Ashamed of us right now. Roll credits Warner Brothers bypassing theaters and going direct to your tv. Can Movie Theaters survive blow announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. We are on the doorsteps of that dark winter that Health Experts have been warning us about the beginning of that promise is going to be immeasurable, even with a vaccine on the horizon. We know this because yesterday the United States reported more than 2800 deaths, the most in a single day since this pandemic began according to johns hopkins. So far its killed more than 275,000 of our fellow americans. Another will die in 30 seconds and another, 30 seconds later. All of them far more than just a number among the victims a 70yearold nurse who came out of retirement to teach a couple married 47 years who died on the same day and a First Responder who served us on 9 11. Experts expect the deaths to keep rising. In part because the Halftime Report are skyrocketing theyve doubled over the past month. More than 100,000 people were in hospitals sick with covid. Thats an alltime high according to the tracking project. As the virus spreads local leaders are imposing more restrictions with the holidays weeks away california, the governor gavin newsom announced he would issue stayathome orders for regions where icu capacity falls below 15 . Indoor businesses will close including bar, casinos and barber shops many regions will meet that within days. Meantime, new concerns over Vaccine Distribution the wall street journal reports in todays edition that pfizer had to cut its original estimates for the amount of vaccine doses this year because of supply chain problems dr. Scott gottlieb now former head of the fda, a pfizer board member, cnbc contributor, thank you. Should we anticipate more supply issues like these . Well, look, i certainly hope not. The issue is that for all the companies, for both moderna and pfizer, they ramp up week from week maybe the first week you might produce 5 million, the second 10 million then the third 15 million and grows from there if you take the third week that would have been in 2020, now you push it out in 2021 your supply is cut in half the supply moves quickly as you move out and the more you push out the time frame in 2021 by a week or two weeks you have bless supply in 2021 i hope we will have adequate supply that will ramp quickly but hopefully shes these do get in the market. Another one on the 10th and 17th to consider both. You probably heard dr. Fauci saying that he believed in the United Kingdom they rushed the process of getting this through and then later walked it back and said he had good faith in the uk when talking to the bbc his point was americans are already skeptical about these viruses. Do you think the uk rushed their decision weltl, look, i worked closel with them. A lot there are from the European Regulatory Authority and went back after brexit and i think they did a good job. Fda has a different process, part of whats going on is fdas committed to having a Public Advisory Committee to bring this before their Advisory Committee and have a public airing of this information. That will add a couple of weeks to the process and push out the time line to get materials prepared for the Advisory Committee meeting and provide it in advance to those members so they can read it in advance of the meeting. We think theres Public Health dividends to having a public airing and having that meeting and having the fdas external advisorys validate it in an open setting so i think thats going to go a long way to Building Public confidence and so it might be worth the time it takes to do that thats going to add a couple of weeks to the process i spoke yesterday with the head of operation warp speed, the part where theyll distribute and asked specific questions about like how will i know when its my turn and how will they announce it and how will they make sure the right people are in line they really didnt have any granular answers though thats left up to the states. One thing that doctors offices wont play a big part in that. Should they . Well, theyre not going to initially because the way these vaccines are being distributed theyre being distributed in large volumes, large lots, they need to be kept under certain conditions so distributed to special sites that have training and equipment on hand to handle the vaccine, special Vaccine Distribution sites i think there will be a lot of site as value to believe go and get vaccinated cvs clinics will vaccinate, walgreenss, places like that so will be accessible to most people probably what will happen youll see a situation where theyre rationed at first and maybe for a period of time as they were through the different tranches of people eligible to get vaccinated and as supply starts to ramp up it will become more generally available like there will be an Inflection Point where well see this rationing system start to erode and widely available to larger groups of people in the march time frame is my guess. One last thing weve been kicking around, if you get those twodose vaccines, thats a complicated process. If you get the first one and then for one reason or another you cant really get the second one, are you protected at all or is onetwo a must . There is some protection after the first dose and the protection is better in younger than older people but to get the full 95 efficacy you need both but you will get some protection depending who you are after that first dose. Dr. Gottlieb, youre the best thank you so much. Thanks a lot. Like so many states across the country, hospitals in indiana are at their breaking point. For some beds arent even the issue. The problem they dont have enough doctors and nurses anymore. Take this hospital its having to turn away patients and send them to other cities according to the head of the hospital statewide, 77 of icu beds are filled data from the department of health there now some hospitals are taking new steps to try to stay ahead of the surge nbc news Shaquille Brewster is outside a hospital there shaq, what are they facing there . Shep, theyre being as creative as they can to expand capacity as much as they can and spent much of the day inside a spillover room a room that once held events like banquets and auctions and now you see rows and rows of medical beds and doctors say that theyre expecting to start filling this room with patients any day now as the numbers in indiana continue to soar today was another worst day yet in terms of new cases here in indiana. The state said that there were more than 8500 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus and while state Officials Say a few hundred of those cases are the result of a reporting backlog thats thousands more than the week average in the state. Doctors know more cases or increase in cases lead to an increase in hospitalizations and for rural hospitals like the one behind me they feel sometimes theyre fighting this virus alone. In order to transfer on we have to go 7 amiles away to indianapolis or 45 miles away to dayton, ohio or 75 miles to downtown cincinnati. The problem is those areas have at least as much coronavirus as we do and many of them are looking at overflow situations reporter to add to the difficulty, this is a hospital that will be one of the distribution points for the vaccine when it is approved but hospitals and doctors know that first they need to get over this current surge and increase in hospitalizations in order to see that light at the end of the tunnel shep. Yeah, sadly this surge just beginning. Appreciate it. Its been 251 days now since Congress Passed any covid relief to help struggling americans today and for the first time that we know about in a while, nancy pelosi, the House Speaker, and Mitch Mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader talked on the phone about making a deal on another aid package. This morning on the Senate Floor Leader mcconnell said compromise is within reach. At long last lets do what congress does when we want an outcome. We know where we agree we can do this let me say it again. We can do this and we need to do this so lets be about actually making a law. Youve needed to do this for a long time this week leader mcconnell rejected a 900 billion relief compromise on which a group of republicans and democrats supported it around 12 million americans could lose Unemployment Benefits completely after christmas ylan mui on where things stand ylan with even the president saying hell support a deal the pressure is really building on mcconnell to take that bipartisan compromise and use it as a starting point for negotiations he told reporters today that he had a good conversation with pelosi and that they both want an outcome and then this afternoon he met with the four republican senators who helped craft that compromise and talked him into giving a little more money, 160 billion to help state and local governments. Meanwhile democrats are working their own angle. Im told that virginia senator mark warner had a private dinner with the treasury secretary in which they talked about another covid relief deal. Now, over the next few days lawmakers hope to flesh out the framework a little bit more and, shep, they expect to have a bill in hand sometime next week. Whats in the bill that would help ordinary americans . Do we know reporter well, to start with, it would provide a life line for unemployed workers by taking the benefits that expire at the end of the year and extending them through march it would also boost the size of any jobless payment by 300 a week theres 288 billion for another round of help for small businesses, 25 billion for rental assistance. The idea here, shep, is just to help people get over the hump of this hard winter until a vaccine is ready for the public hopefully this spring. Ylan, thank you. President elect biden says hell ask americans to wear masks for the first 100 days hes in office all americans everywhere in an interview with jake tapper on cnn, mr. Biden said he will make masks mandatory in places where he has the Authority Like federal buildings and commercial flights. Just 100 days to mask not forever. 100 days and i think well see a significant reduction if we do that that occurs with voo vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers significantly. He spoke with dr. Anthony fauci today. Says he asked dr. Fauci to be part of his Covid Response team when he takes office hackers targeting the Covid Vaccine rollout with new cyberattacks going after Companies Involved in cold storing and distributing the doses. This threat revealed by ibms top security analysts. Its unclear now what the goal was in the first place or whether the attacks were successful in any way but ibm reports the intention was to steal critical information the department of Homeland Security so alarmed it warned operation warp speed directly urging them to review ibms report cnbcs eamon javers. Who is doing this and how . Reporter yes, shep, we dont know who is doing it but i talked about i talked about the how question with ibms x factor their task force there designed to go after this exact kind of information and what they told me is the way this attack worked is that the hackers used a real name inside a fake company and then they sent emails laced with malware to others involved in that cold supply chain a spearfishing attack thats narrowly targeted and designed you to take the bait the email that ibm shared with us in terms of this attack it looks like anything that might come across a busy executives desk but has a lure, a proposal to buy something from the company. All you have to do is review the draft contract, the email says and then theres a link. It looks like any other attachment but if you clink on it it lets the hackers into your computer so the question is who done it . I asked ibms nick rossman that question earlier today heres what he said. We think a nation state is behind it but put on a pretty clean glove to conduct this and didnt leave many Digital Footprints for us to track down exactly who. But we think some of the motivations behind this could be cyberespionage reporter and, shep, what Nick Rossmann told me this could be a Reconnaissance Mission to disrupt the supply chain and could wreak havoc. Eamon javers, thank you. Theres a community on edge tonight. After a series of violent and random assaults. Id be lying to you if im not losing sleep at night. New Surveillance Video of a serial attacker. How he targets victims and the reward offered tonight new data released by the Trump Administration expected to help reunite migrant families. Plus, inside the pot shop. Meet the folks driving the record holiday sales of marijuana in america announcer the facts, the at tmobile, we believe you should get more. Thats why weve merged with sprint. Now its about to get even better. 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Cops say somebody is stalking the suburbs of boston lying in wait at night as they put it and randomly attacking strangers on the streets its happening in wall familiar where theyre investigating a dozen attacks. Surveillance cameras caught a glimpse of the suspect you see him here investigators say the serial attacker beats his victims in the head and face with some sort of blunt object, listen to what one of the victims said. I just feel one big hit from here in my left eye. He didnt say nothing. Even he doesnt take nothing from my wallet, nothing, no cell phone, nothing. In fact the police chief says the motive appears to be just the thrill of the assault and the suspect enjoys seeing somebody hurt, he told us. Local coverage now nbc bostons joyland nacron is live in walfam how are police trying to find this guy reporter shep, theyre trying anything they can and dramatically increased patrols and started using a drone overhead and now offering a 5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and released brandnew Surveillance Video. Lets give you a closer look and hoping it leads to more clues about what may be going on here. So far theyve identified a few persons of interest, blue still no suspect tonight there have been nearly a dozen of these attacks police saying they appear completely random, completely n unprovoked the suspect lying in wait as you mentioned hitting the victims over the head sometimes leaving them with fractured skulls now, the victims as you said are not robbed the motive appears to be the pleasure of hurting someone. And it certainly has left the entire community on edge my husband is out at night and i asked him not to do that reporter walfam is a fairly safe suburb home to Brandeis University and police here say theyve never experienced anything like this so certainly a major fear factor here tonight, shep. Joy, thanks. A wildfire spreading fast. Forcing hundreds to evacuate watt their homes in Southern California the bond fire, they call it. Exploding overnight in Silverado Canyon an hour southeast of los angeles. 500 firefighters facing heavy winds as they battle the flames. Rescue crews going door to door to try to get people out as fast as they can. Authorities Say Utility Companies have cut power to tens of thousands of customers just in case. This has been the worst wildfire season ever in california. More than 4 million acres burned according to cal fire. An area larger than connecticut and rhode island combined. Janice huff tracking the fire, chief meteorologist for nbc News New York how bad, janice, are the wins and what are firefighters facing. Shep, earlier some of the winds gusting over 90 miles an hour in the san diego mountains. Theyre not as strong now. Most of the gusts right now are generally at 40 or slightly below that but its still a dangerous fire situation all of this are fire warnings, fire danger throughout Southern California through saturday. That also includes San Diego County all the way up through orange county, Los Angeles County towards ojai and tehachapi. Even though winds are expected to die down youre still going to see them flowing offshore which means that the fire begins it could spread very rapidly with these conditions. So as of now going through this evening, as you can see guffs wont be as strong maybe up towards 40 miles an hour in the area around temecula but generally near the fire right now between maybe 15 and