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The blockbuster greys anatomy moment stunning fans overnight. This morning, dr. Grey herself, ellen pompeo joining us on gma and shes telling us everything. How to save a life good morning, america. Thanks for being with us this friday. Its great to be here with whit and amy. Good morning to you two as well. Good morning. Theres so much buzz about what theyre calling the biggest prime time surprise in a while which happened overnight and i heard whit go, ah, took his breath away. On dvr when i get home, so, you know, dont give it away. Mcdreamy is back, and they promised a jardropping moment, and we certainly got one, so well have a lot more on that in a bit. First, we do have a lot of news to get to. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus emergency. Numbers soaring across the country with the record of more than 150,000 cases. California becoming the second state to climb past that 1 million mark. Another alarming milestone there. In the past two weeks the number of people hospitalized has nearly doubled with more than 67,000 admissions. Were talking to the former Surgeon General and cochair of president elect bidens Covid Task Force about their plans to fight the pandemic. But first lets go to alex perez in chicago where the mayor has issued a stay at home advisory, urging residents to avoid nonessential travel and cancel traditional thanksgiving plans. Good morning, alex. Reporter hey, good morning, michael. This new surge is not happening in any one place but across the country, trending more quickly than at any other point in the pandemic. This morning, Coronavirus Infections shattering records. More than 875,000 people diagnosed in seven days. The number of people hospitalized doubling in the past two weeks. In illinois cases skyrocketing. Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot putting new restrictions in place. You must cancel the normal thanksgiving plans, particularly if they include guests that do not live in your immediate household. Reporter but a new poll shows less than half of americans say theyd stay home for another lockdown, socalled covid fatigue. People tired of following restrictions may be setting in. You know whats really uncomfortable and annoying, when you die. Thats my answer. And this is not a forever and for always. Reporter at least 500 High School Students in one georgia county quarantining after attending two superspreader halloween parties. Its more dangerous to be a teacher, to be a parent, to put your kids in situations where they can be with other children that may or may not have this. Reporter in tipton county, tennessee dozens of students and staff testing positive. Some educators here fearing parts of this community might be in denial. Its difficult for me to tell students to wear a mask when they go home and their parents say, you know, wearing a mask is antiamerican. Reporter but this morning new hope for patients. Eli lillys fda authorized antibody treatment bamlanivimab uses synthetically made antibodies to help fight the virus and its first ever developed specifically to battle covid. At Clark Memorial Hospital in Indiana Health care workers have just started using it to help patients. This is a treatment that can keep them from becoming sick and have to be in the hospital. Reporter only certain patients are eligible, at least 12 years old with mild to moderate symptoms and preexisting complicating conditions that could make it likely for the person to develop severe illness. And treatment must begin within ten days of the first symptoms. With some hospitals again dealing with ppe shortages, this new treatment would allow patients to go home to recover, freeing up valuable space and medical staff. David shaw is a doctor who tested positive for the virus after treating covid patients. You started feeling symptoms how many days ago . The last couple days, really. It came on fairly fast and then yesterday it was terrible. It was just really bad. Dr. Shulz now one of the first in the country to get the new treatment. They hooked me up to an i. V. And gave me the onehour infusion of the Monoclonal Antibody and then observed me for about an hour after that and sent me home. Im assured this will speed up my recovery as all the Research Shows that. Reporter and some 88,000 doses of that new treatment is being distributed across the country right now with another 212,000 doses available by the end of the year. Whit . People are eager for more doses, alex perez for us, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Joining us for an abc news exclusive is dr. Vivek murthy, the cochair of president elect joe bidens new Advisory Board and former Surgeon General. Dr. Murthy, thank you so much for your time this morning. President elect biden has predicted a dark winter ahead. How specifically will his coronavirus plan be different than the Trump Administrations and what are you able to do right now before hes inaugurated on january 20th . Well, thank you so much. Its really great to be with you this morning. You know, we find ourself at a grim mark in this pandemic. You know, were seeing cases skyrocket. Over 168,000 cases yesterday which is the most weve ever seen. Were seeing hospitals fill up. Were seeing the death toll continue to rise. And, you know, whats really important here is i think to recognize what the cost of this pandemic is because it is the lives that are lost, but its also the many people who are struggling with lingering symptoms, those who have been hospitalized. Its jobs lost and economic pain. Its kids who cant go to school, and its people who are not able to go home for thanksgiving. This is a difficult moment, but i also want to point out that the Mental Health impact of this pandemic has been profound too. More people are experiencing anxiety and depression and loneliness and this is really taking a toll. So we find ourselves at a point where many people recognize things are bad but theyre fatigued. And part of what president elect biden has spoken about is a need for us to really lead this response with science, to communicate clearly with people about where we are including when things arent going well and to really be precise in how we deliver the kind of interventions that are needed. Ill give you an example of this but, doctor, forgive me. Specifically what is bidens plan . How is it different than what were seeing from the Trump Administration . Well, heres what youll see with president elect bidens plan. Theres going to be a focus on, number one, stopping the spread, on insuring that we can reopen safely and on also making sure that we are focusing on the hardest hit populations. How do you do that . Well, number one, you focus on expanding testing capacity. We have struggled still to this point even though weve made some progress in the last eight months. We still dont have adequate testing so that anyone who wants a test can get one and get results quickly. We still dont have enough testing to be able to do surveillance testing in universities and workplaces and in other places that are higher risk like prisons and nursing homes. So that is an area where youll see president elect biden focussing expanding capacity. In the interest of time here, forgive me, i need to move on to another question. One of the other members of your Advisory Board, dr. Michael osterholm, floated the idea of a four to sixweek lockdown. To get the spread of the virus under control. Is this this view of the Incoming Biden Administration . Should americans anticipate more lockdowns . Well, i dont think that it is a lockdown or not locking down. I think thats how we thought about it in the spring, but i think weve learned a lot since then about how this virus spreads and what we can do to reduce risk. And right now the way we should be thinking about this is more like a series of restrictions that we dial up or down depending on how bad spread is taking place in a specific region. In new york city, for example, what youre seeing is them target their interventions down to the zip code. So were not in a place where were saying shut the whole country down. We got to be more targeted. If we dont do that, what youre going to find is that people will become even more fatigued. Schools wont be open to children and the economy will be hit harder. So weve got to follow science but weve got also to be more precise. Dr. Murthy, thanks for your time this morning. We appreciate it. Amy, over to you. Whit, thank you. Now to the latest on the white house transition. Overnight president elect biden increasing his lead over President Trump. Biden now projected to win arizona. Those 11 electoral votes bringing his total up to 290 as the president still refuses to concede and is staying silent as were seeing this virus surge. Senior National Correspondent terry moran is in washington with all the latest on this. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, amy. President trump has gone dark since he lost the election. He hasnt addressed the public in person as opposed to twitter in over a week and all this as we just heard as coronavirus cases skyrocket, as hospitals and local Health Care Systems come under strain and as the worst is yet to come in the middle of this president ial transition. As the coronavirus surges, the countrys commander in chief has gone silent and gone to ground. Not a single word or tweet about the raging pandemic in the days since he lost his reelection bid, declining to address the alarming rise in covid cases and still refusing to concede. Instead President Trump is taking to twitter to push false allegations about voter fraud, consistently rejected by every court that reviews them and now the president s own department of Homeland Security has released a statement calling last weeks election, the most secure in American History saying, there is no evidence that any Voting System was in any way compromised. A source tells abc news the nations top cybersecurity official who has publicly debunked claims of voter fraud contradicting the president now expects to be fired. Im confident that American Voters are going to decide the 2020 election. Reporter most Congressional Republicans still wont acknowledge joe bidens victory and former president obama is slamming them for falling in line with trump. It is one more step in delegitimizing, not just the Incoming Biden Administration, but democracy, generally. And thats a dangerous path. Reporter but there are signs that support for the president within his own party is beginning to crack. At least ten republican senators, including one of the president s top allies, lindsey graham, are now calling on the Trump Administration to stop blockading the transition and allow joe biden to receive the classified daily Intelligence Briefings every president elect receives. I think at this point just as a matter of protecting our nations interests. Reporter senator marco rubio saying, when it comes to national security, we should do Everything Possible to ensure that the next president is fully prepared, warning, our adversaries arent going to wait for you to catch up to take action. And there could be even more at stake as President Trump receives an update from the operation warp speed Vaccine Initiative today. President elect biden is not getting access to any of that and there are concerns that if the transition is not smooth, that could delay immunization for millions of americans. And, terry, its important to point out with biden projected to win arizona, a georgia recount doesnt affect the electoral outcome, correct . Reporter not at this point. Thats absolutely right. Arizona has 11 electoral votes. Biden has won there by about 11,000 votes,. 3 of the state there. It is clear that he is going to be the president elect. In the past 50 years only three statewide races have been changed by recounts. And they have amounted to about a few hundred votes have been switched in those recounts. So president elect joe biden is going to take office on january 20th no matter what happens in georgia, amy. All right, terry moran, thank you very much for that. Michael . Now to tropical eta, ripping across the southeast. Deadly flooding stretching from florida to the carolinas. Rob marciano is in concord, North Carolina, with the latest on the urgent searches and rescues. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, michael. This is unfortunately not the first time that North Carolina has to deal with flash floods that are at least related to a tropical system. We had nearly ten inches of rain falling in a lot of the parts of piedmont. Look what it did. Completely rip through this twolane road. That pipex feet, t dn hane thwateand, gos unfosirtunattoele y, i bts washed out roads. There were people that were caught up in these floodwaters. Overnight, a desperate search for those still missing. Swept up in flash floodwaters in the piedmont of North Carolina. At least seven deaths now being blamed on weather. Fed by Tropical Storm eta and another storm system that struck the carolinas. The combination responsible for dumping up to ten inches of rain in some areas, three of the victims were in a flooded campground. Two still missing including a 1yearold child. Cars swallowed up by flash floods. Houses completely submerged. Many roads impassable. In one county alone, dozens of roads damaged. Four bridges washed away. First responders in charlotte working to save those stranded. Across the state hundreds of rescues. Schools forced to evacuate students to safety. In virginia you can see rescuers in roanoke pulling this vehicle from rushing waters. The state not taking any chances closing floodwalls to minimize the impacts of rising rivers. The james river is still rising in richmond. Thats the first time theyve closed the floodwalls there in the capital city in over 20 years because the water has to drain out into the atlantic. Look at the flood warnings from rivers and the water thats still sitting in North Carolina and virginia. Even as tropical eta has now dissipated into posttropical and gets caught up in the front, this is the longest lived november forming storm since 1912, amy. And weve got another storm we need to talk about in the caribbean. Well deal with that later in the show. Wow, something no one wants to hear about. All right, rob, thank you very much. Turning to the countdown to black friday, with just two weeks to go its expected to be the biggest sales day ever even in the midst of this pandemic. Rebecca jarvis joins us now with all of those details. Good morning, rebecca. Reporter good morning, to you, amy. This biggest difference this year is expected to be the fact that many retailers, major ones, have announced in recent days that they will close their brick and mortar locations on thanksgiving thursday. Now, in years past theyve kept them open much to the chagrin of those who work in them. This year those websites will be open still 24 7 and on that thanksgiving thursday analysts predict that sales will be up as much as 50 online just because people will be Home Shopping. They will also be Home Shopping on black friday where online sales are predicted to top 10 billion for the First Time Ever and you might be wondering where will americans be getting their money to spend on buying things online. Well, its because theyre not spending things at restaurants or travel or experiences right now, so they do have that money left over in some cases to spend it there. Now, a lot of people think that the bulk of shopping happens online. This year, amy, it will still happen in stores. Believe it or not, about twothirds of all of our shop will go happen in Stores Versus Online still and sales are expected to top 1 trillion. Amy . Wow that, is surprising, rebecca. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. We are following a lot of other headlines this morning including that super bowl announcement. The weeknd set to take the stage for the halftime show. How the biggest show of the year will go on. And new developments on that cruise ship outbreak. At least five passengers now testing positive for covid and the ship unable to dock. Well have the latest on that this morning but first lets go back to rob in North Carolina. Reporter amy, want to show you quickly our next Tropical Storm likely to be the 30th, iota.