah, exactly. look, this has been months in the making and there have been so many sticking points. but as manu says, the big ticket

items, the important priority items have been included under this bipartisan deal of $900 billion. i have to take a step back and remind you that the initial number that democrats was after was around $2 trillion. then the treasury secretary came back with $1.8 trillion. that was rejected by democrats. now we have a whittled down package, but at least it's been dined before the holiday season. there were just so many things at stake here. the unemployment benefits are $300 extra per week for unemployed americans. that direct check of $600 for both adults and a child. then, again, is much smaller we had discussing of $1,200. so all of these parts, the items are now main features. what has not been included, however, liability protection for businesses. republicans really wanted this in the bill.

that has been excluded, because it was a sticking point. and then for democrats, they were really after states and local aid. that has also been removed. i want you to take a listen to what senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said after the tough negotiations, which saw government extend its deadline from monday until today. take a look. >> we can file a report that our nation has needed for a very long time. fo more help is on the way. it will be another major rescue package for the american people. as our citizens continue battling the coronavirus this holiday season, and they will not be fighting alone. >> reporter: it's been interesting to see how the negotiations have been ongoing. one of the other sticking points is republicans wanted to put limits on federal reserve emergency loan. but there is consensus in the

sense of urgency here, because you have coronavirus cases rising. you have localized lockdowns and a huge impact on the economy going forward. now, with new strains emerging around the world, that is adding more uncertainty. but what this does now is it protects around 12 million americans from falling out of unemployment benefits the day after christmas and protects people facing eviction in january. we're talking about almost 5 million people. vaccine distribution money has been allocated. money for nutrition and ensuring schools are propped up, as well. so the big message from democrats is that this is actually the starting point. remember, the $900 billion is the floor, not the ceiling of a potential relief package. so more negotiation is certainly to come. the big unknown again. who's going to lead the senate and how easily can you pass through another stimulus package in 2021 program. so i think this is definitely

going to be one to watch. many people have had a lot of fatigue in seeing the stalemate. but we've got a bipartisan bill to pass through the house floor, then the senate, and a final signature from president donald trump. >> as you say, a huge job ahead for joe biden when he takes over and tries to revive the american economy. good to see you. many thanks. for more on this, let's turn to a law professor at loyola law school in los angeles. jessica, good to have you with us. it obviously came down to the wire, but desperately needed stimulus aid has been approved. tell us the significance of this. >> well, i think it's hugely significant in the sense that there is some help on the way, but what's also significant is how long it took and how we look in comparison to the rest of the world. a number of people are posting on social media these comparison

charts. $600 in a major metropolitan area in southern california where i am, that's maybe going to be about a third of one month of rent. a lot of other for instance western european countries are allowing people -- they're not allowing for the lines outside of pantries that we have. so it is a step. it comparatively puts us behind the rest of the world in terms of providing relief. >> while it's half the size of the $2.2 trillion law enacted in march, it's one of the largest relief packages in history, but only going to go so far in helping with the economic devastation of this pandemic. >> absolutely. so it's half of what the federal government provided in march, but remember that for a lot of people, or i should say, things are much worse, that they have not been getting paychecks for

maybe ten months instead of just a few weeks. that unemployment insurance has run out. that the states are not -- that the long-term outlook is looking more bleaker. so i don't mean to say that the federal government didn't act, they certainly did. but they waited until almost the last moment. there are certainly statistics that indicate 1 in 5 families or 1 in 6 families in america that are struggling with food instability, which is a polite way of saying that somebody in the house is hungry. >> house speaker nancy pelosi said this emergency relief bill is an important initial step. we heard from joe biden refer to it as a down payment. i mean, we know it's nearly not enough to meet the nation's needs. tell us about the challenges facing the incoming biden administration as he takes charge of the nation's economic recovery. >> huge challenges. i mean, there's a reason it took so long because it's not easy to

get this sort of massive relief through, particularly when let's be honest, we're facing horrible deficits. it's not like we're spending money that we have. it's not necessarily sit thing in a bank. in terms of the political hurdles here, a lot will come down to georgia. there's a senate runoff race on january 5th, and if both democrats who are up for election win, the senate will be joined 50/50 and the tiebreakler be kamala harris. if either one of those democrats loses the senate will remain controlled by republicans and that will make whatever kind of relief joe biden wants to fashion even harder for him. >> jessica, i want to ask you about the travel ban that is being imposed by most countries on the uk. the president donald trump is yet to ban those flights. is this yet another example of

him going awol on leadership? >> yes. somebody needs to act at this point. it's very hard to tell a nation that's having a surge on top of a surge that has an exponential part of the surge that is seeing thousands of people die every day, just hold on because somebody else will take over in a month. >> jessica levinson joining us from los angeles, many thanks. >> thank you.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. i'm live from hong kong. the u.s. has reported another

189,000 new coronavirus cases. and more than 1500 new deaths on sunday alone, according to johns hopkins university. thankfully, millions more doses of the vaccine are now arriving in states around the country. the u.s. authorized moderna's vaccine for emergency use over the weekend. that makes two vaccines now available for americans. monday's rollout of the moderna product will be about four times as large as the pfizer/biontech rollout last week. the first shots are expected to begin in the next few hours. with two vaccines now available, some americans may be wondering when they'll be able to get their shots. you'll recall health care workers and those in long-term care facilities were first on the list when the vaccine was authorized for use. cnn's natasha chen is in atlanta with the latest on who is next in line. >> reporter: a cdc advisory committee voted sunday 13-1 on the next two phases of people

who should be prioritized for the covid-19 vaccine. already, we've seen in the first phase health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities start to be vaccinated. the next group include people 75 and up, as well as frontline essential workers. people like first responders, grocery store workers and teachers. the phase after that will include people 65 and up, younger people with high-risk medical conditions and other essential workers. the last phase involved more debate among the committee members, especially what is considered a high-risk condition. right now that includes diabetes, obesity, cancer, the committee did say that these are issues with sufficient evidence of being associated with severe covid-19. but it's not an exhaustive list and they did say that will be updated on the cdc website. already, we are seeing more than 500,000 people vaccinated now with the pfizer vaccine. the moderna vaccine is now being

shipped out as we speak with the first shots expected to happen on monday. natasha chen, cnn, atlanta, georgia. things aren't getting any better in california. tens of thousands of people are getting infected each day and hospitals are in a massive strain. the covid tracking project counts more than 17,000 coronavirus patients in california hospitals right now. more than 3700 are in intensive care units. the heartbreak is unending. >> reporter: the covid-19 disaster continuing in california, 46,000 new cases, 161 deaths, that's lower, but the hospitalizations are just terrible. about 17,000 hospitalized, and 3 3600 in the intensive care

units. they have expended the e.r. area into the icu units. when you talk to the nurses who face this daily, they are astounded by what's happening to these patients. a 39-year-old nurse says it's just getting to them. >> people that have no co-morbidities, have no health issues are in renal failure, heart failure, having blood clotting issues. unable to breathe, intubated. and, you know, you don't know what's going to happen or they'll pass away. what is so devastating about this virus. >> reporter: and another just sad story, a father comes in, then his son. they're next to each other at one point. they both wind up dying of covid-19, just one of the many stories being unfurled in california as the pandemic rages on.

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the coronavirus is causing more problems in asia, especially in countries that had successfully contained earlier outbreaks. japan is seeing a steady rise in cases. hospitals in the country are caring for more than 26,000 coronavirus patients. south korea counted 24 deaths sunday. its dead lly day of the pandemi. and seoul's mayor issued new restrictions that begin this week. joining us now from seoul is paula happ aa hancocks. tell us about the latest restrictions and what has caused the surge. >> reporter: yeah, so this is the most stringent measures that seoul city has put in since the

beginning of the pandemic. from wednesday, there will be a ban on gatherings of five or more people in the greater seoul area until january 3rd. now, this area is really where most of the outbreaks are taking place at this point, to where officials admit that they haven't got a handle of many of these cases, many of them untraceable. so what they're trying to do is prevent social gatherings, the year-end gatherings, christmas, new year and try to keep people at home to start decreasing those numbers. because we have been seeing over 1,000 daily cases for some time now. testing is always a little slower on the weekend. and it was also the deadliest day on sunday when it came to the number of people losing their lives to the coronavirus. now, in addition, there was an issue with beds, hospital beds here in south korea. in particular, in seoul. we have heard from officials that they are hoping to double the number of icu beds that can

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm anna coren. the incoming white house chief of staff is blasting the trump administration to its response on a psycher ee eer -- cyber at. he urged the white house to clear up the confusion. officials said last week that russian hackers were likely to blame for the data breach, which they called a grave risk to public and private networks. but on saturday, president trump down played the severity of the hack and suggested china could

be behind it. his comments also contradicted what his secretary of state said just hours before. >> there was a significant effort to use a piece of third party software to essentially embed a code inside of u.s. government systems and it now appears systems of private companies and governments across the world, as well. this was a very significant effort, and i think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the russians that engaged in this activity. >> earlier, i spoke with a cybersecurity consultant and former hacker and asked him about the scale and sophistication of the government data breach. >> the sophistication is extremely sophisticated attack. but i've got to tell you, back in the 1980s when i was on the other side hacking, i was able to compromise a company called

digital equipment corporation, they don't exist today, and i had the access to push out new versions of their software with a back door. but i thought about it, i thought about doing it, because it would have given me access to every operating system in the world, but i decided against it because the risk was way too high. but for the threat actors in this case, that's exactly what they wanted. they wanted to be able to push out their malware onto these networks. then we call it lateral movement where they'll move to different systems within that compromised network, install other back doors, steal information, gain access to email, pretty much compromise everything. attribution is extremely difficult. nation states, in many cases that i heard about, will simulate another nation state's trade kacraft. so imagine china got hold of

malwari that russia uses in their attacks, they'll doctor up their back door to make it look like russia or another country. i don't have that information. i'm depending on our intelligence agencies in the united states that have access to the sources and methods that they may have compromised certain assets in russia, and they're able to get the ground truth of what really happened. we're being told it's russia, president trump is saying china. i don't really know, and i hope eventually the truth comes out as to who did this attack. >> republican senator mitt romney is sounding off on the cyber attack. he told cnn the attack is a big wakeup call for the nation's security, and that president trump should listen to the experts. >> the president has a blind

spot when it comes to russia, and so you can expect that's the response that he would have. but when it comes to matters of intrusion into our cyberspace, i frankly look to the experts. the party has taken a different course than obviously the one that i knew as a younger person. and the party that i knew is one that was very concerned about russia and putin and kim jong-un and north korea. we're a party concerned about balancing the budget. we believed in trade with other nations. we were happy to play a leadership role on the world stage because we felt that made us safer and moreprosperous. i don't see us returning to that for a long time. as i look at the 2024 contenders, most are trying to become as much like donald trump as they can be. but his style and schtick, if you will, is difficult to duplicate.

>> let's get more now from cnn's correspondent. fred, what else are they saying? >> reporter: they aren't saying very much and haven't been saying very much. the only thing that we've really heard from the russian government so far has come from the russian embassy in washington, d.c. which denied russia was behind this attack. so far we haven't heard anything from the kremlin, at least over the weekend and on friday, as well. or from any other high level russian officials either. so far the russians, it seems as if they're trying to wait to see whether or not the outrage in the u.s. might blow over at some point in time. but they will be watching all this very closely, especially those comments from president trump over the weekend where he insinuated it could be china that was behind this attack, and possibly not russia. of course, one of the things that we see almost as a pattern

over the past couple of years is a very close relationship between president trump and vladamir putin of russia. you have seen the president on more than one occasion appearing to be somewhat soft in the face of what many have seen a more assertive russia over the past couple of years. one of the things that we'll be looking for as well is how this attack, which of course in the united states, many are already saying is almost unprecedented and is a huge attack, how that possibly sets the stage for the incoming biden administration and what's going to happen there. as you recall, the u.s. intelligence agencies are seeing that they believe that russia was trying to meddle in the u.s. election in favor of president trump, but also took the putin administration a very long time to actually congratulate joe biden on the election victory, several weeks in fact. they were saying that they were waiting for the electoral votes to officially come in, and for the electoral college to make everything airtight. but at the same time, you can see that there is already a very

cold vibe between the biden administration and the vladamir putin administration. of course, vladamir putin is saying that he is willing to work together with joe biden. he's obviously saying that both russia and the united states, rightfully so, are very important to security in the world. this is certainly something that can shed a very dark light to already before joe biden has even taken office as many in the united states, very critical of president trump, but this is a big breach of u.s. national security as many analysts are saying, as well. anna? >> yeah. fred, the biden administration will no doubt respond to what is being described as the biggest cyber attack in america's history. very quickly, other fears that this could lead to cyber war with russia. >> i mean, the big question is whether or not that might be going on already. one of the things you'll recall ahead of the midterm elections in 2018, the trump administration launched a cyber attack on the internet research agency that the russians had

been using to spread propaganda ahead of u.s. elections. president trump admitted to that a couple of months or a year or so after the midterm election took place. so you do already see some of that taking place. at the same time, we also have to see the history that russia has and had in this field. of course, the 2016 election meddling with the dnc email hack, now this. so certainly you see there is already a lot of activity going on in the cyber sphere, and listening to people here and listening to people in washington as well, they think that is going to escalate rather than decline over the next couple of years. anna? >> fred, thank you. president trump still stewing over the election from a month ago. cnn's correspondent brian stelter looks at the election.

>> our president is in the fight of his life. >> now that the electoral college affirmed joe biden, some shows and sites don't know what to do. this banner on newsmax asking, is it time to move on? while attorney alan der sh wizzs saying yes. >> many americans are questioning the electoral process. >> one american news, running segments like this, claiming election manipulation is a long-term goal of the left, carrying hearing about voter machine security and airing highlights from saturday's pro trump rally in d.c. days later. with fox news mostly accepting that president trump's time is

up -- >> that joe biden is the next president of the united states. >> some trump defenders are flipping over to oan and newsmax instead. >> do you accept that president trump lost georgia? >> no. >> trump didn't lose anything! >> he did not. >> where do you get your news and information? >> newsmax now, because we don't trust fox news. >> officially newsmax says bide season the president-elect and will be referred to that way. but host greg kelly is telling viewers to stay tuned. >> it is not over. >> and other pro-trump personalities are turning against anyone who gives biden legitimacy. >> today, i want to congratulate president-elect joe biden. >> fox's mark leaven lashed out to mitch mcconnell saying, thanks for nothing, mitch, and calling for new blood in the senate. and rush limbaugh framed trump's supreme court loss as some sort of elitist plot. >> this is strictly about

getting rid of donald trump. there isn't an entity in the -- in the american deep state, washington establishment, whatever, that doesn't want to get rid of donald trump. including enough justices on the supreme court. >> demand that is not going away. even if the geraldo riveras of the world say it should. >> it is over. i want the president, the 45th president to understand it is over. the electoral college has voted. >> okay. brian stelter with that report. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom. "i'm anna coren. the news continues after a short break with my colleague, rosemary church. a lotta folks ask me how to

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