Flood Emergency in Alabama and Florida; 500,000 plus Without Power

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

152 new coronavirus deaths in Florida; total dearths in state near 13,000. Live coverage of President Trump taking questions. US coronavirus deaths top 196,000 with 6.6 million plus cases. Administration’s goal is to begin vaccine distribution within 24 hours of approval. Robert Redfield says vaccine for general public is likely to be here by Summer or Fall of 2021. Vaccine trial volunteer suffered spinal cord inflammation. Redfield also says that masks may offer more protection than a vaccine. US sees biggest one day spike in new deaths in a month. Maine wedding super spreader now linked to 7 deaths. Fauci says it’s unlikely that genetics are why minorities are hit harder by virus. BIG 10 will start football season in October. Racism a factor in higher death rate for minorities. White House says Trump backs masks after he says many people think they’re not good. Trump blames Biden and Dems for lack of national mask mandate. Trump says Covid-19 will “go away” with herd mentality. Trump says he “up-played” virus threat. Trump again claims to have health care plan promised for months. Trump shares manipulated Biden video with anti-police song. Slow moving Sally unloads punishing rain, epic flooding. Miami Beach Mayor criticizes Governor Desantis’ coronavirus response. Miami Beach mayor asks Desantis for mask mandate. NIH Director laments “mix of science and politics” on vaccines. 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.
0:09.0	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:11.8	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:13.7	We're following breaking news and emergency unfolding in parts of Alabama and Florida where
0:18.9	relentless rain from Tropical Storm Sally is triggering historic flooding with rescues
0:24.4	underway right now and half a million people without power. Also breaking this
0:29.0	hour, the US coronavirus death toll now topping 196,000 people after the country saw the highest
0:36.1	one day death rate here in the United States in a month yesterday. Now we're
0:41.4	standing by for President Trump to take reporters questions
0:44.6	at a White House briefing that's about to begin. It follows the President's
0:48.1	town hall last night in which he once again downplayed the importance of masks and preventing the spread of the
0:54.3	coronavirus. Today the head of the CDC said masks may offer people even more
0:59.9	protection than a potential vaccine.
1:03.4	All that coming up, and let's start with the coronavirus pandemic right now.
1:06.7	CNN's Nick Watt is in Los Angeles for us.
1:09.3	Nick, we're learning more and more about plans when a vaccine, we hope it'll be soon becomes available.
1:15.0	That's right Wolf. The White House goal anyway is to within 24 hours of the green light from the FDA
1:25.7	They hope to begin distributing doses to vaccine locations now
1:36.2	States have been told to be ready for that as early as November but Wolf there are still so many questions remaining just one of them
1:41.7	but it's a big one will enough Americans trust this
1:45.4	vaccine will enough Americans will enough Americans take this vaccine for it to
1:51.8	really make a difference.
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