Acknowledge bidens win. This comes as the coronavirus is spiraling out of control in america. In the past 24 hours alone, cases and hospitalizations are hitting a new record and more than 1400 americans have died from the virus. From the pentagon to the state department trumps refusal to acknowledge bidens win is turning into National Security nightmare. We have our correspondents in washington taking it from here. When the pentagon comes back to work after veterans day, the big question will be what happens next. Now defense secretary mark esper fired and gone, a new acting secretary chris miller installed, other new members of the top levels of the pentagon trump loyalists clearly earmarked to carry out out what the president s wishes are. The problem is nobody knows what those are. Toulouse unease and anxiety. A big question is will President Trump make a big military decision before he leaves office. Im kylie atwood at the state department. People are outraged after secretary pompeos comments when he was asked about working with the biden transition at the state department he said a smooth transition to the Trump Administration. Democrats called that incredibly scary for him to say. Some told me they felt sick to their stomach after hearing those comments. Others were angered because he thought appeared to undermine their world. Around the world, they work to advocate for free and Fair Elections. They encourage World Leaders not to challenge the results of elections if they were the result of a democratic process. That is precisely what President Trump is doing now with the backing of americas top diplomat. Im vivian in washington. President trump and allies lodging officials across government and burrowing in agencies in a way that could complicate the transition process or make it hard to have them removed when president elect Joe Biden Takes Office next year. Already since the election, more than half a dozen senior officials have either been fired, demoted or quit. In some cases, political appointees loyal to the president have been placed in career positions which come with Civil Service protections, all of this as President Trump refuses to concede and as his government waits to designate joe biden as president elect. A designation that is critical in the National Security sphere in particular because it is legally required before bidens Transition Team gets access to classified information. Im Kristin Holmes in washington, d. C. President trump showing no sign of conceding this election any time soon to president elect joe biden. Now senior white house officials are spreading the word across the administration to agencies not to have any sort of cooperation with the biden Transition Team. They have made it clear they should not be taking any steps that indicate that President Trump did not win this election. Now, remember, this all revolves around this ascertainment were talking about, talking about General Services administration, monaco that happens every election and is usually done without a hitch. Ascertain who the winner is. What it does is opens up millions of dollars in government funding for the transition and also allows the biden team to formally begin their transition and work with those agencies as well as for the president elect to get those highly confidential daily briefings. It is unclear right now when that is going to happen. We should remind our viewers that the person who is meant to ascertain that joe biden is the winner is a Current Trump political appointee. They did issue a statement from the General Services administration saying the administrator would follow the laws and compared this to the Clinton Administration and that transition with that ongoing lawsuit back in 2000. I have heard from several officials who say that this is simply just not the same situation. Concern is growing that the director of the cia gina haskell may be on the list of National Security officials who he wants to get rid of. President trumps view has been eroding most recently because of her reluctance to help declassify and release documents relating to the fbis russia investigation. She leads an agency fiercely apolitical under a president that demands loyalty. On tuesday haskell got a strong show of confidence after meeting with Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell who continues to back the president s decision not to concede the election. Thank you, alex, and all of my colleagues for those reports. As each day passes, Trump Administration refuses to concede to transition of power the more vulnerable the country is according to the 9 11 commission, independent Bipartisan Commission that extensively investigated september 11th attacks and the factors that contributed to them. The commission warn things fall through the cracks when the transition is delayed. Founded in 2000 because of the infamous recount the delayed transition hampered administration in identifying, recruiting, clearing and obtaining key confirmation of appointees. Among the commissions findings, no disruption in policymaking, Outgoing Administration provide ingoing with detailed summary of National Security threats as soon as the day after the election, that security clearances begin immediately on any officials and transition leaders. This was a big focus of the 9 11 hearings. Especially in areas of National Security intelligence, there is a very vulnerable moment when the baton is handed off. During that transition, it appears weve heard that the Administration Officials leaving government and Clinton Administration were willing to be generous with their time but didnt always connect up with the right people. I think we should have a recommendation in terms of institutionalizing trans eggs, in these times require Immediate Response to issues. I think it is absolutely critical that this nation sit down and come together and let the president of the United States, whoever he or she is, have the people that they think can best represent the interest of the administration that has just been elected. So knowing this, every day counts during a transition. Theres reason to be alarmed when the president starts firing people and appointing key loyalists as he is in the pentagon. I want you to meet policy gishl retire brigadier general. His nomination to the position failed after reported on past islamophobic and other offensive comments he made. Lawmakers from both parties have opposed his placement in this very role. He called islam the most oppressive, violent religion. He called president obama a, quote, muslim manchurian candidate, also a terrorist leader. He called Speaker Pelosi and congresswoman Maxine Waters violent extremists. Take a look at this, jim. Telling cia director john brennan pick your poison, firing squad, public hanging, life sentence as prison b word or just suck on your pistol. This is not a serious or even stable individual but the president installed him in this key policy role anyway and hes in the top spot for the next two months. Its not just the pentagon. At the state department, this comes from secretary of state. There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump Administration. Pompeo tried to clean that up later on the president s favorite cable channel. Well have a smooth transition and see what people decided when the votes are cast. Process lays out how electors vote. Im very confident we will have a good transition. We will make sure whoever is in office at noon january 20th has all the tools available so we dont skip a beat. This is americas top diplomat, the person charged with selling democracy to the world pouring baseless doubt all over americas election. Keep that in mind when mike pompeo delivers words like these to other nations looking up to the u. S. The goal is to replace maduros leadership with Transitional Government who can hold free elections. We should watch when those elections are permitted to take place in a free and fair fashion. These are folks desperately eager to be heard in a free and Fair Election. Belarusans deserve the right to choose leaders in a truly free and Fair Election under independent observation. We also call on free and Fair Elections in haiti as soon as technically feasible. The United States continues to support democratic values, fundamental freedoms in hong kong. For anyone who believed that pompeos smirk meant that he was joking it doesnt quite matter since the one person who really needs an intervention gave him an atta boy for it. President trump pointing to pompeos denial of the Election Results as to why he was, quote, number one in his class at west point. Pompeo, by the way, has a pattern of doing what the president wants, like when trump criticizing him for not releasing Hillary Clintons emails before the election. She had 33,000 emails, they are in the state department but mike pompeo has been unable to get them out. Its very sad. Im not happy about him for that reason. He was unable to get them out. Youre running the state department, you get them out. 24 hours later pompeo was back on trumps favorite cable channel making him happy. Weve got the emails, getting them out, getting all the information out so American People can see it. I certainly think there will be more to see before the election. An empty promise because key race alert polls are closed just like the president s chances of reelection. Ahead the president attacks the republican in charge of philadelphias elections for saying theres zero evidence of fraud. Plus joe bidens popular vote, his lead there getting bigger as republicans focus on key electoral dates. And a disturbing day in the nations Coronavirus Crisis, record hospitalizations, record cases and more than 1400 americans dying in one day. This is cnns special live coverage. Adam, emily and then. S uh um. Its shiori. Shori. Thank you, thats great. Shiori. I really love it. Diabetes and raised triglycerides,. Vascepa can give you something to celebrate. Vascepa, when added to your statin,. Is clinically proven to provide 25 lower risk from heart attack and stroke. Vascepa is clearly different. First and only fda approved. Celebrate less risk. Even for those with family history. Dont take vascepa if you are. Or become allergic to icosapent ethyl or any inactive ingredient in vascepa. Serious side effects may occur like heart rhythm problems and bleeding. 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How bad is it going to get . Its going to get worse before it gets better. The reason for that is as you said we may have flu with us. Even if flu is very tame, its getting colder and colder and colder. That means more people are staying inside. Of course, that means the virus can spread more quickly. Lets take a look at this graphic. What were seeing here when we look to the far right end of this graph is that number is on a very dramatic upswing. That means as time goes on, youre going to see more hospitalizations and unfortunately more deaths. There are 45 states out of 50. The numbers are going up, 45 out of 50. Texas has become the first state to exceed 1 million doses. Brianna. Im sorry, 1 million cases. 1 million cases. Elizabeth, the cdc updated guidance. Theres a lag. They updated and its based on something weve seen in studies. This guidance says masks not only protect other people when you wear them, they also protect you, the person who is wearing them. So what more do we need to know about this. I think a lot of people instinctively knew this. If a mask protects the other person, it must be protecting you. This is cdc putting their stamp of approval on what in many ways is common sense. However, you do need to be wearing the right mask in order to protect yourself and other people. Lets take a look at some masks that are maybe not sufficiently protecting you, a silk mask may not do the trick, bandanas, handkerchiefs, too thin, not tightly woven enough. Masks with valves. A valve looks good. A valve must help. No, it doesnt help, it hurts. Dont use those. A lot of airlines wont let you on the plane with valve masks. Better choices blue surgical masks you see in supply and at drugstores. Polyester works better and multiple layers. If youre using sword of a home made mask, multiple layers work. Some cotton is okay. Its better if its tighter if its more woven. Great tips, elizabeth. Thank you so much for all of that. The Coronavirus Crisis is overwhelming texas in particular. The state just became the first in the nation to hit 1 million covid infections. If texas were its own country, it would rank 11th highest in the world for coronavirus cases. Deaths are on the rise there. That is forcing one county to take drastic action. El paso requesting additional mobile morgues on top of the six on the ground. Cnns omar jimenez in el paso. Theres still debate on what action to take next. What are you learning . Reporter there is, brianna. The two sides, the county judge put together a shutdown for nonessential period for at least a twoweek period, which we understand is expected to extend today. On the stateside of things, theres a lawsuit filed by local businesses which the state backed them up on saying there are other ways to get this under control, we dont need to shut down everything. Theres an appeals process that was in place but we do understand the Texas Supreme Court denied the states temporary relief request from this order, so well continue to watch how that plays out. Bottom line when you look at the impact of covid19 in this community, based on the total population and the number of active cases, one in every 29 people actively has covid19 here in el paso. Hospitalizations at record levels over 1,000 at this point. The city has had to bring in mobile morgues and requesting to deal with the number of deaths we have seen her as well. Of course frontline, woers, a man named daniel morales, he was 49 years old and died trying to protect others died succumbing to what he was trying to protect others from. Its a weight his mother still carries with her to this day. We have an empty chair now. We have a void that will never be filled. You know what, if i lose my house, if i lose my car, ill replace it, ill rebuild. You cannot bring my son back. You cant. And they are arguing over this, and it makes me angry. Part of her anger is what weve heard from county officials here that at least when this order first went in, different jurisdictions were on different pages as to how they were going to tackle this and move forward. Obviously lives are being lost along the way. One other thing i want to point out, daniels mother went on to talk about what his children he left behind four children, what his childrens biggest fear is these days, and its for their mother, who is also a nurse. Their biggest fear is her going to work, because the last time they saw their father, he was going to work. Brianna. Omar, that is heartbreaking. Her anger is understandable, that family going through what they are going through. Omar, thank you so much for bringing that story. Philadelphias public official in charge of the election says theres zero evidence of voter fraud and President Trump doesnt like the truth. Hear how he responded. 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