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Continues threatening u. S. Democracy with baseless claims of voting fraud. Cnn has learned that the president met with political advisers today to discuss a path forward, but sources tell cnn that some trump allies are now saying privately there is almost no chance, no chance the president s legal challenges will succeed. Breaking pandemic news. U. S. Coronavirus death toll topping now 240,000 people and more than 10. 3 million americans have been infected. Yesterday alone, the country saw a record 136,000 new cases and more than 1400 americans died. Lets start our coverage this hour with more on the president ial transition here in the United States. Our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is covering president elect biden for us. Jeff is joining us from wilmington, delaware. Biden started his day by honoring Service Members who were killed during the korean war but ....
This is cnn breaking news. Thank you for being with me, im fredricka whitfield, a dire situation in the u. S. As coronavirus is breaking new records, but first tragic news on the loss of a legendary broadcaster and iconic cnn alum, were learning today that larry king has died. He passed away at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in los angeles, the cause of death has not yet been revealed though king had been hospitalized with covid19 just a few weeks ago. He spent six tick cads on radio, television and digital media. Well look book on his life in a moment. We turn to the pandemic right now. The struggle the country is having. Getting it under control. Another 3,600 deaths on friday alone. This as the vaccine rollout continues to be a challenge. The cdc reported a singleday vaccination record on friday, nearly 1. 6 million doses administered. But states are facing critically low shortages. As millions of americans try to get v ....
Almost walltowall coverage we have seen in the past couple weeks. It is clearly a huge story, but are Media Outlets being irresponsible with this fullcourt press . Are they creating hysteria and fear in communities across the country . Are they scaring people to death . Or are they, we, doing our jobs . Holding the government and private hospitals accountable, raising life and death issues . Will all the coverage stop other hospitals from making the same terrible mistakes that were made at the dallas Presbyterian Hospital . I think there are elements of truth to both of these sides. Thats how the answers to Big Questions usually are, all of the above. So this hour youll hear from journalists on the front lines who have been thinking about these things just like i have. But lets start by recapping some of the events ....
We are almost done but we have just enough time for our traditional final question for our guest. For all weve been through in the past 12 months what would you wish for america in the coming year . Oh god, my wish for 2015 is peace. And my own show on cnn. I hope all these countries can just stop protesting and rioting and just live and love each other and life is so short. And my other dream is to play first base of the cleveland indians. My hope for 2015 is that the news becomes a little bit easier to follow. Because its gotten more peaceful. Thats probably not going to happen. But we could hope. Its been a rough year we need a good 2015. My hope for 2015 is the world gets motivated to Work Together on climate change. If we could just live in a world where we thought the police were being policed by somebody i think 2015 would be a dramatic improvement. Over 2014. My hopes for 2015 is that we can all get along and all just love ....