1920 an all black officiating crew takes the field on monday night football. Plus a Major General motors recall involving some of the auto giants most popular and expensive suv models welcome to tuesday early today starts right now good morning, im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. The Trump Administration is finally giving the green light for president elect joe bidens transition the head of the General Services administration cleared the way for the transfer of power last night after slowwalking the process for weeks. Our capitol hill correspondent tracie potts joining us now with the latest tracie, good morning biden will have a lot of catching up to do. Reporter so, phillip, this means that joe biden will have 57 days instead of the 77 that president obama had to get his administration together before Inauguration Day this letter of ascertainment just signed off by the General Services Administration Director calls him the apparent winner of the election and directs more than 7
Despite urgent warnings, people are traveling this holiday week at the highest levels since march, more than 1 million flying in just 1 day tonight the parts of the country most at risk as hospitals see more Record Numbers. The search for solutions. How to keep schools open safely. Why some are succeeding even as the pandemic grows. The Big New Recall by gm, almost 6 million vehicles could be on the road with dangerous airbags. Which models are affected and holiday displays for our times, my report honoring the heroes on the front lines. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone there is Breaking News as we come on the air tonight. The governments General Services administration is for the first time acknowledging joe bidens win for president. Notifying the President Elect that the formal and official transfer of power can begin. The decision comes more than two weeks after biden was projected as the winner and after a series of legal an procedural defeats in Pr
Steve from 30 Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight join jimmy and his guests Kenan Thompson kate mara, musical guest, james blake and featuring the legendary roots crew and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy oh yeah please oh, my goodness. Wow. Okay thank you very much. Wow, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show here. [ cheers and applause studio 6a in new york city thank you, roots lets get to the news and jokes. Well, guys, as of this afternoon, some states are still counting their votes, but the numbers are looking good for joe biden. Yep, it seems like america [ cheers and applause seems like america is just about ready to socially distance from president trump. [ cheers and applause yep, as more votes came in today, the coronavirus put on its hat and coat and thought, well, its been a good run. [ laughter ] good day to you all. Thats
Beside me as always. How are you tonight . Guillermo fantastic, jimmy. Jimmy do you like the stool i provided for you . Guillermo i feel like a baby in a high chair, but i like it. Jimmy you look like a baby in a high chair to be honest. I was worried youd been getting too much exercise while we were at home. Did you watch the lakers last night . What happened . Guillermo we were losing by about 20 points and we tried to come back in the last quarter, but we couldnt come back and lost by six, i think. Jimmy that kind of analysis could actually get you a job at espn. Guillermo maybe uni vision. Jimmy Time Magazine has unveiled their annual list of the 100 most influential people. The list includes donald trump, joe biden, megan thee stallion, all the world leaders. I actually wrote a little blurb about dr. Fauci for it. They asked me to write it. And i said how many people passed on this before you got to me . They claimed it was only one. Anyway, i wrote it because i respect dr. Fauci
School district . What should be the next steps . This is perhaps an instructive case. This is one of the first School Districts in the country to open to facetoface instruction. I would say it shouldnt be surprising they had a number of positive cases right off the bat. I think thats going to be the case all across the country. Then unfortunately what happened is because they did not really have social distancing measures in place, they did not have universal masking. Cases were very, very high. So i think lessons to be learned here are, if youre a School District looking to have inface, inperson instruction, its so important to make sure that you have social distancing in place, that you have masking. That way when those positive cases come, the number of exposures will be much lower. I think the second big lesson is that really, every school needs to have a plan for online instruction. Because as weve seen in this School District, you may rapidly have a need to convert to online ins