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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 Correspondent David 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. 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Were making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. It makes me very happy. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Covid apparently not stopping people who want to get home to see loved ones. Thats the scene from the airport. Recently this was a rare scene ne theyve returned as millions of people are going away for thanksgiving despite the surge in coronavirus cases. Tsa workers screened more than 3 Million People between friday and sunday, and that is their busiest threeday stretch since march. At the same time, tens of thousands of airline employees are still out of work. Kris van cleave learned how some of them are doing. Good morning, kris, what did they say to you . Reporter good morning, gayle. They are holding on to hope and hoping between what the Trump Administration says in its support for a stimulus, democrats in the house support for a stimulus, that something can get done to bring them some help. So far that hasnt happened. Uniteds chairman wrote an empassioned open letter to other businesses pleading to them to hire furloughed Airline Workers. When we talked to some of the thousands of folks who have been without a job for over a month, theyre starting to get really worried that help isnt coming. What transition do you want to make . I would like to work around customer based driven jobs. Reporter terry evans is job hunting. He took unpaid leave and then got furloughed along with 35,000 others when the governments Payroll Support Program expired at the end of september. He hasnt had a paycheck since march. How is the job market right now . It kind of has its up days and down days but more down than up. For me, im feeling like its a big, huge circle. Im applying every day. Reporter Employment Centers in several Northern Virginia Communities Just launched a Rapid Response program to help airline and airport workers who have lost jobs due to the pandemic offering free in person and virtual resources like resume writing and networking. Michael briscoe is an employment and training specialist. Are there jobs out there that will pay their bills . Thats where the challenges comes. There are opportunities but you have to be prepared. Reporter with Congress Unable to agree for a second covid relief package, they say 90,000 Airline Workers have lost their jobs through furloughs, layoffs or taking exit packages. Nearly 84,000 others have taken unpaid leave. Thousands others have experienced pay cuts. Im really hurting. Im really scare about where my health will lie. Reporter we met denise before she was furloughed holding out Hope Congress would act. They didnt. Her Crohns Disease nearly killed her. Shes weeks away from losing her health insurance. I want to continue the treatment because its working. I want to continue to live what to me would be deemed a Healthy Lifestyle and im scared of that being ripped right away from me. Reporter erroll aaron and his wife got furloughed and days later had their first child. They have a newborn baby girl and no jobs. I need to make sure shes taken care of. Were making ends meet but its going to be tight if we dont have income in the near future. Reporter terry evans moved in with family while he job hunts. This cant go on for much longer because bills never stop. We need health insurance. We need to live. Reporter airlines have renewed their push with Congress Last week. The ceos told lawmakers that they need additional aid citing the spike in coronavirus cases and the increase in cancellations they fear could be devastating once the holidays pass. Also they say they need to have more people on staff to be nimble to help with vaccine distribution. Anthony . 90,000 Airline Workers out of work. Hope these people find work or get work or get some help, kris. Thank you very much. This morning we are remembering the life of the first and so far only africanamerican mayor of new york city. David dinkins died last night at his manhattan home. He was elected mayor in 1989. During his term he was credited with hiring thousands of Police Officers, revamping housing and cleaning up times square. Dinkins promised action on topics like diversity and inclusion. From the ground up we are building a new Foundation Upon the rubble of the conservative decade. If progressive ideas were a stock, now would be the time to buy. Dinkins did suffer setbacks. There was the aids epidemic, drugs and unemployment. He lost to Rudy Giuliani in 1993 in a close race after serving just one term. David dinkins was 93. He was always an incredibly elegant presence in this city. Class act. Hes credited with creating fashion week in new york. Restaurant week. Two major cultural events in the city. He was a constant presence every year at the u. S. Open. Tennis fan. Helped create the Tennis Center in flushing meadow. You could tell he loved the city and everything about it. Its interesting you would mention tennis. Thats how i remember him, always at the u. S. Open. He was there front and center. Always greeted with such admiration and love when he walked in the room. All these years he still showed up. Its interesting to note that his wife joyce, married 67 years, she died just last month. You always hear of these stories. That happens. Youve been on this planet for 67 years with a person and theyre gone, its hard to be around. I was very sorry to hear the news. Sorry to lose them. Ahead, a familiar face in a new role. Why jeopardy turned to ken jennings to fill alex trebeks position, at least for now. You can always get the mornings news by subscribing to the cbs morning podcast to hear the top stories in less than 20 minutes. 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The answer is this former jeopardy champion with the shows longest ever winning streak is returning as the first interim host. Ill play. Corney, but i like it. Who is ken jennings . Is there a sound effect or i just say correct . You say correct. That is correct. Very good, gayle. Very good. Well played. The announcement comes two weeks after the death of longtime host alex trebek. Our Jonathan Vigliotti has more on the first of what will be a string of temporary replacements. Ken. Was the wall tons. Lets take the name game for 200. Reporter its been 16 years since ken jennings first took jeopardy by storm. Who is the skipper. Yes. Reporter he went on an historic run winning 74 games and 2 million. You were an excellent player. You caught some good breaks and because of that combination im going to say that your record, i dont think it will ever be broken. Reporter jennings streak is still unrivaled. Now hes set to take on a new jeep did i challenge. The game show said they would reo sr resume production with jencning new host. People love him. Hes a fan favorite and for many fans it would probably be a comfort to see jennings on the screen. Reporter elaine low is a Senior Reporter with variety. It may be hard for viewers to transition away from alex trebek who hosted the show for 37 years. I think the best hope for anyone who is stepping behind that podium is really to create their own new relationship with these viewers and fans at home. Reporter its a relationship jennings has already spent decades building and hes openly credited the show with changing his life. I remember running home from School Every Day to watch the show. It was my favorite show even before it paid for my house. There we go. Reporter in recent years jennings has stayed involved in the game show losing to ibms Artificial Technology known as watson. What is executor. Reporter coming back to win the greatest of all time tournament this past january. The greatest of all time. Is that for me . Reporter now jeopardys greatest contestant becomes the first to fill the shoes of the legendary host. Now jeopardy hasnt announced a permanent replacement for trebek and will continue to unveil additional hosts in the coming weeks. Jennings does appear to be the frontrunner here. In addition to his time for the job, he became a consultant and he has a huge fan base. He does. He certainly knows the game. I still think it would be very daunting. Very daunting. You have to create, what elaine said, have you to create your own thing. You had a good analogy. Its like trevor noah taking over for john daily. You have to be your own version of it. He has the benefit that hes identified with the show, too. He has his own relationship with that audience. This is a great direction to go in. Well see if it works. They said its a small part. A lot of people will say, i dont mind being yeah, small. Thats a big job. No, i think its a real big job. 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Vlad, ive got a toss from brian egan of philadelphia, pennsylvania. He says if youre sad your thanksgiving plans have changed, vlads here with all the sides and fixings. Thats good. I like that one. Keep it coming. Brown like a sweet potato dumpling on your thanksgiving table. Thank you very much, brian. Here are a few stories we think youll be talking about today. The new College Basketball season starts tomorrow but a wave of coronavirus outbreaks has forced them to shut matchups. They put their programs on hold after a series of positive tests. 20 scheduled games have been postponed or canceled because of covid19. Fans will not be allowed inside to watch the crossover classic tournament in south dakota where the virus is surging. Public Health Experts are concerned it will become a super spreader event. Not a good time for a game in south dakota. So well see. I understand that. Its understandable. Absolutely. This is really touching story. Two strangers who forged a special bond after a texting mixup are leaning on each other more than ever this thanksgiving. Wanda densch accidentally invited jamal hinton four years ago. After she realized her mistake she said he was still more than welcome. That led to a lasting friendship between hinton and his girlfriend, densch and her husband of 43 years lonnie. They had an early dinner this year but sadly without lonnie. Thank you so much for having lonnie in my life. I miss him, but i know hes in a good place. So to everybody here, i love you and have a wonderful thanksgiving. Amen. Amen. Hinton was there to comfort densch proving their friendship is a blessing. Shes like one of 250,000 americans who will have an empty seat. There was a photo of lonnie at the table with a candle lit. She said the first five minutes were kind of shaky but then they went back to normal. It was important they did this this year. I love that theyve still remained friends. The text was sent to the wrong person. Yeah, its not me but could i still have a plate . Im a grandma, thats what we do. Come on over. Bitter sweet. All right. Im going to end on a happy note. Okay. Please do. Yes. Yes. Something, two turkeys are living in a lap of luxury now. Corn and cobb are living ahead of the annual white house turkey pardon. Voting is underway when one lucky bird will be pardoned and named the official thanksgiving turkey. The feathered duo arrived and rolled up at the Willard Hotel in a chauffeured car. They walked the red carpet before getting cozy in their suite. One will get pardoned but both will head back to iowa to live a life of retirement. Theyll wear a sports coat with patches. And jumping on the bed . Yes. Whats really funny is look at these notes. Cobb has a knack for solving puzzles, likes pickle ball. Cornrn i is a a colollelegege f. Whats pickle ball . I dont know what that is. Does anybody . Wait, who said seriously. What is pickle ball . Okay. 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All westbound lanes shut down as San Leandro Police investigate a serious crash. Its a fatal incident so this is taking time. Use the alternate westbound mar ina boulevard. At the beijing metering lights ar ing to have a beautiful afternoon as we get to the low and mid60ss for daytime highs and that will be a theme through the entire seven day forecast. We are not going to see that change a lot. We will notice the mornings get colder. Morning lows will drop back down in to the low and mid 30ss in to the weekend. About five, six degrees colder than we were today and we may get a bit breezy wednesday night from a week it is tuesday, november 24th, 2020. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Im gayle king with Tony Dokoupil and thats anthony mason. Covid trouble ahead. The surge could get worse after thanksgiving. New jersey Governor Phil Murphy tells us why hes expecting a brutal winter. The biden transition begins without a concession from President Trump. How the country has handled contentious transfers of power in the past. And close encounter. Actress glenn close will talk with us about her remarkable transformation and her role in the new movie hillbilly ellegy. You will not recognize her. First heres eye opener at 8 00. President elect joe biden transition process can formally begin. Reporter this is what the biden team is waiting for a letter from the General Services administrati administration. These nominees previously served in the obamabiden administration. They are crisis tested leaders ready to hit the ground on day one. One of the most important parts of the transition that happen now . Enwith you get into the presidency, the number of challenges are huge. Joe biden of course faces the pandemic, the economic unrest, a bigger toto list than normal president would. At the height of floridas crisis, they had more than 500 Covid Patients here, Jackson Memorial. We are seeing cases rise, there is this feeling that a dose of hope is coming. The cdc urged americans not to travel so of course were traveling. The airports are packed, at chicago ohare airport, this is sky harbor in phoenix, arizona. Every year we look for an excuse of getting out of spending with our families. We finally now have one and everyones complaining. Embrace it. How much cranberry jello can you eat . Thats so true, right . I dont know, but he does make a very good point. Absolutely true. And here we go. Were going to begin with this, americas unrelenting coronavirus pandemic, its caused more than 12 million infections, 3 millionplus in november alone. Now a new model predicts it could get worse than that, another 169,000 cases were reported yesterday, that model published in the journal scientific reports estimates that the u. S. Could reach 20 million cases by the end of january, under the current social distancing efforts. Were seeing airports full of travelers right now, ignoring the cdcs recommendations to stay home for thanksgiving. The tsa says it screened more than 3 Million People between friday and sunday. Sunday was the busiest day at our airports since the middle of march. New jersey Governor Phil Murphy warns the next few months in his state will be brutal as covid cases rise. Hes encouraging everyone to celebrate thanksgiving with only their immediate family. Governor murphy joins us now. Governor murphy, good morning to you. I love talking to governors about the crisis because really, this has been a stateled effort to combat it. Additionally we are at an interesting moment eight months in, kind of been here before with a big surge. How are you thinking about things this time around differently from when you faced it in april and may . Good to be with you, tony. First of all, were at the front end of a Holiday Season that comes one after the other in cold weather, and thats a bad combination. Secondly, theres a lot of pandemic fatigue that we didnt have in the spring. Thirdly, a lot of the transmission is in private settings, so yes, are we taking surgical action . You betcha, closing Indoor Dining at 10 00, limiting indoor gatherings to ten persons, and other steps weve taken, but were mostly pleading with people to do the right thing behind closed doors, celebrate with just your immediate family and please, dont do it with grandma and grandpa. When you think back to april and may, the last time we had a surge like this, you cant help but notice that you had stayathome orders then and you dont now. Knowing what you know now how to combat this, do you wish you had gone easier then or are you considering going harder now still . No, i think we had no choice in the spring. This is something we knew nothing about as a nation, frankly, as a Global Health community. Thats an asset today. We know a lot more. This is not all bad news. Were in for a rough couple of months and got to keep our guard up, but we know a lot more. We have a lot more capacities in the vaccine scene, is real. They are coming. Theyll be safe. Theyll be efficacious but for the next two to three months, we are in a tough war. You made the point that theres always a tradeoff between the Public Health component of this and the Business Economy freedom component of this, and if you were to be morae arduous with te restrixs on business youd be putting a bullet in their head but if you had a bill giving businesses money to stay closed, if you had help from the feds, would you be considering shutting things down in the state of new jersey . Wed have more degrees of freedom, without question. If we see theres transmission, for instance in restaurants, we saw them morphing into clubs after 10 00, we took action, so if we see transmission, well take action, whether the feds are supporting financially or not, but if its a close call on the margin, and youve got federal stimulus in size, that can help these poor Small Business owners, restaurant owners, folks who are unemployed, that gives you more degrees of freedom, without question. Governor, i want to talk about an incident i thought was disrespectful to you, outside dining with your family, following the rules eating outside, one of your constituents was i thought vulgar, disrespectful, i saw it happened to Sarah Huckabee when she was with her family. Families should be offlimits but i am and wondering how you all reacted to that, and are you surprised that this has become so heated about the masks, to wear a mask, not to wear a mask it becomes, its like chaos in the streets on some level. Yep, i mean, gayle, those are all good questions. The overwhelming amount of stress i get, some of this has been added to it unnecessarily, particularly around masking. Yes. Theres no reason we should be having a political discussion about whether youre wearing a mask. We were dining outdoors in the middle of our meal. Im a big guy. I can take it. My wife can take it. Id prefer folks to be more civil and leave our kids out of this but i completely get the stress. The stress levels are exceptionally high. Youve lost a job, youve lost a business. Youve lost a loved one. I cant blame folks for being stressful. I would appreciate that we got to try to find ways to come together, hunker down. This isnt forever and for always. We got a tough few months in front of us but well get through this. We have to do it together. I get the stress. I just dont like the disrespect. Did you guys just continue eating . What did you do . She called you some choice words. I wont repeat it here. Zpr fr from the world of male anatomy. Exactly. We kept eating dinner and im a murphy, so i had a drink after as well but yeah, listen, it was unfortunate, the language was unacceptable. I wish our kids werent sucked into it but i get the stress. You get it. Your kids handled it well, i have to say. Governor murphy, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Have a good holiday. You, and you must be rufus . No, its roger, and its a pleasure, miss deville. What is a pleasure. Making your acquaintance. What a sweet thought. Tell me, darling did you feel the chill . That is glenn close as cruella devil in the 1 101 dalmations. She is replaying that dynamic character and her range of roles including the latest as an appalachian grandma in hillbilly elegy. She is knockout in that, too. You are watching cbs this morning. We thank you for that. Youre watching cbs this morning. We thank you for that. Nintendo switch bundle with mario kart. Lets end the year saving bigger. 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You are all i need baby baby to get by in the past, this handoff from an out going president to the next officeholder has typically been carried out with grace even after bruising campaigns and when the new president has different goals. Chip reid has been looking into the history of this essential custom. Please know that you will have my support in unifying and leading the nation. Reporter in a normal president ial election, the losing candidate first offers words of support. Whatever our differences, we are fellow americans. Reporter then comes a meeting of former rivals. We should work together. Reporter assemble its time for the country to come together. If you succeed, then the country succeeds. Reporter then the real work gets underway. There are things i need to know. He could start naming officials, articulating policies. He started to talk to foreign leaders. Reporter the custom is as old as the presidency itself. For 223 years, we have had a peaceful transfer of power ever since George Washington handed the keys to john adams. We have had good transitions. We have had bad transitions. This is an unusual transition. Reporter bad transitions have happened before after the election of 1860, seven states seceded from the union before president elect abraham lincolns inauguration. In 2011 a lengthy recount delayed by more than a month leaving president elect george w. Bush 37 days before his inauguration, about half the normal amount of time the bipartisan 9 11 commission concluded that the shortened transition left the country vulnerable to a terrorist attack because National Security spishls officials were playing catch up. Its just beginning. Thats not true. The transition work started the day after the last inauguration. Hundreds of career officials across the government prepare for whomever wins. Reporter in a typical transition, teams from both sides are in place months before a winner is decided, and the sitting president works to help his successor succeed. Martha joint kumar has been studying transitions for decades. Transition is supposed to be one where the Outgoing Administration is helpful to the Incoming Administration in terms of making available materials from the departments and agencies. Reporter in modern times, has there ever been a president who has resisted participating in the transition . No, they have not. You have had the president ial transitions act which made it very clear that the federal government had a role in transitions. Reporter and with the coronavirus still raging, the stakes for a smooth transfer of power are extremely high. There are thousands of officials all across the government, particularly the pentagon and the department of health, that want to get the vaccine out to 300 million americans, and the sooner the biden team can start working with those officials the more ready they are going to be january 20th. Reporter the General Services administration is usually an obscure government agency, but with the president s permission it has now given the biden Transition Team access to 6 million in transition funds, and that means they dont have to do their own fundraising to pay their expenses anymore. Tony. Thats something. They are calling him the apparent winner. I think of that historian who said we have had good and bad transitions and this one is unusual. Very diplomatic words. I wonder what they will be saying in 30 years hence. Thank you very much. Ahead, Vladimir Duthiers returns with a story that shows the power of tiktok. It will show you how the movie ratatouille is getting the musical treatment. Some very big name stars indeed. Thats coming up on cbs this morning. Up on cbs this morning. He washes dishes or takes out the garbage. But he could. No. How do you know . What do i always say . Anyone can cook. Well, yeah, anyone can. I love that line. Anyone can cook. I dont know if thats true, but that is a very famous line from the 2007 from ratatouille. Tiktok users are trying to prove anyone can make a broadway musical. Vlad duthiers spoke to some of the influencers who first cooked this up, remotely, of course. Vlad, how does this start . Gayle, like many viral moments, recently this one came out of boredom. Tiktok user Emily Jacobson started this. Soon others started joining in and now she says she hopes its more than just a tiktok trend. I wrote the original song back in august that became kind of the musical theater anthem of the ratatouille musical movement. Reporter thats emily jac jacobs jacobson. By day shes an Elementary School teacher but movies have been part of her world. I heard about the ratatouille ride. I started singing this. Reporter that main character is a rat named remmy. Reporter not long after daniel merksla, another tiktok user put his spin on the song. Reporter others quickly followed suit to help create ratatouille, the musical. Reporter he says remy the rat, unlikely friendship with a human strikes a chord with many people. What is it about ratatouille that has so many millions of people jazzed about it . The movie itself, its an underdog story. Remi and linguini should not get this to work. Kevin chamberlin are getting in on the action. You know what i always say, anyone can cook i think the most exciting thing right now is because of the pandemic, art is pushing through. Remi the ratatouille you have probably one of the more popular songs in america right now. Yeah, its like most of the people that are attributing these songs are everyday people. Theyre kids. These are the next stars Kevin Chamberlin is a very big star. You can see him in the musical coming out in a musical starring meryl streep and nicole kidman. What are her plans for a crowd source musical. It takes more to make it to broadway. She hopes disney will use it in some capacity moving forward. Well have to wait and see. Its choreographers, makeup artists, incredible. A lot of song writing credits. I love that it started with an Elementary School teacher. Theyve been going crazy. Millions have seen it. We havent heard the last of emily either. Now youre all going to be singing. Sonoma wont be giving out School Reopening waivers. Local campuses must wait as the state sees a surge in coronavirus cases. The county is still in the purple tier. Troubling new coronavirus numbers in california. New cases statewide have tripled in the past month. Hospitalizations are up almost 80 compared to two weeks ago. Fire crews in berkeley plan to remove dangerous parts a building under construction that went up in flames last weekend. The removal work requires evacuations from nearby buildings on university avenue. And its still a busy ride as you go along the freeway. Northbound 80, traffic is backed up. This is because of an accident on davis street near the 880 connector. Crews are still on screen. This was a fatal incident so the investigation is ongoing. Westbound davis remains closed. You can use 98th as you are trying to exit from 880. Connecting from 580 is slow as well and southbound 880 also seeing brake lights. We have a crash in union city. Keeping an eye on thing from the top of the sales force tower. A pretty view. You can see mount diablo. Its the low clouds that are just hanging out over right over the immediate bay today. That are the exception. Everybody else is looking at sunny skies and as we look at the rest of today we are going back to the midand upper 60s for daytime highs and will stay there for the welcome back to cbs this morning. Time to bring you talk of the table. Gayles going first. Im going first. Why . I have a really big announcement. First and only on cbs this morning. Drumroll please. Drumroll. Because were revealing the host of musics biggest night. The 63rd annual Grammy Awards and the host will be . Whos the host . Look at that. Trevor noah. Trevor noah. The daily show host will emcee the grammys for the first time. Later today the academy will announce nominees for the 63rd Grammy Awards in a live stream at noon. They will reveal some of the nominees along with big names in music and dua lipa. They will be broadcast sunday, january 31st, right here, where, tony . Cbs. Trevor said, despite the fact that im extremely disappointed that the grammys have refused to have me sing or be nominated for best pop album, im thrilled to be hosting this auspicious event. I think hell be great. I do, too. Just the right touch. Im excited about it. Congrats to him. Most of us have not been doing a lot of traveling lately, but you remember our famous traveling penguins . I do. They scored another big trip with their latest field trip. They went to soldier field, home of the nfl chicago bears, of course. Interesting smells in there. And Major League Soccers chicago fire. Tombo, charlotte, izzy and darwin, they are, explored the bears locker room. They waddled down the field and felt the grass. I wonder what that feels like to a penguin, grass, under their webbed feet. The field trips provide the penguins with exercise and a nice change of scenery which is important for the penguins. Theyve visited chicagos field museum looking at the fish there which was really cool and the museum of contemporary art. The aquarium remains closed. What i like is when their heads tilt up. The penguin goes up to the ball and right by it. Past it. They are magalenic for ferd nant magellan who discovered them. 18 different kinds of penguins. I like it. I am gabbing about a big hit on netflix. Its called the Queens Gambit. In the first 28 days it was on the streaming service, 62 million accounts watched at least 2 minutes of it and that makes it the most watched limited scripted series of all time on netflix, which is a lot of good shows on there. Yeah. Pretty big turnout. This is what i love about it. Number one in 63 countries. As a result of its popularity, its about chess, obviously, searches for chess on google are at a nineyear high. People who sell chess boards say their sales have gone up triple digits. The book that its based on, which came out in the early 80s, almost as old as i am, is now on the New York Times best seller list. So culture is moving because of this show. This is very interesting. This is next on my list. I really want to see this. The Queens Gambit . Yes. My wife loved it. I could not watch it with her. I cant watch young people in trouble. Its a heros journey but theres a little selfdestructive behavior. As a parent, im like, no, stop. Youre so talented. I like checkers and backgammon. Check is a lot like football. Hollywood legend glenn close has been wowing audiences. The latest project for netflix has everything she has longed for. She stars as mawmaw in hillbilly elegy which is based on the memoir of three generations of an appalachian family struggling with complex dynamics, Financial Hardship and addiction. In this preview mawmaw teaches her grandson j. D. A powerful lesson after his addicted mother could have her nursing license revoked. You may be right but things havent exactly worked out for your mama. We cant let them take her license. Why . Its her own stupid fault. I know this aint right, honey, but shes your mother, and maybe if we help her this one last time shell finally learn her lesson and keep her job. Why cant we let her clean her own mess up for once . Because familys the only thing that means [ bleep ]. Glenn close joins us now. Good morning, glen. Thanks so much for being with us. This is an amazing transformation you made into mawmaw both in terms of playing the part but also you spent hours in the makeup chair, right . Well, funnily enough, not that long. I didnt have a lot of makeup on. A brilliant prosthetics maker did a very subtle change to my nose and gave me much bigger ears as the real mawmaw had and that was it. Erin is a master makeup artist. She painted the skin. It was not that hard. It took me about only an hour to get ready. What is it like to look in the mirror and not recognize yourself . Im telling you, i did not know that was you. I knew it was you because it said glenn close. I didnt see any part of that when i was watching you in that portrayal. Its really freeing. I wanted to go that free because you dont have im not distracted by my own face knowing that people are seeing my face. I think i mean, i did it with albert knobs and with cruella. When you get in the full drag of these wonderful characters who arent like you at all, it really is helpful to glenn, is that why you say this is everything youve longed for in a film . Is that what you mean by that . What i long for is first of all you want to have a wonderful piece of writing, which i think this was. You want to have a wonderful director who sets the stage and gets a stellar crew together. And then you want to have a character thats New Territory for you. New emotional, psychological territory. Ive never done a character like mawmaw. Then to have my fellow actress amy adams whos at the top of her game, again, you know, with people of that strength around you, you find youre free to just find new things and do it all together. I had an extraordinary woman to learn from to get into this role with family videos and a lot of pictures, certain portraits of mawmaw. We tried to not be her but find the essence of who this woman was. Were looking at sidebyside pictures. The family was on the set for part of the filming and from what i understand got quite emotional when they saw you. They did. It was i was just hanging out with my baggy shirt and my cigarettes. She smoked all the time, sometimes two cigarettes at a time, and her older son came on the set about 3 4 of the way through the shooting and he had to leave. He started crying. I mean, it was like he felt that she was reincarnated. I was very gratified. Shes an archetypal matriarch. The movie is really so good. I enjoyed the movie. It got me thinking about different ways of that part of the country and the people that live there. I thought that was interesting to see. You have said you wanted to dispel the hillbilly cliche. What do you mean . Well, just very subjectively. We have i mean, theres so many cliches about where they live, how they live, how they ta talk, you know . And this was just a family, i mean, who moved yeah. When he was only 13 to southern ohio and also she had gotten pregnant. The more you zero in on a very specific story about a very real family, the more people can bring their own baggage to it or their own stories, and for me it was interesting to just concentrate on the family and then thinking, you know, what chances have they had . How do you break those cycles that theyre caught up in and how do we understand each other better through telling stories. Glenn, you mentioned another character you could disappear into was cruela deville. You recently for halloween recreated Cruella Deville for a charity. How much fun was that . It was great. My niece has been my producer through all of this. Shes been incredible. She was i got the wig off the internet. Went down to a local halloween shop and got gloves. I painted a chop stick red with a magic marker. Got some fancy long silky underwear for my thing. It was funny. I wanted to be very white so i got some baby powder and realized it isnt used for makeup. I like the behind the scenes secret of that. I love it. Its amazing what you can do at home. Glenn close, thank you for being with us. Hillbilly elegy is available in select theaters and can be streamed on netflix today. Americans are finding new ways to hold on to their unique traditions. The riggs family is making their annual family dance contest a virtual contest. Plus other ways families are heart monitors that let your doctor watch over you, just like you watch over your best friend. Another lifechanging technology from abbott, so you dont wait for life. You live it. More than 90 years new yorkers have packed into the city streets to watch the thanksgiving day parade, which means an iconic tradition has definitely stood the test of time. For now it will be a tv only event all because of the pandemic. Families are also scaling back their own traditions as covid cases rise. Jamie yuccas shows us how theyre getting creative and finding safe ways to spend time together. Two teaspoons of cinnamon. Reporter the recipe for 2020 is a helping of gratitude with a side of attitude. Just like grandmas. Just ask her. Each one of my family members will get their own set of serving utensils. I even ordered some plexiglass. You did . I did. I did. Im taking all of the precautions to be safe. Reporter atkins is moving the meal outside and instead of her normal gathering of 75, it will be restricted to family members sharing her compton, california, home. When youre in a family setting you get lax on your mask so ill be sure to always mask, mask, mask. Youre the mask police . Yes. Reporter last year atkins whipped up meals for the citys First Responders on top of her loved ones, but as a Third Generation funeral director, shes seen the viruss impact. Health is way more important than being next to the one you love. Reporter she says shes going to be the mask police. Yes. Any time i sneeze she spray me with lie sol. Just my allergies, relax. Reporter no one should relax this year according to cbs news medical tron tricontributor dav i look at the holidays coming and i know that not everybody is going to follow those rules. We really need to exercise cauti caution. Reporter thats why the rig family is putting a new spin on their Family Tradition of a family danceoff. I have seven siblings. Usually its a big gathering. Every time we get together we core rio graph something and perform it. Obviously this year we cant do a big group dance. Reporter this year each family will create their own dance which will be spliced together and shared online. The kids, its like they just love seeing whos video is better . Theyre like, redo our video. The cousins did that. Thats cool. Lets do ours again. Reporter the fun continues as the cousins cookie party went virtual. This is me before thanksgiving dinner and this is me after thanksgiving dinner. Reporter despite recommendations by the cdc to not travel for thanksgiving, the rig family will join an estimated 50 million americans preparing to travel. With five kids, the family is renting an rv and driving some 700 miles from plymouth, minnesota, to indiana. Theyll share the holiday with becas sister and father and use the rvs kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms so they can stay out of the house. Reporter are you doing any testing . Is your sisters family going to do any testing before you come together . Yeah. It would be irresponsible without having a little bit more awareness about the risk were bringing to our family especially with grampa being there. Beccas dad built this tree house but hes also diabetic and high risk, thats why theyve laid out clear rules of etiquette. Dinner will be outside and masks will be mandated. So cute. Sounds like youre trying to take all the precautions and still have a holiday. Yeah. Were doing the best we can. We need to create the connection and safely. Reporter if we can be thankful for what we have this year, the hope is well end up having more next year. For cbs this morning, jamie yuccas, los angeles. I want to be part of these families. The choreography, tree house, everything. I like that rig family. I think a family danceoff is fun. Listen, people are laughing. I think plexiglass at the table is not a bad idea. Every little bit helps. Why not be careful. Thats the way i look at it. You dont approve of the plexiglass . They live in the same house. Otf effort. Very impressive. The precautions, creativity. Shes spraying lie sol when you sneeze. She aint playing. That can hurt. On todays cbs this morning podcast, modernas ceo discusses the vaccine and the time line for widespread distribution. Well be right back. Still hard to find a spot. Just easier to park. Still the big move. Just more moving. Still singing. Just more in tune. Still the gangs all here. Just less are we there yet . The chevy family of suvs. Making lifes journey just better. Now during the chevy cyber sales event, use 500 cyber cash on most suv models. To get 5,250 total cash allowance on most 2020 equinox models. Visit chevycybersalesevent. Com today. Before we go, grandparents in texas found a way to spend thanksgiving with their family. What a surprise it was. Take a look. Give them a hug . Oh, my gosh. Missy and Barry Buchanan sent a life size cardboard cutout picture of themselves for their children and grandchildren. I love it. Theyre still alive, i like it youre constantly on the go, on the clock, and on your way. Hang on a second. Whats the rush . Know the speed limit, go the speed limit, and slow the fast down. Go safely, california. Take a quick break,ite, jump on a quick call. Next time you take a quick trip, how about this . Take a second, take your time, and slow the fast down. Go safely, california. Good morning. Its 8 55. Troubling new numberings in california. New cases have tripled in the past month. Hospitalizations are up almost 80 compared to two weeks ago. Aaa of Northern California said it expects to see a 13 drop in travel statewide during the Holiday Season because of the pandemic. About 92 of people may take a road trip for thanksgiving. A live look at the san mateo bridge. Aaa predicts gas prices will stay low. Drivers can find gas for 1. 99 at 50 of gas stations across the country. And checking the roadways right now. Bay bridge toll plaza metering lights remain on. You will have a few brake lights across the upper deck. Still slow northbound but things are improving in to san leandro. They are wrapping up an investigation into a fatal crash on davis street. Use alternates. Its causing a back up on the mainlines of 880. We are seeing a slow and go ride southbound into union city. Couple of hot spots there. One reported near niles. A real pretty start to this day now. As we see temperatures that have climbed out of the cold spots. We are getting back up in to the 50s for most places. We will go in to the low and mid60ss for daytime highs which will place us just a couple of degrees above average. Thats where we will stay. For much the rest of the seven day forecast. 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