Just the magnificence of your artistry. What the two have in common, plus, his new president ial portrait unveiled. Black friday blowout. Shoppers falling all over each other to get the best deals. Couch surfers ruling the day shattering online records. The hopes for Small Business saturday and a possible boost for the bottom line. And goal for it. College soccer star sarah fuller ready to become the first woman to participate in a power five football game. What shes saying about the opportunity to make history. Hey, good morning. Were going to start here with the latest on the surging pandemic. The u. S. Has now surpassed 13 million confirmed covid19 cases, adding more than a million cases in just six days, and that comes during a holiday week when some results and reporting are expected to be delayed. Hospitals from coast to coast are feeling the strain. This week, 24 states hit a Record Number of current hospitalizations with the number of patients across the country increasing near
Administrations refusal to aid his transition and the impact it could have as the nation battles the pandemic. Breaking overnight, catastrophic. Hurricane iota tears across nicaragua as a powerful category 4, ripping roofs off buildings, toppling trees and causing widespread flooding. Just ahead, the damage and where this dangerous storm is headed next. Home away from home. Dragon spacex, capture confirmed. Overnight four astronauts arrive safely for their sixmonth stay on the International Space station, leading to cheers on the ground welcome to the iss. And hugs high above. All that, plus big demand for small turkeys. The holiday dilemma facing millions of families downsizing their gatherings this year. And rokers recovery. Al joins us live for the First Time Since his cancer surgery with some very good news to share. Today, tuesday, november 17th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, guys, w
Stay tuned for late night with seth meyers. Goodnight, everybody announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, gwen stefani from the mandalorian, actor Giancarlo Esposito an all new closer look, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers and this is late night. How is everybody doing tonight thats fantastic to hear lets get to the news. Election day is eight days away, which means were just a few short weeks away from the Supreme Court telling us who we elected. President trump tweeted today, quote, the Fake News Media is riding covid, covid, covid all the way to the election, losers. Yeah, youre right even after the election theyll probably run a headline like this scientists in germany have announced that theyve measured the shortest interval of time ever recorded and no surprise here, it was how long trump lasted on 60 minutes. In an interview that aired last night on 60 minutes, President Trump criticized correspondent leslie
President ial candidates. Bob redell is looking at voter anxiety. Kris sanchez is live in san mateo with a lot of activity behind you. Yeah. You heard the line outside of the chase center in San Francisco . This is what happened after the votes arrive. They are opened up and flattened out and put into those machines. Any ballot needs a little extra signature like a signature verification that goes to the human beings on the other side of the room and they do that kind of work. This is a lot of work. Right now, they are running two shifts because of covid precautions but working hard to make sure they can count as many votes as quickly as possible so we can get results starting election night. As of sunday, San Mateo County Election Office got 286,000 ballots back by mail and vote center. Twice as many as they got in 2016. Nearly 618,000 ballots were returned in Santa Clara County yesterday. 55 of all ballots issued to eligible voters in that county. Around the bay area all weekend long
Road. Oakland road where theres a crash but only on the on ramp. The freeway itself is open, standard slowing there. At the bay bridge toll plaza a backup here, the metering lights are on, shifting around pretty light. Well talk about whats holding it up north. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Well, as election day nears, americans as the race to the white house comes down to the wire. People are voting in masses. More than 94 million votes have already been cast. Thats more than twothirds of the votes that were cast in 2016. Today in the bays tracie potts, i want to start with the news President Trump is making calling out dr. Fauci. Reporter so we know theyve been bumping heads over covid for months now. At a rally in florida last night the people, the president s supporters, were cheering for fauci to be fired and this was the president s response. Fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci dont tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election. I appreciate it. I apprecia