Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have more diversity there, health care, united health, johnson johnson, you have got boeing, youve got travelers. Investors feeling good about the market and getting back in. This is about vaccine news, connell, pfizerbiontech, moderna vaccines are waiting for that Regulatory Approval from the fda, the emergency authorization use and they will be the first to hit the market. Then of course behind them youve got novavax and astrazeneca and j js vaccine candidate. So weve got a lot to look forward to in the coming months ahead. That is what investors are hoping for, not evenly see a stimulus package which may be coming but also see business getting back to usual once the vaccine is administered and hhs secretary azar said we could see people in this country getting the vaccine by the end of the month, before christmastime. That is welcome news for investors and the market. Dow finishing up with 185 point gain, pretty solid. Just under 30,000. Connell very solid, thank you, jackie. To the idea who gets the vaccine first well talk about a lot this hour. Committee from center of Disease Control and prevention are holding a vote on the rollout plan. Blake burman is at the white house. Well get the vote later in the hour. Blake what is the latest. Reporter were listening to the discussion, phone call going back and forth this outside group of advisors who they will say or at least who they will recommend should get the first vaccines potentially here in the upcoming weeks. This group is asip. Advisory committee for immunization practices. Soon they are set to vote. The working group going into this, recommended 21 Million Health care personnel in this country be that first group. That specifically includes those who work in hospitals, longterm care facilities outpatient, home health care, pharmacies, ems workers, Public Health officials. Dr. Kathleen dooling of the work group laid out the argument during the meeting ongoing why Health Care Personnel should be the 1a group to get vaccinated. Listen. Vaccinating Health Care Personnel supports the principle maximizing benefits, minimizing harms what were calling the multiplier effect. In other words protection of Health Care Personnel leads to preservation of Health Care Capacity and Better Health out comes for all. Vaccinating Health Care Workers promotes justice because Health Care Personnel put themselves at risk. They will be essential to carry out the saks nation program. Reporter back to the list, longterm care facilities were on that. There is some discussion, if you vaccinate of workers of longterm care facilities what about the folks that live in those facilities . There has been some discussion there about that. We should get the vote from this committee here at some point later this hour. Connell . Connell all right. Blake, well back to you for that. Once the cdc has its day or this group does, much of the execution will be left up to the states. A doctor joins us now head of the Nashville Coronavirus Task force. Good to see you, doctor, thanks for coming on. What role will not only but other folks in similar positions to you, local task force play in all of this once you get the recommendations from the cdc . How do you anticipate it working . Thank you for having me. Here in tennessee, the state of tennessee has been coordinating for several months with municipalities such as nashville and what we were going to do here in nashville is, the state will get allotment of tests and excuse me, vaccines. Well provide those to Health Systems for the people, primary Health Care Workers and so forth but then the city will then work and Public Health department will work to provide those to firstresponders, to the staff of Nursing Homes, perhaps to school nurses. We will have active role with municipality as well as Health Systems within our city to make sure the vaccine is distributed quickly and in the manner what is being recommended. Connell how do you feel about, well hear later this hour exactly what the cbc group says about it, the order things should happen . Health care workers at the front of the line certainly makes sense to anybody who is asked about this but to the point blake was making a moment ago, there seems to be a desocalled 1 a group, people in long term Nursing Homes and care facilities 3 million in the country, bump them up ahead of other folks or get it at the same time as Health Care Workers . How do you think that one or isa phase shut work out. What makes sense to you . Health care workers make a sense. Health Care Capacity right now not necessarily physical space, when it comes to nursing home question i think you have to look at, obviously want to preserve peoples life, older people more likely to get it have worst out comes but most of the people in Nursing Homes will stay in Nursing Homes. The way virus gets into nursing home is the staff comes in and out of Nursing Homes. May make sense to vaccinate those individuals first to try to minimize transmission of people coming in to Nursing Homes. Maybe from there, if there is enough vaccine to give to higher risk patients or individuals in Nursing Homes. There is only so much vaccine on the front end in next month will be available, we have to be careful and judicious moving forward. Connell i dont know if this is too in the weeds for your level expertise at this point in terms of what you were told, what you know, 21 Million Health care workers i read, 3 million in longterm care. That is 24 million. I would attach only to that. Some groups were talking about are much larger. Total number of Senior Citizens in the whole country is well over 50 million. Total number of essential workers which is much larger group than health care is like 87 million. If we get the 24 million first we would be off to a pretty good and sensible start, right . Yeah. I think so. Especially, Health Care Worker part of it, im a practicing surgeon right now, the Health Care Worker part i think is so critical. Again our biggest worry in our city, i think around this country is running out of people who can take care of people of all Health Care Needs in our [inaudible]. So if you, nurses, the techs, the doctors, then i think the flatting the curve argument, statement weve been making for the past nine months happens right off the bat, right . We flatten the curve because Health Care Workers are not getting sick anymore. We have capacity. I think subsequently like youre saying, my hope next six to nine months, hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine so essential workers, teachers a lot of people who i think are essential to making our economy and communities work get the vaccine. Start with Health Care Workers. Have the highrisk older people and go from there. Connell and we get to sort of normalcy which ive been asking a lot of people last couple weeks, june of 2021 is that realistic . What is your best sense. People ask me that question a lot. Second and Third Quarter is critical. Here is another thing. Having Vaccines Available is important but make sure we as society get the vaccine of the vaccine seems to be very effective, almost same as measles and mumps, the only reason measles and mumps went away because people were being vaccinated. If we get everyone vaccinated and we do it in a way proposed, yeah i think Second Quarter, end of Second Quarter, sounds like a good time for a lot of our society to be vaccinated. Connell well the news is promising and it is promising were actually talking about timelines rather than whether we will have a vaccine. We know the tests will be going so well on that front. Doctor, thank you. In nashville. We wait for stimulus. Well move on to talk about that. Congressional leaders are working to find Common Ground on a last minute covid relief bill. What is at stake for millions of americans . Believe it or not a new by partisan plan on the table and proposal from republicans. A member of the Problem Solvers Caucus is coming up to talk about that. Recovery for everybody, president elect joe biden unveiling key members of the Economic Team today. What will it all mean for you and your wallet. A live report from wilmington, delaware, is coming up next. 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Both stocks afterhours are down a little bit. Salesforce down a little bit down 3 where slack is almost break even, down a little bit, by 34 cents. Anyway that is something to watch tomorrow but certainly slack would be a company a lot of people are familiar with, especially working from home communicating around office. Salesforce has been around the cloud world a long time, led by mark benioff. A big acquisition, 27 billion. President joe biden and Vice President kamala harrisries made a big announcement. Six members of the Economic Team are introduced. After announcing, former fed chair janet yellen would be hspic for treasury secretary. Hillary vaughn with more, the question what the team will mean for us taxpayers. Hillary . Reporter hi, connell t could mean billions of dollars added to the debt on day one which ultimately taxpayers pay the price down the line. President elect joe biden saying this Economics Team is working on additional stimulus package if the one ultimately gets passed in the lameduck session this winter in his opinion not enough. But any package passed in a lameduck session is likely to be at best just a start. My Transition Team has already working on what i will put forward in the next congress. Reporter bidens nominee for key economic positions announced today are now putting his plans for higher taxes and massive Government Spending in the spotlight. Former fed chair janet yellen, his pick for treasury secretary was against president trumps tax cuts and jobs act in 2018 that cut taxes for millions of middle income earners saying at time the economy did not need a boost. Now she will be in a position to squeeze out even more tax revenue without congress. Yellen would oversee the irs as part of treasury, putting her in prime position to make tweaks to the regulations that enforce the tax code, that could rake in more revenue by cracking down on corporations. Yellen could deploy the irs to do more audits to make sure theyre getting every penny owed. That was a tactic used during the obama administration. She is in favor of a carbon tax that would ultimately hit all americans at the gas pump. Some conservatives say would break bidens promise not to hit americans making 400,000 or less with higher taxes. Bidens pick for the office of budget and management, neera tanden would play a key role helping biden follow through on significant economic initiatives. She would help biden reverse trumps tax cuts, expand the Affordable Care act and also prioritize Government Spending on things like bidens two trillion dollar green energy plan. Connell . Connell all right. Lets talk a little bit senate confirmation, hillary. From what i have been hearing at least seems like even though as you say republicans might have issues with janet yellen, she is likely to, as much as anyone can these days sail through but what about neera tanden, maybe not the case. What about are you hearing confirmation for these candidates. Reporter not the case at all, connell, especially with tanden who republicans will not get confirmed at least without a fight. Tanden has been busy doing damage control before the event. Deleted 1000 tweets targeted gop senators she needs to win over. Senator john cornyn, one of those key votes called her radioactive. Here is what senator Lindsey Graham said last night. So if you want to stop this nonsense, if you want to make sure this nutjob, tanden doesnt become the director of the budget in charge of the office of management and budget, make sure we win in georgia. Reporter connell, tanden also has combative relationship with progressives. Senator Bernie Sanders has been outspoken against her in the past as well. Connell . Connell Nutjob Tanden doesnt bode well for confirmation necessarily. I guess well see. Thank you, Hillary Vaughn, wilmington, delaware. New warning from the cdc meantime. The agency urging americans to avoid traveling to mexico. Travel there may increase the chance of getting, spreading covid19. Death toll in mexico surpassed 100,000 with covid, fourth highest in the world with a million confirmed cases in march. The countrys actual numbers are much higher with lower testing levels. A lot of people want to go to mexico. Airlines are seeing increased demand for beach destinations during the winner months. New reports mexico was clear leader for International Air travel from the u. S. Last month. This hour we have the cdc panel that is voting on and they will be the ones deciding who gets the covid19 vaccine first. Well bring you that vote as soon as it happens. Stay with us. teen mom. 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