“It’s tragic.”

Los Angeles County coroner’s office spokesman Capt. Stacy Spell on Los Angeles reaching 300 homicides so far in 2020 – this hasn’t happened in more than a decade.

"We are alarmed."

Dr. Henry Walke, MD, COVID-19 Incident Manager as the CDC advises limiting Thanksgiving celebrations to people you live with and not traveling to stop the surging number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19..

"We appreciate the families and visitors who take time to honor and remember those who are laid to rest at our nation’s most hallowed ground."

Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy announces Wreaths Across America, a nonprofit that places wreaths on headstones of fallen service members during the holidays, will proceed despite an earlier, sudden cancellation.

“While COVID-19 diagnostic tests have been authorized for at-home collection, this is the first that can be fully self-administered and provide results at home.”

FDA Director Steven Hahn after the U.S. gov’t granted emergency use authorization for a first of its kind at-home COVID-19 test – providing results in 30 minutes or less.

“Some 80,000 families are going to be at risk.”

Head of Nicaragua’s disaster response agency Guillermo Gonzalez discussing the impact of Hurricane Iota, a Category 4 storm.

“This vaccine presents the opportunity of using doctors’ offices, clinics and pharmacies as vaccination sites.”

Infectious disease specialist Dr. William Schaffner on reports Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective, and can be stored easily in refrigerators already in use in doctors offices around the world.