President trump speaking publicly for the first time in more than a week touting progress in the production of a vaccine. This is five times faster than the fastest prior Vaccine Development in history. But threatening to withhold it from the state of new york because of governor Andrew Cuomos concerns. The president also refusing to concede the election, shutting out president elect joe bidens Transition Team. How will it affect the next administrations handling of the pandemic . Well talk live to a member of bidens covid advisory board. Was she tricked . New questions swirling this morning about Princess Dianas blockbuster interview 25 years ago where she spoke candidly about her troubled marriage and the challenges of the crown. Those stories, plus tis the season. The Rockefeller CenterChristmas Tree is making its grand arrival, wrapping up the 170mile journey with an nypd escort to its new home in the heart of new york city. Something joyful to celebrate today, november 14, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. We thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. Dylan is enjoying a little bit of time off. Hard to believe were already talking about christmas. Im trying to still figure out a thanksgiving plan for our family like a lot of folks these days. I think a lot of families are trying to figure out their thanksgiving plans, but nothing makes me happier than seeing the rockefeller Christmas Tree. A little bit of joy. Well get to that a little later today. First we want to get to our top story, the Coronavirus Crisis now reaching these figures that most never imagined. On friday, the u. S. Reporting more than 176,000 cases. Friday alone yet another new daily record of infections. Nearly 1,300 people passing away from covid complications. This is the tenth day in a row that we have had more than 100,000 cases. There have been nearly 11 million cases since march and we are at a point in this crisis that Public Health experts feared when the pandemic began, especially after seeing dips back in june and early september. So where do we go from here . Our team is covering it from all angles. We want to begin with nbcs kathy park who is in new york this morning. Kathy, good morning. Reporter peter, good morning to you. Here in new York City Restaurants and bars as you can see have had to get pretty creative in order to survive in the middle of a pandemic. But with covid cases on the rise again, restrictions are also coming back, this time with a 10 00 p. M. Curfew and that could just be the beginning. This weekend several northeast governors are coming together to host an emergency summit. Overnight new york, once the epicenter of the pandemic, issuing a new mandate, shutting down all bars, restaurants and gyms at 10 00 p. M. And capping private gatherings at ten people. Are you scared that this is just the first step, 10 00 curfew could lead to total closing . Of course we are scared, yeah. Reporter in the city, the Positivity Rate is climbing closer to 3 , threatening the nations Largest School system. The mayor telling families to have a plan to go back to all Virtual Learning as early as monday. Weve got to act out of an abundance of caution. Reporter for ten days in a row the u. S. Reported more than 100,000 cases daily, crossing 176,000 friday. Infections are trending back up in nearly every state, higher than what we saw this spring. Governors in new mexico and oregon are tackling the surge by ordering partial lockdowns. If we want to give oregonians a fighting chance, we must take further measures to flatten the curve now. Reporter chicago is also heading toward a 30day stayathome order. Starting monday residents are being advised to leave their homes for essential needs only. We want to support our economy as best we can, but weve got to do the things that we know are necessary to save lives. Reporter thanksgiving travel also coming with warnings. The cdc recommends staying home to reduce the risks. The university of wisconsin madison is asking students who travel during the holiday break to stay away from campus until the spring. Health experts worry the worst is yet to come, warning the death toll could nearly double by march 1st. Heather edwards lost her 22yearold son to covid. She says keegan went from healthy to hospitalized and urges families to take precautions. It doesnt seem very real until it becomes a part of your life, and i think that its going to become a part of everyones life. Reporter meanwhile, there are new developments on that first cruise ship to resume sailing in the caribbean. There are reportedly now five positive cases aboard the ship. According to the cruise line, all of the guests as well as nonessential crew members are currently in quarantine in their state rooms. Guys, back to you. The cruise industry still cant catch a break. Kathy park in new york city with the very latest. Thank you. President trump spoke publicly on friday for the first time in nearly a week threatening to withhold an impending vaccine to the state of new york and coming the closest he has yet to admitting he has the election. On friday nbc news made its final election calls with joe biden the parent winner in georgia as a recount begins there and President Trump the projected winner in north carolina. With that, the final Electoral College tally stands for 306 for president elect biden and 232 for President Trump. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house covering all the angles for us this morning. Kelly, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, kristen. Even after taking that long break from public view, the president continued to avoid acknowledging his own political fate. Instead he also sidestepped direct discussion of the surge of covid cases and hospitalizations in order to talk about the timeline for a vaccine. But it really is what he did not say that stands out. Out of his election isolation beautiful out here this time of here. Reporter President Trump broke the longest public silence of his term on friday to tout progress but not yet final approval on Covid Vaccines. This is five times faster than the fastest prior Vaccine Development in history, five times faster. Say it again, five times faster. Reporter but he is slow to address the election outcome, yet he let slip a hint of recognition of his defeat. This administration will not be going t a lockdown, hopefully the whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, i guess time will tell. But i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. Reporter the president took a shot at new york governor, democrat andrew cuomo, who plans a separate state review of vaccine authorization. He doesnt trust the fact that its this white house, this administration, so we wont be delivering it to new york until we have authorization to do so. That pains me to say that. Reporter cuomo pushed back. This is his issue, its his credibility issue. Its the fear that he politicized the Health Process of this nation, which is a wellfounded fear. Reporter while the president has not conceded, aides keep up the fight. I think the president will attending his own inauguration. He would have to be there in fact. Were moving forward here at the white house under the assumption that there will be a second trump term. Reporter but the president s longtime friend, Geraldo Rivera offered this. He told me he was a realist. He told me he would do the right thing. Reporter and in a Development Related to both the election and in some ways covid, Rudy Giuliani is now stepping forward telling nbc news that he will lead the president s legal team. In part thats because one of the president s other political aides, david bossie, came down with covid and is not in a position to lead this defense of the different election cases that the president s team is bringing in various states. Also on the covid front, there have been reports from the Washington Post that as many as 130 secret Service Officers have either gotten the covid virus or been quarantined because of it. Nbc news has been able to confirm that there are cases of covid and that it does affect a number of officers in the secret service, but they would not provide a specific number. They do say that there is enough staff to meet the mission of protecting the president , the president elect, and all the protectees. Peter, kristen. All right, Kelly Odonnell, thank you. With the president still refusing to accept the elections results, president elect joe bidens Transition Team is growing more concerned about National Security and battling the coronavirus. In just a moment were going to speak to dr. Gownder but first we want to get the very latest from Geoff Bennett from joe bidens home in delaware. Geoff, good morning. Reporter peter, good morning. Joe biden is spending the day here at rehoboth beach, but as the work of the transition continues, the biden team is increasingly working around the Trump Administrations unprecedented effort to block a smooth changeover. Thats especially true when it comes to the covid crisis. President elect joe biden adding another win on his way to the white house. Nbc news can now confidently project that georgia will go to joe biden. Reporter a state last won by a democrat in 1992. Bidens latest victory means he flipped five states President Trump won in 2016. The president elect racking up 306 Electoral College votes, the same total President Trump claimed four years ago. Bidens Transition Team barreling ahead, but President Trumps ongoing refusal to concede the race is complicating bidens pandemic planning. Until the Trump Administration formally recognizes biden as president elect, outgoing Trump Officials cant share critical Covid Vaccine distribution plans with the incoming biden team. Bidens newly minted chief of staff speaking on msnbc this week. So the sooner we can get our transition experts into meetings with the folks who are planning that vaccination campaign, the more seamless the transition from a biden presidency to a Trump Presidency can be. Reporter biden advisers have been working on their own plan to mass distribute a Covid Vaccine so they wont be left unprepared come january. Bidens transition in touch with cvs and walgreens, making sure the retail pharmacies have the staffing and supplies needed to vaccinate millions of americans a source familiar tells nbc news. So the bottom line is this. Less than ten weeks before joe biden takes office, his team is locked out of critical covid data and contacts, and that threatens to cripple the future federal response as covid cases surge across the country. Kristen, peter. Geoff bennett this morning in delaware. Geoff, thanks. Lets bring in dr. Seline gownder, an Infectious Disease specialist and she was just niemd president elect bidens covid advisory board. Thank you for joining us. Lets dive right in. As you just heard geoff talk about, there are now two task forces. Just to understand this, has there been any communication between the biden team and the trump covid team . Sadly, kristen, there has not. And i fear that we are really in a National Security crisis at this point. We are seeing surges in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths across the country. This is really like were at war with the virus. If we were in the middle of a world war at this point, i cannot imagine that the current president would not be passing over, handing over the reins and providing really what is Security Intelligence about where the virus is, how its spreading, and what the current plans are for countermeasures. So if you could advise the Trump Task Force right now were there communication, what do you think they need to be doing right now that theyre not doing to make your job easier when you take over . Well, i think one thing weve needed all along is testing. Unfortunately this Current Administration has actively discouraged testing, but it is impossible to fight an enemy when it is invisible. The problem with so many of these Coronavirus Infections is that they are asymptomatic, many of them, and so those are essentially invisible infections. So we really need to be ramping up testing dramatically, putting it in neighborhoods, including neighborhoods of color so that people dont have to be waiting in very long lines to be getting tested. It should be as convenient as possible and it should be free. Dr. Gounder, there were 176,000 new cases on friday and were seeing spikes all across the country. Just to put a fine point on it, what can we do and is there anything that can be done to stop this trajectory as we head into winter . Well, i think sadly we are without true leadership from the white house right now. I think at this point every american has to take personal responsibility for themselves, for their families and their communities. I think we can do that. And i think the first step is for every one of us to wear a mask when were outside of our household. Unfortunately, masks have been politicized. As far as im concerned thats like politicizing toilet paper. This is a basic hygienic measure that is highly effective at protecting yourself, at protecting others, and would do already a lot if we just did that one simple thing. Quick last question if i can. Obviously we focused on Vaccine Development a lot, distribution begins. When the Biden Administration takes over in january, how will that affect average americans in terms of the distribution of this vaccine . Well, in terms of the pfizer vaccine, this is probably going to be distributed largely by hospitals, by private pharmacy chains like cvs and walgreens and by state and local health departments. So none of those are under the direct control of the federal government. And so the interfacing between the biden toeam and each of thoe different groups can be happening right now and is happening right now. So we are moving forward with our planning because this is an emergency and we need to be ready to go on day one. Dr. Gounder, thank you for joining us and for all of the information. Really appreciate it. Also this Nations Capital will be on high alert as several pro trump groups are expected to the take to the streets with counter demonstrators set to show up as well could there be violence . We go to washington for the latest reporter good morning, peter. President trump the actually tweeted about these events saying it was heart warming to see this support and that he might try to stop by and say hello at some some of the d. C. Rallies. Two groups have officially requested permits from officials in d. C. One for a permit in front of the white house the other for a First Amendment rally as he they described it a right here in freedom plaza. You can see he some of what is happening here the permit for this area was approved for 10,000 people you can see there are already super. Porters, different people selling merchandise, gathering in this area we dont know exactly how big todays protests will be in part because weve seen counter protesters organizing online and also other people supporting President Trump claiming to come out and protest the results of the election those people have not officially requested permits. We did see some supporters of President Trump arrive last night and some sort of disturbance where d. C. Police actually had to step in and get involved some of these rallies first seem to appear on the line being organized by a farright group called the proud boys. If you heard that name before, thats because President Trump mentioned it in first debate where he told them to stand back and stand by earlier this week the socalled chairman of that group posted on social media telling his supporters that the stand by order has now been rescinded we do know d. C. Police are aware of these events. They tell us and when i asked if they were expecting violence or any known threats they didnt directly answer that question but did send a reminder to the public saying that according to d. C. Code regardless of any permit someone may have its illegal to carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of First Amendment activities thank you we want to get a check on the forecast from bill karins. Is in for dylan. Thanks for being here today. Yeah, good seeing you guys. We dont have a horrible forecast today, but its going to be windy, very windy. I mean its not just one spot too, were talking across much of the country. 65 Million People are included in these wind advisories or warnings and the purple is where well see the