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i am brooke baldwin. the u.s.ienced the deadliest week since april, more than 15,000 people dying from covid in the last seven days. since month of december began, every single metric has been up, after november broke record after record. for the first time, we are averaging 200,000 new infections each day, there are more people than ever in the hospital fighting coronavirus. numbering above 102,000. all of this as the united states nears 15 million cases which could happen today. cnn correspondent dan simon live in san francisco. dan, california experienced another 160,000 new cases in the last week, most of any state. what's the situation where you are today, how are people handling the stay at home orders? >> reporter: brooke, hospitalizations up 72% in the past two weeks in california. in terms of how people are taking it all, i would say they're taking it in stride. it is highly disruptive, though. san francisco isn't quite seeing the surge in terms of what we are seeing in los angeles. it took measures preem

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. the president gets a senate accomplice to the effort to subvert the election here. missouri republican senator josh hawley says that he will object next week when congress meets to certify the electoral college. more on that in a second. >>> first, a frightening discovery in colorado and new, awful, record-setting pandemic numbers after a holiday lull. a colorado man tested positive for a new and more infectious variant of the coronavirus that has already prompted lockdowns all across england. a more easily transmitted version of the virus circulating in the community adds giant concern to an already ongoing public health disaster. 201,555 new infections on tuesday confirm that cases are again starting to climb. 3,725 deaths is a new american tragedy and a new single-day record. look at these numbers. a record number of patients, nearly 125,000 in the overwhelmed hospitals, makes 4,000 deaths in a single day an all-too-real possibility. among all of these lives lost, a congressman-ele

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. a new promise from a republican senator to protest the electoral college results in congress next week. >>> first, another day of brutal pandemic headlines. the uk green lights another vaccine, while the u.s. is stuck in neutral. the president blames states for botching the job. operation warp speed's top adviser says, yes, they need to do better speeding the pace of vaccines is the critical task of 2021. the u.s. ends 2020 by breaking pandemic records of the worst kind. >> 3,700 people dying yesterday. that number could easily go up to 5,000 to 7,000 a day if we're not careful. >> the number of new cases is back up, and a man in colorado tested positive for a new variant of covid-19. stephanie, let me start with you there in colorado, the confirmed case of this covid variant, they're now watching this potential second case. we have learned both men were members of the national guard. what else do you know? >> reporter: so this is what's interesting. it ex

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me.sident trump's final days in office triggers anxiety, uncertainty what the president could do in his remaining 29 days in office. it's gotting to the point some senior military officers are trying to steer clear of the white house rather han risk being in trump's orbit. cnn pentagon correspondent brash starr is breaking the story and barbara, talking to those both in and outside the pentagon and one officer saying senior officials don't even know what this president might do. what else are they saying? >> reporter: that's the general tone we're hearing from so many places. look, the most important thing to say off the top, any orders from any president of the united states have to be legal, or the military simply doesn't follow them. they don't follow illegal oer orders. a lot of talk. keep in mind, it has to be legal. that in and of itself is a concern, because now in recent days you have president trump meeting with people in the oval office who are very much on his train of thought

i'm brooke baldwin. let's get right to it. a second coronavirus could begin arriving in hospitals around the country as early as this weekend, and we all know that's not a moment too soon. the number of americans sick with this terrible virus just keeps going up and up. more than 233,000 infections reported yesterday alone, adding to a total this week that is shocking. more than a million and a half new covid cases reported over the last seven days. that is one in every 216 americans. here's another number for you. it was more than 3,000 deaths reported yesterday. the third time this week we have suffered a daily loss of life surpassing the terror attacks on 9/11. think about that. hospitals in almost every part of the country are being crushed by this virus. more than 114,000 people are sick with covid in hospital beds as i speak, and specifically in southern california, the situation there is dire. there are zero icu beds available there right now. zero. the institute of health metrics and evaluation at the university of was

brooke baldwin picks up coverage right now. have a good day. >>> hi there, brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn this friday afternoon. thank you for being with me. let's get to it, more than 15 million covid cases and counting, may not be too much longer before americans begin to get vaccinated. health and human services director alex azar notified pfizer they plan to proceed on emergency vaccine use. >> in the next couple of days probably as we work to negotiate with pfizer, information doctors need to prescribe it appropriately, we should be seeing the authorization of this first vaccine and as you just said, we will work with pfizer to get it shipped out. we could be seeing people getting vaccinated monday, tuesday of next week. >> which is exciting. before the prioritized groups can get shots, not only the fda but cdc has to sign off on the vaccine. a cdc panel is meeting today with a vote expected sunday. nevertheless, massive preparations are under way to get first doses out as soon as possible, but not soon enough. this week was the deadliest week in america since the

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. it is day two of the coronavirus vaccine in the u.s. introducing the inoculations to front line health workers today. it is the first and most critical step in finally getting this pandemic under control. and it could not come at a more crucial time. right now there are more americans hospitalized with coronavirus than at any time before. more than 10,500. this as the number of deaths hit another horrible milestone. look at this. 301,000 americans killed by this disease and counting. there is some hope for all of us on the horizon. the fda announcing it is authorizing a new at-home coronavirus test that could help track the disease, so let's start there. cnn's sara murray has more on this giant undertaking to get vaccines to the people who need them most. star a, h sa sara, how is distribution going? >> reporter: on the largest coronavirus vaccine distribution so far, health care workers are eagerly lining up at 425 new sites nationwide. >> feeling really hopeful

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. christmas week is shaping up to provide major coronavirus relief for americans in two ways, a second vaccine and an economic stimulus. this hour we are seeing the very first recipients of the moderna vaccine. the goal right now according to the nation's testing czar is to inject 20 million doses by the first week of january, which is encouraging for a nation said to surpass 18 million positive cases by the end of the day today. and, of course, there are those in hospitals. there are 113,000 americans hospitalized right now, and at any moment we expect to see president-elect joe biden to receive his first dose of the vaccine along with his wife, jill biden, and we will bring that to you live as soon as it happens. but i want to begin this hour in houston where we are seeing the moderna vaccine being adminis r administer administered. miguel marcos is there in the room live. miguel, all you. >> reporter: we saw the very first shot of the moderna vaccine put into the arm of dr. joseph ve

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hour two for me here on cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. right now we are on standby for what could be a historic decision. ed fast is discussion granting approval to the pfizer vaccine. if green lit, it means tens of millions of vaccine lieutenants into americans' arms in just days. the united states just reported its deadliest day so far. yesterday alone, look at the numbers, 3,124 americans lost their battle with coronavirus. meanwhile, the daily caseload continues to move, just totally in the wrong direction. every single day in this country, more than 209,000 americans are average are getting sick. hospitalizations areal all-time highs with doctors and nurses stretched thin, beds and supplies reaching new lows, but let's get to potential history here, this fda meeting, and dr. sanjay gupta. the vote is scheduled to start in the next hour. how will all of this play out if the vaccine is authorized? >> this is an fda committee. so they're making a recommendation to the fda, which the fda typically takes. that'sth expectations here. if it

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. a historic meeting is under way to determine if pfizer will be granted emergency use authorization for the covid-19 vaccine. if green lit, it will pave the way for tens of millions of vaccine doses to get into the arms of americans in just days from now. and this morning, the head of the fda struck an optimistic tone. >> we think that our initial assessment is that this is a vaccine that is, that does meet our criteria, but we do want to hear from the vaccine advisory committee. >> this vote could not come soon enough. the united states reported the deadliest day so far with 3,124 americans losing their battles with coronavirus on wednesday alone. hospitalizations, they're at all-time highs nationwide, as doctors and nurses are being stretched and the issue of space is reaching crisis levels, the virus showing no signs of slowing down. each and every day in the country, more than 209,000 americans are getting sick. that's up 27% from a week ago. let's begin with a crucial fda meeting

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. we begin with what could be another historical moment in the fight against this pandemic. the fda's vaccine advisory panel is meeting to discuss issuing emergency authorization for moderna's vaccine against covid-19. and a vote could come at any moment. now, if it is authorized, that means tens of millions of more vials would come into circulation and that would be a welcome relief to a country that's, frankly, spiraling out of control. think about it this way. when future generations learn about the deadliest days in american history, they will learn about the galveston hurricane in 1900. they'll learn about the civil war and the battle of antietam and they'll learn about yesterday when 3,656 americans died from coronavirus in a 24-hour period. 3,656 people who will not be spending the holidays with their families. they likely did not get to say good-bye to their loved ones in person. those future generations will also learn about the day before yesterday an

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for watching. a dramatic reversal from the president, offering to help the economy drowning in pandemic fatigue. another hope today, two million receiving the covid vaccine under estimate, says a top trump health official. scenes from airports remind us of a public health failures and a prompt warning for a post-holiday surge. >> we very well might see a post-seasonal,s in sense of christmas/new year's surge. as i have described it, as a surge upon a surge. i share the concern of president-elect biden that, as we get into the next few weeks, it might actually get worse. >> next fall, dr. fauci says, we can start thinking about a new normal. but the consequences are easy to see. a new cnn analysis shows the share of icu patients with covid-19 is on a straight line up, from 16% of patients in september to nearly 40 now. that stimulus bill the president signed does give more money to hospitals, $3 billion worst, but that's well short of the original $35 billion that lawmakers had wanted and what hospi

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. just a heads up to all of you in a couple moments, president-elect joe biden will introduce the man he has nominated to be the next secretary of defense. retired army general, lloyd austin. if confirmed, general austin would become the first african-american to lead the pentagon. but, his nomination faces some resistance within biden's own party because general austin is only recently retired. requiring a congressional waiver for him to take the job. turning to the fight against coronavirus, this afternoon. the u.s. is closer to getting a vaccine to the people who need it the most. the u.s. is shattering its positive-case records, averaging more than 200,000 new cases, each and every day. nearly 105,000 americans are in the hospital, today. another discouraging record. and just yesterday, 2,546 people died from covid. these numbers make tomorrow's fda meeting to consider giving emergency-use authorization for the pfizer vaccine even more pivotal. health and human services secretary, a

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being here.e now, we will be seeing president-elect joe biden there at that podium to address both the national health crisis and the devastating effect it is having on our nation's economy. his remarks come on the heels of this morning's jobs report which revealed the u.s. added only 240,000 jobs in november. that is half of what experts were hoping for. and signals a sharp slowdown in employment growth across the country. cnn's mj lee is live in wilmington, delaware, and mj, we'll list ten to the president-elect in just a moment, but listening to jake tapper's interview last night, we did get a peek at his policy plans. what did you take away from that? >> reporter: we did, brooke, and covering this biden transition, one thing is striking is how open biden and his team have been about the very daunting task they have ahead of them, obviously looming over everything right now is this covid-19 pandemic, but that pandemic very much goes hand in hand with this economic recession. as you noted, the

i'm brooke baldwin. great to be with you. we begin with news about the second vaccine that's available for use. we are seeing the first moderna vaccining being administered across the hospitals in the u.s. the goal is to inject 20 million doses by the first week of january, and health and human services secretary alex azar said he's confidence that the distribution to general population could be closer than we thought. >> later in march, we could be seeing more general population injections, if one of other manufacturers entering into the play, this only accelerates the timeline. in the second quarter of next year, enough vaccine to vac nate every american who wants to be vaccinate vaccinated. >> comforting words. u.s. health officials trying to calm panic amid report out of the uk about a new variant that could be more transmissible. we also, just a heads up, we expect president-elect joe biden to receive his first dose of the vaccine today. as soon as we see that happen, we'll take it live for you. also today, congress is o

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me today. >>> the u.s.ally has its very first known case of this new coronavirus strain. colorado now confirming at least one person is infected with it, and officials there suspect a second person might be sick as well. and while there is no evidence it is more deadly than the original strain, this new covid variant is believed to be more contagious. and of course, it's only adding to concerns over the country's already overwhelmed health care system. just yesterday, the u.s. set staggering, new records. there were more people hospitalized with covid on tuesday than any other day of this pandemic. more

brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. contrasting moments in the fight against the pandemic, all unfolding this afternoon. first up this hour, you have president-elect joe biden, introducing members of his health team. these are the scientists and doctors he says that will help him defeat covid-19 all starting january 20th. on the other, you have president trump today. he will be holding a summit where he is expected to sign this executive order to make it a priority for americans to get the vaccine before anyone else. sources tell cnn he will take credit for the

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i am brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me this monday. a deal delayed but not denied.he president caves, signs the coronavirus relief bill after getting none of what he wanted. for the moment, his signature adds temporary stability for americans that need it most, people that saw unemployment benefits expire over the weekend now may only receive 10 instead of 11 weeks of payments. the bill means $600 will soon show up in bank accoun

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. look at every single coronavirus metric you can imagine, right? cases, hospitalizations, positivity, deaths, and the data gives a clear and scary message, that the next few months are going to be like nothing this country has ever endured. 3,400 american lives lost yesterday to this virus. millions more are facing financial uncertainty, including potential eviction as months and months of unpaid rent come due. so what does president trump do? say the relief bill that congress has been working on the past six months to pass and one he has shown no interest in the entire time says it's not good enough for him. >> reporter: a crisis now on the verge of a horrific new milestone. by the end of the week, it is likely that 33,000 americans, roughly one in 1,000 americans, will have died from the covid-19. it was the second deadliest day of the pandemic. california is said to be the first state in the nation to hit 2 million cases. >> it's so bad here that if our state was its own country, we

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i'm brooke baldwin.ents ago we heard from president-elect joe biden and he called out president trump for his failure to respond or even assign blame to this massive cyberattack on the u.s. >> reporter: it happened under president donald trump's watch, but of course in january 21, it will then, of course, land on your doorstep. >> let's get something straight what will land on my doorstep. his failure will land on my doorstep. >> his failure will land on my doorstep. russia is suspected of the breach that infiltrated non-classified data of at least four departments. multiple companies were also targeted. let's go to max who is the leader in foreign communications. this breach before christmas, what does that tell you? >> brooke, did tells me we'll soon have a normal president again that will look after american interests rather than his own petty grievances and grudges. it was refreshing to me from a leader who was talking in a rationale, sober way without conspiracy theories or fraudulent claims of vari

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me.ngle coronavirus metric you can imagine, right? cases, hospitalizations, positivity, deaths, and the data gives a clear and scary message, that the next few months are going to be like nothing this country has ever endured. 3,400 american lives lost yesterday to this virus. millions more are facing

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here.gin with what could be another historical moment in the fight against this pandemic. the fda's vaccine advisory panel is meeting to discuss issuing emergency authorization for moderna's vaccine against covid-19. and a vote could come at any moment. now, if it is authorized, that means tens of millions of more vials would come into circulation and that would be a welcome relief to a country that's, frankly, spiraling out of control. think about it this way. when future generations learn about the deadliest days in american history, they will learn about the galveston hurricane in 1900. they'll learn about the civil war and the battle of antietam and they'll learn about yesterday when 3,656 americans died from coronavirus in a 24-hour period

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i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with this breaking news. none, zero, zilch, nada, nil, nothing.pread voter fraud. the word from the attorney of justice, bill barr, said they found in proof of fraud that would change the 2020 election. this flies completely in the face of the marathon of baseless claims the president continues to allege even today. and coming from barr himself, who has largely been seen as a trump loyalist, the conclusion means a lot. let's begin at the white house with our white house correspondent kaitlan collins and also our cnn political correspondent sara murray. kaitlan, i want to begin with you. it's my understanding that bill barr has just been skeeen at th white house? what do you know? >> reporter: a lot has happened in the last few moments because bill barr gave this interview with the associated press where he is completely knocking down the president's claims that

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me.oric meeting is under way to determine if pfizer will be granted emergency use authorization for the covid-19 vaccine. if green lit, it will pave the way for tens of millions of vaccine doses to get into the arms of americans in just days from now. and this morning, the head of the fda struck an optimistic tone. >> we think that our initial assessment is that this is a vaccine that is, that does meet our criteria, but we do want to hear

i'm brooke baldwin. great to be with you.egin with news about the second vaccine that's available for use. we are seeing the first moderna vaccining being administered across the hospitals in the u.s. the goal is to inject 20 million doses by the first week of january, and health and human services secretary alex azar said he'

. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin. it is friday afternoon. thank you so much for being with me.en will be speaking in moments about the final unemployment report that we're getting here of 2020, ask we' -- and we'll bring that to you live the second we see him step behind that podium. the jobs unemployment list is less than we thought. the pandemic obviously a factor here. the pandemic continues to shatter records. another 2800 american deaths were reported yesterday. a 9/11 size death toll day after day. i will say again these are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, and friends, loved ones lost to this brutal virus. more than is 100,000 americans are hospitalized, more than 2,700 new cases were reported yesterday. and yes, although we are getting closer and closer to a massive vaccine rollout in this country, a top research model is now predicting deaths will double in the u.s. in just the next four months. with just 47 days left in office, president trump is not executing any sort of plan to mitigate those terrifying numbers, but president-elect joe biden is goi

i'm brooke baldwin, we'll see you tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper begins right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. just minutes ago at a vaccine summit, out goigoing president p gave a false and stunning relayance of how we would get this vaccine administered. here's his answer. >> we will have to see who the next administration is, because we won -- >> that's not true. outgoing president trump lost. i'm not qualified as a news anchor to say why the president continues to state otherwise and spread this lie. i don't know if it's political or if he's scynically lying or there is some sort of issue, it doesn't matter if he doesn't want to acknowledge it. on january 20, president-elect joe biden will become president joe biden elected by 80 million americans. also president-elect biden vowed 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days. today there is a major milestone in the fight against coronavirus. the very first doses of pfizer's corona

brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. the lead starts now. >>> welcome to the lead. pamela brown in for jake tapper today. we begin with the major milestone in the fight against coronavirus. a second coronavirus vaccine now in americans' arms. right now, some of the first moderna vaccinations are happening in the united states. minutes ago, president-elect joe biden received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. soon to be first lady jill biden received hers before the president-elect. in total, a half million doses have been administered. the rollout may take longer than previously promised. the tsa says it screened more than a million passengers each of the last three days in a row. that's a pandemic first. cnn's martin savidge reports one in every 217 americans was infected with covid-19 just last week. >> reporter: the battle against coronavirus gets another shot in the arm. patients begin to receive the first doses of the new moderna vaccine. >> i think it is a great milestone. >> reporter: now with two covid-19 vaccines green lighted, they plan to accelera

i'm brooke baldwin. see you back here tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> and welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and millions of americans paying the price for president trump's erratic and destructive behavior. the president finally gave in and signed the coronavirus relief and government funding bills last night after holding them hostage for five days, demanding massive changes skpal lo -- and allowing unemployment benefits to lapse. for thousands of people during the coronavirus pandemic, he didn't get the changes he asked for and ended up signing the bill, anyway. he left people in masses by not getting this bill signed, leaving millions in a lurch during the pandemic. he has been trying to undermine a coup of this election after he clearly lost seven weeks ago. after courts laughed him out of court and dismissed him with prejudice all over the country. after pushing different legislators to push electors to the electoral college, the last thing he wants is for

i'm brooke baldwin. the vaccine rollout continues to lag behind projections.r 2 million doses administered. not even close to "operation warp speed"'s goal of 20 million by end of year. adding to all of this, learning hundreds of doses in the moderna vaccine was tossed because of a storage error. for more on that, go to senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, 500 doses tossed. why? >> well, because they were left out when they shouldn't have been. vaccines need to be kept refrigerated, sometimes frozen. in this case in the fridge. the place they were supposed to be. apparently taken out to access something behind them and they weren't put back in. most of those 500 doses we're told had to be wasted. attribute it to human error and i will tell you, brooke, the only way to summarize this is, stuff happens. not the first time in the history of vaccines they've had to waste vaccines because they weren't properly refrigerated and won't be the last. hopefully develop a protocol so it woen happen again. >> wasn't like the pfizer vaccine, cold as the

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i'm brooke baldwin. jake tapper is coming up next. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news! >>> i'm jake tapper. minutes ago, president-elect joe biden spoke about the jobs report out today. he called it grim. he urged congress and outgoing president act to act plmimmediay to help the american people. the president-elect promised more economic relief in his presidency and notably identifying hundreds of billions of dollars as his target price tag that is lower than the 2 trillion previously pushed by house democrats. the president-elect faces more pressure to make good on his promise to build a diverse cabinet and administration, he would not comment specifically to nominating a person of color if either the position of attorney general or secretary of defense. plus, president-elect biden warned of the escalating pandemic. he promised to follow the science when it comes to his own inauguration which will take place in less than two months. he said there will not be millions of people on the national mall for his inauguration. mj lee is in wilmington, delaware. president-elec

i'm brooke baldwin, we'll see you tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper begins right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. just minutes ago at a vaccine summit, out goigoing president p gave a false and stunning relayance of how we would get this vaccine administered. here's his answer. >> we will have to see who the next administration is, because we won -- >> that's not true. outgoing president trump lost. i'm not qualified as a news anchor to say why

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. moments, president-elect joe biden will introduce the man he has nominated to be the next secretary of defense. retired army general, lloyd austin. if confirmed, general austin would become the first african-american to lead the pentagon. but, his nomination faces some resistance within biden's own party because general austin is only recently retired. requiring a congressional waiver for him to take the job. turning to the fight against coronavirus, this afternoon. the u.s. is closer to getting a

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