All right. We begin with the deadliest day so far in the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Reported more than 3,000 covid deaths on wednesday. Thats more than the number of americans who died on 9 11, and its only growing worse. New infections are averaging 200,000 people a day, and hospitalizations are at an all time high. The best most immediate hope may be pfizers new vaccine. The food and Drug Administration will finally give had a hard look beginning in a few hours. If it gets the green light, limited distribution could start almost immediately. We get the latest now from cnns nick watt in los angeles. A green light for pfizers vaccine in the u. S. Could be just a day away. Within 24 to 48 hours from that Advisory Committee decision, we will actually have shots in arms. Reporter the needles, syringes, wipes, are ready to roll. Well begin that today. Distribution will be complete by friday. Reporter but doses of the vaccine will be tight. Between now and the end of the year, we are going to only be able to immunize a fraction of the front line workers that are going to need it. Our time line for widespread distribution, which i will say again, is months away, remains very fluid. Reporter theres another issue, vaccine hesitancy. We must build a trust with the American People, we must make them understand, the science that went into this, the oversight that went into it is gold standard. When they then say the vaccine is effective, i will tell you all that i myself will be perfectly comfortable in taking the vaccine, and i would recommend it to my family. Reporter the fda now also analyzing allergic reactions to the vaccine in two British Health workers who do have a history of allergic reaction. The expectation would be that subjects with known severe allergic reactions should not take the vaccine until we understand exactly what happened here. Reporter the white house Traffic Force warns it could be late spring before vaccines slow the spread and this country is now averaging more than 200,000 new covid19 cases every day. Thats near doubled in just a month. And averaging well over 2,000 deaths every day, thats more than doubled in just a month. I would say this is the start of the thanksgiving bump. Reporter icus in many places are filling and fast. I feel like we are at some level on a precipice, but again, were not helpless. Wear masks, social distance. Reporter many states are reintroducing restrictions and. We will do more if our trends do not improve. Reporter but some citizens just will not tow the line. In idaho, forcing a health board to abandon a meeting. My 12yearold son is home by himself right now, and there are protesters banging outside the door. Okay. Im going to go home. Reporter midnight thursday, one more region of california goes under a stayathome order because icu capacity is just too low. That will be more than 36 million californians once again being told to stay home as much as possible. Nick watt, cnn, los angeles. Across the atlantic, british medical authorities are investigating allergic reactions in two Health Care Workers who were given the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. Pfizer says it excluded anyone with a medical history of severe allergic reactions from its trials. Salma abdelaziz is in london for us. The uks vaccination programs rolls on but there has been a hiccup. Take us through this. Reporter thats right, kim, and as you said, vaccinations are still continuesiing in this country, including right behind me. This hospital giving vaccinations today. There was a hiccup. Two Health Care Workers who had a history of allergic reactions presented with an antifilactoid reaction. Other respiratory issues and evacueesing. They are doing well and recovering according to authorities. Britains regulator reacted to the news, flagged up the incidents to pfizer and biontech. They said theyre going to launch an investigation into why this occurred and in the meanwhile as a precautionary measure, they have called on anyone who has a reaction or history of reactions to not take the vaccine. They have described this as a precautionary measure. We have heard from pfizer and biontech who say they are supporting the investigation by the british regulator, and support this precautionary measure. Its important to look at the bigger pictures. Two Health Care Workers, a hiccup, not life threatening. T Clinical Trials are not going to reveal everything. It included 40,000 people. When you roll out to the larger population, its millions. Where occurrences will finally come up when you start rolling this out. Its all part of the uk to be the First Western country to roll out the vaccine. Again, lets look at the larger picture here. First western country to approve the vaccine, lots of hope around a vaccine that is 95 effective. Right now, they are vaccinated their most vulnerable, people over 80. Health care workers, nursing home staff, so theres still so much optimism here. We were talking about this vaccine as a matter of hope, clinging on to that. Now it is a reality, kim. Thank you so much for putting that all in perspective for us. Cnns about Salma Abdelaziz in london. Experts say the Pfizer Vaccine is still safe. A top adviser to president elect biden said those kinds of things are to be expected. Im not too concerned about the allergic reactions that we saw on day one. It is concerning that something that we should watch very closely. Whenever we introduce a new vaccine into the population, we usually find out there are some extra adverse events or allergic reactions in some people. What i think is really remarkable is how quickly those were identified on day one, how quickly they were reported and investigated, so that tells me the system is working, that when we start vaccinating people, we will get those early signals and we can react to those so we can change our behavior or change the sup Group Getting vaccinated if needed. In the u. S. , we are learning federal authorities are actively investigating the business dealings of hunter biden, the son of the president elect. Our evan perez has the latest details from washington. Reporter hunter biden, son of president elect joe biden said federal prosecutors in delaware have notified hyim he under investigation for his taxes. This is an investigation that began in 2018. The irs and criminal investigation are examining whether he valliolated Money Laundering laws. President elect joe biden is not under investigation. Hunter biden issued a statement saying he was officially notified tuesday about the investigation. Quote, i take this matter very seriously. But i am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that i handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisers. Activity in the investigation has been going on quietly behind the scenes in recent months due to the Justice Department guidelines that prohibit overt actions that could effect an election. Investigators are able to take steps such as issuing subpoenas and conducting interviews. The existence of the probe will present an immediate test for joe bidens expected to announce his pick for attorney general in the coming days, and we can expect republicans are going to push for a promise not to interfere with this investigation. Evan perez, cnn, washington. U. S. President elect joe biden is defending his choice for defense secretary. If confirmed, retired army general lloyd austin would be the first black man to hold the post but because he retired from the military just four years ago, congress has to waive a law which requires the defense secretary to have left the armed forces for seven years. Thats designed to keep civilian control of the nimilitary. The president elect says its justified. I want to thank you, general. Youre a friend, but i want to thank you, general austin, for once more stepping forward to serve your nation. This is not a post he sought. I sought him. Lloyd austin retired from the military more than four years ago. The law states the officer must have left the service seven years before becoming secretary of defense. Theres a good reason for this law that i fully understand and respect, and i would not be asking for this exception if i did not believe this moment in our history didnt call for it. It does call for it. And if i didnt have the faith i have in lloyd austin to ask for it. 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President trump isnt talking about stimulus talks or even the raging pandemic. Instead, hes taking another legal step in his Relentless Campaign to overturn his election laws. Hes supporting a texas lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to invalidate millions of votes in four battleground states. Kaitlan collins has the details. Reporter out of public sight but still in denial, President Trump pushed his false claims of a rigged election again today while tightening his grip on the gop. After the Supreme Court rejected a republican attempt to overturn the results in pennsylvania, trump distanced himself from the setback, claiming on twitter this case had nothing to do with me, even though his legal team had touted it. I think its a very good case. Reporter trump has moved on and is now cheering a long shot lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court filed by Texas Attorney general ken paxton, asking to extend the deadline for certifying the election claiming that georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin engaged in quote election irregularities. Trump tweeted this is the big one, as michigans attorney general dismissed it as a publicity stunt. I feel bad for the taxpayers in texas that have to finance this ridiculous and frivolous lawsuit. Reporter trumps gop allies are trying to validate it. Louisiana congressman mike johnson emailed republicans asking them to sign on to an am ir icus brief saying trump asked me to contact all members of the senate and house and request that all join on to our brief. As trump and his allies deny reality, some of his cabinet secretaries are preparing to accept it. Health and human secretaries alex azar became the first to confirm hes met with president elect joe bidens transition team. I have already met with the biden transition team. We want to make sure they get everything they need. Reporter cnn has learned the president personally asked texas senator ted cruz to personally argue the case if it makes it to the Supreme Court. I stress theres an if, many legal experts say its a long shot case they do not think is going to rise to that. It remains to be seen. Kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. Dr. James phillips made headlines when he was openly critical of President Trumps behavior during his coronavirus treatment at walter reed hospital. Youll remember this moment on october 4th when the u. S. President left the hospital to take a joyride past crowds of supporters while he was still positive for covid19 while in the car with secret service members. Dr. Phillips joins me now. Doctor, thank you so much for being with us. At the time you called that drive by with the secret Service Political theater and insanity, and cbs news is reporting that you have been removed from walter reids hospital schedule beginning in january. Were looking into those details ourselves. Can you confirm that, and do you think theres a connection . Well, its a sensitive topic for sure, and i know its of public interest. Primarily im a physician and assistant professor at George Washington university hospital, and through our hospital, we have a number of contracts around the city with other hospitals where we supply Emergency Physicians and my position at walter reed was through Something Like that. Now, theres been changes to my scheduling. Its not something im able to speak to as a representative of walter reed or as a representative of gw. But there are other opportunities in my future where ill be exploring teaching with, you know, more at the bedside with medical students and fellows, and new disaster medicine opportunities there as well. I have sought clarification from walter reed and were waiting for that. We do want to follow up on the story, if there was a link between your comments and you not being there anymore, i think that is an important story, but lets move on more generally. What do you think of the president s handling of the pandemic and how the president elect might change course on the response . Yeah, i think were heading in the right direction now, and i have been openly critical of the president s job here in the United States, and its not a political issue. What it is is its an issue of crisis leadership, and as a subject Matter Expert in disaster medicine and emergency management, you know, we look to the crisis leaders in situations like this to set the tone and to provide the best example possible, and its clear that since the very beginning of this, donald trump has done the polar opposite of what any textbook, class, course or expert would tell you to do. Fortunately, the American People have elected a new president and in Donald Trumps waning days, were starting to see what the Biden Administration has put together. Its clear from the appointments they have made so far, and the finalists from the other positions that have been narrowed down that theyre resuming a meritbased, expertisebased, experiencedbased policy by which they choose their leaders and appointees, and that starts with the doctors, nurses and other scientists he has surrounded himself with on his task force about covid19, and were seeing that more with the appointments being made at the various organizations and departments. Now, it couldnt come at a more important time. You and many other experts predicted after thanksgiving, we would see a spike in cases which would put stress on the Health Care Systems and that might lead to nor restrictions. What were seeing now, icu beds at capacity across the country. The u. S. Setting a Record Number of deaths yesterday, is this about what you expected or even worse . It is unfortunately exactly as we predicted. I was talking to my wife this evening. The first lecture i gave about covid19 was actually before the vie virus was even named sars consciocov 2 and looking at the simple statistics, by Worst Nightmare was 280,000 dead americans and we passed that last week, and so we are unfortunately where we thought we would be. Looking beyond the numbers, you deal with many of these patients, what goes through your mind when you hear that theyre in your care because they ignored the warnings . Its a challenge. You know, its our job as physicians to love our patients and to not judge them for the choices that they make. We would burn out and leave our jobs very early if we as physicians and in particular, emergency and trauma physicians, if we judged our patients and treated them differently based on the decisions that they have made. That was dr. James phillips, the chief of disaster medicine at George Washington university hospital. Donald trump has lashed out at germanys handling of the pandemic, even though the relative u. S. Death rate has been four times higher. Responding to someone on twitter, the u. S. President said germany has consistently been used by my obnoxious critics of the country, that we should follow on the way to handle the coronavirus. So much for that argument. I love germany, vaccines on the way. Fled poli Fred Pleitgen is in germany. Angela merkel was emotional, pleading for germans to change their behavior, and its no wonder looking at the new and worrying numbers. Reporter youre absolutely right. A lot of people in germany saying its probably the most emotional speech that Angela Merkel has given in her almost 16 years in office, and that certainly is saying a lot, considering some of the crises she has dealt with. The numbers are troubling to a lot of germans. One of the things they had yesterday was the highest death toll, which was 590, thats equivalent of about 2,300 people dying in a single day in the United States. When you look at the numbers today, again, its a Record Number of new infections and also today, germany for the first time exceeded 20,000 dead from coronavirus. Those numbers are far behind countries like, for instance, the u. S. , and other European Countries as well. One of the things that Angela Merkel has acknowledged and politicians and people in the country have acknowledged are light lock down measures that have been in place in the second wave of the coronavirus simply are not managing to get the numbers of new infections down. A couple of weeks later, the death tolls go up as well. What Angela Merkel is saying and other politicians as well, they want a crisis meeting as fast as possible, and they want to move to tougher lock down measures. There is also going to be a full meeting of Angela Merkel and state governors to put tougher measures in place possibly after christmas to give people that Christmas Fest at least and closing stores, longer School Holidays over christmas, and other measures as well to just try and get those numbers down because of course until a vaccine becomes widely available, thats still going to take some time, and to Donald Trumps tweeting, obviously him saying vaccines are on the way. That vaccine that hes talking about was actually developed in the labs that you see right behind me at biontech here in germany and is on the way to the u. S. Via a plant in belgium, moved to kalamazoo, michigan. Vaccines most likely on the way to the u. S. , but coming from europe and developed in germany. The folks at biontech, theyre obviously on the edge of their seats as theres the experts meeting here to determine whether or not they are going to get an emergency use authorization from the food and Drug Administration. Thats happening later today in the u. S. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for pointing out that irony for us. Fred pleitgen in germany. Appreciate it. Well, its already a race against the clock to deliver Coronavirus Vaccines. When you add long distances to the mix, its that much more difficult. How rural parts of the u. S. Are getting ready. Stay with us. Beds get sick too protection. Lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99. 9 of illnesscausing bacteria detergents leave behind. Proven to kill covid19 get their dishes as clean as possible. Olks ask me how to i tell them, try cascade Platinum Plus the power of oxi. It breaks down food soils to clean up to 99 of visible and invisible food residue for a hygienic clean you can see and feel. Cascade the power of oxi. 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S. , a health Advisory Committee later today is expected to announce an emergency use authorization for pfizer and biontechs Coronavirus Vaccine. Distributing it to rural areas of the country will be a tall order. Cnns omar jimenez looks at what Health Officials in south dakota are doing to make sure the vaccines reach distant areas. When the backdrop is windmills and open fields, you can see how getting a covid19 vaccine to actual people turns into a challenge. It involves literally loading cold packs into a minivan. Eventually will be part of keeping this vital Medicine Cold as it travels tens, even hundreds of miles to clinics and hospitals that need them. Each state will receive its own allocation of vaccine, and we planned accordingly and strategically placed freezers across our four region footprint. At Sanford Medical Center in sioux falls, south dakota, they are ready for whatever amount of vaccine they get. M months ago they bought these ultra cold freezers, at least negative 70 degrees celsius or negative 103 degrees fahrenheit required for the pfizer vooacci. Right now, the freezers are empty. Reporter the Pfizer Vaccine can only survive up to 5 days in typical. When we get orders to distribute the vaccine, well pack it in coolers on ice, and monitor the temperature to make sure its at that point maintaining refrigerator temperatures until its given to the patient. Reporter the actual distribution is complicated. Sanfords Coverage Area encompasses 200,000 square miles over multiple states, almost comparable to the size of texas. They have to rely on hubs that have the ultra cold storage. And key regions. Thats because each state gets its own allocation of the vaccine. So sanford can only take supplies across state lines, not the vaccine itself. And then from the hubs they transport just enough vaccine to more remote locations to get people what they need but not leave anything wasted in clinics or locations that cant store properly. Delivering multiple times over many days to move the vaccine, we will continue to do that, rather than moving big portions of vaccine to a small clinic or a critical access hospital so that we dont run into that, you know, temperature dilemma. What is the most difficult part about administering and distributing a vaccine in a rural setting versus a city setting. The geography itself, just the miles that separate us. Making sure the resources can reach our area. I think worrying about when youre going to give a vaccine, within six days of taking it out of the freezer, and six hours of reconstituting it, is something i dont think anybody has done before. And something to keep in mind for some of these rural areas as we head deeper into the winter months. If the roads become too dangerous to drive on because of inclement Winter Weather which happens often in this part of the United States, simply vaccine cant be delivered, and then another hurdle to get past for this part of the country is after the initial vaccine rollout, its going to come down to convincing people to actually get vaccinated. Its a comfort that at least one doctor we spoke to here in the area says has come up every single time he has seen a family. Omar jimenez, cnn, sioux falls, south dakota. Canada has just authorized the pfizer, biontech vaccine for emergency use, and says a limited rollout could begin as early as next week. Cnns paula newton has the details. Canadian relatigulators have approved the vaccine. The Pfizer Biontech is amazing relative, and they point to certain things in the data thats interesting. They are confident that there is a case to be made, that this will provide continuing immunity that perhaps boosters may not be needed all that often, if at all. And the fact that there is also the possibility that if you get this vaccine, that you will not spread the disease to others, that you can not infect others, and also of course the data showing that you will not be severely ill. Most people will not get severely ill after getting this vaccine, even if they are infected with the virus. Here in canada, the hard part begins as the country is in the middle of a deadly second wave. Theyre having a dry run on the vaccine this week. Vaccinations should be in arms next week. This rollout, though, is largely symbolic, just a few hundred thousands of the 20 million doses that it ordered, and as i said, with them here in canada in the middle of a deadly second wave, the priority here will be Health Care Workers but also those very vulnerable residents of longterm care centers. Cnn. 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Some communities are creating emergency field hospitals in whatever space they can get. One the president claimed one was fake, sara sidner went to see for herself. Reporter dr. Jacob is mustering his mental and florida strength as another wave of covid19 patients show up in the intensive care unit at his hospital. Everyone here has been going nonstop for months. What was your worst day . So my worst day this pandemic was actually, the day i posted the tweet, thanking my teammates. I had just finished a sevenday stretching in the intensive care unit. There had been patient after patient after patient who was not surviving this illness. The tweet he sent was a simple selfie, showing off their new covid19 wing. That wing set up in the hospital parking garage. That fact seemed to set President Trump off who retweeted a tweet calling it fake and a scam. That unleashed the twitter trolls. I was sad and devastated and i was angry. Reporter devastated and angry because all of the hard work being done by his colleagues inside this parking garage hospital every single day, from the food staff to the ceo. This is not fake. This is as real as it gets. Reporter the idea was c conceived and executed month ago but during this covid surge, patients are now parked in the spaces instead of cars. The number of coronavirus cases in nevada that this Hospital Services has exploded. This week, there are actually ten times the number of covid19 cases than there were just a couple of months ago. So the hospital had to do whatever it takes to find more bed space, and so here we are on floor g of the parking garage. It was scary, you know, we dont expect to go to work and be working out of a parking garage. Weve made it a hospital. So we dont even consider it a garage anymore. Did you ever think that in america they would have to treat people in a parking lot . What im going to say, when they started building this i laugh. Reporter making a dusty, dirty parking garage into a sanitary space seemed laughable, but then she ended up hospitalized here. People dont realize how bad this is, the pain. The not being able to breathe, thats one of the worst things that i ever had to experience in my life. Reporter a few days later, her husband of 35 years was also hospitalized with covid. I thought, you know, shes going to die. After spending days in isolation with no visitation, they found each other again, parked just four beds apart in the parking garage. He coughs at nighttime, i can hear him, and if i yell, he can hear me. He knows that im still alive. That was sara sidner reporting. In boise, idaho, a Public Health meeting abruptly ended when intense protests threatened public safety. We will not comply. Reporter scores of people, some carrying signs supporting action against covid, and others clearly against any restrictions and lock downs gathers outside boises Central District Health Office on tuesday. Some of the antirestriction protesters rallied outside a few of the health board members, and one board member left the meeting to get to her child who she feared was in danger. That was broadcast live. Can i interrupt you for just a moment. My 12yearold son is home by himself right now, and there are protesters banging outside the door. Im going to go home and make sure hes okay. I will reconnect with you when i get there. Joining me now is dr. Ted eperly, hes the commissioner of the idaho Central District board of health, and hes faced protests outside his own home from antimask demonstrators, thank you so much for being with us today. Describe to me what happened when the protesters showed up. What were they saying . What what were they doing . We had a meeting last night at 5 15 Mountain Time here, and right about at the exact on set of the meeting, i heard a lot of banging and clattering, pots and pans being beat. Strobe lights flashing and i turned around, looked out the window and to my great surprise, were 15 people unmasked, standing on the street, right next to my yard, looking right through my window, right at me. And they were out there for about 15 to 20 minutes, until the meeting actually got stopped by the mayor and the police chief because there was widespread protests happening on two occasions. They even came up to the door and started banging on the door. Oh, my gosh. You say you were surprised quite frankly. I would be terrified. What was going through your mind when you saw that. You know, i wasnt terrified, but i was annoyed and surprised that in the act of trying to do the publics good that people have taken so much umbrage with that act. I knew it was a possibility but i didnt think this would happen. Simultaneously in boise, idaho, where our meeting was, we had 300 protesters, some bearing arms at our major Central District Health Office, and then also one other residence of one of the other commissioners had protesters outside her house as well. Yeah, i mean, thats why i said i would be, you know, terrified. I mean, it is an open carry state and you never know, you might feel that your life was in danger here. The problem is, i mean, all of this worked, right, they were able to derail the meeting in a pandemic, trying to save lives. Dr. Fauci has said the timing of a pandemic in the middle of a contentious election, which has hyperpoliticized everything, including the measured you need to fight this led to the worst possible situation for a pandemic. Concretely, how is all of this affecting your ability to protect your community. Its made it much more difficult. Theres no question. Weve done surveys in the community, and about 70 of people are compliant with face masking, and theres about 30 that absolutely arent. And of that 30 , 20 are absolutely adamant they wont. And its sad to me, because i think if we had had better leadership at the onset of this pandemic from a national level, we could have actually pulled the nation together in a much more productive fashion. This has become very political, very polarized and its actually both hurting the efforts in my locality, and my state, and sadly is going to lead to unnecessary loss of life. I mean, thats the thing, you know, is there a way back from this, i suppose . Boise mayor, Lauren Mcclain who is the one who called for the end o. Meeting. This has gone too far. Were at a point that we need to remind ourselves this is not who we are. As you look the deep division, does any part of you fear this is who we are or who we have become as a country . Yeah, you know, thats a great question. I have abiding faith in the people of my state and my locality. I think underneath all of this they really are good people. I think what the pandemic has done is brought out the best in people and the worst in people. And if youre in that latter category that thinks this is a personal infringement on rights and their personal liberties, youre seeing this in a totally different way than those, others are sewing eing it in lets pul together, do what we can to protect each other. Its one of the most polarizing things i have seen in my life. Listen, thank you so much for speaking with us. I mean, your job is hard enough without people trying to intimidate you and, you know, perhaps physically stopping you from what youre doing. We wish you the best of luck. Thank you, dr. Ted eperley, appreciate it. Thank you. Ahead on cnn, a social media slug fest. Why the u. S. Government and dozens of states are suing facebook and how the social media giant is fighting back. Stay with us. Say nana. 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Yes, the support of bipartisan hatred is a truly great feat for facebook at this time. Now, this is truly an unprecedented move, particularly from the federal trade commission whose lawsuit is looking to force facebook to sell whats app and instagram. These are crown jewels in facebooks empire. Instagram brings facebook a lot of young users. Whats app, a huge Global Player in hong kong. Its a daily necessity for me and everybody else that i know. So the federal trade Commission Director of competition basically saying in a statement that facebook has, you know, moved to maintain its monopoly to deny customers the benefits of competition, and the goal of their lawsuit is to roll back facebooks anticompetitive conduct, restore competition so that innovation can thrive. Now, of course facebook is pushing back on this because they paid a lot of money for these platforms. They paid a billion dollars for instagram in 2012, which seemed like a lot of money at the time, until two years later when they paid 19 billion for whats app. So as you said in the introduction there, its a bit of revisionist history according to facebook. The ftc signed off on the acquisitions at the time. The u. S. Government will have to prove in court that facebooks alleged misconduct led to harm to consumers and to competitors. We can look to the past for this a little bit. The last time the u. S. Government went after a Big Tech Company was its lawsuit against microsoft in the 90 and early 2,000s. That lawsuit was eventually settled and experts say, because it was settled, it really helped lead to the rise of one of microsofts big competitors at the time, which was google, and google, of course, has grown to become a big tech giant in its own right and is facing fire from multiple governments around the world. Interesting. All right. So in the meantime, french regulators have fined google for privacy violations, what can you tell us about that . Yeah, this decision came out just a few hours ago. I think actually a little bit less than two hours ago. Google was fined by france 100 million euros. Amazon was also fined 35 million euros, and this was basically because the french regulators say that the companies broke frances Data Protection act. You know, europe is a lot more strict when it comes to data privacy, and protection than the United States is. Google has already pushed back on this saying that, you know, the privacy, the protection and the privacy of our consumers data is of paramount importance to them, and so far they have been fined. We shall see if theyre going to have to fork over the money or push back and wiggle out of it and get it reduced. Well be following those stories. Thank you so much, sherisse pham, appreciate it. A rocket exploded on wednesday but spacex continues the fire test a success. The rocket soared 8 miles high, performed some acrobatic moves and came back down to what spacex called a hard and exciting landing. Despite the fire ball, ceo elon musk says hes pleased because they got much needed data. Spacex is trying to develop a spaceship to take huge satellites into orbit and create a human settlement on mars. Well keep gazing up at the sky for our last story. The northern hemispheres dark winter night might be illuminated by the Northern Lights as far south as pennsylvania and oregon thanks to a solar belch basically. The sun sent out a burst of highly charged coroal matter, so Massive Communications might be disrupted. You could be witnessing scenes like this, the luminescent green and pinks and purples, keep an eye out and share pictures if you see any impact from the huge solar flair. Thank you so much for your company. Im kim brunhuber. Early start is up next. Of course you are watching cnn. 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