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"48 hours." investigators have pieced together who blew up that rv in nashville on christmas morning. the big question that remains, why? almost a week after calling it a disgrace, president trump has finally signed the sweeping covid relief package and government funding bill that so many americans have been waiting for. but there are strings attached n. a statement, the president said he only approved the bill after getting the u.s. senate to agree to consider increasing the amount of stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000, which is what democrats wanted all along, of course. the president has also vowed to send a, quote, redlined version of the bill back to congress,

asking for what he calls wasteful items to be removed. he also claims the senate will take up legislation that starts an investigation into voter fraud in the presidential election, even though there is no evidence of any widespread wrong doing. now, the president's reluctant signature came after unemployment benefits for more than 12 million americans expired on saturday. and ahead of the government shutdown that would have kicked in on tuesday. president trump now back at his mar-a-lago, reports cnn's jeremy diamond who's been traveling with the president, reports from west palm beach, florida. >> reporter: five days after president trump threw billions of dollars of relief into limbo by suggesting he might not sign a massive piece of legislation passed by congress, the president has now signed that legislation. the president signing that $2.3 trilli $2.3 trillion spending bill that includes $900 billion in coronavirus relief on sunday

night here in south florida. the president though only signing the legislation after unemployment benefits for more than 12 million americans lapsed on saturday night after the president didn't sign the legislation then. and the president's signature also comes after he threw millions of americans into financial uncertainty by delaying signing this piece of legislation. those americans who were counting on those $600 stimulus checks to soon be arriving tharks wi, they will now have to wait long r for those stimulus checks. there were the millions businesses who were accounting on ppp funds to come through. now they will be coming through but only after a period of five days of uncertainty here. the president explaining why he finally signed the legislation. he says this in a statement released by the white house, quote, i am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide ppp, return airline workers back to

work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution and much more. the senate will start the process for the vote to increase the checks to $2,000, repeal next 230. those last two items it's not clear what the president is talking about because there isn't stand alone specific legislation to accomplish those goals. but there is a piece of legislation being advanced by house democrats on monday that would increase those $600 stimulus checks to $2,000 in accordance with the president's demand. and it appears that the president has now secured a commitment from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to bring that legislation to the floor. whether it actually passes though is another matter, given that a must be of republicans remain opposed to $2,000 stimulus checks. but regardless this only comes because the president had checked out of governing after the election. for weeks after the election as these negotiations were underway. and it was only after congress passed this legislation with overwhelming bipartisan

majorities and we should say with the endorsement of the treasury secretary steve mnuchin, who was negotiating on the president's behalf. it was only after that legislation passed that the president began to raise his objections. so, all the president accomplished was sinking more americans into financial uncertainty at a time when we have 20-plus-million americans unemployed. and all of this, of course, during the holiday season. jeremy diamond, cnn, traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. let's go now to los angeles and cnn political analyst ron brownstein. good to see you, ron. so, the president, he may have signed now, but not signing that bill on saturday triggered some real world impacts for millions of americans. why do you think the president let this happen at all, especially, of course, as he played golf all weekend? >> well, i think, you know, the initial motivation seems to be a desire to lash out as both democrats and republicans who he felt on the republican side were

not fighting for him hard enough. and look, he has enjoyed chaos throughout his presidency. he has believed that he benefits from chaos. but i thought, you know, what gave away the switch was the fact that he tweeted a little before he tweeted he was going to sign the bill, he tweeted he was going to georgia on january 4th. and i -- and i would bet that he was getting an earful from republican senators saying this level of disruption, the disruption of the benefits, the possibility of a government shutdown, was a very dangerous game he was playing with those two senate seats that will decide control of the senate. and i thought the fact he said he's going to georgia right before he said he was signing this bill was probably not coincidental. >> and what's crazy about this situation i guess is the president's own team negotiated the bill. you have democrats saying, yeah, the president's right. let's increase the amount to 2,000. republicans refusing to do so. so, republicans brought $2,000 checks but now will be forced to

say, yes, maybe. it's just bizarro world. >> it is a piece of it. the president was disengaged from this throughout. he did not have a war in the water in trying to bring this to completion. it's very similar to what we've seen -- this is on the economic side. it's very similar to what we've seen on the health side. since some point in the summer, they have essentially checked out of the public health -- particularly after the election -- and left americans fundamentally on their own, the states on their own trying to deal with hospitals that are overrun, trying to deal with a death toll that now amounts to a 9/11 or pearl harbor a day. so, the fact that he, you know, was disengaged from this attempt to find an economic solution, i think, is totally a piece with his awol behavior on the public health challenge, as well a president who essentially has walked away from his job. >> it's a good point. you and i have both often spoken

about how congressional republicans have stayed mute as they watch the trump wrecking ball swing. but it's notable more and more are speaking out in recent days with pretty harsh words. pat toomey said trump will be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior if he allowed this thing to expire. congressman kinzinger said the president is trying to burn the place down on the way out because he can't handle losing. it's interesting that's starting to happen but is it too little too late. >> it's too little and too late. those familiar voices to me is one who's a little more critical, one of the last republicans in a state that has voted mostly democratic in presidential elections. and kinzinger has been a lone voice in the house. the big store is if you put all the pieces together since the election, the disengagement on the pandemic, the 11:59 effort to torpedo this bill, the persistent efforts to subvert

the election, the calls on the justice department to investigate his political rivals. and again here asking the senate to pursue this non-existent election fraud. and then these pardons to his cronies and people who were directly implicated in shielding him from the mueller investigation. i think if you add all of this up, michael, it looks -- you probably know this better than i. it looks like the final hour of a dictatorship. the walls are closing in. the strong man knows that the clock is ticking. he is addaled, he is angry, he is vengeful, he is lashing out. i think it's just embarrassing. the u.s. sends people all over the world trying to teach countries how to stand up a democracy, and here we are watching ours being torn down day by day, mostly with silence from republicans in congress. >> you touched on this and i wanted to come back. the part that still gets me is the guy took part in the massacre in iraq, the

blackwater, which is just unspeakable. but you touched on this. let's touch briefly before we go. how might the president's actions or inaction, his behavior, impact public sentiment with those january 5 senate elections approaching? biden's ability to govern hinges on those elections. >> yes, look, these elections are so tribal and the lines are so deeply engraved in every state and and georgia is divided. not much that has happened since the election is going to affect it one way or another. this really is a turnout battle. i do think that loeffler and perdue were looking at just a worse case scenario if trump allowed all the benefits to lapse, the eviction moratorium, the extended unemployment as well as the government shutdown. and now you could imagine a scenario where they get the chance on the floor of the senate to vote for a $2,000 payment, which might benefit them at the margin.

so, i don't think anything is going to affect it that much. but on balance, they're probably feeling better tonight than they were 24 hours ago, the two republicans. >> yep, yep, indeed, he's also called on his supporters to turn out in d.c. on january 6th. he did that on twitter as well. >> chaos coming in too. >> exactly. that's going to be interesting to see how that unfolds. ron brownstein, i wish we had more time. we do not. appreciate it as always. >> thanks for having me, michael. well, the u.s. has now surpassed 19 million cases of the coronavirus. that's according to johns hopkins university. still by far the most in the world. and almost double the next closest country, which is india. america's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, says cases may swell in january, in part because of the millions of people who travelled for the christmas holidays.

>> we're really in a very critical point. if you put more pressure on the system by what might be a post-seasonal surge because of the traveling and the likely congregating of people for the good warm purposes of being together for the holidays, it's very tough for people to not do that. and yet even though we advised not to, it's going to happen. so, i share the concern of president-elect biden that as we get into the next few weeks, it might actually get worse. >> now, u.s. health officials say nearly 2 million americans have been vaccinated so far. nowhere near, though, the trump administration's prediction of 20 million by the end of this month. now, if you live in the u.s. and want to see what could happen in your town, as coronavirus cases soar, take a look at california. right now the state is reporting some of the highest new daily case numbers per capita in the entire country.

hospitals quickly running out of room to care for patients, even the very sickest patients. health officials worried about running out of resources. paul vercammen explains. >> reporter: michael, here in california the blair of sirens here at huntington hospital in pasadena, 189 patients in the hospital with covid-19. they've even set up surge tents to accommodate other patients with other problems and keep them away from the covid-19 patients. in all, 20,000 covid-19 patients in hospitals in california. and something of concern here, if there is a tidal wave of cases after new year's eve, top officials at this hospital say they may have to ration health care. >> indeed that's what we may have to do. that's really the ultimate triage. we have a limited number of ventilators. we have a limited number of icu beds. we have a limited number of plastic tubing for oxygen tanks. so, a lot of those decisions if

we get to that point -- we're not there yet, but if we did, we're going to have to make some of those decisions. again, that's a decision no physician or nurse or anybody wants to have to make about somebody. >> they call that practice. they call it a scarce resource policy. and the doctor knows all about it. the infectious disease expert also served in africa in the fight against hiv. now they're crossing their fingers and hoping that californians pay attention to smart social distancing and don't get out of control by not wearing masks or by getting together for large gatherings during the new year's holiday. i'm paul vercammen reporting from pasadena. now back to you, michael. >> appreciate that, paul. now we are learning more about the nashville bombing on christmas morning. investigators say they know who did it, but they're still trying to figure out key details. we'll have the latest when we come back. ence in people's live. my team helped expand

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run off. david perdue and kelly loeffler released a statement praising the president's leadership in approving the aid that he did not approve for days, as he golfed. both senators had voted for the measure and never said whether they backed president trump's last-minute call for higher direct payments to americans. it has been a challenge for perdue and loeffler to campaign around the president's surprise moves on legislation and his messaging on election fraud. ryan nobles reports on the pivotal run off. >> reporter: just a little more than a week to go before the final votes are cast in the georgia senate run off, and there's a lot at stake, both for republicans and democrats. republicans are hoping they can hold on to at least one of these seats. if they do, they will retain the majority in the united states senate. it hasn't been easy. republicans running as close as they can to president trump but he continues to throw them curveballs, the most obvious

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the explosion happens just seconds after an officer walks out of frame to safety. and we are hearing from the police who were forced to arrive on the scene before the blast. they say the rv had cameras and all of its windows were covered from inside. we know a computerized voice in the rv was broadcasting an evacuation warning. and police added an eerie detail. they say it was also playing the song "downtown." one of the officers describing the moment when the bomb went off. >> as i turn around, for me it felt like i only took three steps and then the music stopped. and as i'm walking back, i just see orange and then i hear a loud boom. and as i'm stumbling, it rocked me down hard. i started stumbling, just telling myself, just stay on your feet, stay alive.

>> now, cnn law enforcement analyst peter la carta joins me from new york, former supervisory special agent by the fbi and former fbi lead bomb technician, just the man for this conversation. we know who the alleged bomber is now. a neighbor described him a loner, a former employer, said a nice guy. what would investigators be looking at in terms of his mental state or what led him to do this? police were asked about 5g paranoia technology. what are they looking at? >> good morning, michael. what police are doing right now, as they're still processing this crime scene, which was quite large, they're going to be taking deep dives into warner's social media accounts. they'll be pulling every cell phone he owns, every computer, every hard drive that he has access to. they're going to be pulling social media, tracking his websites, looking at his phone calls to see who he was potentially in contact with and

then also to see what websites or what postings he had on social media to understand what his ideology was, if any, and what his motive was to conduct this attack. >> public records show that he was issued an explosive user permits handler license back in november 2013. that expired in 2016. so, we can presume some sort of knowledge of explosives. but you're the expert. i mean, how easy is it to make a bomb of this size with what are fairly easily-obtained materials? >> well, in the united states, commercial military explosives are very well regulated. so, not saying he didn't have access to those, but they're very well regulated, considering his license expired some seven years ago. however, improvised or homemade explosives are easy to procure and are really the explosive of any criminal's choice because the precursor materials are easy to get, whether on the internet

or at sellers. and in general it's pretty simple chemistry in order to make some of these explosive mixtures. >> so, what pieces of the puzzle are most important, then, for investigators to put together now? the make up of the bomb, obviously. but i guess motivation is key because if we don't know why he did this, we're kind of stuck, aren't we? >> agreed. so, obviously the make up of the bomb will -- the forensics don't end just because we know who the main subject is. so, the forensics are going to continue to develop any leads to confirm that he in fact was the sole producer/manufacturer of this device and the only culprit involved in it. so, along with that, it's just going to be confirming that no one corroborated with him, collaborated with him on this effort no, one pushed him forward to increase his mo motivation, whatever his motivation ends up being to perform this catastrophic act. >> the fbi confirmed threats

against infrastructure earlier this month, unrelated to this, but apparently related to the election in some way. obviously we don't have that political connection in this case or know about it. but the thing that's interesting, if it's shown that the at&t facility was the target and this week was parked right out in front of it, does that show any sort of weakness in infrastructure protection? is that a bit of a warning sign? there was damage in terms of the cell phone coverage and stuff like that. >> infrastructure has always been a focus of law enforcement and corporate security. it has been since prior to september 11th, 2011 when terrorism really hit in united states, there was a boost in the way infrastructure from utility companies to communications systems to switches are maintained and managed, obviously to airports. so, those things have always

been considered a target by terrorist groups or just any other group. so, in this case, mr. warner. so, those things are always considered to be a target. so, the security has always been very heavy, whether it's cctv, whether it's a hardened infrastructure, all different means to try to protect that. but it will always be a target and it's something that law enforcement and corporate security need to consider. >> yeah, and you're well-practiced in this sort of field, but it sort of strikes me that -- and it's worrying in some ways. it's not that hard to do this kind of thing. >> unfortunately it's not. there's way too much information out there on the internet that just lead people down these paths. >> yeah, and have the right motivation. fascinated to talk to you. thanks so much. appreciate your expertise. >> thank you. thank you. >> and we will right back. you can really save.

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european union kicked off a huge vaccination campaign over the weekend with hopes of turning the tide on the pandemic that has claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide. how the rollout is going across europe. >> reporter: first the caretaker, then one of the most vulnerable. that's how greece began the process of distributing its first doses of a covid-19 vaccine. today marks the first day of the downdown to take our lives back, the greek health minister says. the hope resounding throughout the european union as member countries roll out their own vaccination programs. two doses for each citizen, inoculations that will stretch well into next year.

but could one day potentially vanquish the virus that has so far killed nearly 1.8 million people worldwide. residents in a retirement home in germany were among the first to get the shots. one 85-year-old welcoming the possibility of a sore arm. we want to see our families again, she says, that's the most important thing, and to be able to go out again. the eu is due to get 12.5 million doses of the pfizer-biontech vaccine by the end of the year, and it's expecting more. which along with contracts from companies like moderna and astrazeneca should add up to a total of more than 2 billion doses of potential vaccines if companies keep up with demand. in the czech republic, the first shots given to the prime minister to encourage skeptics that it's safe. polls show many europeans are wary of taking a covid-19 vaccine, at least for now.

one man says, i think it's been a bit quick for it to be really effective, but we will have to see how it works. that reluctance not shared by officials in hungary and slovakia who are so eager to begin vaccinating that they started a day early, on saturday. some countries are even calling up retired medics and revising rules on who can give injections to prevent any logistical delays. in this town in italy, once the epicenter of the pandemic in europe, a site almost unthinkable nearly 10 months ago. vehicles carrying viles of vaccine, a light at the end of the tunnel that so many across europe did not live to see. cnn, paris. japan is now banning foreign nationals from entering the country after reporting several cases of the covid-19 variant. that ban will last until the end of january. japanese citizens and foreign residents will be allowed entry,

but they'll have to self-quarantine for 14 days. japan reporting nearly 3,000 new coronavirus cases on sunday. cnn's selena wang joins us now from tokyo. tell us how worried authorities are about this new variant appearing and also how this ban is going to work. >> reporter: well, we are seeing concerns growing here as japan steps up those border controls, as you mentioned, temporarily banning entry of foreign nationals as well as temporarily stopping the shoe wans of new visas. up until this point, japan had been slowly opening its borders. japan has taken a relatively relaxed approach without any strict lockdowns, but it did have one of the world's strictest travel curves, banning entry for more than 150 countries at one point. foreign residents and japanese citizens can still enter, as can business people and students from several countries that japan has these special travel arrangements with, which include

south korea as well as china. but japan is decidedly in the midst of a massive surge in covid cases, reporting thousands a day. and the government has really been struggling to balance covid-19 prevention with preparing for the olympics and reviving the economy. in fact, up until this week, the government had been encouraging people to go out and travel and eat. michael. >> yeah, wow. china reporting some outbreaks ahead of the lunar new year. what's been the response to that? >> that's right. we've seen china take a very different approach to these local flare ups. china has largely brought the pandemic under control. every time we do see these localized outbreaks, we see the area go into wartime mode with mass testing and heightened restrictions. you take the example of this city in china, it's reported

that about 60 coronavirus cases. starting last week the city started mass testing and already they've reported they've already completed testing of 6.4 million people. at the same time, the capital, beijing, is under high alert, currently undergoing mass testing of around 800,000 people. this is after reporting just two locally transmitted cases in a northeastern district of beijing. we're seeing authorities there already seal off residential compounds and villages where cases have been found. even though, michael, this is a very small number of cases, as you say, the lunar new year holiday is coming up. and this is a mass travel period when authorities do not want to see any uptick in cases, michael. >> yeah, absolutely. selena, good to have you there. selena wang in tokyo for us. thank for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes. for international viewers, you'll see "world sport" next.

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welcome back. we're just over three weeks away until president-elect joe biden takes office, and his team is getting busy readying for the challenges ahead. cnn's jessica dean has the latest on their preparations from delaware. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden and vice president-elect kamala harris will be briefed by key members of their national security and foreign policy teams on monday. these are team members who are part of the agency review teams who are have been going into

these government agencies to really get a lay of the land and report back what biden and harris will be inheriting when they assume office on january 20th. we're told they will be briefing them on any key challenges they'll be inheriting when they take office. and we are expecting the president-elect to give remarks following that. one thing to keep an eye on, there has been this back and forth between the department of defense and the biden transition team and the president-elect himself saying that the department of defense has not been briefing his team on information they need, including about the cyber security hack. the department of defense, a senior official from that refuting that, saying it's patently false. the department of defense said there was a mutually agreed upon pause for the holiday to tack a break, but the biden transition team says they never agreed to that and they're still not getting the information they need. it will be interesting to see if we hear any more about that from the president-elect on monday. also looking ahead to the days and weeks to come, the president-elect has five remaining slots to fill in his cabinet. he still needs to name an

attorney general, a director of the cia, a secretary of labor, a secretary of commerce and someone to head up the small business administration. we're expecting him to complete that by early january. jessica dean, cnn, wilmington, delaware. syrian refugees were forced to flee a camp in lebanon after a tent caught fire and the blaze spread through the entire settlement. the un agency in lebanon said the fire happened after a violent dispute on saturday night, although no official cause is being given. the temporary camp was destroyed along with the few possessions the refugees had with them. neighboring communitys in lebanon and shelter have more aid coming in the un. and in iran a dozen climbers were killed with blizzards trig erd an avalanche. it happened north of tehran in mountains popular with tourists. the search and rescue operation was called off sunday after the

last two bodies were recovered. for many around the world of course 2021 can't come soon enough. just one year ago, the term covid-19 wasn't even on our radar. 12 months later, it's on the tip of everyone's tongue and has upended countless lives along the way. we look back at the year of the pandemic and some of the biggest moments of 2020. ♪ >> reporter: it's been a year we'll never forget. in 2020, we witnessed world-changing, paradigm-shifting events, all happening under the cloud of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. >> but what's the secret? >> reporter: and cnn was there every step of the way. >> he was very scared. he's no longer set. >> reporter: a stretch of bad events started off the year, wild fires engulfed australia with apocalyptic scenes. >> we cannot see the fire, but

we can certainly smell it and feel it. >> reporter: burning up to 73,000 square miles, about the size of the state of south dakota, and killing an estimated 1 billion animals. >> this is not normal. it's like fires on steroids. >> reporter: lives were lost and thousands of homes destroyed. >> a day after claiming that iran's top commander was planning to attack a u.s. general -- >> reporter: the death of qassem soleimani in a u.s. drone strike led to days of terrifying tension between the u.s. and iran. >> saying there would be revenge, some sort of response from the iranians. >> reporter: threats of war and iran's retaliatory attack on iraqi bases houses u.s. troops. >> [ bleep ]. >> i was scared at the moment but it happened. it's something that we were ready for. >> reporter: just hours after iran launched that ballistic missile attack on two u.s. military bases in iraq, a

ukrainian passenger plane was shot down in iran, killing all 176 people on board. >> new video obtained by cnn seems to show a missile strike. as a fast-moving projectile flies across the sky cnn obtained new footage that appears to show the dramatic and extraordinary force of the impact as that ukrainian airliner slammed into the ground in teheran. >> you have to grasp this scope of it. 20 million people. that's what we're talking about. >> we have noticed a good nrm of people rushing to this train station. this station is located just a few blocks away from the seafood market. the epicenter of the virus.

>> coronavirus is showing in signs of letting up. >> it was lace december when a test result from a patient quarantined in the hospital showed a patient had a coronavirus. but hours after hitting send, wuhan city health officials tracked him down. questioning the information. >> the doctor would pay with his life for his bravery. like thousands of other medical professionals on the front lines all over the world. >> shut downs followed across the globe. life as we knew it would grind to a halt over night. >> the month of march was a month of daily death. this woman died on the 7th of march. this died the 8th of march. >> the silence with which is kills.

>> empty flights, city centers. and cruise ships floating through the open waters. trapped passengers hoping in vain for a place it port. the virus made its way around the world like the grim reaper. taking victims. >> i was called out last night to it was his wife of many years had passed away. >> this video shows patients lying on the floor in the hospital. >> these are bodies. >> just watching the video is difficult. imagine going through the containers in person. looking for your dads body. >> a march 11 the w.h.o. declared a global pandemic. >> pandemic is not a word to use lightly. >> by then, life as we knew it already long gone. millions across the world living for months under strict lock down to stop the spread of the virus. face masks became a familiar site.

social distancing a way of life. in early august, lebanon struck by a massive deadly explosion. sparked by the detonation of thousands of tons of amoan yum. killing 170 people and injuring 6,000. >> something of this magnitude. so unnecessary. this is pushed the rage felt by the population to unprecedented level. >> in 2020, cnn exposed a factory in ghana. backed by russia. that was actively aiming to influence the 2020 u.s. presidential election. and let me tell you, it's not where you might want expected it to be. >> this is the compound where the operation has been based. there's no sign for an ngo.

we're an hour outside of the city. >> the investigation identified russian operatives who trailed putin's nemesis before he was poisoned. >> i get out of the bathroom. to the flight attendant and said i was poisoned. i'm going to die. >> after a difficult spring fightingle covid-19 pandemic. most of europe opened back up. despite the short respite in the summer. the virus back with a vengeance in the fall and winter in europe. >> a stricter lock down in place. >> a troubling headline. >> worry growing over a new covid variant. >> the implications that could be 70% more contagious. >> french border is closed. we have seen the police officers

turning 18 wheelers around with their goods. >> worldwide coronavirus cases hit 73 million. in december. there were 16.5 million in the united states alone. and more than 1 million deaths globally. a uniting global goal in 2020 a vaccine. and by december, we saw the first approved vaccine administered. >> let the mass immunization program begin. >> 90 year-old margaret making history. the first person in england and the world to receive the pfizer vaccine. outside the trial. >> a moment of hope that 2021 will be the beginning of the end of a pandemic that spares no one. >> the tennis great federer will miss the first australia open of

his career. a tournament he's won six times. still recovering from two knee surgeries. australian open will be starting in february. delayed by three weeks due to the pandemic. >> they don't call this football field the frozen tundra for nothing. this was the scene at the field in green bay, wisconsin. as the packers took on the tennessee titans. heavy snow moved in making it a winter wonder land. packers are used to that. they won the game. 40 to 14. quite cold. thanks for watching. stay with us. i will be back with more news in just a moment. this holiday at t-mobile, get an iphone 12 with 5g,

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