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To preorder enough doses. Good to have you with us. U. S. President elect joe biden has laid out an ambitious plan to tackle americas worsening covid crisis. With more than 15 million cases now reported across the country, biden says he will focus on vaccinating the public to try and bring the numbers down. He is promising 100 million doses in the first 100 days of his administration as well as a mask mandate and a strategy to safely return kids to school. Cnns arlitt saenz has the details. Reporter as covid19 rages across the country, president elect joe biden laid out a blueprint for tackling the pandemic in his first 100 days in office. Im absolutely convinced that in 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in america for the better. Reporter the president elects goals are developed with the help of dr. Anthony fauci include widespread mask wearing, getting more kids back in classrooms and putting 100 million vaccine shots in americans arms. My first 100 day ....
It is already here. Fauci also is set to receive his first dose of the vaccine in just about an hour from now. So you will see that live on camera. This comes, though, again, with devastating news in terms of the cases rising across the country. 190,000 new covid infections yesterday alone and nearly 1,700 people in this country died yesterday from covid. This just days before christmas where icus like this one in california are still at a breaking month. And in washington just days before millions of americans were set to lose key benefits, congress has finally acted on a relief bill set to be signed by the president. But we do begin this hour with more on this covid variant. We have team coverage, Fred Pleitgen is in moscow. First lets begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Walk us through the latest. What have we learned about this since yesterday . Good morning, poppy. This is moving so quickly. Lets get s ....
To hold a News Conference coming up at 5 00 eastern time, and of course well have that for you as it happens. Cnns natasha chen is near the scene of this Ongoing Police operation there in lebanon, tennessee, just about 25 miles outside of nashville, where theyre looking further into this suspicious vehicle. Shimon prokupecz is in downtown nashville. Also with me is cnn senior Law Enforcement analyst Andrew Mccabe joining us by phone. Natasha, let me begin with you and what is an active investigative scene here involving that suspicious vehicle. Reporter right, fred. Well, we just got here a few minutes ago, but i can tell you what this looks like here. Authorities have this roadblocked off. This is actually right at the entrance of a state park, cedars of lebanon s ....