It's The End Of Impeachment As We Know It
What A Day
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🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s second annual impeachment trial is over, after a vote of 57 to 43 led to his acquittal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that an independent commission will be established to investigate the insurrection.
Yesterday, the WHO granted emergency use authorization for the AstraZeneca vaccine, which will kick off a UN-backed program to get vaccines to developing countries. In the US, average new daily coronavirus infections fell under 100,000 for the first time since November.
And in headlines: freezing temperatures lead to power outages for millions, activists undergo hunger strike in Chicago, and blowback after New York’s Health Department undercounts COVID deaths in nursing homes.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday February 16th, I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm Gideon Ressai and this is what today we're reminding you that throwing |
| 0:12.3 | marty-grat beads is actually a COVID safe activity. |
| 0:15.4 | That's right, and eating a lot of food like we do every day is actually way to celebrate. |
| 0:20.3 | Mm-hmm, have two cakes today. Two for the price of one, you know? |
| 0:23.9 | Yep. |
| 0:35.0 | On today's show, what is next now that Trump's and Peter and trial is over, |
| 0:38.1 | then's in headlines. |
| 0:39.3 | But first the latest. |
| 0:41.3 | We are still at about 100,000 cases a day. |
| 0:44.8 | We are still at around 1500 to 3500 deaths per day. |
| 0:51.0 | The cases are more than two and a half full times what we saw over the summer. |
| 0:55.9 | It's encouraging to see these trends coming down, but they're coming down from extraordinarily |
| 1:00.6 | high place. And as I said earlier, if we want to get our children back to school and I believe |
| 1:06.0 | we all do, it all depends on how much community spread is out there. |
| 1:10.0 | We need to all take responsibility to decrease that community spread, |
| 1:14.1 | including mass squaring so that we can get our kids and our society back. |
| 1:18.7 | That was CDC director Dr. Rochelle Wolensky over the weekend talking about COVID cases in the |
| 1:23.5 | U.S. and why it's too early for states to be rolling back mask mandates. |
| 1:27.1 | As we're seeing in places like Iowa and Montana, come on. |
| 1:30.5 | Y'all like the mask mandate isn't that bad. |
| 1:33.2 | You could wait a little bit longer. |
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