evan osnos, what are you expecting from the president tonight? for him to call for action both individually and then collectively. individually it's calling out

sanjay gupta and the "new yorker's" evan osnos. gloria, it was interesting, we talked about the commander in chief. i mean, tonight he really was sort of the commander in grief, acknowledging -- i mean, he spent a lot of time early on acknowledging the extent of the losses, not only taking out a piece of paper that had the number 527,726, which is the death toll thus far. >> and he spoke in great detail about what everybody in this country has missed this past year, how you miss being with your family, how you missed seeing your parents, how you missed seeing your grandchildren. >> it's the details of life that matter. >> it is. and this is joe biden. this is what he talks about. this is who he is. it's the details of life. and i was thinking back to when former president trump spoke after he had covid and he said don't let covid dominate your life. and what joe biden just did was recount to us how it has dominated all of our lives and then gave us some hope, some realistic hope, saying i'm going to tell you the truth but there's l

. >> evan osnos and maggie haberman, thank you both. >>> he was not asked questions about the rise inf coronavirus and deaths. what's fueling that surge? dr. sanjay gupta joins us next. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your business, you know we'll stop at nothing. >>> so new concerning trends in the coronavirus pandemic here in the united states. 20 states, every state you see there in orange or red, reporting increases in new cases in the last week. 17 states have increases -- all the states in red -- in new decks. joining us now cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. doctor, it might be understood why there's a concern in new cases. a rise in deaths at this point, what does that tell you? >> yeah. i mean it tells us a few things. i mean if you look overall at the trends in certain states, look at michigan, for example, there's been a significant downward trend since early/mid-january. the numbers have