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A good wednesday morning. Craig melvin here from msnbc headquarters in new york city. There are 49 days left in the trump presidency. Right now the two words dominating washington, president ial pardons. Thats because unsealed federal Court Documents show investigators are looking into a potential briberyforpardon scheme involving president ial pardons. Separately multiple sources tell nbc news President Trump has been talking about the possibility of pardons for some of his family members and some Close Associates in recent days. Well have more on those two stories in just a moment. First, in just the last hour or so, nbc news just obtained a copy of the latest Coronavirus Task force report sent to states last week. That report warns the virus risk to all americans is at a, quote, historic high. And were at a, quote, very dangerous place. Lets dig further into the facts on the pandemic at this hour. Overnight the United Kingdom becoming the First Western nation to grant emergency use
In fact, here is a look at what the skies look like right now. Those packed airports, those packed crowded dinner tables could lead to another surge. In the last 24 hours the coronavirus has killed more than 2,000 people. That is the highest daily death toll in six months. The number of americans who have lost their lives to covid19 now more than 260,000. But there is one encouraging update this morning. The federal government has now updated their timeline on when the first vaccine doses could go out. It could be as early as mid december once the fda gives approval. Those are the most vulnerable groups, along with the first responders, with likely be the first to get those vaccines. We start this morning on this thanksgiving eve with reporters in two parts of the country seeing major spikes. Nbcs Morgan Chesky is in ft. Worth, texas. Valerie castro is tracking Holiday Travel in lake forest, illinois. Morgan, lets start with you in texas. That state broke its daily case record, nearly
Trappings of a very normal holiday week, but Many Americans cant count themselves so fortunate this hour. Others defying medical advice to celebrate with family. This now is a new american ritu ritual, a daily reminder of our National Public health failure. 181,000 new cases, 41 states with 1,000plus new cases. 175,000 new cases is our new daily average. 29 states with a Positivity Rate north of 10 , a hair shy of 2300 new deaths. And there are more americans in hospital beds today, nearly 90,000, than in football stadium. Football on thanksgiving, covid brought that too. Steelers ravens game got shifted to shunned. The president is at his goal course in virginia. He will speak to military members this afternoon and an writing we come together to lift up one another. We have seen evidence of how remarkable our country is, we see is every day. We see it in the mirror, when we mask up. This is how we come together. Look at our airports. You see evidence of how we break apart. Nearly 1. 1
Hospital beds across the country and the director of the cdc is warning that the next few months could be the most difficult in the history of pub, not just this pandemic, the history of public health. The Los Angeles Mayor says that city is on track to run out of the hospital beds by christmas. He is telling residents to hunker down. To cancel everything. The void in leadership from the white house during this is just staggering because as people are dying the president is obsessing over his false claims, and they are false, that the election was stolen. Now former president s of both parties are stepping up to fill that leadership void. Lets begin with cnns Adrienne Broaddus she is in chicago with the latest on the pandemic. Adrienne, you look at the numbers across the country, i mean, listen, breaking records every day now. Reporter you know, these are records the u. S. Does not want in its column, jim, but here we are. Another grim mile stostone for u. S. As you mentioned, yesterda