In charge of their care. And a masters like no other. How the tournament will look different this year while keeping tradition alive. Especially the music. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The coronavirus is now spreading so quickly, Public Health experts say it is simply uncontrollable. And the days ahead will be even worse. What were seeing at the highest levels of government is basically tossing it in. Passing their hands up. We give up on this. President elect joe biden has chosen ron klain as his white house chief of staff. He was also the white house ebola czar. President trump making his first public appearance in six days. He continues to fight the transition of power to president elect biden. Georgias secretary of state is authorizing a full hand recount over accusations of election fraud. Well continue to follow and enforce the law. Tropical storm eta bearing down on the florida coast. Already bringing strong wind and heavy rain. Right along the southeastern seaboard. All the while its putting rain down. Republican u. S. Senator dan sullivan has won reelection in alaska. It gives the republicans 50 seats in the senate. Crazy finish in the toledo Michigan State game. Touchdown broncos and all that matters. Country music legends celebrating their biggest night. The coronavirus sidelining a couple of performers. Id ask you to hold my hand if that didnt break protocols. See what i did right there . On cbs this morning. Chris stapleton was able to play at the cmas. We couldnt wait to give you a preview of his new album. Chris stapletons a very covid christmas. Oh, cdc, oh, cdc your website is depressing deck the halls with sanitizer until we get a cure from pfizer fa, la, la, la this mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. I think id buy that album. Yes. Those are fun. Nicely done. Welcome to cbs. You just talked to him, anthony. Thats right. That was did he mention he was going to do that . Very well done. Not quite at that stage yet. But we are now. We are definitely at that stage. Thats where we begin with a new explosion of cases in the coronavirus crisis. If you heard this. The u. S. Reported a recordshattering number of new infections just yesterday. More than 144,000, nearly 1900 people died. That is the most in a single day since may. Long lines have formed across the country as people are hoping to get tested. And cases are on the rise in at least 47 states. No states currently meet the cdc guidelines for reopening. But many remain at least partially open as officials struggle to balance economic worries with saving lives. David begnaud is in south bend, indiana for us, home to the university of notre dame. Health experts are concerned about students bringing the virus home for thanksgiving. Whats the plan there . Heres the deal. They are telling their students, if you want to leave camp urks y you have to get tested or well not allow you to come back next spring. We started in michigan, ohio, now in indiana. The governor here had imposed restrictions, then rolled back just about all restrictions in september and now imposing them again. The ap says hospitalizations in the state of indiana are up. Theyve jumped 200 . The coronavirus pandemic continues to accelerate at a recordshattering pace. As the white house remains silent, governors are taking action, reimposing restrictions and urging residents to get back to the basics. Governors like Indiana Republican eric holcomb. Ill sign an executive order that will implement pandemic requirements forral hoosiers. Reporter his neighbor to the east, mike dewine, warned that businesses could be forced to close if infections continue to spike. Its advancing quickly and seeking victims in every community in ohio. If you dont know any of its victims yet, sadly, i suspect you will. Reporter to new york now, Governor Cuomo announced new restrictions on private gatherings, limiting them to 10 people and placing a curfew are bars, gyms and even some restaurants. And it is scenes like this, students rushing the field after notre dame upset clemson last saturday, that have renewed concern about spread on college campuses. Ashton weber, who was a junior, was at the game, but she did not rush the field. She said other students who were at the game have started testing positive. Now the university is mandating that all students get tested before they go home. So we are all receiving exit testing before we leave. If we do not get exit tested then there will be holds placed on our registration. We cant get ready for classes to come back for next semester. Other universities have anoua nou nounsed similar plans for mandatory exit testing and are not bringing back students until next year. Thats the plan at indiana university, according to university president. We recognize that was extremely dangerous because everybody leaving, coming back, there was bound to be a massive spike of the virus when they got back. So we will do extremely robust testing for students when they leave the campus and when they come back to the campus. The cdc is urging all americans to limit thanksgiving gatherings to people in the household. They specifically said that College Students should not be considered members of the household. So if your College Student is coming home for thanksgiving, its best to stay away, but if they are going to come home, mask on, six feet away, social distance and keep the windows open, gayle. Thats a very good point. Very good advice. Thank you, david. We just heard from governor mike dewine. Well speak from him in the next hour about the alarming spread in his state. Were joined by dr. Celine gounder on president elect joe bidens covid19 Advisory Board. Shes an Infectious Disease specialist and epidemiologist at the Grossman School of medicine and bellevue hospital. Good morning, doctor. Thanks for being with us. Weve recorded more than 100,000 cases now for eight straight days. How what do we need to do to get control of this . Well, we need to do what scientists and Public Health experts have been saying from the beginning of the pandemic which is that we need to be masking, social distancing, remaining six feet apart. Now that were indoors more, we need to be keeping windows and doors open as much as possible. We need to be getting tested frequently. If somebody reaches out to you, a contact tracer reaches out to you about a potential exposure, please work with them so that we can help identify where the virus is spreading. Do you see the possibility of a National Lockdown coming . You know, i really dont like the word lockdown. It implies this is an on or off switch, a binary decision, when really what were talking about is a dimmer switch or a dial. And i think what we need to be tightening up right now is Indoor Dining going to bars, indoor gyms, that sort of thing. And we can really keep schools, for example, open much longer if we tighten up the areas where were most likely to see spread. Weve seen that in new york, dr. Gounder, which from the beginning was the epicenter of this virus. There are new restrictions now as the cases rise here, including a limit of 10 people at indoor private gatherings. Is that enough . I really think we probably need to step back in terms of indoor gatherings to our household bubbles. So thats the people you live with, whether or not they are family, may be your roommates. But as was pointed out, College Students who dont live in the household really are not part of that household bubble. And things like parties, other private gatherings or something that we really need to be putting a pause on right now. What about restaurants . You know, new york city, we have reopened Indoor Dining to some degree at a reduced capacity. We have Outdoor Dining. I think Indoor Dining is another one that we know is a major spreader of the infection. When weve seen Indoor Dining reopen in other parts of the world, other parts of the country, it has certainly correlated with an increase in transmission in the community. And so i think what we need to do is figure out creative ways to do more Outdoor Dining and put a pause on Indoor Dining as well. And what about masks. Are we getting the cooperation we need . Do we need a National Mask mandate . Is that even a possibility in your view . Well, i think unfortunately, masks have been politicized. It would be like politicizing the use of toilet paper. This is a very basic hygienic Public Health measure that we need all of us need to be taking personal responsibility for ourselves, for our health, for the health of our family, the health of our community. And we need to mask up. That is something that is in our power to do right now and can make a tremendous difference in curbing the spread of the disease. Weve got weve also got a surge in hospitalizations right now. I think the number is nearly 62,000 people in this country are being hospitalized because of the coronavirus. How will the Advisory Boards help hospitals get the supplies and the resources that they need . Well, i think the president elect is looking at invoking the defense production act as one of his first actions, once he takes office. And that really would allow us to put pressure on manufacturers to mandate that they be producing the personal protective equipment that were already running short of in many Hospital Systems right now. Dr. Gounder, as weve noted in the last week, pfizer has announced a vaccine that they intend to submit for an fda emergency use authorization in the coming weeks. Is there a plan to get that vaccine out as soon as possible . Yes, and i think its important to understand that its not just the Advisory Board that i sit on that is providing support to president elect biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris. Its also a very deep bench of scientists and Public Health experts who are on the Transition Team as well as others. And these are plans that have been in the works for a while. Some of these conversations are happening with the private sector, big players like cvs and walgreens, for example, are really going to be key in terms of the distribution of the vaccine to communities throughout the united states. But the plan is to be ready on day one to move forward with distribution of the vaccine. Dr. Celine gounder, thank you very much. For the first time in nearly a week we saw President Trump yesterday at a veterans day ceremony at Arlington National cemetery. He did not make any remarks at that time. Sources tell cbs news the outgoing president has not attended a meeting of the White House Coronavirus task force in months. Hes been distracted by the election and the meetings have lacked substance. Paula reid is at the white house with more on this story. Good morning to you. What are you hearing today . Good morning. Gayle, the task force is Still Holding meetings, but Senior Administration officials tell cbs news not much is actually happening during these meetings. Even as the country sets these new daily records for infections. On monday, Vice President mike pence chaired a meeting where officials were really focused on distribution of therapeutics and vaccines. But theres still no coherent message or strategy from the white house on how to slow the spread. In one interview, dr. Anthony fauci admitted the transition between President Trump and president elect biden has been tense. Earlier this week, we saw President Trump, he fired his defense secretary and there are concerns that the president could try to fire some of these Top Health Officials on the task force like his political appointees, fda commissioner stephen hahn or his hhs secretary alex azar. The president cannot directly fire dr. Anthony fauci or other career officials. But he can remove them from the task force. But president elect joe biden, he would have the option of putting them back into whatever group he forms to address this pandemic. Tony . Dr. Fauci may have some other job offers if he loses the one he currently has. Thank you, paula. The president elect has chosen the first top member of his new administration. Thats his longtime adviser ron klain who will become white house chief of staff. Klain was the former number one aide at the start of the obama administration. Ed okeefe is covering the president ial transition, such as it is. Good morning to you. What do you make of this pick for chief of staff . Well, good morning, tony. Mr. Biden is prioritizing washington experience and experience managing Global Health crises as he continues to build out his team. Ron klain has decades of experience working alongside the president elect and in several democratic president ial administrations. Seen here in this Campaign Video earlier this year, ron klain explains the biden plan to tackle coronavirus. The biden plan starts with fixing trumps testing fiasco. He makes sure that all americans have access to regular, reliable and free testing. Reporter picking klain as his chief of staff, mr. Biden shows the emphasis his administration plans to place on the pandemic. Klain was the Ebola Response coordinator during the 2014 outbreak. Klain earned prize across the democratic party. Senator Elizabeth Warren called him a superb choice. Congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez called this pick encouraging. The president elect honored veterans in philadelphia wednesday and is expected to announce other top staff and cabinet posts in the coming days. Biden and ally senator Bernie Sanders expressed interest in serving as labor secretary. If i had a portfolio that allowed me to stand up and fight for working families, would i do it . Yes, i would. Reporter but President Trump still shows no signs of conceding, and the General Services administration, responsible for overseeing the transition, hasnt officially ascertained mr. Biden as the winner. That means he isnt getting access to the president ial daily intelligence briefing. Oklahoma republican senator James Lankford said he would push the administration if mr. Biden isnt given access to the briefings by the end of the week. Regardless of the outcome of the election, whichever way it goes, people can be ready for that task. Reporter meanwhile, President Trump made his own veterans day stop at Arlington National cemetery. His first public appearance in nearly a week. The president continues to falsely claim he will won the election and has been tweeting discredited touts of vote fraud, including officials collecting ballots from a drop box the day after the election. Are you guys official election guys . But the registrar tweeted they were legally cast ballots collected and processed by thursday Elections Officials in accordance with the california elections code. As the president continues to mount lawsuits, joe bidens lead continues to grow. In georgia, hes up by 14,000 votes. The state is now set to begin a hand recount of every vote cast, but its not expected to significantly affect the outcome. Anthony . Ed, thank you. The first named storm to make landfall in florida this year is bashing that state for a second time this morning. Tropical storm eta threw waves on to bridges in tampa and flooded nearby towns. Eta is now moving across north florida. Mireya villareal is in its path in gainesville. Whats it like there . Well, good morning. This is the last thing that this state needs right now. They are apparently going through their third wave of covid case spiking here in florida. Right now we know that heavy rains and ferocious winds blasted the city of Treasure Island yesterday. Further south in ft. Myers, cars made their way through flooded streets. And in venice, rain caused a roof to collapse. Earlier in the day, choppy waves dragged boats from their docks forcing one to crash into a bridge as the owner tried desperately to stop it from going under. The man was trying to help secure a boat when his own was swept away. Eta brought dangerous storm surge to the states west coast and may have contributed to the electrocution death of one man in the heavily flooded Bradenton Beach area. Its the 28th named storm in a recordbreaking hurricane season. Its my fifth to be covering this season right now. Ill tell you, about 40 Million People are expected to be affected by eta as it moves throughout the state. Florida is not expected to get any new flooding throughout the day, but we could see some flooding in the North Carolina area as the storm continues to make its way offshore. Gayle . Mireya, thank you very much. Your fifth. I hope you dont have a sixth, but we know that is coming. Still ahead part two of jim axelrods explosive investigation into how we care for our veterans. A va in new orleans failed to critically examine hi announcer this National Weather report sponsored by toyota. Theres much more news ahead including georgias top election offi