New COVID-19 Record, Early Winter Weather & Credit Scores Rising- Monday, October 26th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Monday, October 26th, 2020!
What to know about:
- how daily COVID-19 cases hit a new record high
- where there are now overwhelmed hospitals and strict new restrictions
- Judge Amy Coney Barrett being one vote away from joining the U.S. Supreme Court
- millions of Americans dealing with snow and record cold temperatures
- the first Black American cardinal
- new progress in the fight against murder hornets
- why credit scores are going up in an economic crisis
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
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Sources:
New One-Day COVID Record: Vox, NY Times, WSJ, Johns Hopkins
El Paso Curfew: Texas Tribune, NBC News, KFOX, WaPo
Pence Staffers Test Positive: WSJ, USA Today, WaPo, CNN
Full Senate Vote on Amy Coney Barrett: NY Times, WaPo, AP, Vox
Cyberattack in Louisiana: Reuters, Politico, New Orleans Advocate
Early Winter Weather: CNN, WaPo, Weather Channel
FB Prepares for Election Unrest: WSJ, FOX Business
Tech CEOs to Testify Over Election: The Verge, TechCrunch, CNN, U.S. Senate
First Black American Cardinal: NY Times, WaPo, AP, Axios
Tennessee Titans Fined for COVID Violations: WaPo, AP, ESPN
AA to Give Customers 737 Max Tours: CNBC
Crews Gather 'Murder Hornets' from Nest: AP, CBS News, FOX News
Monday Monday - Credit Scores on the Rise: WSJ, USA Today, IBT
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Monday, October 26th. We'll tell you about a new record high of daily COVID-19 cases |
| 0:05.2 | nationwide and where there are now overwhelmed hospitals and strict new restrictions. |
| 0:10.1 | Also, Judge Amy Koney Barrett is one vote away from joining the US Supreme Court and that vote could happen tonight |
| 0:16.3 | and millions of Americans are dealing with snow and record cold temperatures. |
| 0:20.5 | Plus what to know about the first Black American Cardinal, new progress in the |
| 0:24.8 | fight against Murder Hornets in the US and credit scores are actually going up in |
| 0:29.6 | an economic crisis, we'll tell you why. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:39.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Erica Mandy, thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:49.2 | We start today with a new record we did not want to reach and that is the US had its worst day ever for new |
| 0:54.8 | COVID-19 cases within 24 hours. More than 85,000 new cases were reported around the country |
| 1:00.7 | on Friday and we nearly broke that new record with another 84,000 new |
| 1:05.2 | cases on Saturday. |
| 1:07.1 | At rallies and on Twitter over the weekend, President Trump said cases are only going |
| 1:10.8 | up because the amount of testing is going up and that might be part of it |
| 1:14.6 | but it's also important to note the number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 has |
| 1:19.2 | also increased a lot by 40% in the past month. |
| 1:23.0 | In fact, there's enough of an increase |
| 1:24.4 | that some hospitals around the country |
| 1:25.8 | are reaching capacity, forcing some cities |
| 1:28.1 | to take drastic steps to curb the spread of the virus. |
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