With cases still climbing. The question is, how long before hospitals and morgues reach a breaking point . Plus, new reporting on Donald Trumps lastditch effort to take the election away from joe biden. But given that the plan is illegal in the state that delivered bidens win, the question is, whats the real end game here . And the president elect increases pressure on the Trump Administration to officially greenlight his transition. The question is whether the General Services administration is breaking the law by delaying the certification of bidens win. Its way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early. Im kasie hunt on this thursday, november 19th. Well start with the news. The United States has now reported more than 250,000 deaths from covid19. Thats 19 of total covid deaths worldwide, and it comes nine months after the first u. S. Fatality from the virus back in early february. Covid deaths have increased by 42 over the last four weeks. Thats a pace we haven
Lost now. That number is going to go up. We have the highest incidence of coronavirus cases ever. This is a disease we didnt know about a year ago, and now a quarter of a million americans are going to be dead. Certainly, you know, were going to be most likely close to 300,000 by the time donald trump leaves office. He has by continuing to sit in his office and do nothing and not allow the transition of power to begin and not to keep the Biden Administration in to where they are on vaccines, on strategy, he is making sure that history holds him accountable for every last death that we have during this time frame. Wow. You know, and we have been patient on this show. I mean, i said time and again that Mitch Mcconnell when he tweeted out everybody had a right to count the votes and they have the right to do the legal challenges and then we move forward, well, were there. And, you know, willie, this is of course as you know when we get around the campfire, when we get into the ozarks by t
Welcome to thursday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. Right now our country is facing two historic crises. One is the greatest Public Health emergency in a century, and the other threatens the health of our democracy. As President Trump continues his dangerous and delusional fight to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Were going to have much more on that emergency in a few minutes but we begin with the Public Health emergency. An Fda Advisory Committee is holding a meeting to decide whether to recommend the authorization of Pfizers Covid vaccine on an emergency basis. If the panel gives the green light, the fda could announce that emergency use authorization as early as tomorrow. And while help is hopefully on the way, the vaccine is sadly too late for far too many people. Coronavirus has killed more than 290,000 americans, including more than 3,000 people yesterday. 3,000. This number shatters the previous single day coronavirus death toll. And it now makes it t
Meeting closely as we see the horrifying toll from this virus. A record 3,103 new covidrelated deaths on wednesday alone and a record 225,000 positive cases in a 24hour period. Joining me now, nbcs Morgan Radford outside fda headquarters in maryland. Nbcs Steve Patterson in phoenix. Dr. Kavita patel, former Health Policy director in the obama administration. And our own nbc senior medical correspondent dr. John torres. Morgan, first to you, i think you may have said theres a lunch break or theyve taken a lunch break. What have we heard so far from the panel today . Reporter andrea, that panel just came back from their lunch break moments ago and theyve been meeting since 9 00 a. M. Virtually. Basically what theyve been doing is going over all of the data that pfizer has provided them about the efficacy of their vaccine. And today, between 3 15 and 5 15 when that Virtual Meeting ends, thats when we expect them to make their vote, to vote whether or not to recommend emergency use of the
Decisions before she came to the court in california and nevada went the other way. Lets get more on the important ruling in new york with nbcs gabe gutierrez. Gabe, good to see you again. You were here back in spring when they were setting up field hospitals in central park and now the state is facing a legal hurdle. Tell us about what happened overnight. Reporter yes, certainly. Governor andrew cuomo has come under some fire and theres been some backlash to the restrictions that are being imposed and not just on businesses and you know, as closing schools here in new york city, of course. Now we have this injunction overnight from the u. S. Supreme court, in a 54 decision, essentially blocking some of the stricter limits on houses of worship capacity of 10 or 25 people. Chris, we should point out the Immediate Impact of this ruling is not much, because as the state had argued some of the restrictions had already been dialed back, and that the houses of worship are allowed to operate