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It is caught the plays that still have people talking today, monday, november 16th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. Good to have you with us. You see the tree . Yeah, it arrived on saturday. Were happy to see it here. We do have a lot to get to this morning, including that spectacular launch by spacex and nasa. It went off without a hitch. There was an issue that had to be addressed a few hours before flight. Tom costello will have details in a live report coming up. We are also looking forward to speaking live this morning with dr. Anthony fauci and theres a lot to talk about. Breaking news just out. Another vaccine candidate showing great promise. Lets get right to nbc National CorrespondentMiguel Almaguer who has the information for us. Miguel, the company is moderna. Tell us about it. Reporter yeah, thats good news thats welcomed on the heels of so much loss. The cdc predicts up to 35,000 more deaths by december, the nation now surpassing 11 million cases. As you mentioned, signs of progress breaking just now. Pharmaceutical Company Moderna announcing early results of its vaccine trial. This morning another potential breakthrough in the battle against covid, a vaccine developed by moderna showing a 94. 5 efficacy rate in a trial with 30,000 participants. The companys president telling us the first doses could be rolled out as soon as december, if the fda authorizes it for emergency use. What does this mean for americans at home . It means some hope that we are going to beat this thing. Were going to beat it sooner rather than later. Reporter moderna says the independent committee analyzing its data did not report any significant safety concerns, clearing a major hurdle. The nations top Infectious Disease doctor says he hopes the promise of vaccines motivates americans to fully embrace Public Health measures. People are worn out about this, but weve got to hang in there a bit longer. Reporter covid cases are still skyrocketing across the u. S. A million new infections added in the last week alone. We are in a very dangerous period. The most dangerous Public Health period since 1918. Reporter state and local Health Officials are responding with new restrictions. Washington state now banning Indoor Service at bars and restaurants, and closing gyms and similar businesses for four weeks. Colorado hitting a Record Number of singleday cases and hospitalizations, as its governor warns against holiday gatherings. Its a very important caution for people not to play russian roulette over thanksgiving. You wouldnt do it with a gun, and you shouldnt do it with a virus. Reporter chicagos mayor issuing a 30day stayathome advisory. Residents are only to go out for essential needs. While in minnesota, sundays obituary section of the startribune was 10 1 2 pages, a grim symbol of a pandemic season growing darker by the day. One big difference between the Moderna Vaccine and one developed by pfizer that also reported very promising results, moderna says its vaccine doesnt need to be kept at extremely low temperatures to remain stable. That could help with shipping and distribution. And that brings us to dr. Anthony fauci, director of National Institutes allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the governments Coronavirus Task force. Dr. Fauci, good morning to you. Youve got to be pleased about these early results from moderna showing their vaccine candidate to be 94. 5 effective. Do you anticipate that it will get emergency use approval from the fda, and how soon . Well, we all anticipate it will i dont want to get ahead of the fda. But the data are striking, savannah, theyre really quite impressive 94. 5 efficacy there were 95 events 5 of them in the Vaccine Group and 90 of them in the placebo group. That is really quite impressive and really is something that foretells an impact on this outbreak together with a vaccine that you know just last week was shown to be comparably effective with the pfizer. So now we have two vaccines that are really quite effective so i think this is a really strong step forward to where we want to be about getting control of this outbreak. And i wont hold you to it because i recognize that its the fda that determines emergency use approval, but the general timeline you and i have been talking about timelines since going back to march what do you think the timeline is for these vaccine candidates to be available . Shots in the arm yeah, what i think is going to happen is its going to be all hands on deck. Everybody will do it correctly, theyre not going to cut any corners but do it quickly. We project by the end of december that there will be doses of Vaccines Available for individuals in the higher risk category from both companies we hope and this is something were looking forward to. And real quickly, there are other companies that are obviously in stage three clinical trials. Do you anticipate that we could end up with three, four, five efficacious vaccines i think thats quite conceivable that will occur. One of the things thats common about these vaccines, the platforms are different, but the moderna and the pfizer ones are similar, but the other types of vaccine platforms are using whats called the spike protein of the coronavirus. Something that has been researched very intensively right in our own group at the nih at the Vaccine Research center to put it in the kind of confirmation that is optimum to induce a good immune response. Virtually all of the other vaccines rely on that spike protein. So to me that gives me hope that more than these two will also be effective. I knew i was in trouble when i got into spike protein, so lets talk about how this could work were obviously in the middle of a transition between the Trump Administration and the Incoming Biden Administration how concerned are you that the white house has still not green lighted the transition so that folks on your side of things can be talking to the Incoming Biden Administration well, savannah, obviously its something were concerned about. As you know, ive served in six administrations so ive seen a number of transitions. And i know that transitions are very important to get a smooth, essentially as i use the metaphor, essentially passing a baton without stopping running you just want things to go very smoothly so hopefully well see that soon transitions are important. Well, and in particular just to put a fine point on it, is it, boy, it would be nice to have a smooth transition or is it particularly critical we just talked about this timeline, december, january, where vaccines are going to be stood up people are going to need to get these vaccines that is the very transition. The doctor in charge for the Trump Administration says he hopes and he does not want to see that process disrupted in any way. I totally agree with him very much so. I mean the virus is not going to stop and call a timeout while things change. The virus is just going to keep going. The process is just going to keep going this is something that just is now going in the very, very strong right direction the vaccines are effective we want to get it approved as quickly as we possibly can we want to get doses to people starting in december then we want to really get the ball rolling as we get into january, february and march. We want a smooth process with that the way you do that is by essentially having the two groups speak to each other and exchange information. You mentioned the Vaccine Research is going in the right direction. The virus is going in the wrong direction. We just had 145,000 cases daily. Thats the sevenday daily average. 1,100 deaths, thats the daily average. Is this the dark winter that you and others have warned about im afraid that it can be but we can do something about it, savannah i keep saying that over and over yes, its a very serious situation. We know that this covid fatigue that people are just tired of the kinds of restrictions, but there are fundamental things that we talk about all the time that ive discussed with you many times the physical distancing, the washing of hands, the universal wearing of masking, the staying away from crowds if we do that uniformly throughout the country, we dont have to accept major surges. We can blunt them. And then with the vaccine, as i use it i say help is on the way. It certainly is. But the fact that help is on the way should spur us even more to double down on some of the Public Health measures, to be able to use the combination of a vaccine and Public Health measures to turn this thing around we can do it i know you yourself have not advised a national lockdown. There are individual cities and states who are implementing stricter measures. Dr. Scott atlas, who is the white house advisor to the president on the coronavirus tweeted last night, the only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept. Freedommatters. Step up. And then he had to add another tweet to say, oh, hey, i wasnt talking about violence what do you think of that message . You know, i totally disagree with it. I made no secret of that i dont want to say anything against dr. Atlas as a person but i totally disagree with the stand he takes i just do, period. Dr. Fauci, thank you very much we appreciate your time this morning. Take care. Thank you good to be with you. Thank you all right, its now 12 minutes after the hour look whos back in studio 1a craig melvin has the latest on the election fallout for us. Good morning. Hey, good to see you guys you mentioned the transition with dr. Fauci a few moments ago. Today president elect joe biden expected to focus on his vision for the nations economy this as President Trump briefly took a first step toward admitting he actually lost the election while still not conceding, though. Geoff bennett has the very latest from both camps geoff, good morning to you. Reporter craig, good morning. More than a week after joe biden won the election, President Trump is still refusing to concede the race, even tweeting overnight in all caps, i won the election which of course is not the case. But all of it means that the biden team is still locked out of Critical Data and resources meant to ensure a smooth transition this morning joe bidens president ial transition pushing forward, despite the Trump Administrations roadblocks. The president elect and future vp set to deliver remarks today focused on the countrys economic recovery. As bidens new chief of staff raises warnings about the dangers of delaying the pandemic planning. People making plans to implement that vaccine, our experts need to talk to those people as soon as possible so Nothing Drops in this change of power. Reporter on sunday the president seemingly acknowledged his loss for the first time with two words in a tweet he won backtracking roughly 90 minutes later writing in another tweet i concede nothing. Donald trumps twitter feed doesnt make joe biden president or not president the American People did that. Reporter all of it following violent clashes in the Nations Capital over the election results. Trump supporters rejecting the outcome of the race, echoing the president s false claims of fraud. More than 20 people were arrested in what started as relatively peaceful demonstrations, with thousands rallying for President Trump. Were never going to accept joe biden as the president of the united states. Reporter but the calls for mr. Trump to concede are growing, on both sides of the aisle. Joe biden is the president elect, and that transition for the countrys sake, its important for a normal transition to start the idea that he continues to tell his supporters that the only reason he may have lost this election is because of fraud is an absolutely disgraceful, unamerican thing to do. Reporter former president barack obama weighing in too when your time is up, then it is your job to put the Country First and think beyond your own ego and your own interests and your own disappointments my advice to President Trump is if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put Country First, its time for you to do the same thing. Reporter now, even as joe biden projects calm and confidence as it relates to these delays, im told the view within the campaign is that the longer it goes, the worse it gets and it could endanger a future federal response to the Coronavirus Crisis craig. Geoff bennett for us in wilmington thank you. Let us get a first check of the forecast and that child weather that struck in the northeast overnight. Good morning, dylan. Did you hear it last night . Yes the rain coming down, the wind that was out there we saw gusts about 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour we had a Tornado Warning for new york city itself and that is on average typical about once a year but certainly never in november. We had significant flooding out in western pennsylvania. We also had just lots of wind damage reports as those winds were very, very gusty. It was a wild evening. We picked up more than 287 reports of wind damage as this cold front moved to the east you can see most of them around ohio, pennsylvania, new york and several of those in the philadelphia new york city area. Its still going to be windy today and much colder than yesterday too so its going to be very, very brisk. Temperatures will be on the colder side along with those winds, up to 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour so youll want to bundle up. Also keep in mind that colder northwest wind crosses over the very unfrozen great lakes right now and lakeeffect snow will start to kick in, especially in the Higher Elevations off of lake erie and lake ontario we could see 2 to 4 inches of snow but some areas just south of watertown where the elevation is a little bit higher, we could see 5 to 6 inches of that lakeeffect snow thats a look at the weather across the country well get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Were tracking our next round of rain set to move in tomorrow. But were also clear and also very warm for today. By the time that rain gets here well see it moving from north to south by tomorrow afternoon and well usher in some cooler temperatures. A lot of that rain moving out by wednesday, and the rest of the week is looking clear but also seasonable as we drop back those temperatures to the mid60s from thursday to sunday. 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