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Coronavirus live updates: London mayor declares 'major incident'

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Samara Heisz/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ERIN SCHUMAKER and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News

(NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 88 million people worldwide and killed over 1.9 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Here’s how the news is developing Friday. All times Eastern:

Jan 08, 9:24 am
Hospitalizations on rise in London, mayor declares ‘major incident’

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has declared a “major incident” as the virus’ spread threatens to overwhelm the city’s hospitals.

One in 30 Londoners now has COVID-19, the mayor said.

The city has 7,034 people currently hospitalized — a 35% increase from the April peak.

The number of people in hospitals jumped by 27% from Dec. 30 to Jan. 6, Khan said.

The London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 calls per day, when an average day would bring 5,500 calls.

“The stark reality is that we will run out of beds for patients in the next couple of weeks unless the spread of the virus slows down drastically,” Khan said. “We are declaring a major incident because the threat this virus poses to our city is at crisis point. If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die.”

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'The Ellen Degeneres Show' returns after COVID-19 break, with skeleton crew

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ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — The Ellen DeGeneres Show will resume production Monday, after pausing its scheduled return to production this week because of the surge in coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County.  

The chat show will go back to the studio with a skeleton staff and crew, Warner Bros., the studio that produces it, said in a statement obtained by Variety. The goal is to minimize the number of employees that will be needed to work in person at the show’s offices at any given time. 

The studio added that all of the show’s crew members will be paid during the modified production schedule. 

Ellen’s show was one of many that paused over the post-holiday surge of cases in the county; health officials there implored studios to temporarily halt shooting if possible, even though they were technically exempt from strict lockdown orders in Los Angeles. 

As of this week, California has recorded more than 2.5 million people who tested positive for coronavirus and some 28,045 deaths.

By George Costantino and Stephen Iervolino
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Scoreboard roundup — 1/7/21

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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Brooklyn 122, Philadelphia 109
Cleveland 94, Memphis 90
Denver 124, Dallas 117 (OT)
Portland 135 Minnesota 117
San Antonio 118, LA Lakers 109

TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Gonzaga 86, BYU 69
Iowa 89, Maryland 67
Wisconsin 80, Indiana 73
Colorado 79, Oregon 72
Illinois 81, Northwestern 56
Santa Clara at Gonzaga (Canceled)

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Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous' turns "a little bit of trouble" into some "lessons I've learned"

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Big Loud RecordsMorgan Wallen‘s mammoth, 30-track sophomore album, Dangerous, officially arrives in full today, after some of the cuts were leaked just days ago. 

The “7 Summers” hitmaker confesses he originally thought his vision of making a double album might only be a “pipe dream.” 

“I personally didn’t think it was gonna be possible just because I was scheduled to do a lot of touring…” he reveals. “But when everything happened the way it did, I thought, well, maybe this might be possible.”

“Then fortunately, I was able to write four or five songs really at the beginning of quarantine,” he continues, “kinda just right off the bat, which got us to a number of about twenty-five that made me feel confident that it would actually be something that we can do.”

Morgan’s May arrest for public intoxication and disorderly conduct in downtown Nashville may also be due some thanks for the album’s title track.

“I wrote that song after I got into a little bit of trouble,” he admits. “You know, we added a love interest story into the song just to make it hopefully relatable to a larger amount of people.”

“But it’s honestly a song that I wrote to myself a couple weeks later,” he says. “I feel like I learned some things, and I wanted to write it to myself, like a letter almost.”

Now, Morgan seems to see “Dangerous” as a beacon pointing in a better direction.

“It just seemed like, ‘What a better way to describe the album, too, as lessons I’ve learned and things that I wanted myself to know?'” he reflects. “So it felt just appropriate to entitle the whole project that.”

You can also pick up an exclusive Target version of Dangerous that adds two more tracks to the album.

By Stephen Hubbard
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Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world

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Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Elon Musk is officially the richest man in the world, CNBC reported on Thursday.

The 49-year-old Tesla CEO, who has a net worth of over $185 billion, moved ahead of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to grab the title.  Bezos, the richest person since 2017, is currently worth about $184 billion.

Musk reportedly kicked 2020 with a net worth of about $27 billion and was barely in the top 50 richest people, according to the cable news channel.  However, Tesla’s rocketing share price — which has grown more than nine times over the past year — along with his generous pay package, have added more than $150 billion to his net worth.

Tesla’s shares closed Thursday at $816.04, up nearly 8 percent.  The company’s market value has grown to more than $760 billion.

By George Costantino
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