i'm amy goodman.he u.s. topped 25 million confirmed coronavirus cases sunday, over one quarter of the world's caseload, which is approaching 100 million. the u.s. has recorded over 419,000 deaths. president joe biden is expected to reinstate travel restrictions from brazil, britain and much of europe, as well as impose a new ban on non-u.s. citizens traveling from south africa, where health officials have said a more transmissible variant is behind a devastating surge. top infectious disease expert dr. anthony found she said over the weekend data shows covid vaccines appear to be less effective against some of the new variance. british prime minister boris johnson said for the first time friday the u.k. variant may be not just more infectious, but up to 30% more deadly as well. britain's chief scientific advisor cautioned evidence of the claim is not yet strong and that more research is needed. president biden and members of his team warned over the weekend the coming weeks and months will be tough. b

amy: jodiu tell us that the biden administration is weighing what to do with dapl? jodi: i believe that they are and i think they understand this is a risk that the energy transfer partners knew they were taking. energy transfer partners said that $7.5 billion -- this has to be a statement. if the biden administration stands for racial justice and equity, climate justice, when are we going to have justice in standing rock? amy: jodi

i'm amy goodman. on his first full day in office, president joe biden unveiled a 198-page national plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, calling it a wartime undertaking against covid-19. adding to the urgency, the u.s. recorded another near-record global high death toll thursday, with over 4,100 deaths. biden signed 10 executive orders to create a new national covid-19 testing board to help schools reen, to mante international travelers to quarantine upon arrival and to mandate masks on many forms of interstate transportation. >> our plan starts with mounting an aggressive, safe and effective vaccination campaign, to meet our goal of administering 100 million shots in our first 100 days in office. we are on day one. this will be one of the greatest operational challenges our nation has ever undertaken. amy: on thursday, the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci spoke to reporters at the white house and was asked about the difference between working under prident trump and biden

i'm amy goodman. the united states death toll from covid-19 topped 4000 for the first time on thursday, setting yet another daily world record as top public health official dr. anthony fauci warned the u.s. outbreak will get even worse in the weeks ahead. arizona is now one of the worst-affected parts of the world, with nearly 1% of state residents testing positive for coronavirus in just the past week. in california, the national guard is assisting los angeles county's coroner's office after morgues and mortuaries ran out of storage space for covid-19 victims. the cdc reported thursday that asymptomatic carriers of coronavirus are responsible for more than half of new fections, a finding that bolsters the urgent need for masks and social distancing. meanwhile, new research published in the journal science immunology shows 90% of people have robust immunity to coronavirus eight months after an infection. it's not yet known if immunity wanes after a longer interval. president trump said thursday there

amie harwick -- >> reporter: amy became a therapist with one goal in mind, helping others.offering advice on youtube, she worked to empower women, especially those in abusive relationships. on her path to becoming a therapist, she lived a while, eclectic hollywood life. >> she would gogo dance at big nightclubs, like in a cage. she would do fire performances. >> reporter: paying her way through grad school by working as a model and dancer, landing gigs like this, seen on "the real housewives of beverly hills." all the while earning her master's inyam w whr best frien she returned home around 1:00 a.m., unaware, according to police, someone had kicked in a door and was lying in wait inside. >> she encountered him somewhere in the house. he choked her with his hands, apparently. >> reporter: her screams waking up her roommate, who called 911. but before police arrived, amie was thrown from her third floor balcony. police finding her on the ground, gravely injured. she later died at the hospital of blunt force trauma and strangulation. >> i talked to police, they said, you kno

i'm amy goodman. president-elect joe biden has proposed a massive $1.9 trillion plan to battle the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis. the plan calls for sending out an additional $1400 per person in direct payments, $350 billion for hard-hit state and local governments, and another $400 billion in pandemic response funds to pay for vaccinations, testing, school reopenings, and emergency paid leave. it also offers enhanced unemployment benefits, tax credits to working families, rental assistance, and eviction and foreclosure moratoriums through september. biden also called on congress to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. he outlined his plan in a national address thursday evening. mr. biden: sub 18 million americans are still relying on unemployment insurance. some 400,000 small businesses have permanently closed their doors. the crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight, and there is no time to waste. we have to act and we have to act now. amy: parts of biden's plan rankled some

i'm amy goodman. momentum is building to remove president trump from office following the violent attempted coup last wednesday that saw an angry mob of trump-backed insurrectionists storm the capitol, resulting in five deaths. house democrats are introducing a resolution formally calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment. house speaker nancy pelosi says if pence does not move to do so, the house will proceed with impeachment for the second time in trump's single term. pence has reportedly not ruled out using the 25th amendment. california congressmember ted lieu said an article of impeachment with at least 210 co-sponsors in the house will be introduced today. the draft resolution cites "incitement of insurrection." meanwhile, two republican senators have joined calls for trump to resign -- alaska's lisa murkowski and pennsylvania's pat toomey, who spoke on nbc's "meet the press" sunday. >> i think the best way for our tontry is for the president resign and go away as soon as

i'm amy goodman. a british judge has blocked the extradition of wikileaks founder julian assange to the united states where he could have faced up to 175 years in prison. in an extraordinary decision, judge vanessa baraitser said assange would not be safe in u.s. prisons due to the state of his mental health and the increased risk of suicide. judge baraitser said -- "i find that the mental condition of mr. assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the united states of america." supporters of assange celebrated outside the london courthouse. theo celebrate that american prison system is so bad that even this judge would not send julian assange into it. amy: in 2019, julian assange was indicted in the united states on 17 counts of violating the espionage act related to the publication of classified documents exposing u.s. war crimes in iraq, afghanistan, and elsewhere. we laugh more on the story after headlines. president trump repeatedly pressured georgia's republican secretary of

i'm amy goodman. house impeachment managers have delivered an article of impeachment to the senate, charging donald j. trump with "incitement of insurrection." on monday evening, the nine impeachment managers walked the article through national statuary hall and the capitol rotunda to the senate, where on january 6 a violent mob incited by president trump attacked police officers, looted lawmakers' offices, and delayed the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. the violence left five people dead. maryland congressmember jamie raskin, who will lead the prosecution against trump, read the article of impeachment to the sete. >> donald john trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the united states. amy: senate president pro tem patrick leahy will preside over trump's impeachment trial, not john roberts, the supreme court's chief justice. the trial is set to begin on february 9. the j

i'm amy goodman. the house of representatives has voted to impeach president donald trump for inciting an insurrection at the u.s. capitol in a bid to overturn joe biden's electoral college victory. trump becomes the first u.s. president to be impeached twice. wednesday's vote, 232 to 197, with 10 republicans joining democrats. it is the most by part of this impeachment -- bipartisan impeachment in history. this is missouri freshman democrat cori bush. >> if we fail to remove by what's up from assist president, it is communities like missouri's first district that suffer the most, the one 117th congress must understand we have a mandate to legislate in defense of black lives, the first step is to root out white supremacy starting with impeaching the white supremacist in chief. thank you and i yelled back. -- i yield back. amy: some house republicans booed after congressmember cori bush delivered those remarks. shortly after wednesday's vote, house speaker nancy pelosi signed the single article of impe

i'm amy goodman. the united states reported another 4000 deaths from covid-19 thursday as a fast-spreading coronavirus variant first seen in south africa was detected in south carolina for the first time. daily u. infections have been on the decline after shattering world records earlier this month, but remain at extremely high levels of about 150,000 per day. disease experts worry new variants, coupled with fatigue over masks and social distancing, could lead to another surge in cases. here in new york, attorney general letitia james said thursday governor andrew cuomo's administration undercounted covid-19 deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%. just hours after james' announcement, new york health department officials added nearly 4000 nursing home deaths to new york's tally. drug maker novavax said thursday its covid-19 vaccine showed nearly 90% efficacy at preventing disease in patients in a large clinical trial in the u.k. but worryingly, the novavax vaccine showed only a 50% efficacy rate in

juan: hi, amy.welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: after winning office with massive support from people of color, president joe biden moved tuesday to advance what the white house calls his racial equity agenda. pres. biden: open the promise of america to every american, and that means we need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for anyone department of government, it has to be the business of the whole of government. amy: biden opened his speech by invoking the legacy of george floyd, the african-american man whose death under the knee of a white minneapolis police officer prompted nationwide protests against racism. he announced four executive actions. pres. biden: today i'm directing the department of housing and urban affairs and development to redress the stroke arrest is a and housing policies. today i'm directing the federal agency to reinvigorate the consultation process with indian tribes. respect the trouble sovere

i'm amy goodman. the world health organization warned monday wealthy nations are hoarding covid-19 vaccines at the expense of the world's poor, leaving millions of elderly people vulnerable even as younger, healthy people in richer nations get vaccinated. the who chief dr. tedros adhanom ghebreyesus spoke monday from geneva one year after first the cases of covid-19 were detected outside china. >> i need to be blunt. the world is on the brink of catastrophe. and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries. amy: he warned wealthy countries are circumventing the u.n.'s program to ensure the fair distribution of covid-19 vaccines, known as covax, driving up prices and jumping to the front of the line. this comes as worldwide confirmed coronavirus cases topped 24 million, with over 2 million documented deaths from covid-19. the united states' death toll from covid-19 has topped 400,000 -- by far the worst in the world. california has become the first

amy: dr. paul farmer will ta about the pandemic, healthcare and equality, and his new book "fevers, feuds and diamonds: ebola and the ravages of history." all that and more, coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i am amy goodman. as the united states, britain, and other nations begin unprecedented mass vaccination campaigns to combat the covid-19 pandemic, other parts of the world may not have access to vaccines for months -- if not years. a new report finds as many as nine out of 10 people in dozens of poorer countries could miss out on the coronavirus vaccine until at least 2022 because wealthy countries, including the united states, have hoarded enough doses to vaccinate their entire populations between three and five times over. the report was issued by the people's vaccine alliance, which includes amnesty international, frontline aids, global justice now, and oxfam. this is winifred byanyima, executive director of unaids, in a video produced by the pe

amy: dr. hotez, i would ask about what is happening in texas. in dallas county, which has reversed a plan to prioritize vaccinating people in its hardest hit areas, largely communities of color, after state authorities threatened to cut their supply, saying it did not meet official distribution guidelines. your heart by governor abbott being involved with this. can you explain what has happened here? >> no, i can't. we know covid-19 is a health disparity and we have seen it hit especially hard among our hispanic populations. those other groups getting really decimated because of the essential nature of their work. they are not working at home. they are at construction sites and family-owned businesses. i testified last year and call this historic decimation of the hispanic communities in texas. then you have this group on the far right which is protesting against masks in contact tracing and social distancing and now vaccines. this is a very lethal and toxic mix we have in texas, and that is w

i'm amy goodman. joe biden was sworn in as 46th president of the united states wednesday, ending the trump era with a call for national unity. speaking on the steps of a capitol building that just two weeks prior was mobbed by a group of right wing extremists trying to overturn the election, president biden said the u.s. faces an unprecedented combination of challenges posed by the covid-19 pandem, mass unemployment, racial injustice, white supremacist violence, and the existential threat of climate change. and he warned against the spread of lies in a thinly veiled reference to the trump administration's constant stream of falsehoods over the past four years. pres. biden: recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. there is truth and there are lies. lies told for power and for profit. and each of us has a duty and responsibility as citizens, as americans, especially as leaders , leaders who have pledged to honor our constitution, protect our nation. to defend th truth and defeat the lies

i am amy goodman. we begin today's special looking back at the uprising against police brutality and racism, following the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis on may 25th. the protests helped shift public opinion on policing and systemic racism with "defund the police" becoming a rallying cry of the movement. well, for more on the historic protests, we turn to the legendary activist and scholar angela davis, professor emerita at the university of california, santa cruz. for half a century, angela davis has been one of the most influential activists and intellectuals in the united states and an icon of the black liberation movement. i interviewed her in early june and asked her if she thought this moment is truly a turning point. prof. davis: this is an extraordinary moment. i have never experienced anything like the conditions we are currently experiencing, the conjuncture created by the covid-19 pandemic and the recognition of the systemic racism that has been rendered visible under these co

amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> usa! usa! usa! amy: the u.s. congress has of joees the election biden and kamala harris hours after a violent, right wing white supremacist mob, incited by president trump, stormed the u.s. capitol in what's been described as an attempted coup. four people died in a day that shook the nation. >> the votes for president of the united states are as r. ofws, joseph biden, j the state of delaware has received 306. donald trump, florida, 232 votes. amy: lawmakers held the vote hours after being forced into hiding inside the capitol as right-wing rioters ransacked the building. a shameful on our democracy. it cannot deter us from our responsibility to validate the election of joe biden and kamala harris. amy: hours after the deadly insurrection began, president trump to the riors -- "we ve you y'reery spial." talk inow growg of reming e presidt fromffice bere s term es on juary 20. will spd the ho looking at the remarkae velopmts. althat andore, comg up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine repor

juan: hi, amy. juan: welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: this is a remarkable day. democrats appear on the brink of taking control of the u.s. senate after reverend raphael warnock won a special election tuesday over republican senator kelly loeffler while democrat jon ossoff has a 16,000 vote lead in his runoff against republican senator david perdue. if ossoff wins his race, the senate will be split 50-50 with vice president-elect kamala harris serving as the tiebreaking vote, giving democrats more power to pass president-elect joe biden's legislative agenda. georgia's runoff races were among the most expensive senate races in u.s. history. reverend raphael warnock is the pastor of the ebenezer baptist church in atlanta, which was the spiritual home of dr. martin luther king, jr. warnock was raised in public housing. he was the 11th of 12 children, the first to go to college. he will become the first black democrat to ever represent a sout

juan: hi, amy.welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: with less than 12 hours before the end of his presidency, donald trump issued 143 pardons and commutations including a pardon for steve bannon, his former chief strategist and campaign manager. in august, bannon was arrested for defrauding trump supporters who donated to an anti-immigrant nonprofit called "we build the wall." in a recent weeks, bannon helped promote conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and urged trump supporters to come to washington, d.c., on january 6 when rioters attacked the capitol in an insurrection that left five people dead, including a capitol police officer. other high profile pardons included elliott broidy, one of trump's top fund-raisers in 2016 , and three former republican congressmen -- rick renzi, robin hayes, and randall "duke" cunningham. added to several congressmen early trump supporters that trump gave commutations or pardons to. trump also gave a

i'm amy goodman. house democrats are inching toward removing president trump from power after he incited his supporters to attack the u.s. capitol last wednesday. on monday, the house adjourned for the day after republicans objected to a voice vote on a measure calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment. the house is set to hold a vote on the measure today. pence has signaled he's unlikely to declare trump incapable of executing his duties, and such a move would also require a majority of trump's cabinet members. democratic leaders have scheduled an impeachment vote for wednesday. more than 218 lawmakers have already committed to passage of the single article of impeachment charging trump with inciting violence against the government of the united states. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has adjourned the senate until january 19, all but ruling out a senate impeachment trial ahead of joe biden's inauguration on january 20. biden on monday questioned whether the senate co

i'm amy goodman. the house is voting toy to impeach president trump for the second time in his single term. lawmakers will vote on one article of impeachment against trump for inciting the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week which left five people dead. on tuesday, house lawmakers approved a resolution calling for trump to be removed by invoking the 25th amendment but vice president mike pence has rejected that effort. pence spoke with trump monday evening in their first reading since last week's mob violence. among the chants of the mob, "hang mike pence." four house republicans said tuesday they would vote to impeach president trump, including wyoming congressmember liz cheney, the third-ranking republican in the house. the white house says they expect at least 20 republicans will support impeachment though other estimates are lower. "the new york times" reports senate majority leader mitch mcconnell believes trump committed impeachable offenses and privately supports democrats' efforts to rem

juan: hi, amy. happy new year.welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. and happyjk;% news year to all. at a campaign rally monday night in georgia for the two critical senate runoff elections taking place today, president trump addressed thousands of unmasked supporters and used much of the time to focus on himself and again dispute the outcome of november's presidential election. pres. trump: i want to thank you very much. llo, georgia. by the way, there is no way we lost georgia. there is no way. that was a rigged election. we are still fighting it. you will see what is going to happen. amy: in a rambling speech, trump cited the same conspiracy theories he used to pressure georgia's secretary of state in a recorded telephone call over the weekend to "find" him enough votes to overturn the state's certified election results. on monday, georgia's top election official, republican gabriel sterling, held a press conference to debunk trump's election fraud claims. nothi

amy: dr. martin luther king for the hour, coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. today is a federal holiday that honors dr. martin luther king, jr. he was born january 15, 1929. he was assassinated april 4, 1968, at the lorraine motel in memphis, tennessee. he was just 39 years old. while dr. king is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor, organizing the poor people's campaign to address issues of economic justice. and dr. king was a fierce critic of u.s. foreign policy and the vietnam war. "beyond vietnam" was the speech he delivered at new york's riverside church on april 4, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated. in it, dr. king called the united states "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." "life" magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for radio hanoi." "the washington post" said king "diminished his usefulness to his cause, h

thank you very much, amy.t is a great pleasure to be here, and an honor to be invited with allanel and be the illustrious people on the panel here. but i have one up on you, ron. [laughter] past hight least school. i didn't even go to high school. [laughter] but i do have four honorary doctorates. [laughter] [applause] but yeah, i was born in south africa and suffered a lot of prejudices there. and that is when my parents and giveo go to india me the opportunity to live with grandfather. and the two years i spent with him, between the ages of 12 and 14, were really important years for me. because what he taught me then was very important. it changed my thinking, it changed my life. not at that time, i wasn't such a bright student debt will years old to understand his philosophy, but he had a way of teaching that was unique, that it stayed with you. and as i grew up and began to reflect on all of these things that he taught me, i realized how important they are. the two most important lessons that he taught me,

we're here with amy poehler.is young, talented cast, i'll show it again, and your old friends. >> oh, look at those cuties. well, i really, really had great experiences on both. i think with "wine country," it was a little more sisterly and i would guess maybe in this film, "moxie," i, perhaps, was a little bit more maternal but i don't know "moxie," it's more dramatic. and it kind of deals with some deeper issues. so there was a lot of sensitive subject matter and very thoughtful -- very thoughtful preparation and discussions from the cast in "wine country," i don't think anyone even read the script. [ laughter ] >> seth: now did they admit to you, or would it be, over the course of the day, it would slowly dawn on you that none of them had read the script >> you know, an actress would come up and go, "oh, so we're supposed to be friends?" you know [ laughter ] >> seth: speaking of working with friends, you and -- you and -- excuse me, you and tina are hosting the golden globes. how is prep for the globes going?

according to amy they were always close. boy, you two look alike in those photos. >> we do. >> i was thinking maybe you're swapping out each other's clothes, but of course you're ten years apart. >> that didn't stop it from happening. i wore a lot of her hand-me-downs. >> by the mid '90s nique had been married and divorced twice and she and her young daughter alex were sharing an apartment with amy. >> we had a good time with that too. we just laughed, putting up pictures in the apartment and stuff. >> it sounds like a sitcom. >> yeah. oh, yeah. and at times it definitely was. >> eventually nique moved out, remarried and had two more daughters with her third husband, matt leili, a new yorker she met online. >> he made my sister laugh. so, you know, we would all laugh. >> after brief stays in oklahoma and mississippi, nique and matt returned to georgia and settled into this house on sidney's cove in lawrenceville. nique, a well regarded corporate money person, was the primary bread-winner. matt, a computer guy, ran a small bu

good morning, amy. >> all right, we will check back in with amy in just a moment. first we want to talk to you about evacuations. more than 5,000 people in the santa cruz mountains, they were ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm. now here is a look at the evacuation map. we want to show you the areas highlighted in red are mandatory, and you can see that those stretch across both santa cruz and san mateo counties. we do have abc7 news the way. >>> more than 200 residents chose to ride out the storm at home. boulder creek residents jennifer and michael park said they decided to stay in their home because they have a generator and a house full of supplies that could last them weeks. they did have to sign a waiver when the sheriff's office knocked on their door to issue that mandatory evacuations. >> i'm not anxious that my house is going to get torn away. i believe what i'm most anxious about is just that the roads will get blocked. >> it's a wonderful place to live. we love it here, and it's just -- there's natural hazards that you have to prepare for. >> reporter

hi amy. -- okay we'll get back to amy. here is some video from los gatos overnight. tree branch all over the world, this video was taken along three around black road before begs road, the high wind blowing the debris all over the place and the wind isn't letting up yet. stay with us for updates from mi mike >>> in securing the nation's capitol ahead of inauguration day. much of washington, d.c. is locked down with an force to protect president elect joe biden and vice president elect kamala harris. live in washington people are still on edge following the attack on the good morning andrew. >> reporter: g surreal season almost everywhere you turn here in washington, d.c. is it heavy militarized presence including check points in sidewalks and street here's. all this beefed up security in effort to ensure that tomorrow's transfer of power is peaceful. this morning security forces fortifying the nation's capitol for the final chapter in donald trump's presidency. some 25,000 national guard troops deployed. armed forces on the ground. blockade, barbed wire fencing. secu

live if pleasanton, amy hollyfield. abc7 news. >>> thank you amy. national leaders are talk about when and how schools should reopen. president biden has vowed to reopen most schools within 100 days. and here is what dr. fauci said in a talk with the big teachers union. >> the american rescue plan is something that hopefully will provide the resources for masking, for better ventilation, for whatever resources the schools might need. >> this is a talk with multiple unions and some of the unions including the united educators of san francisco have said teachers would feel a lot safer if they were vaccinated. governor newsom has outlined a plan to focus on reopening schools next month for students in k-2nd grade. >>> real concerns right now at another possible surge of covid-19. the first cases of the more contagious covid variant have been detected in the u.s. jobina istracking the variants and know how many on the vaccine front this >> two cases of the south african variant were detected in south carolina in two different parts of the state. neither