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Sanders for the touchdown announcer from nbc news, its a quarterback duel for the ages today, monday, november this is today with savannah 9th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, 9th, guthrie and hoda kotb from this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Okay good morning, welcome to today. Studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Its good to have you with us on a monday morning i know why youre smiling. Drew brees did it. Good day and welcome to today, did you use the word crush . 383, i dont want to dance and i know why you are smiling, anyone, but wow, drew had a hoda, because drew brees did it. Great night last night. Did you use the word crush . 383, i dont want to dance on a anyone, but wow, drew had a a little great night last night. Bit. Okay, youre dancing. A little bit. Also happen got these growing tribut also happening today weve o got these growing tributes to alex trebek. Alex trebek. He faced his cancer fight wi he faced his cancer fight with such grace, with an uplifting su attitude and courage. N upliftin were going to honor his remarkable life with some of the people that loved him just were going to honor his remarkable life with some of the ahead. And as cases of the coronavirus continue to surge, e there is some breaking and ahead. Hopeful news on the vaccine and as cas front this morning, where we f stand in the race and how soon one could become widely coronavirus continue to surge, available. There is some breaking breaking news from pfizer hopeful news on the vaccine front this morning, where we stand in the race and how soon one could become widely just a few moments ago. Availabl. Breaking news from pfizer just a few moments ago but first to the top story. Wi, president elect joe biden is launch two days after being t ntino declared the winner, president elect joe biden is launching his transition. The president continues to challenge the results. Our team of correspondents is ready with everything you need to know. Lets get started with nbcs Kristen Welker, good morning to you. Reporter hi savannah and hoda, good morning to both of you. President elect joe biden winning the white house over the weekend exactly 48 years to the day he won his first senate seat, and today he gets to work officially launching his transition and rolling out a task force to combat the coronavirus. With cases surging all across the country, it is an urgent and pressing challenge for the soon to be president. Reporter this morning on his first workday as president elect, joe biden is putting the focus on the fight against covid, a Key Campaign Promise. Hes expected to announce a 12member task force to combat the pandemic. Our work begins with getting covid under control. Reporter as he prepares to become the nations 46th president , mr. Biden visited the grave of his late son beau on sunday, capping off a history making weekend. The people of this nation have spoken. Theyve delivered us a clear victory. Reporter in his first address to the nation as president elect, biden spoke to a deeply divided country and called for unity and healing. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Reporter reaching out to the more than 70 million americans who did not vote for him. Ill work as hard for those who didnt vote for me as those who did. Reporter and vowing to africanamerican voters who helped him win he wont forget them when he goes to the white house. There were moments when the campaign was at the lowest ebb, the Africanamerican Community stood up for us again. You always have my back, and i will have yours. Reporter biden joined by Vice President elect Kamala Harris, the first black and Indian American woman to break that Glass Ceiling. While i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. [ cheers and applause ] reporter all of it giving way to a weekend of jubilance. Biden supporters celebrating in the streets from the white house to the coast, and congratulations pouring in from leaders around the world, and while democrats cheered the news, few republicans reacted, but senator mitt romney who unsuccessfully chald obama in 2012 did offer his congratulatio congratulations. He does want to bring the country together. He does want to bring honor and respect into the white house. He is a man of character. Reporter now, on covid, the president elect says he also plans to work with governors and mayors to implement a mask mandate, and he says hes going to expand testing. On his first day in office, biden vowing to reverse a number of trump era policies. Everything from rejoining the pressure is mounting on Paris Climate Accord to President Trump to accept the Election Results and publicly reinstating daca. Concede something that so pressure is mounting on President Trump to accept the ts Election Results and publicly concede something that so far he has yet to express willingness to do. Nbcs White House Correspondent nbcs White House Correspondent pendent Peter Alexander has that part of the story. Good morning, peter. Hey, hoda. President trump is some of his backers insisting this thing still isnt over looking to ramp up his leg fights. Now to drive it home, the president s reelection effort is planning to hold Campaign Style rallies in the coming weeks that may include President Trump himself according to a campaign official. Those rallies focusing on those legal challenges in battleground states where the president is projected to lose. President trump defiant in defeat, no concession, and no new statement for the cameras since thursday before joe biden was projected to be president elect. Instead, the president with back to back trips to his golf club is venting his anger on twitter, they slapped warning labels on more than a dozen tweets including one that falsely claimed victory. But pressure is building even among allies insisting it may be time to move on. If your basis for not conceding is that there is voter fraud then show us we cant back you blindly without evidence. Reporter republican senator mitt romney calling trump the 900 pound gorilla with this warning. It is important for 2 cause of democracy and freedom that we dont allege fraud and theft and so forth, unless there is very clear evidence of that. Reporter also weighing in is the last president george w. Bush making congratulatory calls to joe biden and Kamala Harris, and saying that the president has rights to make chals, but he can say that the American People have a right to believe that the election was fair. Its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear several World Leaders also accepting the results from canada to australia to the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu who congratulated biden and harris while thanking President Trump for his friendship still, the president s message is being echoed by loyalists trump has not lost. Do not concede mr. President , fight hard. At this point we do not know who has prevailed in the election the media is desperately trying to get everyone to coronate joe biden as the next president but thats not how it works. Reporter some repeating the unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud without providing evidence. There is strong evidence that it was an election that at in least three or four states and possibly ten, it was stolen. Reporter overnight, republican commissioner Allan Schmidt who oversaw the counts in philadelphia fighting back against the allegations. Inside looking out, it feels all very deranged. Deranged . At the end of the day, we are counting eligible votes cast by voters the controversy surrounding it is something i dont understand. Reporter and revealing that his office is receiving threatening calls. Calls to our offices reminding us that this is what the Second Amendment is for, People Like Us youre getting calls like that yes thats a not so veiled death threat. Yes, for counting votes in a democracy. Reporter those comments from late last night. Also congratulating president elect biden one of President Trumps closest allies, the british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson back here at home, heres where things stand in these key races in those crucial states. Joe biden leads in all of them, first pennsylvania bidens up by more than 43,000 votes there for now that is outside the margin that would mandate a recount. To arizona where biden is holding onto a 17,000 vote advantage. The former vp up more than 34,000 votes in nevada if President Trump won in a recount there, hed have to pay for it and now finally georgia, they are likely headed to a recount where bidens lead is 10,000 votes savannah and hoda. Thank you, peter. Lets bring in chuck todd and kasie hunt. Chuck, how do you see this playing out . The world is moving on you even see staunch trump allies and friends accepting the results of this election some republicans have done so. There may be grounds for a recount in some states, but not enough to change the outcome how do you see this playing out over the next few days well, i think youre going to see some more elected republicans that to start acknowledging, quote, president elect joe biden, and i think thats going to happen particularly on kasies feet there on capitol hill more and more of it maybe they will give him another day here, but every day the president goes without providing any evidence is a day it looks like theyre trying to manufacture it, and their credibility just whittles away. Let me ask you that, kasie, because what elected republicans do right now is really important. I just saw ted cruz kind of circling the wagons and defending the president and saying, oh, we have to look at this election. I was reminded back in 2016 and i believe we have the tweet, and ted cruz won the iowa primary beating donald trump, and here is donald trump saying that ted cruz didnt win iowa, he stole it. So this is just a long standing pattern from the president if he loses, he claims he stole it the question is what are elected republicans going to do about this how long do they circle the wagons around the president . Well, and that tweet, savannah, makes it all the more remarkable what we saw from ted cruz in peters piece there because the reality is all republicans and democrats who are elected, they rely on these vote counts to be not just accurate and true but also believed and accepted by americans. And while, yes, the president has been given a grace period by some of his staunchest supporters here, its becoming very clear that the pendulum is swinging, power has moved, and there is going to be increasing pressure as the days roll on for them to acknowledge that joe biden is the president elect, and i think theyre also very conscious that the country is grappling with an enormous crisis coronavirus cases rising at an incredible rate. The biden team trying to put together that task force today and actually have the ability to get the government to focus on that, i think thats going to start to be the focus here. And were about to focus on it with a Public Health expert chuck, before i leave you, not that we needed another wrinkle, but we have one. You know, the results of the election with regard to the senate are not yet clear we dont know whos going to control the senate will it be the republicans, or will it be the democrats, and its going to hinge on these runoff elections for two senate seats in georgia how does that complicate everything, including when the president accepts the results of this election . Well, look, this is exactly im glad you focused on this point because the president , the more he sort of saps attention, money, resources away from the effort in the georgia runoff, i mean, just asking for a recount in georgia would be extraordinarily not just distracting to the effort th just distracting to the effort o try to secure a sena that republicans want to have to in those georgia runof try to secure a Senate Majorityf anything, you could in those georgia runoffs, but if anything, you could actually it could backfire. It could backfire. You ask for that recount, that you ask for that recount, that only fires u only fires up democratic voters even more who feel as if what are you trying to do, ta are you trying to do, take this away, which could then all of a away, which could then all of a sudden gin up turnout even sudden gin up turnout even greater for the de greater for the democrats, and d then if they win tho then if they win those two runoff seats, they get the runoff majority here. Seats, they get e so this is a real fear, savannah, that the president s majority here. Sort of selfishness right now will actually hurt the republicans even more and maybe cost them those two runoff a r seats. Savannah, that the president kasie hunt, thank you, chuck sort of self todd who literally hasnt had a day off yet, since you did meet the press yesterday. Will actually hurt the it starts now. Republicans even more and maybe tea and lemon and honey for cost them thos the voice. E two runoff seats. Kasie hun have a good rest and well see todd who literally hasnt had a day off yet, since you did meet the press yesterday you tomorrow probably. Ea and lr we do have breaking news on the coronavirus front this th morning. This morning. New cause for hope that could not come at a new cause for hope that could time with cases and not come at a more important hospitalizations surging time with cases and nationwide and around the world. Hospitalizations surging pfizer and another compa nationwide and around the world. Reporting promising results for pfizer and another company are reporting promising results for their vaccine. Their vaccine. Were goin were going to talk about that and more with dr. Ashish jha in just a moment. But first, Miguel Almaguer has more details. Hey, miguel, good morning. Good morning, here at many hospitals, they are at the brink, and we are learning that 10 million americans are infected with the virus, but there is good news on to vaccine front. Reporter in what could be a potential breakthrough in the battle against covid, a vaccine developed by pfizer and benon tech saying that it is a 90 effective. This is coming amid a large and deadly surge. Biden is expected to appoint members of the Coronavirus Task force as soon as today. I will spare no effort, none or any commitment to turn around this virus. Reporter the seven day average of the virus is 100,000 new cases per day. Large crowds gathering nationwide to celebrate the election, adding to concerns about the virus spread. In hot spots like utah, families like lindsey wootens have been devastating. The parents were hospitalized spending their 34th anniversary in the icu. My dad was able to come up to hospital in time to hold my moms hand as she passed. Reporter her mother, just 56, her father survived but may never fully recover. Wooten who also lost her grandfather to the virus says many in her Parents Community have been skeptical about the covid. Well, it was really frustrating that people were turning this political, that people were bickering back and forth whether to wear a mask or not wear a mask. It isnt political. Reporter this morning one familys pain as scientists work to provide hope for all. Pfizer says more Safety Information could be released in the coming days and millions of doses could be rolled out in the coming days and the stock markets are hitting historic levels and this is the good news by the next year