Surviving. And the future of jeopardy. The show announces a familiar face as the interim host after the death of alex trebek. Why the pick could reflect clues about who the next host will be. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The Trump Administration official in charge of the president ial transition says shes giving president elect biden access to Government Resources and funding. President trump is telling his team they should begin the initial protocols of the transition. But the president is not conceding. Biden announced his Foreign Policy and National Security picks, tapping Obama Administration veterans. You are seeing a team develop that i had great confidence in. Millions of still planning to travel for the thanksgiving holiday despite warnings for the cdc. Chances are youll see a surge, superimposed upon a surge. General motors is recalling about 7 million vehicles saying the takata air bags in the vehicles are dangerous. All that talk about a close call. This guy was just brushing snow off his car. The man looked up and all that matters. Several nba players have an unprecedented meet with pope francis to discuss social justice issues. This feels like the episode of scoobydoo when they have the harlem globetrotters. This san unexpected combo but im down to see where it goes. On cbs this morning. The president elect named tony blinken his pick for secretary of state. Our new secretary of state has his own rockin dad band. Heres a little taste. The way i do that this love is for real sorry. Whoo thats some foggy bottom. This mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it tease beasy to bundle insurance. Was that tony blinken singing . I dont know if that was him singing but that is his band. I think its great the future secretary of state appreciates music. Lets put it that way. I agree. I like it when you can see these guys who you think of very buttoned up, like David Solomon is a deejay. I like when you see those guys that can do other things. It shows they have another side, another personality. As james corden said, im down for that. Welcome to cbs this morning. Its official. Its finally official. The u. S. Government has determined that president elect joe biden is the, quote, apparent winner of the election which means the transition process can formally begin. You know it comes more than two weeks after it became clear that joe biden would be our next president. President trump tweeted that he made the approval in the best interest of our country, but later he tweeted he would never actually concede that he lost. Paula reid is at the white house. Good morning. Good morning, anthony. Even as President Trump says he will not concede, this is what the Biden Harris Transition Team has been waiting for. This is a letter from the General Services administration telling them that now resources and services will be available so the transition can finally get under way. After weeks of delay, gsa administrator emily murphy officially authorized the initial steps to transfer control of the federal government. Among the resources now available to the biden team will be 6. 3 million in congressionally appropriated funds, along with 175,000 square feet of federal office space, including secure facilities for sensitive intelligence briefings. In a letter to president elect biden, murphy wrote she was never directly or indirectly pressured by the white house to delay the process. In response to the news, mr. Bidens Transition Team wrote it will soon gain complete understanding of the Trump Administrations efforts to hollow out government agencies. This also means the biden team will be able to communicate with Trump Officials about the Covid Vaccine plan which mr. Biden has called crucial. More people may die if we dont coordinate. Reporter while the president initially said he recommended the transition process begin, he also said his case against the Election Results strongly continues and i believe we will prevail. He later tweeted he would never concede. But the Trump Campaign has had dozens of legal losses, including one on monday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected its efforts to block the state from counting certain absentee ballots. That decision clears the way for votes to be certified in several counties. Also on monday, michigans board of canvassers voted ed td to c the states Election Results paving mr. Bidens way to the states 16 electoral votes and almost certainly block anything pathway for President Trump to overturn the election outcome. One of the boards two republicans joined its democratic members to certify the results. In this case, the law is absolutely clear. We have a clear legal duty to certify the results of the election as shown by the returns that were given to us. Reporter in recent days, weve seen more and more republicans break with the president and pressure the administration to recognize president elect biden as the winner. Now one of those lawmakers, senator lamar alexander. He encouraged the president to take pride in his considerable accomplishments and put the country first. Tony . Paula, thank you. The president elect is busy shaping his new administration announcing multiple names, especially in the area of National Security. Nikole killion is in wilmington, delaware, for us. Good morning to you. Youve been there a lot. Im going to start calling you nikole wilmington. Consider it my new nickname, but tony, look, all of these nominees previously served in the obama biden administration. The president elect says they are crisis tested leaders who are ready to hit the ground on day one. Key members of president elect bidens National Security team will be making history if confirmed like Alejandro Mayorkas who would be the first latino to head the department of homeland security. Mayorkas came to the u. S. As a refugee signaling that he would lead the agency much differently than his predecessor. He tweeted he will oversee the protection of all americans and those who flee persecution in search of a better life for themselves and their loved ones. The question is whether this was a wise action reporter mr. Biden will name avril haines as his director of national intelligence. The first woman to hold the role. And in a move demonstrating that Climate Change will be a top priority for the biden administration, the president elect is also bringing back former secretary of state john kerry. We will work to save our planet. Reporter as a special climate envoy and elevating the post to the National Security council. The committee expects inflation reporter janet yell senay leading contender for treasury secretary if confirmed, she would be the first woman to hold the role succeeding 77 men who have come before her. Progressive senator Elizabeth Warren said yellen would be an outstanding choice, but if republicans maintain control of the senate, the president elect is ready for hurdles. Do you expect republicans to put up any significant road blocks to your nominations . Are you kidding me . Reporter one of the things the biden Transition Team now has access to through ascertainment is a government website with a dotgov address instead of dotcom. A spokesperson for the transition says the president elect looks forward to naming some members of his Economic Team next week. Gayle . Nikole killion, thank you. You are killing it in the coats. Yesterday you had on a cobalt blue. Today its red. Almost took a picture to send you. Thank you very much. Good to see you. Thats what nikole from wilmington does. Thanks. Cbs news senior political analyst and 60 minutes correspondent John Dickerson joins us now. This new article in the Atlantic John writes about the importance of preparation for new president s. Why you dont mess around with president ial transitions. Good morning to you, John Dickerson. The line after that is being president is a tremendously difficult t you say this. The article is great, by the way. You said the presidency comes at you fast. You write about the importance of the president being prepared on day one. The moment he takes the inauguration. So what are the most important parts of the transition that needs to happen now . Well, the most important thing, gayle, is recognizing how little time you have. I started that article with something we learned from president obamas memoir which is that on the day he was being inaugurated there was a terrorist threat. He had a passage in his speech he was going to pivot to if the threat went forward, telling people how to evacuate. He was barely president and already facing a live mass casualty event. When you get into the presidency, the number of challenges on the National Security front in particular are huge and joe biden comes in with a set of challenges. Thats for any president. Joe biden, of course, faces the pandemic, the economic unrest and so he has a bigger todo list than a normal president would. The president says he has recommended this process begin, but he also says im not going to concede. What message does that send, and does it matter . By law, he doesnt have to concede. No, he doesnt have to concede. It just shows that on the way out of the office, the prlt is behaving much as he did in the office. There are a number of things in the american tradition that are done to sew up disunity when things fray, there are easy routes that leaders can take to patch things back up again. And its what keeps everybody unified. In this case, the president who has often, or perhaps always aschued those things is deciding on the way out not to do what is normally done with a concession which helps bring the its an anesthetic that helps after all of the division. And the reason that, of course, is important as we saw in this election just how divided americans are. And theres only one way to make durable progress. And thats if people work together. So this is something the president doesnt look like hes going to do, which is just adds one more challenge for the incoming president. You also write the biden team that weve seen so far is rich in experience. What does this tell you about the direction that hes moving in . Well, it shows you that he believes in things. If you look particularly at the informed policy team hes got, he believes in alliances. He believes in kind of the orderly way of doing things on the National Security front. Now thats not a guarantee of future success by any means, but what it does mean is that he believes in experience. He believes in people who have been through the washington process before. He believes basically that if you are going to enter a process of dealing in the world, you have to have people who have experience in the world. And it also suggests people that hes worked with a lot before. So hes got veterans of the joe biden way of doing things. Thats no guarantee of success. But it is a vast difference than the sitting president who came to washington to disrupt, to knock over the furniture. Joe biden is setting that furniture back up. Never good. Your mom gets mad when you knock over the furniture. I remember those days. Thank you, john. The article in the atlantic is why you dont mess around with president ial transitions. Thank you, sir. Top Health Experts are still pleading for americans to stay home for thanksgiving while our country sets new and alarming covid19 records. The six hardest hit states in hospitalizations are clustered in the midwest. One of them is south dakota. Thats where our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is this morning. David, good morning. Good morning. It doesnt get more shocking than this. Right now, on a per capita basis, south dakota is among the worlds leaders when it comes to people dying from coronavirus every day. This morning were in brookings, population 24,000. Lots of really nice people here. We heard from one local expert that they have some of the lowest infection rates in the entire state. So we came to find out what are they doing differently in order to get it right . Weve normalized mask wearing in our community. Reporter meet City Council Member mike wendall. He said brookings has committed itself to listening to the scientific evidence. Weve got a citywide mask mandate. Weve got a mask mandate in our schools and a mask mandate at the university. Reporter the city mandate carries a fine. Though wendall says no one has been cited yet. Capacity in restaurants and bars is limited to 50 . Statewide, there is no mask mandate, and theres no limiting how many people can be in bars and restaurants. The republican governor kristi noem refuses to issue a mask manda mandate though the chief medical officer at Sanford Health is now calling on the governor to do it. I do believe the governor should put a mask mandate in place, that that would help us in our attempt to fight this virus. Reporter we asked the Governors Office for a response. They directed us to this statement that the governor made last week. I dont want to approach a policy or a mandate just looking to make people feel good. I want to do good. I see her point of view, but i also see it from the other side. Im just glad im not in her position. Kristi noem doesnt give a [ bleep ] about covid. Thats all there is to it. Reporter in the world where its become politicized, governors are guiding the way, and theyre feeling the heat. Look what happened to democrat Governor Phil Murphy of new jersey. He imposed widespread restrictions on his state and he was accosted by a group of people while having dinner with his family over the weekend. I was texting several of my family and friends telling them that i was going to die. Reporter in tennessee, emily brown caught covid from her husband and she was hospitalized at 31 weeks pregnant. Now doctors delivered her baby tucker while she was sedated on a ventilator fighting for her own life. She woke up to see a picture of tucker and realized that they both survived. Did you believe the virus was real in the beginning . I thought it was real. I didnt think that wearing a mask was a big deal. I thought it was being blown completely out of proportion. This is a real thing. And america better wake up because it can happen to anybody. Yes, maam, we hear you. Listen, overnight in el paso, texas, they added four more morgues, mobile trailers to house bodies because of surging coronavirus deaths. They have 14 tractor trailers now and they are opening up a refrigerated warehouse to house additional bodies. One more thing before we go. Being here in south dakota has reminded me that a lot of people believe in the science and they wear the masks and follow the rules. But there are so many other people who either arent listening or refuse to listen. Mobile morgues are never a good thing. David, thank you. Some frontline workers in florida cannot wait for a vaccine. Mireya villareal is outside a Miami Hospital that will be one of the first to get the Pfizer Vaccine. Good morning to you. What are the conditions there now . Good morning, tony. At the height of floridas crise, i they had more than 500 Covid Patients here at Jackson Memorial. Now roughly 125. And although we are seeing cases rise slightly, there is this feeling right now that a dose of hope is coming. Florida is inching towards its 1 millionth coronavirus case. A grim milestone nine months into the pandemic. Packed bars like this one in ft. Lauderdale over the weekend are frustrating to Covid Patients like 28yearold jordana winder. I understand that people are tired of being cooped up and they just want to get out and live their lives, especially around the Holiday Season. But this is so real. Reporter shes recovering at Jackson Memorial hospital in Miamidade County where there have been over 200,000 covid cases. And on sunday, the county reported 6500 more. But there is hope. We are planning to freeze as much of the vaccine as possible if needed. Reporter the hospital is preparing to receive the Pfizer Vaccine in a few weeks, and these are the ultra cold freezers where it will be stored. Wear your mask. Because youre going to end up here. Reporter managing nurse angelina is cautiously optimistic. We dont know the side effects so thats by biggest concern, but i guess im going to take a leap of faith and take it. Would you also encourage your staff to take it as well . I think that would be everyones decision. Reporter while talking to her, we met 55yearold Police Officer manuel who is being treated at the hospital. There has been discussions about this hospital being one of the first that might see the vaccine. Well, then give it to me right now. Reporter just discharged from the icu, he broke down when talking about being apart from his wife during treatment. I just get emotional. Its rough. Hard being here by yourself . Yes, thats the hardest part. Reporter he hasnt seen his wife in two weeks. Although he was hoping to be home for thanksgiving, it will probably be a little closer to christmas. Gayle . Glad he gets to go home. Thank you, greatest of all time returns. Why ken jennings is only part of the effort t