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biden can only enter the white house by proving he won. is t house by proving he won. is the president changing his tune one day after suggesting he would accept the electoral college's decision. no proof of fraud: a federal court deals another blow to the president's attempts to overturn his loss. the scathing ruling tonight from a judge the president appointed. plus the former head of u.s. election security talks to cbs news, his first interview since being fired by president trump. nuclear mastermind murdered: mp.n's top nuclear scientist gunned down in an ambush thriller.ut of a spy thriller. was he assassinated by a u.s. ally for developing nuclear lyapons? tonight, iran threatens to retaliate. ortested: as coronavirus spreads, why are millions of americans still unable to get screened close to home. and equal play: cbs' steve hartman is on the road with a toy story about a christmas toy that led to fair treatment under this year's christmas tree. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> brennan: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. norah is off. i'm margaret brennan. we're going to begin tonight with breaking news. the c.d.c. has called an emergency meeting on tuesday so an advisory committee can vote on which americans should get a corona vaccine first if one is approved by the f.d.a. next month. the last-minute meeting comes as the u.s. shatters another record tonight: more than 13 million americans have now been infected by the virus as a surge of new cases nationwide shows no signs of slowing down. what is traditionally known as "black friday" with shoppers lining up for sales across the country is looking bleak for many tonight. more than 90,000 people are now hospitalized with covid-19, with about 50 americans now dying every hour. and as we come on the air tonight, l.a. county is announcing strict new lockdowns for the 10 million people who live there, shutting down most public and private gatherings and limiting how many people can enter businesses starting monday. we have a lot of new reporting for you and your family tonight, and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. cbs' adriana diaz is going to lead off our coverage tonight from chicago. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, margaret. on that l.a. news, the details are this: all public and private anyone outsire now banned with anyone outside your household. there are two exceptions: religious services and protests, which are protected under the constitution. they are turning up the dial to save lives and try to relieve a healthcare system under stress. tonight, more americans than ever are in hospitals with hovid. covid.giving day, thanksgiving day, hospitalizations nationwide hit a record high of more than 90,000 people. 32 states saw increases in new daily covid cases with pennsylvania, arkansas, and massachusetts breaking records. a dip in positivity rates in some states could be the result of a surge in pre-holiday testing, says dr. emily landon, of the university of chicago medical center. >> a lot of people flooded into testing programs to get tested for-- before they traveled for thanksgiving. but they do bring the positivity rates down. by flooding the testing market with a number of low-risk individuals. >> reporter: the c.d.c. now says that the real total number of ess. cases is likely eight times higher than previously thought due to underreporting, false negatives, and asymptomatic carriers who were never tested. r quarterback lamarck lamar jackson of the baltimore ravens tested positive yesterday. he's the latest on a team grappling with an outbreak that punted their thanksgiving match- up against the steelers to next week, testing the n.f.l.'s protocols. on the vaccine front, tonight the c.d.c. committee focused on distributing vaccines, announced that a vote on an emergency meeting on tuesday would lay out who gets the vaccine first. >> we're almost full, or full, kind of every day. >> reporter: and hospitals already on the brink are bracing for a new rush, given long lines on black friday, and after 6.5 million people flew this holiday week. >> what's done is done in terms of our thanksgiving day gatherings. if you are worried someone at your thanksgiving day gathering has covid, you definitely want to quarantine. there are so many cases right now that you probably not hear from a contact tracer. >> reporter: in fact, dr. landon says that here at university dr chicago of medicine, they're telling their healthcare workers if they had thanksgiving with more than five people from outside their households they thed to stay home for a week, then test, before coming back to work. margaret. >> brennan: adriana diaz in chicago. a day after saying he would accept the electoral college results, tonight, president trump is falsely setting a new bar for joe biden to enter the white house, even after a deral jujudge mr. trump appointed delivered a stinging rebuke of his latest legal challenge. cbs' ben tracy is at the white house tonight. ben. >> reporter: margaret, with just 54 days left here at the white house, president trump seems increasingly angry. not only will he not admit that he lost, he's now demanding that president-elect joe biden prove that he won. before hitting the golf course for the second day in a row, president trump was already teed off, bizarrely declaring that joe biden can only enter the white house as president only if he can prove his ridiculous 80 million votes were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. twitter immediately flagged the tweet because there is no evidence of widespread fraud. >> i'm the president of the united states. don't ever talk to the president that way. >> reporter: during the president's combative thanksgiving news conference, he again refused to concede, warning the electoral college not to certify mr. biden the winner. >> if they do, they made a mistake, because this election was a fraud. >> reporter: but today, the president's campaign was hit with another stinging legal defeat in one of its last attempts to overturn biden's win in pennsylvania. in a scathing ruling, a trump- appointed federal judge says "calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here." the campaign plans to appeal to the u.s. supreme court, even as the trump administration's transition to president-elect biden is well underway. >> thanksgiving has always been a special time for the biden family. >> reporter: mr. biden, who is spending the holiday weekend at his delaware beach house, is expected to receive his first presidential daily intelligence briefing monday. >> certainly i will. certainly i will, and you know that. >> reporter: while president trump says he will leave the white house on january 20 if he isn't declared the winner, he won't say if he will attend no. biden's inauguration. >> i mean, i know the answer-- i'll be honest, i know the answer, but i just don't want to say it yet. >> reporter: president trump iaans to campaign in georgia next weekend for two republicans running in senate runoff races there, but the president has sent some mixed messages because he's called his own loss in georgia fraudulent. he tried to clean that up a bit today on twitter, reminding his followers not to boycott that runoff election. margaret. >> brennan: ben tracy at the d of the nat thank you. the former head of the nation's cyber and election security agency is rejecting claims of forign interference in this month's vote. christopher krebs, who was fired by president trump after the election, calls the allegations "farcical." scott pelley sat down with krebs for "60 minutes," his first interview since being forced out. >> reporter: let me ask for your reaction to some of the vote fraud that the president and his team have been alleging. votes tabulated in foreign countries. >> so, all votes in the united states of america are counted in the united states of america. i don't-- i don't understand this claim. all votes in the united states america.a are counted in the united states of america. period. >> reporter: voting machines corrupted by mysterious actors in venezuela. >> so, again, there's no evidence that any machine that i'm aware of has been manipulated by a foreign power. period. >> reporter: communist money from china and cuba used to influence the election. >> look, i think these-- we can go on and on with all the farcical claims that-- alleging interference in the 2020 election. but the proof is in the ballots. the recounts are consistent with the initial count. and to me, that's further evidence, that's confirmation that the systems used in the 2020 election performed as expected and the american people should have 100% confidence in their vote. >> brennan: you can see scott pelley's full interview with christopher krebs sunday on "60 minutes." tonight, iran is vowing revenge an and accusing israel of playing a role in an ambush that left a prominent scientist dead. the mastermind behind iran's nuclear program was gunned down in an apparent assassination today. no one is claiming responsibility. cbs' imtiaz tyab reports. >> reporter: the bloody aftermath of a brazen assassination. iran's top nuclear scientist, mohsen fakhrizadeh, killed in broad daylight while traveling near the capital, tehran. iran's defense minister said the car carrying the scientist was shot at, then a truck bomb y.ploded nearby. fakhrizadeh was celebrated at home while iran's enemies allege he led a military nuclear program in the early 2000s. iran's outraged foreign minister terad zarif tweeted the attack javad zarif tweeted the attack was an act of state ter was an act of state terror and saying there are serious indications of israeli involvement. and while he offered no evidence, israel has long been suspected in the assassinations of other iranian nuclear scientists. the israeli government has yet to respond, but in april, 2018, prime minister benjamin netanyahu mentioned fakhrizadeh in a news conference accusing iran of lying about its nuclear ambitions. >> remember that name-- fakhrizadeh. >> reporter: whoever killed the scientist, it's likely to escalate tensions between tehran and washington. earlier this month, president trump apparently asked military aides about possible options against iran's nuclear program, but is said to have decided against it at the time. the concern now is this situation could escalate, with iranian leadership vowing to retaliate. now tz tyab, cbs news, london. >> brennan: now to the holiday shopping season getting underway tonight. the pandemic has made this black thiday unlike any other, with a surge of shopping from home, while millions of out-of-work inericans are struggling to pay bills. here's cbs' nikki battiste. >> reporter: this year, black friday looks different. >> it's great because it's not very crowded. a lot of people are not here. >> reporter: with covid-19 cases on the rise, retailers aren't encouraging those packed stores of the past, but that isn't stopping some people from spending. >> we're expecting another record-setting year for holiday sales. >> reporter: how is that tossible? >> increasing consumer confidence, unemployment rate is thtting lower each month. consumer spending remains strong, buoyed by record-high savings accounts. >> reporter: with the projected 35% to 40% of sales online, it seems many shoppers will skip the stores entirely. still, the merry sales forecast is tempered by millions who are struggling financially due to the pandemic, like 27-year-old jessica mendez. she says she's down to her last $40 and worries about making christmas special for her boys. >> it's different this year, so santa is struggling. >> reporter: but with a touch of magic from the christmas tree project. re you got a christmas tree! >> reporter: they got a surprise delivery. >> what is that? >> reporter: are you still excited for this holiday? does it still feel joyful, given the circumstances you're in? >> it does. we received love by getting that tree, you know. that's a wonderful blessing. and we're all going to be together as a family. hat's a is coming to town >> that's what christmas is about. >> reporter: the salvation army told cbs news it expects to help about 155% more people with christmas costs this year if the resources are available. but the charity says it could see up to a 50% decline in donations due to the pandemic. margaret. >> brennan: nikki battiste, .hank you. across the country tonight, mobile labs are being dispatched to parts of rural america that still don't have covid testing sites. these so-called "testing deserts" have seen higher rates of covid deaths as the virus spreads undetected. here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> lean your head back just a tad. there you go. >> reporter: lisa wright wanted a covid test. ile tet this mobile testing lab, the 70-year-old retired nurse would have to drive an hour to get one. >> i want to know whether, you know, i have it or not. >> reporter: set your mind at ease. >> yes. >> reporter: roughly 13,000 people live in sumter county, the poorest pocket of alabama. they learn to do without. but marcus campbell, a county commissioner here, drew the line at covid testing. >> we were a testing desert, and people would always ask when they heard about testing going no in other areas, "why not in sumter county?" >> reporter: according to research by johns hopkins, communities of color often have ngss access to covid testing. in alabama, majority-black counties tend to have fewer tests available than majority- white counties. there are similar trends in oregon, delaware, new mexico, and south dakota, in predominantly hispanic and indigenous american counties. >> i lost two cousins and it was heartbreaking to me. we buried two family members on the same day. >> reporter: did it motivate you to get testing to folks who need it? >> absolutely. >> reporter: campbell coordinated with whatley health services to set up drive-through testing in west alabama. since march, more than 4,000 people have been tested. 10% tested positive. >> it is rewarding to know that they can get it done. >> make sure you continue to wear your mask. >> reporter: these mobile labs test two to three times a week in west alabama, a testing desert no more. mark strassmann, cbs news, .umter county, alabama. >> brennan: there >> brennan: there is much more news ahead. we'll be right back. k. ♪right down santa claus lane ♪he's got a bag that's filled with toys♪ ♪for boys and girls again ♪so jump in bed, and cover your head, ♪ ♪'cause santa claus comes tonight♪ santa knows a gift when he sees one. ♪ ford. built for the holidays. it's just a cold. if you have high blood pressure, a cold is not just a cold. most cold medicines may raise blood pressure. choose coricidin hbp. the 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by the vivian was struck, struck by the fact that her army men were all just that-- men. >> i noticed that there was no girl army men. >> reporter: no girls. >> they don't make 'em. >> reporter: my interview from e you dis. and were you disappointed when you found out there weren't any? >> very! i don't know why anybody has not thought of that. >> reporter: so vivian wrote a letter that read in part, "please, can you make army girls that look like women?" she sent copies to several army men manufacturers, including jeff imel, owner of b.m.c. toys in scranton, pennsylvania. >> i had never gotten a letter from a child like that before, but every now and then somebody asks, "do you have any female toy soldiers?" >> reporter: the answer has always been no, although jeff told me it was on a list of potential future projects. he even had concept drawings. >> they were doing sketches, but they were busy making boy army men. >> reporter: vivian just couldn't understand the injustice. and when poor jeff was faced with those puppy dog eyes... >> so... >> reporter: he surrendered. >> i'm going to do it. >> reporter: you're gonna do it. >> i'm going to do it. >> reporter: vivian put this to the top of the list. >> she put it to the top of the list easily. >> reporter: shortly after receiving vivian's letter, jeff stedsted the first woman into the vintage plastic military. to today, there are 22 figures in all, and this holiday, the all, and this holiday, they will be taking up positions under christmas trees across the country. >> and that makes me super happy. i want to play with them every day. >> reporter: every day. a decisive victory in the battle for equality. steve hartman, "on the road," in lettle rock, arkansas. >> brennan: how cute is that? we'll be right back. we'll be right back. asy... ...i can file and manage my claim, all on the geico app. it's not just easy. it's giving-your-dog -your-fitness-tracker easy. oh, good boy. yes, you got it! woo! already got my 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