Will be reelected, and that will have a huge impact historically on what happens. This is the most important runoff in american history. Harris just minutes from now, ill interview one of the candidates, georgia senator Kelly Loeffler, lives right here on overtime pay first, lets get to the news. Jonathan serrie is live in atlanta with the latest. Speak of the georgia secretary of state says he is conducting a whole of government approach to combating illegal voting here in the state of georgia. Multiple agencies, including the Georgia Bureau of investigation, are assisting with ongoing efforts across the state, including a signature audit in Metro Atlantas cobb county. He says, i am committed to marshaling all Resources Available to ensure qualified georgians and only georgians cast ballots in georgia. He has mailed approximately 8,000 letters to voters requesting absentee ballots who also filled outofstate changes filed outofstate changes of address with the u. S. Postal service, to
I feel extreme confidence in the safety and efficacy of this vaccine. Odonnell plus, why who gets the vaccine next can make a difference in flattening the curve. Americans out of work tonight, the story of middleclass families hurting, relying on food banks and not getting a check from the u. S. Government. Jailed for violating quarantine an American College student is sentenced to two months behind bars in the Cayman Islands. What her parents are asking the president to do. And our season of giving worldrenowned Chef Jose Andres feeding hungry americans and providing a lifeline to small businesses. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with unusually blunt words from president elect joe biden, who said our darkest days in the battle against covid are ahead of us, not behind us. His warning comes as america is expected to top thre
Prioritize Cyber Security across the board. Ill consult with experts to plan for the steps that my administration will take in order to secure our systems and improve our cyber defenses and to better withstand future attacks that we know will come and to impose costs on those that conduct them. I fully expect bipartisan support in this based on what we heard so far. Our adversaries are capable. Cyber threats are part of the 21st century. We have to treat them with the same purpose that we treated threats of other unconventional weapons. We have to work with our allies to establish Clear International rules and mechanisms and enforce them and consequences for those countries that violate them. Im going to close with this. As i look at the first of what will be millions of vaccinations going in the arms of americans after hundreds of thousands of lives lost, Congress Finally passing a Economic Relief package after months and months of delay, at a new urgency from bipartisan approach to C
Cages making his policy preferences for this country crystal clear. He is scolding g. O. P. Senators who he says has abandoned him, and he believes they will be primary aid in 2022. He wants 2,000 in covert relief checks. That puts him in a strange position of being in agreement with house poulo house leader nancy pelosi and. Keep in mind that the government has already passed more covert relief than any prior stimulus in the nations history. More than the new deal, more than the obama bill after the financial meltdown of 20072008, that was 1 trillion in todays money. At that point it was a gas worthy figure. But these collective covid bills are knocking on the door of 3 trillion. That comes down to 8,835 for every Single Person in the country. At the same time an and a larger omnibus bill that it is grouped with, you have spending on gender programs in pakistan, maintenance of the currently closed Kennedy Center and even a study of the 1908 springfield race riot. Im not sure what any
Another vaccine now has emergency use authorization from the u. S. Food and drug administration. Its the second one in a week to get the green light. The decision came as the u. S. Saw a Record Number of new of course cases on friday, just shy of 250,000 people. Adding to the toll 13 record Straight Days of hospitalizations. We get the latest from cnns randi kaye. Reporter the United States seeing its darkest days since the pandemic began. More help is likely on the way. The cdc is expected to discuss distribution plans for modernas vaccine over the weekend. We likely will see shots in the arms by early next week, monday or tuesday. Reporter those thoughts in the arms kfr come soon enough, death reported 2,370. And the iuae is projecting 560,000 deaths by february. All eyes are on california in a gruesome predicament. L. A. Countys Health Department say on average two people an hour are dying. The director of the l. A. County Health Department says their hospitals are under siege. The