Steve from Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmfallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests Jason Bateman, Carrie Underwood and featuring the legendary roots crew and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy yeah thank you very much. Hello. Thank you. Oh, my goodness. Thank you very much. Hello. Thank you roots. Thank you everybody. Please oh, my goodness. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and welcome to the tonight show, everyone. [ cheers and applause here we are. Lets get to the news and jokes, everybody well guys, i saw that former president s barack obama, george w. Bush, and bill clinton want to encourage americans to get the Covid Vaccine by getting theirs on camera President Trump wanted to be included, but obama said, oh, sorry, pal, but its twotermers only. [ laughter ] questlove ooh ooh jimmy meanwhile, 96yearold jimmy carter is like, uh, hello, anybody want to give me a vaccine [ light laughter ] you guys go ahea
Stunning launch. And liftoff of sentinel 6. The Spacex Falcon 9 rocket roaring into space. The billion dollar project mission. What it will monitor from space to help us learn more about the earth. And musics big night. Were live in los angeles as we look ahead to tonights American Music awards. No ones around to judge me your sneak peek at the performances, the host not letting the pandemic stop them. Were creative people. Were still going to give you a big, big show. And the new awards being handed out tonight. Good morning. Since we gave you the numbers last sunday, the u. S. Has seen 1 million new coronavirus cases, and the death toll has surpassed 255,000. In only one state, hawaii, are cases low and staying that way. Here in new york state we are now seeing the highest level of cases since april. In california the surge is threatening to swamp hospitals, and the state has now put in place a nighttime curfew. Overnight, the food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authoriza
Fear of a Holiday Season surge the critical next steps and the plans being put in place certified one month after the election, all key battleground states have signed off on the results. President elect biden building his new White House Team President Trump still making baseless claims of fraud this morning our interview with the fired head of elections security, weighing in on the voting, the president s failing challenges and what every american should know about the safety of our ballots. Al is tracking the first significant snowstorm of the season in the midwest and massive Power Outages from another nasty storm that hit millions on the east coast. Fact versus fiction. The British Government calls out netflixs show the crown over its depiction of the royal family those stories, plus seahawks soar hes trying to stay on his feet and hell get there seattle takes down philadelphia. The nfl covid troubles mount, forcing the league to ask fans, are you ready for some wednesday afternoo
Today america reported a record high 136,000 new cases. Its the seventh consecutive day with 100,000 coronavirus cases nationwide and now, every state in the country is reporting an increasing number. Texas just became the first state with 1 million cases. In california, not far behind and at our current rate, well reach 1 million cases by the weekend. Bay area counties range from the best to the worst among the color coded coronavirus restriction tiers. San francisco is the only in the best category, yellow but preemptively going to shut down indoorining friday night as a precaution. Yesterday contra costa and santa cruz moved backwards from orange to red. A spike in new cases in napa county has Health Officials worried and for very good reason. Those numbers are rapidly moving in the wrong direction and could send napa county from the orange tier to the state most restrictive purple tier if things dont turn around. Cornell bernard found many people are suffering from coronavirus fati
Bernard shows us many may be suffering from covid messaging fatigue. Inside or outside . In. Reporter there is a busy lunch crowd at the tavern in downtown napa. This longtime eatery has went with the punches and restrictions brought on by covid. Gm john crane says finally, his customers are coming back. We just had our best week. Our best covid week so far ended on sunday. Reporter but that could change. Instead of going in the right direction, new covid cases county wide are spiking. Going backwards at an alarming rate. We saw our case rate more than double over the weekend with 118 new cases in 72 hours. We also saw our hospitalizations double. We now stand at 12. Reporter thats the highest weekend total ever. The spike could send napa county back two steps to purple as soon as next week. The states most restrictive tier. Purple tier would be a temporary closure until things got better. Reporter thats not good. Not good. Reporter it would mean no outdoor dining. They only have four