12/29: The vaccine reaches nursing homes nationwide. The House approves a larger COVID relief payment.

The CDC says more than 11 million doses of the vaccine have been shipped in the U.S., but only about two million people have been vaccinated so far. Hospitals are treating more than 121,000 COVID patients this morning, and that is a new record. We are joined by Dr. Atul Gawande, a member of President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus advisory board. The Senate meets today, under pressure to give millions of Americans 2,000 dollars in COVID relief instead of 600. The House has overwhelmingly approved the measure that President Trump demanded, and President-elect Biden supports. New video out of Nashville, Tennessee shows the moment that a bomb went off on Christmas Day. A Columbus, Ohio police officer who killed a Black man a week ago has been fired.

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