Annemarie green. Turns out doug Hughes Department fly under the radar after all. He was being tracked by the nations top security agencies. And as he entered restricted airspace near the capitol, authorities aimed multiple weapons aet the aircraft. Next Week Congress will hold hearings to determine why hughes wasnt stopped. Mark alberts in washington. Good morning, mark. Good morning, alison. Last night lawmakers got their first indepth briefing on this that lasted about 45 minutes. The ease with which he was able to penetrate the nations most secure airspace is demanding lawmakers to ask for accountability. Reporter House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaifetz had harsh words for postal worker doug hughes who flew a gyrocopter landing on the capitol lawn. But chaifetz was even tougher on norad and the fcc. They chose not to brief us. Reporter during a closed door briefing wednesday officials from the secret service and Capitol Police revealed multiple agencies tracked the aircraft b
Scrambling to figure out how much highly Sensitive Information has been compromised after malicious actors roamed undetected across Government Agencies for months. Welcome to tuesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. The Electoral College has spoken and this morning Mitch Mcconnell finally decided to congratulate joe biden as the next president of the United States. Yesterday, electors met in all 50 states. So as of this morning, our country has officially a president elect and a Vice President elect. The Electoral College has spoken. So today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden, the president elect is no stranger to the senate. Hes devoted himself to Public Service for many years. I also want to congratulate the Vice President elect, our colleague from california, senator harris. For what its worth, its the first time anybody in that leadership position has used the Electoral College as somehow the bar before acknowledging a victory, especially one that was not ev
They couldnt get it soon enough or quick enough out there. It remains to be seen how thats going to be solved, that problem is going to be solved in the coming weeks. Again, its a question of resources, getting to states and localities. This is the problem weve seen throughout the pandemic where the states saying they need more help from washington. Washington saying this is the states function to carry out. Also a lot of concern about this new strain thats been detected now in a third state after colorado, california and now florida. Health officials are saying that its more contagious, it spreads more easily, but its not necessarily more deadly and its not going to make people sicker. The big concern is after this long holiday period when so many people have defied the warnings and the pleas not to travel and not to gather with friends and relatives, that the coming months are going to be very, very challenging, very, very difficult before a lot of vaccine can get out to millions of
Vaccine strategy is causing some alarm within the medical community. Health officials there delaying the second dose of the Pfizer Vaccine in a bid to get as many people vaccinated as possible. In a new years interview, president elect biden talked about the need to step up vaccinations in the u. S. And thanked the first responders, guests in the times square last night. They have stepped up and we owe them. Joining me is dr. William hazelti hazeltine, the president of assess health international. Happy new year. Happy new year to you. Thank you. Lets start with the fact as we begin 2012, there more than 20 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the u. S. What are your projections for first few months as which enter this new year . Unfortunately the news isnt good for the first two months and that is we are expecting as people have talked about before a surge upon a surge throughout january and most of february. Thats based on what we know is now happening the way people are tra
We have now over 2,000 to 3,000 deaths per day. We have record hospitalizations. Over 125,000 hospitalizations. Its a very difficult position to be in. Things could get really quite bad as we go into the first couple of weeks of january which will reflect what went on two weeks previously, namely where we are right now. Nbcs ron allen is in Long Island City new york and Shaq Brewster is at Bradley International airport outside hartford, connecticut. Ron, youre in queens, the onetime epicenter of this pandemic. What is the situation like on the ground right now as we head into this second calendar year fighting the virus . Reporter well, the positivity rates are going up here in new york city and in new york state as they have been in other places, in the region as well, massachusetts and connecticut. These are the states hardest hit early on in the pandemic. Now its sort of coming back again. Theres also huge problems with distribution of this vaccine which is also worrying. The number