randi kaye, reporting in west palm beach florida. >> millions more people in england are now under the toughest level of restrictions called tier three. infections have spiked and there are new fears of the virus accelerating the spread. the prime minister hopes there will not be a third lockdown after christmas, but he's not ruling it out. selma, what's the latest? >> despite the fact that there has been growing concern for the medical community, command for tougher and tighter restrictions, the prime minister is insistent to go ahead with a relaxation of rules during christmastime. there is a period of time days between december 23rd and december 27th in which people will be allowed to break their social restrictions, up to three households can come together and celebrate the holidays in a small, confined space and share a meal together. this has many doctors and nurses concerned, pleading with the prime minister to be concerned. that crucial number, while early analysis now shows that's going over one after a few weeks of it being under one, hospital capacity across england is alrea

randi kaye reporting in west palm beach is florida.ack to you. >>> president trump sent out a tweet to mark the emergency authorization of the moderna vaccine. he said congratulations, the moderna vaccine is now available. and president-elect joe biden released this statement. we are grateful to the scientists, medical experts and trial participants who helped to deliver these vaccines and evaluated their safety and efficacy free from political influence. >>> the u.s., u.s. health care workers are the first to get the shot. practicing neurosurgeon dr. sanjay gupta is one of them. he got the shot live on cnn friday. so, why was it so important for him to get vaccinated in such a public way. dr. gupta explains. >> it was quite an extraordinary moment, i have to tell you, to get that vaccine. and a real collision of my words. as a health yeah worker, they're vaccinating people at the hospital where i work. and when my turn came, i did not hesitate. but also as a journalist who have been covering the story of covid for so long, i had reall

as cnn's randy kaye reports this is bad and especially brutal in one particular state. >> reporter: thenited states, now in far worse shape than any point during the pandemic. deaths reported on thursday 312,000 and predicted 560,000 u.s. deaths in april. >> we are 100% icu capacity. >> more than 233,000 on thursday, about 1 in every 216 americans has been infected this week alone. hospitalizations also mounting nationwide. more than 114,000 americans hospitalized as of thursday. all eyes are on california which seems to be offering a grim preview of what the rest of the country can expect. >> there is so much coming in so regardless of how much staffing, how good the staffing is, it's still not enough. >> reporter: the state's health department says two people are dying from covid every hour. it's so bad there are now zero icu beds left in california and forcing some hospitals to set up tents in parking lots. >> we are drowning in covid-19 patients right now and up to our neck. our concern if we can't people to do better we could go under. >> reporter: the director of the l.a. county h

centuries later in 1900 and the threat looking at you and i have actors polio has nearly been there randi kaye did it and the vaccine is 99 percent effective the flu vaccine is a tricky one as the virus mutates regularly so people have to get flu shots every year to help protect against the most common strains generally the effectiveness of the flu shot hovers around so with these recent phase 3 clinical trial results showing vaccines that have north of 90 percent efficacy we have lots to be hopeful about well yes but neither but just because the results have been good so far that doesn't mean we can instantly go back to life as we know it not everyone will be able to get vaccinated that includes people whose immune systems are compromised or weakened by existing conditions and it will take a while to get vaccines to everyone who can be vaccinated so masks and social distancing are the way it's going to be for a while yet. social distancing is hard for many people. touching others and being touched does things to us in the us. when touched the skin sends electrical signals to the brain that ca

randi kaye, cnn, palm beach, florida. >> lot of legal fights for president trump, ahead.he man pursuing the civil lawsuit in a d.c. courtroom joins us now. d.c. attorney general, karl racine. mr. attorney general, thanks for joining us. as we mentioned, stephanie winston wolkoff was deposed today. i know you can't share details as it's an ongoing civil case. can you share whether she was cooperative, or not? >> miss winston wolkoff has been fully cooperative, since day one of meeting her. and her deposition today, i think, you know, was truthful, honest, and fulsome. though, i cannot talk about the details of the deposition, i can tell you that it strengthens our case, and our case is a just case because it demonstrates that the trumps took advantage of the presidential-inaugural committee, and funneled money, a million dollars, essentially, into their own pockets and purses through the trump hotel. >> and can you just walk us through how you believe that the inaugural committee may have overpaid the trump family, trump family business, and what you found after years of c

voices they were these people were so alive when i was growing up and i remember as a definitely danny kaye in but i mean i just want to. but it's so funny you said that he came because as you were talking about it i was going to herrmann vera ellen on the let's call it the fontainebleau hotel doc in white christmas where his guns heads you could tell they've got a strap under him so they're tucked into his beautiful crushed velvet says and he swing it around to the day. and i always think jesus he had it i love these people who had their moment and hit it as hard as they could hit it and it will be there forever love the feeling. jim i love that chair laughing i always watch it whenever i'm surfing and the channel send it's on it's just wait. and that's when what do you want me i don't like china and so. sammy is great and what about when dean jagger the generals expecting to get a letter from the pentagon to get him back in and being comes back he's dressed in some beautiful hound's tooth with an ascot of a door he's got his pipe and the general says i'm not going to be in this hotel your

arrested including 3 controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed smash and grab artie's a solid defense kaye reports. so today's protest against the draw floor was on security and in trying republicans value so police deploy new crowd control tactics. essentially assume ash and grab security forces smashing into the protests and grabbing out individuals who they think may be troublemakers nearly 150 people were detained provoking anger from some that describe these detentions as being. this saturday december 12th a number of observers saw inadmissible abuse linked to the deployment of brutal police and military offices and the infringement of the right to demonstrate that includes mass arrests and justify charging to break up a procession and detention without legitimate reason beyond legal limits. i was at the police station for several protesters were held including a 17 year old young woman this under aged girl was arrested at saturday's demonstration she didn't do anything wrong she was protesting and recording police officers on camera this is unspeakable it was just protesters being de

. >> kaye. >> so tell us a bit about the future, and for the movies i see conan is in production, i hope you know there's lots of things you can do so what are you going to do beside this tv show? >> the tv show undoing an animated right now we are putting together an animated tv show, a series which is for kids where it is a super hero kindergarten, and it's like kindergarten cop the movie that was highly successful and making it with kids we coming in the future superheroes, so the batman and superman and super women and all this. so now they're five years old, and i teach them how to use their power for something good rather than for something evil and of course the evil forces there they do the same thing and it is confrontations and battles, and really a lot a lot of fun so i'm doing the voice over for it as and i'm working with the animators and the basically it's my character from kindergarten cop, and that was i was an x superhero myself and that retired, and a teacher of this kindergarten kids. then we superpowers. >> so let me go back to politics, so for governors, three govern

let's check in with cnn's randi kaye. she's in washington. all eyes are pushing the bill. >> reporter: will they or won't they green light that moderna vaccine. if they do green light it, millions of more americans could be vaccinated, and with the situation going from bad to worse, the time is now. the united states seeing its darkest days since the pandemic began. but more help is likely on the way. the fda could recommend emergency use authorization of moderna's coronavirus vaccine at any time now. the cdc is expected to discuss distribution plans for moderna's vaccine over the weekend. >> we likely will see shots in the arm by the early part of next week. i would hope monday or tuesday. >> reporter: those shots in the arm can't come soon enough. deaths reported thursday, 30,270. they're predicting 500,000 deaths by april. all eyes are on california which is in a gruesome predicament. l.a. county's health department says on average two people are dying from covid-19 every hour. and there are zero icu beds left in southern california. the d

talks between the european union and hugh kaye on a post brics it trade deal could carry on even after their trading relationship ends next week europe's chief negotiator told member states that the parties remain intractably divided over fishing rights. to their world is next looking at the subject of multiple sclerosis in egypt you stay with us if you can. 'd hans also santa getting a dolphin any mean. at all but that's often asked about the office found much any funny when i look kind of stance when. i have see him in higher whatever match trying to send a come let me do i have never seen and i'm kind of see them i mean this man did have this to hold his thought of why that he thought as the conduct was all safe and so we try it is an emotion that also ought not be in this who. then by that would want to limit items that from gunship may not lay a hold of and i am. and then i. don't want to have that. many going to. be there some can sort. of i'm going to feel a lot of. the sort of fun of the ones that i need for that's almost on a sort of with them in this interview i would be i me

here at the leant he said kaye. just like the performers bar staff have also been starved of patrons. it's heartwarming just to open the cafe to have an activity see the smiles on the faces of people outside it's the best thing that has happened to us recently. for the most part a charity has been helping performers make ends meet although pos is by also encouraged to make donations so that circus in the city might help make their curtain call worthwhile. you're watching news one more item before we go fans around the world are paying tribute to music legend john lennon 40 years ago today the beatles co-founder was murdered outside his home in new york city to mark the anniversary of his death we'll leave you now with the song here today a tribute by his band mate paul mccartney a few years after lennon's death. and if i was. a really. good you read. a few really easy to. get knowing. i am wrong i am saying you were above. the atlantic. and australian cinema all on the brink of extinction. 1000 dollars killed by dev

douglas kaye, one of the people, one of the individuals that our viewers just saw from one of the casesin your exhibit space was the medal of honor and the navy cross of john basel own. who is john bass alone? >> what >> he is eighth renowned marine. i think any u.s. marine, especially those who have touched a machine gun knows about john basilone all the way until your last breath. i john basilone will receive the medal for -- he will depart the theater, and go back as part of the drive, he's a instructor, teaching future machine gunfighters, he will return to the theater, a land on hiroshima, and he'll be killed on the navy cross. what's interesting is that a lot of those who he trained prior to going back to the pacific and landing on hiroshima where the machines he was killed with years later. >> we mentioned some 27 medals of honor were given out for actions on iwo jima i, hell many made it out alive? >> 13 were killed. so do the math, historians. as a historian, matt isn't my strong suit. 14 or 16 were given as awards. it kind of speaks to the volume of the salary of the conflict

jonathan kaye is often given very high marks for his temperate, cool leadership during that crisis. i talked to u.s. senator sam none two weeks ago and he gets all the presidents from truman to george h. w. bush credit for their restraint and not launching a nuclear war, whether on purpose or as he thought more likely by accident over the 45 year period, wall dealing with the soviet union and other threats to the u.s.. you wrote i quote, there were many sincere words of peace during his presidency, but ike was always preparing for war unquote. now that sums up to me what the cold war era was all about. do you agree with that, or do you think ike stands alone? >> i think that is the job of the president. but i'm not sure that every single one has done it as well, or has taken that role as seriously as they should. but i don't think anyone of the, sam don is probably as close as possible to whoever might be able to tell us, i don't think that any of us have been inside the white house for served as president could imagine what that is like. the notion that you've got the ability, the

and by the way, we have today with us the dean of the ivan allen college of liberal arts, kaye husbas fealing. she's wing over there. an i don't know if the chair of the sam nunn school of international affairs, adam stulberg, isere or not, but so, yes, there is very strong and very exciting school of international affairs at georgia tech. we believe strgly that in a ace that is as rich in science and technology as georgia tech that can provi a very interesting context for diplomacy and for policy setting. we are committed as an institution to eduting leaders who advance technology and improve the hum condition. that is our msion. d of course that brings up the question of what are the aspects of the human condition that need to be improved. and that requires not only strong science and technology, but it requis a lot of policy and liberal arts and history a unrstanding of what are the issues that theorld faces. we understand that my of the biggest problems that w face as a species or even the proems that affect us in the united states and here in georgia are global in nature. and und

>>encontro and danny kaye indicate that anyway she says that her goal is to continue her daily post until the pandemic is over or at least until she completes a year in march, so if you're up for a challenge you can try to name that tune. if you want to check her out produce upstairs is going who's been >>lawrence so you know the answer to some good music to integrate sing along music to and certainly during these holidays, it will be nice to have. >>out there tonight we are looking at some passing clouds up above there's a cold front that is actually moving through the bay area unfortunately this one, not going to bring us any rain and we've got another one right behind it that will bring us any rain either, but i think after we get past that we're going to be talking about a chance some showers right now just some passing mid to high level clouds scoot across your skies. we're going to be watching for some strong winds as we get toward tomorrow afternoon. i think those winds going to get very blustery in spots in the north especially over the mountain top so some of those gusts maybe up