Rare good news about covid. Pfizer saying a vaccine is 9d 0 effective. A great day for science. It is a great day for humanity. The dow is hitting a record high. Look at the big board. The dow up about 1100 points. Our news team is covering all of it for us this morning. Mike memoli with us with the biden team in wilmington. Monica and peter covering the white house. Dr. Natalie azar is talking about the promising vaccine news, and dominic chu is covering the market reaction. Mike, you have exclusive reporting on how team biden is getting ready to hit the ground running. The covid advisory board, and your reporting on how theyre getting ready to fill the federal vacancies coming open. Thats right. Joe biden celebrating saturday night. Today standing up his Transition Team. His team has been working quietly for months to get ready for this moment. Ted kaufman and others working, starting in the summer to Start Building out the team. I spoke with both of them about what theyve been doing
And into the white house. Here is where we stand at this moment. Biden now just 17 electoral votes away from victory with six states left on the board. Here in pennsylvania, the mailin ballots are going for biden over trump by about 80 to 20, cutting deeply into the president s lead in the state and shrinking by the hour. We expect an update from nevada at this hour where joe bidens lead in a state Hillary Clinton won is still small, less than 10,000 votes at last count. In georgia officials expect to be finishing their count this hour as joe biden continues to gain ground from President Trump with votes from heavily democratic counties in and around atlanta coming in. Arizonas secretary of state says there are still hundreds of thousands of votes to tally there and a call may not come tomorrow, with the president s team hoping there is enough republican vote in Maricopa County to jump ahead. And it could take another week to count the remaining votes in north carolina. There are 15 el
Raging all over this country, the one that he still leads. The Vice President led a public Coronavirus Task force briefing yesterday, the first in months. And the message from the doctors is that we are in a dangerous moment that requires vigilance. The numbers underline the life or death stakes of the next few months. Thursday, 187,000 new cases, a record setting pandemic total, and 2,000 american deaths. 80,000 americans are in hospitals with the virus, and dr. Anthony fauci says that number will explode if americans dont rethink their thanksgiving plans. Take a look at your family and say do i have a person there who is an elderly person, a person with an underlying medical condition that might put them at increased risk of a severe outcome if they infected. Today, the drug maker pfizer says it will apply for an emergency use authorization for its covid19 vaccine. The hope is that some doses will be ready by december. But when the vaccine will be available for everyone is a top line
Alexandria ocasiocortez. And long time legend larry king has died at the age of 87. President joe bidens first weekend in office was spent focusing on his ambitious first 100 days agenda. House democrats are working on biden proposals that would increase Financial Aid for struggling americans in a variety of ways and increase spending to fight the pandemic. This as the u. S. Approaches a terrifying milestone, nearly 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and while cases rise, the former president s senate trial looms. The article of impeachment against donald trump will be delivered to the senate on monday. And if thats not enough, two new pieces of bomb shell reporting add another complication. Trump wanted the Justice Department to push the Supreme Court to overturn bidens victory according to the wall street journal, and sources tell cnn trump nearly replaced the acting attorney general with a relative unknown who sported his false election claims. All of this could impact the senate
That if nothing else definitely hate itself, and authorities immediately and with force with military grade discipline, they shut down the city of wuhan, home to 11 million people, the rest of the world watched this happen in real time, but yet assure themselves that everything was fine. It wasnt fine, we know that n now. At least 35 countries have confirmed cases of coronavirus as of tonight. Last friday italy reported six, yet at midday today they had 283 and then by tonight come of that number had risen to 322. That is a steep trajectory, so far 11 people have died in italy and parts of the country shutting down. Iran has confirmed 15 deaths, plus 95 cases of the real number believed to be higher than that. One of those infected as the countries on Deputy Health minister who was seen spreading profusely on monday at a press conference downplaying the outbreak. He later appeared on iranian news program to reassure the country that everything was under control and he coughed on the wo