Biden: U.S. in "dire, dire, dire straits" without new aid package soon

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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With the number of COVID deaths in the U.S. surpassing 278,000 and almost 3,000 Americans dying in one day, President-elect Biden continues to lobby his plans for aid relief for the American people. U.S. adds just 245,000 jobs in November as labor market stalls. President Trump blasts Georgia governor ahead of his expected visit to the state to campaign for the January 5th Senate runoff. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:10.0	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.6	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:14.5	We're following breaking news.
0:16.2	Alarming new numbers in the coronavirus crisis.
0:19.0	278,000 Americans have now lost their lives to COVID-19, and the country is facing more than 14.2
0:27.0	million confirmed cases.
0:29.2	It's now the leading cause of death this week in the United States.
0:33.0	COVID killed nearly as many Americans just yesterday has died on 9-11, almost 3,000 people.
0:40.0	That has the CDC using its strongest language yet to encourage the use of masks,
0:45.5	calling them critical and saying in some cases,
0:48.0	masks should even be worn at home.
0:51.3	And just a short time ago, President-elect Biden talked about the pandemic.
0:54.8	He told reporters he has not yet seen any detailed Trump administration plan on how to quote,
1:00.8	get the vaccine out of the container, into a syringe, and into somebody's arm.
1:06.0	Biden also said the US will be in what he called dire, dire, dire straits unless Congress immediately passes a new pandemic stimulus bill.
1:16.0	Let's begin this hour with the breaking pandemic news.
1:19.0	And as Nick Watt is joining us from Los Angeles, Nick, there are new stay-at-home orders that have just been issued out there in California
1:27.0	where you are that impacts millions of people.
1:30.0	That's right, Wolf. It's a new stay-home order. people.
1:33.0	That's right, Wolf. It's a new stay-home order covers five counties up in the San Francisco Bay Area
1:38.1	lasts through at least January 4th. Now, if you remember yesterday, Governor Newsom out here said that if a
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