To be released next week. And what could be the start of humans commuting to space its friday the 13th early today starts right now thanks for being with us im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. The breaking news overnight, joe biden has flipped arizona. In the past it seemed as wide as the grand canyon the states 11 electoral votes puts bidens lead at 290 to President Trumps at 217 putting more pressure on President Trump to concede minutes after arizona was called t president tweeted, quote, biden did not win. He lost by a lot and that earned him not one but two twitter information warnings and now all eyes are on georgia where a full hand count is under way. This has been another recordbreaking week in the war against kroez. Over 159,000 cases were reported on thursday making it the ninth day in the row cases have surpassed 100,000. And its after texas passes the 1 million mark california now joining that list the alarming data comes as the mayor issues a stay at home advisory, telling people to go out for essential emergencies. Just as many people have turned to online shopping, a new study shows porch pirates have stoelden 5. 4 billion in stolen packages over the past year. Infected nurses who are asymptomatic are back at work amid a hospital shortage staff, this as dr. Anthony fauci is urging americans to hang on and double down with news that a Coronavirus Vaccine may be on the horizon. The cavalry is coming, but dont put your weapons douchblt youd better keep fighting because it is isnt here yet help is on the way, but it isnt here yet. Dr. Faucis comments come as a legal battle is brews in el paso, texas, over a stayathome order. Reporter hospitalizations, the death toll, the Positivity Rate all on the rise here in el paso, and thats why the county judge issued a stayathome order that now goes until early december hes hoping if people abide by that, it will hopefully bring some of those numbers down to where theyre not facing a potentially worstcase scenario. We know that hospitals here in el paso, patients are now being put two to a room in some cases. Others are flown hundreds of miles away, all this as dozens of army and air force personnel are working in the icus, doctors tending to the most critical of patients we know that later on today we expect to hear from the court of appeals thats expected to make a final ruling on a legal challenge against the citywide shutdown here, that lawsuit being presented by a local Restaurant Group and Texas Attorney general paxton who says the county judge in el paso has overstepped his authority in issued the shutdown despite the covid cases being on the rise. Lots of eyes on the county shutdown as it could set a precedence for others. Morgan, thanks. As the race for a vaccine rages on, you might be surprised there was a vaccine almost produced at the time the virus broke out. Reporter in december 2019 in wuhan, china, the virus was spreading. A newly identified virus from china. The 45 cases have been reported in china including two deaths. Reporter the Chinese Government swooped in with all of its authoritarian might china did Something Else few knee it issed. It made a call for help written in genetic code. Chinese researchers quickly cracked the code and published it this is the code china published online this is sars cov2, a disrupter thats shattered our lives it was sfed into the computer and came up with a vaccine in weeks. Nearly all the work since then has been testing the tube containing the secret to potentially saving millions wasnt even labeled. Essentially the vaccine design has not changed. So its more or less the same what you had in the very beginning is what we still have now. Absolutely. Reporter the greatest scientific race of our lifetimes is nearly over the next step just as difficult, a rapid worldwide distribution thats never been done before. Richard engel, nbc news, london. At least seven people are dead after a peacekeeping helicopter crashed in the sinai peninsula. Five of the seven People Killed in the routine mission were americans. Theres no word on the cause of the crash, but its believed it was an accident. Faced with mounting pressure to concede, President Trump is digging in even as his chances dwindle. Nbc news called arizona for president elec president elect elect biden. Former president barack obama weighed in on bidens victory. They appear to be motivated in part because the president doesnt like to lose and never admits loss. Im more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humoring him in this fashion it is one more step in delegitimizing that, not just the Incoming Administration but democratization. Thats a dangerous path. Lets bring in tracie potts. The biden team is forging ahead even without a concession. Thats right. Biden has been talking to leaders without the help of the state department and theyre holding his congratulatory messages and working on a covid relief plan, how theyre going to move forward. But the incoming chief of staff says there is one area where the biden team really does need to be talking with the government. So far the inhibition has been relatively minor. Weve been proceeding. But as time passes, the administration refusing to ascertain that joe biden is the incoming president is at issue as soon as we can get our experts into meetings with folks planning the vaccination campaign, the more seamless from a biden presidency to a Trump Presidency can be. We should be in the same posture with both of them receiving briefings. We know there are issues so allow it to go through and let the leak proceedings go through. President biden should have access to the classified reported. While you see most republicans have yet to acknowledge joe biden as the winner of the election, a growing number are saying he does need to be getting the classified intelligence briefings. In fact, one republican you saw in there James Lankford of oklahoma says if it does not happen by today, hell step in and intervene. Well see how far this goes thank you. An urgent search continues this morning after eta flooded a campground an adult and a 1yearold are still missing. The water level reached roof toop rooftops children were trapped on top of a school. Thankfully firefighters were able to bring everyone to safety firsthand florida one person was killed the Tropical Storm hit the Sunshine State twice in four days lets bring in meteorologist bill karins with more on eta bill, good morning. Good morning. We just heard from the Hurricane Center its no longer a tropical stofrmtites remnant low all the rain in North Carolina is over flank and we can watch the riveres coming down. For today, the southeast dries out. We need it get the river levels down. The northeast, slow improvement during the day as we go through the weekend, well track a new storm into the middle of the country imts going bring gusting rain and winds. Thats saturday, heading for st. Louis in chicago of crummy weatr areas in the Northern Plains and midwest, still pretty chilly in minneapolis. Only 35. We have a new tropical system thats likely going to form this weekend. 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As a crew, were ready. Were ready for the launch, the six months of work awaiting onboard the International Space station. Reporter its the first time it will include four astronauts inside a capsule it also marks the return of rotational flights from u. S. Soil in a u. S. Built spacecraft. We actually anticipate during 2021 we will always haved a least one dragon attached to the space station either bringing astronauts to the space station or bringing resupply of cargo. Reporter a Public Private partnership ushering in a new exploration. One thing they always watch closely here is the weather. Its always top of mind. Things look good the forecast is clear for a go tomorrow lets keep our fingers crossed. Thats great. One of the delays was an issue with the falcon 9s engines. What do we know about that yeah. 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