Nation to formally authorize a covid19 vaccine rollout begins next week, and the world is watching. Plus, Chinas Mission to the moon new images of the first Lunar Landing in more than 40 years. Announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening more progress and more set backpacks on this, the 266th day of the pandemic. There is now a cure. Pfizers vaccine approved in the United Kingdom here in the United States the cdc slashing its quarantine guidelines now just ten days, or seven with a negative test for people exposed to covid but the virus is not going away. Its getting much worse. A warning tonight from the head of the cdc. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe they are going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. White House Coronavirus Task force telling states we are in a very dangerous place as covid cases and hospitalizations rise. In a re
The information is not coming from the people who matter most. Plus, six months in space. Tonight meet the astronaut whos been there, done that. And good evening its rare that we get from the government an unfiltered uncensured true view of whats going on with coronavirus. Nbc just got one the White House Coronavirus task forces latest report delivers a sobering assessment of the pandemics trajectory. It describes aggressive, unrelenting, expanding, Broad Community spread across america thats getting worse, not better the task force reports efforts to stop covid are inadequate and the curve must be flattened to sustain the Health System for both covid and noncovid emergencies. In short, the virus is out of control, the Emergency Health care system is in danger of collapse and the white house knows it the task force is alerting thanksgiving can make things worse urging the states to warn their people not to gather, to wear face coverings and socially distance, the report dated on sunday
National security briefings but the information is not coming from the people who matter most. Plus, six months in space. Tonight meet the astronaut whos been there, done that. And good evening its rare that we get from the government an unfiltered uncensured true view of whats going on with coronavirus. Nbc just got one the White House Coronavirus task forces latest report delivers a sobering assessment of the pandemics trajectory. It describes aggressive, unrelenting, expanding, Broad Community spread across america thats getting worse, not better the task force reports efforts to stop covid are inadequate and the curve must be flattened to sustain the Health System for both covid and noncovid emergencies. In short, the virus is out of control, the Emergency Health care system is in danger of collapse and the white house knows it the task force is alerting thanksgiving can make things worse urging the states to warn their people not to gather, to wear face coverings and socially dist
Under siege. But front line er doctors still manage to send a message of hope plus, weve got a live one shark tanks mr. Wonderful kevin oleary in the news tank, talking Small Business survival. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. The United States just topped more than 13 million covid cases, according to johns hopkins. Los angeles has just issued a new stayathome order it starts on monday. A full report coming and all of this as the virus has disrupted another american tradition. Black friday, normally one of the busiest shopping days of the year not in covids 2020 in many parts of our nation, thinner lines at stores. Smaller crowds at malls. Many people opting to shop from home instead its a trend accelerated by covid. Shoppers projected to spend as much as 10. 6 billion today. Thats according to the data firm Adobe Analytics and thanksgiving day spending rose by more than 21 compared to the same day last year. Total sp
How to get through this. Its been an extraordinary outcome. One i could have never perceived could happen in march when we were scrambling for ppp loans, the majority of my companies were cash flow negative we shut down retail, until we went through this extraordinary transformation we would have never shut down our headquarters we would have never assumed that we could make a pivot and start selling direct to our customers instead of through retail. Thats exactly what happened and when you sell something direct to a customer, you make almost 100 cents on the dollar versus 0. 50 when you sell through retail thats the reason that theres a massive digital pivot going on, and theres major cost savings also occurring i could have never foreseen this, 15 of my staff including the areas of accounting, logistics and compliance never want to come back to the office. Wow. Theyre raising kids at home in the suburbs, taking care of elderly parents. Another major savings. This is happening to ever