Dr: Fauci: "good chance" vaccine is ready by the end of 2020; Historic NASA/SpaceX launch scrubbed due to weather; Floyd's family & Minneapolis mayor call for 4 fired officers to be charged with murder

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Any minute: final weather call for NASA/SpaceX launch; U.S. nears 100,000 coronavirus deaths; Fauci: a second wave is not inevitable; Dr. Fauci: wearing a mask shows "respect for another person"; Washington D.C. to start reopening on Friday with restrictions; CA Gov. Newsom: we're still not through the "first wave"; Trump in Florida as historic SpaceX launch scrubbed due to weather; Trump escalates Twitter fued, claims he will shut down social media platforms; Trump expected to make comments in wake of scrubbed launch; Experts: drugmakers conducting "science by press release"; 10 vaccines are currently in human trials around the world 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	Welcome to the lead I am Jake Tapper and this hour we are counting down to a historic
0:06.6	lift-off SpaceX will launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, the first time a commercial aerospace
0:15.0	company will carry humans into Earth's orbit ever. It has been almost a decade
0:19.3	since the US launched its own astronauts into space. We're still waiting for the final weather call to be made.
0:25.4	Liftoff is currently scheduled for 4.33 PM East Coast time
0:30.3	from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
0:32.8	It's all, of course, happening during this global COVID-19 pandemic.
0:36.7	And so precautions have been taken.
0:39.2	The two veteran astronauts, Colonel Doug Hurley and Bob Benkin have been in quarantine together since mid-March.
0:45.7	It is anticipated that they will be together in space for another 210 days.
0:51.0	The administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstein, saying this launch is an opportunity
0:55.8	to bring the nation together.
0:59.2	Our country has been through a lot.
1:01.2	But this is a unique moment where all of America can take a moment and
1:06.5	look at our country do something stunning again.
1:12.3	We're going to bring the launch to you live. again.
1:12.6	We're going to bring the launch to you live, but first, the coronavirus pandemic remains our top story.
1:19.0	The number of deaths in the United States just shy of that horrific 100,000 milestone.
1:24.4	At this moment, the number of lives lost stands at 99,783.
1:29.6	A tragedy that did not have to happen, to health experts had the US taken
1:33.9	action sooner and while the rate of deaths each day seems to thankfully be
1:38.8	slowing the number of new cases of infection reported each day has remained fairly flat in the last two weeks
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