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get much worse. how much worse? the director of the cdc warns that the next three months will be, quote, the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation. >> so to be clear, the united states reported more deaths yesterday, more than 3,000, than japan has suffered the entire pandemic. look at that. we hit it in one day. so faced with the worth health crisis in the history of the nation. what is the president doing? he's trying to overturn the election in public, literally trying to undermine democracy in public. a 46-minute word salad of lies about the election, the election he lost, he is completely detached from both reality and liberty and still in control of the nuclear codes for another 50-plus days. on top of that, he's doing it largely for money to raise cash for a fund that he can use to fly around the country and throw parties at mar-a-lago. his former national security adviser, the one the president just pardoned, is now publicizing calls for martial law to force a revote. the president has considered firing the attorney general of the united states, william barr, according to the "washington post." why? because barr said he sees no evidence of the absurd claims that the president and his allies are making. that is how the president is handling this urgent moment in the pandemic. oh, that and holding holiday parties that flout cdc guidelines, as we report record deaths. some party. cnn's adrienne broaddus live in chicago with the breaking news on the pandemic. this horrible milestone, aid reen. >> reporter: john, indeed, another grim milestone for the u.s. the most deaths and hospitalizations yesterday since the start of the pandemic. even though the prospect of a vaccine is right around the corner, experts warn the worst is still yet to come. across the united states, the coronavirus pandemic passing devastating milestones this morning. >> no way to sugar coat it, it is the deadliest day that we have had. >> reporter: the country recording the most deaths in one day since the pandemic began and more than 100,000 people are in the hospital with the disease. the director of the centers for disease control and prevention warns that number will only increase, saying there could be close to 450,000 deaths by february. >> i actually believe they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation. largely because of the stress that it's going to put on our health care system. >> reporter: los angeles county this week recording its highest number of people in the hospital with the virus. and with new cases on the rise, the city's mayor enforcing a stricter, safer at-home order. >> it's time to hunker down. it's time to cancel everything. and if it isn't essential, don't do it. >> reporter: health experts are bracing for an even higher number of new cases and hospitalizations in the upcoming weeks, when infections stemming from thanksgiving gatherings surge. this pushing the cdc to again call for people to cancel travel plans for the winter holidays. >> it's likely that unless really major efforts are to push harder with the public health measures, we could be facing the kind of circumstances that we really hope not to, where many hospitals just run out of capabilities to take care of all of the sick patients. >> according to operation warp speed, the first shipments of pfizer's vaccine will be delivered on december 15th, and moderna's one week later on the 22nd. both still need fda approval. federal officials say 40 million doses should be available by the end of december. enough for 20 million people to be vaccinated. >> between december and end of february, we will have potentially immunized 100 million people, which is really more or less the size of the significant at-risk population. the elderly, the health care workers, the firstline workers. >> reporter: and once the vaccine is approved, it will still be months before americans can receive that critical shot in the arm. so experts are warning and saying, it is crucial for americans to continue practicing the three ws, wash your hands, wear a mask, and watch your distance, even months after the vaccine rolls out. john? >> adrienne broaddus in chicago, thanks so much. just to state this one more time, the united states just recorded more deaths in one day than japan has the entire pandemic. in total. that is literally unbelievable to me when you look at those numbers. what we did in just one day compared to ten months in japan. how is the president marking the occasion? he's giving a medal to a football coach in an event closed to the press. that and giving specious about overthrowing the election. cnn's joe johns live at the white house this morning with more. joe? >> good morning, john. so we have this deadly mark of the most coronavirus deaths in the united states in a single day. the president remains silent on that. nonetheless, the president has tried to take credit for vaccine successes, even though pharmaceutical companies have done all the work. what the president did do yesterday is he released that 46-minute infomercial of a speech in which he detailed all of his lies and conspiracy theories about the election. we're not going to show you that. what is going on here at the white house, also at the state department just down the street is planning for the holiday parties in the midst of a pandemic, obviously. the white house press secretary asked about that yesterday at the briefing, came back with a surreal response. listen. >> i wonder, does the white house, is it setting a good example for the public, for the white house, you know, in-person holiday parties at a time when the cdc and other organizations are asking americans to forego those kinds of celebrations for their own safety. >> so, you know, if you can loop, burn down buildings and engage in protest, you can also go to a christmas party. >> reporter: sources tell cnn that the president is frustrated with his attorney general, because the attorney general essentially said there is no evidence of fraud that would overturn the election. but we are told by sources that the president is being advised here not to fire anyone this late in his term. and then there's that issue of pardons. we are also being told by a source to be prepared for a flurry of them. so we'll watch for that. alisyn, back to you. >> joe, thank you very much. also developing this morning, democratic lawmakers are backing a bipartisan $908 billion stimulus bill in an effort to restart negotiations. the move is a significant concession to republicans, as president-elect joe biden pressures legislators to take action. >> i promise you, hang on. we're going to get through this. you're going to get through this. it's going to be hard as hell for the next 50 to 70 days, unless the house acts in some way, the senate acts, and passes some of this material. >> cnn's jessica dean is live for us in wilmington, delaware, with more. what have you learned, jessica? >> reporter: well, good morning to you, alisyn. you saw president-elect joe biden yesterday meeting virtually with small business owners, with workers who have either lost their jobs, are about to lose their businesses like so many americans all across our country who are really suffering under this pandemic. biden making the point that getting coronavirus under control is number one. that has to happen for anything else to happen. but number two, he also reiterated, his call for congress to pass a stimulus package, to pass a covid relief bill that will help states and americans who are struggling amidst this pandemic. now, over on capitol hill, negotiations are stalled, as they have been for months. this as you mentioned, a bipartisan group of senators is trying to put together a plan. it's not going much of anywhere, though, because senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is cooking up his own plan with treasury secretary steve mnuchin. one that mnuchin says that president trump would back. now, that plan doesn't have in it any direct payments to americans, which is something the democrats have called for. it also doesn't have any money going to states. a lot of states are facing dire financial straits over the coronavirus pandemic, trying to keep their states and governments open, paying essential workers. and they're having trouble doing that because of the pandemic. that bill does not have any money in it for that, either. if there's no compromise, we could go into the end of the year with millions more people slipping into poverty. alisyn, you all have shown, day after day, these incredible lines of people who need help, just feeding their families. there are millions of people struggling out there. they're looking to the government, they're looking to congress to pass something. >> the situation is desperate. and it gets more so every single day. jessica, thank you very much, for explaining all of that. more americans were reported dead on wednesday from covid than ever before. hospitals are at a breaking point and los angeles's mayor is telling residents, quote, it's time to hunker down and cancel everything. that's next. - [announcer] meet the ninja foodi air fry oven. make family-sized meals fast. and because it's a ninja foodi, it can do things no other oven can, like flip away. the ninja foodi air fry oven, the oven that crisps and flips away. and sweetie can coloryou just be... gentle with the pens. okey. okey. i know. gentle..gentle new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database so you can start hiring right away. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. which means time is runningt out to pick a medicare plan. with so many changes, do you know if your plan is still the right fit? 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what can we say this morning that we find ourselves -- and this is the beginning of the wave, as we understand it. >> kboorgood morning, alisyn. it was that grim day yesterday with record hospitalizations and record deaths. and dr. redfield was spot-on when he predicted the potential collapse of the health care system. about one in ten beds in america is now occupied with somebody who is infected with coronavirus. and predicting 450,000 preventable deaths, potentially, by february. and when you're racking up deaths at a clip of approximately 1,500 to 2,500 a day, it doesn't take very long to get to 450,000 deaths. and this is no surprise. this should be expected. the dynamics driving this outbreak have not changed, which is people coming together. it's winter, more people are inside. and the lack of public health action. so unlike the spring, there's still many states -- there are states now that have abandoned contact tracing, which is the primary strategy. 13 states don't have a mask mandate. there's only seven states where businesses are mostly closed. and there's only two states that have considered curfews or shelter in place. california and ohio. so we shouldn't expect something different when we're doing the same thing over and over again. and it's even worse than that, because we're actually doing less. but you know me, optimistic public health person, we can still turn this around with public health. this morning, all over the world, $1.7 billion people will wake up with near-zero cases and zero deaths. and that can still be us. >> that's the point of comparing the united states to japan, which i've done a few times here, dr. khan. the united states reported more deaths yesterday, mannore than 3,000 in one day than japan has the entire pandemic combined. and then you add to that, the knowledge that it's going to get worse. if you look at the graphics, you can overlay, dr. aratopl did this, and it's really telling. you overlay the growth in hospitalizations and the growth in deaths, you can see the shape of these graphs are exactly the same. that blue line is hospitalizations. the top line there at the end is hospitalizations. and you can tell by the shape, the deaths are only going to go up by a lot over the next few weeks. i'll let you be optimistic for a second. eric garcetti, the mayor of los angeles last night said "cancel everything" and issue stay-at-home restrictions, even though they're not really enforceable. but what will that change? what would that do if it was done around the country? doctor? >> oh, that's me. i thought that was eric. okay, it will make all the difference, okay? so this is about the key strategies of not change, the secret sauce for these $1.7 billion people. we know what it is, it's leadership. it's dropping community transmission and it's community engagement. and so until we get our cases down with contact tracing, which is our primary strategy, we still don't have enough contact tracers in america. we don't have a national contact tracing app in america. we don't pay people for prevention with the quarantine and isolation pay. so until we do that. we're going to have to get people to not come together. and that's going to require some temporary sacrifices and closing bars, restaurants, houses of worship, and gyms, where we know most of this transmission occurs. and it's worked in europe. >> john, you know what the white house is doing instead of all of those things that dr. khan just laid out? >> the opposite. >> they're having another superspreader event, or many. they're actually planning their holiday parties. and just so that you have a sense of the scope of the holiday parties, i just want to quickly read what the state department, what mike pompeo is planning, according to the "washington post," a copy of one invitation obtained by "the washington post" welcomes guests to a december 15th event entitled "diplomacy at home for the holidays," in the benjamin franklin room, the department's flagship reception space. invitations have gone up to 900 people. that's what the state department is doing. the white house is having its christmas parties. and when asked about it, the press secretary, kayleigh mcenany had confusing logic. listen to this. >> i wonder, does the white house -- is it setting a good example for the public, for the white house to have in-person holiday parties at a time when the cdc and other organizations are asking americans to forego those kind of celebrations for their own safety. >> yeah, you know, so you can if you can burn down buildings and engage in protests, you can also go to a christmas party. >> i guess she's inviting the looters and the rioters to the christmas party. i'm so confused by the logic. >> some surreal equivalence between burning down buildings and holiday parties. what it reflects is this administration's impulse to make the coronavirus pandemic a culture war issue. and that has killed people. you heard the doctor just say, although things have been done to mitigate this, that the governors who listen to him have not led by, that's why we're here, to some extent. because we have a failure of presidential leadership, because they've tried to politicize a pandemic, and that has been deadly, not only dumb, but that's the difference that maybe we can look forward to right now. and we are one week away from thanksgiving. the trend lines are awful and it's an historic failure of leadership across the board. these holiday parties are just the extra insult, as more americans are dying or hospitalized. >> it really is. doesn't seem like a time to throw a party. on many levels, all at once there. it speaks volumes about where their head is in this. dr. khan, michael osterholm, we'll have later on the show, who is part of the transition team for president-elect joe biden says we are at a case cli cliff. he talks about a case cliff. that the number of cases and number of hospitalizations are reaching this critical breaking point. what do you think he means? >> i think he's referring to what we can all see, which is increased -- daily increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. correct, so deaths lag cases about seven days. so these 200,000 cases we're seeing a day, and seven days from now, we'll see the deaths associated with those 200,000 cases. so there's no doubt that deaths are going to continue to get worse. and unless restrictions are put in place, unless we adopt good public health science, we are going to continue to see additional cases. probably 20 to 25% of americans may well have been infected at this point. so there's still, you know, over 70% of americans still ready to get infected and die from this disease until the vaccines are eventually available. >> dr. khan, we do appreciate you being with us. we appreciate the work you're doing and your adherence to mask wearing. mask on. >> and we appreciate the presents that you sent john and me, the beautiful masks. >> he sent us masks. which is super nice. >> for christmas. >> john, our thanks to you, as well. appreciate it. >> mask on, everybody. >> we want to remember some of the now nearly 274,000 americans lost to coronavirus. paul castillo was a u.s. navy veteran and an employee for general motors in ohio for more than 25 years. he enjoyed being a football coach and spending time with his family. pablo is survived by his wife, three daughters, and two granddaughters. he was just 54. marilyn denivan married the love of her life in june 1959 one year after she graduated school in south dakota. the couple shared three children and 61 years together. marilyn passed away peacefully surrounded by her children. she was 81. donald clayman was mayor of south palm beach florida from 2010 to 2015. he's known for guiding the town through one of its most difficult periods with an upbeat attitude and common sense approach. his daughter says he'll be remembered as cheerful and generous. he had a smile on his face no matter what. you can see it right there. he was 85. to support a strong immune system, your body needs routine. centrum helps your immune defenses every day, with vitamin c, d and zinc. season, after season. ace your immune support, with centrum. we started by making the cloud easier to manage. but we didn't stop there. we made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. no matter what it does, or how it changes. and we kept going. so you only pay for what you use. because at dell technologies, we stop...at nothing. ♪ ♪ birds flyin' high you know how i feel ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing] ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day... ♪ no matter how you got copd it's time to make a stand. ♪ ...and i'm feelin' good start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. it's time to start a new day. ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy. and save at trelegy.com. ask your doctor abouythey customize yours lcar insurance. so you only pay for what you need. wow. that will save me lots of money. this game's boring. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. 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"the post" takes it a step further and said, one senior administration official said there was a chance that trump would fire his attorney general and asserted the president was not merely frustrated over barr's fraud-related assertions, but that several people are trying to persuade trump not to do so. it gives you a window into the mind of where the president is these last 50 days, charlie. >> it sure does. and you know, don't take it just from bill barr. take it from the homeland security department's cybersecurity office, where they said it was a very clean election. take it from the secretaries of state. the secretaries of state from both republican and democrat alike, you know, who have stated they have run honest, open, and transparent elections. it's ridiculous that they are alleging fraud without providing any evidence. or how about a specific allegation. the only allegation i've seen in pennsylvania is up here in the coal region, some guy was trying to vote his dead mother for trump. i would they would give us an allegation. but this is part of the wrecking ball approach the democratic institutions use in the electoral process. i never thought i would see attacks on democracy at home, like i've seen especially coming from a white house and from a president and his allies. it's just completely insane. >> dead voters for trump. it takes on a macabre meaning at this point. margaret, does bill barr care? he has 50 days left. does he care at this point if he loses his job? >> i -- look. i think bill barr, this has probably gone farther than bill barr thought that it would. i -- we're -- our reporting is the same as yours. our understanding is that the president has been extremely agitated since the ap interview with bill barr. although his real driving and abiding concern has been that barr has not helped usher out the door this john durham report that the president is convince would put former obama-era officials in the hot seat for the fbi's investigation of the russia thing. it's now the end of the trump presidency. we're still talking about the russia investigation. and so, look, who is going to step in in the last 40-some days to take that job? what kind of a mark will it leave on the presidency? and yet, there is still a series of pardons that could come, still a series of constitutional questions, based on the next plays by the president. he may have a real instinct to clear a path to do sort of whatever he wants to do. but, you know, the fate of bill barr is still very much in question. there are people that are telling the president, don't this. >> all of it to raise money for his political action committee. more than $170 million the president has earned so far on all of this. charlie dent, margaret talev, thanks both so much. president-elect joe biden and the vice president-elect kamala harris join jake tapper for their first joint interview since the election. their election victory. tune in for the special event tonight at 9:00 p.m. that will be fascinating, only on cnn. we learned overnight, the trump administration is withdrawing diplomats from the middle east, as tensions rise with iran. we have a live report from tehran, next. 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>> honestly, yes. >> reporter: every decision we make is risk versus reward. and when the company announced early data, showing over 94% efficacy, yasir was confident it had been worth it. >> it doesn't last long. and the potential of folks not getting this vaccine and actually infecting people with covid, those affects last a lot longer. and they can be life or death. >> these are early days. and the two vaccine front-runners in this country, pfizer and moderna, use a type of genetic sequence called mrna. it's a technology that has never before been used in humans outside of a clinical trial. mrna stands for messenger rna, it carries the instruction for makinging whatever protein you want. in this case, the spike protein the virus uses to enter our cells. these vaccines require two doses. one to prime, one to boost, a few weeks apart so the body mounts what we hope will be a lasting immune response. one of the biggest concerns now is that the side effects that yasir is describing, fatigue, muscle pain, fever and chills, will deter people from getting that second dose. >> maybe 10, 15% of the subjects immunized have quite noticeable side effects that usually last no more than 24 to 36 hours. >> do you worry about the impact of this vaccine on you long-term? >> i gave it a lot of thought. and the only thing that gave me some calm was trying to research the actual vaccine, trying to understand how mrna vaccines work. >> we understand this for sure. you can't get infected from this vaccine, because the vaccine doesn't actually contain the virus. and even though these are genetic-based vaccines, they don't alter our dna. and as far as those side effects go, that may even be a good sign. >> that means your immune response is working for you. you should feel good about that. and it shouldn't really be any difficulty coming back for that second shot, knowing that you're now in a much better position to fight off this awful virus. >> for now, yasir is looking forward to his next appointment, which is on december 10th, the exact day the fda might authorize the first vaccine for covid-19. >> so i put my name down, because i just -- i felt so helpless. it's public service. i have to do it, because i think mass scale vaccination is really the only realistic way out of the pandemic that we're in. >> so, again, john, just to think about this. two shots, one to prime the immune system, the second to boost. if you do both, the idea is that you get longer-lasting and stronger immunity overall. that's why you do the two shots. still, as you know, just about 60%, 58% of people say they would actually get this vaccine. hopefully those numbers continue to go up. in order to get to that herd immunity, people will have to trust this vaccine and get both of those shots. get one, come back for the others. >> i think the number will go up, as you keep explaining as clearly as you are as people like yasir come forward and explain what people will go through. we're at the stage now where people want to know practically speaking what exactly will happen. it's terrific to get that information. we'll talk to you again in a second, sanjay. appreciate it. a quick programming note. you can join sanjay and anderson cooper tomorrow night for a new coronavirus town hall. get your coronavirus and vaccine questions answered at 9:00 p.m. eastern. georgia's republican election officials are beg president trump to stop spreading lies about the election and to condemn the death threats that they're receiving. we have a brand-new interview with georgia's secretary of state, next. goodbye cleaning, hello clean. now, braava jet mops right where you need it with an adjustable precision jet spray and an advanced pad system. and offers personalized cleaning suggestions unique to your home. braava jet m6 and the irobot home app. only from irobot. braava jet m6 and keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. 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>> well, i really don't know. i just know at the end of the day, my job is managing myself. a lot of times, it's bigger than the person. it's really a philosophy. and so as republicans, we have a philosophy of, i hope we still do, of small, limited affected government. >> reporter: do you feel abandoned, though, in any way, by other republicans and more influential ones who haven't come out and spoke out to stop this kind of rhetoric and false, baseless claims of fraud? >> well, i know that some people maybe think it's not their fight or also, they realize that someone has 50 million twitter followers, maybe more, and they have likely 50, and they're thinking, why would i want to join that fray? >> if you would all bow your head for a moment of silence. >> reporter: rachffensperger sa in all the chaos, he finds comfort in reading the bible, and at the end of the day, it's what his family thinks about him that matters most. >> they're proud of where i stand and understand it's a tough spot that i'm in right now. but that's really important. that they see my integrity and they're grateful for it. >> reporter: and despite it all, he hopes that there will be many more elections for him in the future. >> will you be doing that again in a couple of years? >> yes, absolutely. because i'll be on the ballot. >> reporter: so that, indeed, is a confirmation from secretary of state raffensperger that he'll be running for re-election in 2022. i do want to mention that was really interesting to me. i asked rachbsbergffensperger i were any bible verses that spoke to him during this time, and he mentioned that psalms 37 and 73 were recommended to him. it reads like this, psalm 37, don't fret because of those who are evil or envious or those who do wrong, and it ends with, the lord helps them and delivers them from the wicked and saves them because they take refuge in him. john, alisyn? >> amarah, thank you so much for that. it's so great to get a sense of the man, the person who is suffering these attacks for doing nothing more than just doing his job. >> and that was a deeply personal profile. i really appreciate that. because -- and also, to reveal what he has gone through in his life, so many families, obviously, struggle with addiction and overdose, and that was just a really personal view into how he's enduring all of this. >> it just makes the president seem all the more small for what he's doing. "new day" continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day" and we do begin with breaking news. more deaths reported from coronavirus in a single day than ever before. 3,157. that's more deaths reported in one day here in the united states than japan has registered the entire pandemic. we did it in just one day. that is just outrageous. more than 100,000 people are hospitalized this morning. that's an all-time high. more than 200,000 new coronavirus cases were reported overnight. every reason to believe that the number of deaths will keep going up. the director of the cdc warns that the next three months will, quote, be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation. >> what is president trump doing? well, he devoted almost an hour of his wednesday to producing and starring in a propaganda video, filled with flagrant lies about the election, and going after anyone who contradicts him, including attorney general bill barr, who "the washington post" reports president trump is considering firing. as for public health, the white house is actively ignoring the cdc's coronavirus guidelines and planning a series of holiday parties with voluntary masks and social distancing. meanwhile, secretary of state mike pompeo is inviting
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