Staff, who says the reliefan who speed up vaccine distribution. The enemy within. Speaker pelosis extraordinary warning about violence in congress, and calls for a Freshman Member to be expelled after her old social media post indicates support for executing prominent democrats, including former president obama. Californians hit with a firehose of rain. Neighborhoods evacuated as levees break. Gamestop chaos. The st reried. The et wride. And, this incred Story Ofthinurn doses about to expire. L se thedt from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with Breaking News on two fronts tonight. As we come on the air, two cases of that highlycontagious South African Variant Of Coronavirus have now been found in the u. S. The first evidence that another dangerous mutation may already be spreading nationwide, and could soon lead to a surge of new infections and deaths. The c. D. C. Says it discovered the cases in So
Probably are wondering what is the state of the race so far and what are we still waiting to get in . To get more on that we have Anthony Salvanto. Hes our director of election surveys here at cbs news. Runs the Battleground Tracker polls. Hes been following the race all night. Also Major Garrett still in coat and tie. Wondering if you were going to take that off. Salvanto has already gone down to the Shirt Sleeves and the tie is loosened a little. Good evening. Good morning to the two of you. Where are we at this hour . Okay. So tony, let me take you through first the five states that we at this moment consider tossups. And thats wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, North Carolina and georgia. All the others projected or in the case of nevada and arizona as of this moment, leading to joe biden. The issue here is that, let me walk you through. In wisconsin, we estimate at least almost 700,000, 672,000 ballots still remaining to be counted. Theyve been cast. Not yet counted. And we can do
Reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news. Tonight, a new wave of coronavirus cases is now crashing across the country, taxing intensive care units and threatening to roll back months of progress in the fight against covid19. As we come on the air, more than 60,000 americans are now hospitalized with the virus, an alarming new high. Bracing for asis climbing, too. The c. D. C. Is now bracing for as many as 20,000 more americans to die in just the next three weeks alone. The countrys top Infectious Disease expert saying hes hoping pfizers new vaccine may help change that. Dr. Anthony fauci says the new shots could get emergency approval as soon as next week and could be available to most americans by april. Well, tonight, well take you inside the complex plan to make that happen. President trump took credit for the Vaccines Development today on twitter while continuing to uilsely allege Election Fraud
Democracy, the great country that we live in that people are willing to do that and the patience that it takes to wait for that vote to be counted. Many of us lived through the year 2000 where it took some time. Ultimately it was a a decision was made through the Supreme Court about whether to count those ballots. We have a process where this will take days or weeks as it sorts through so every vote gets counted. And that process is in place to ensure that every vote gets counted. And as all the Security Officials have been saying, just be patient. Everything has been figured out and just let it take its course. Dont rush for a conclusion because that only will cause more rumors and more chaos. Thats exactly how we started the evening at 7 00. Listen, we know that theres a very good chance we wont have a decision tonight. And that is exactly what happened. I think major summed it up really well when he said its another definition of frontline workers. You are so right. Sometimes people
The president s own voters. He is calling the game at the end on end of the First Quarter and its extraordinary. We have never had a situation like this, in the country. The president is a steward of the american electoral system, as a member of it, he is a steward of the american system and he is trying to under mine it while the count is still going on. And the last time that we had a dispute that went to the court force Supreme Court as the president said, he thinks will go. You had two candidates who ultimately accepted the outcome of the courts. Ultimately accepted and said, we have to carry the weight of the office that john just described. To have the president jump that gun and make calls and frankly, norah, as gail was saying, there were a lot of things that were untrue. We can look at the map over your head and see the state of texas was called in his favor, he said it was not. Georgia and North Carolina remain toss ups on our map because of all the details you just laid out.