Diverted to nearby airports. The flights that were on the ground here, passengers, as the planes moved away from the terminals passengers had to deplane and come down and depart and make their way back. They spent the night at hotels. According to the local authorities a man that was here and made some sort of verbal threat. A man who is known to the fbi. The fbi and the joint Terrorism Task force are now investigating the details of what happened here last night. Reporter i pulled up and they said theres a bomb threat. Everybody started running to get up. Reporter tense moments at Jacksonville International airport. Shutdown by police because of two suspicious packages. A lot of people started ducking behind where the packages go. Reporter the airport was evacuated when a bomb squad found one package in the terminal and another in a nearby parking garage. The airport tweeting details about the incident in real time. Jso bomb squad on site conducting their investigation. Currently no i
A white house adviser responded to that saying, quote, you cant always get what you want. We are following other breaking pandemic news. Health care workers are now getting Pfizer Vaccine at 425 sites across the United States and the fda is expected to grant emergency use authorization for the Moderna Vaccine within the next few days. The need has never been greater. The u. S. Coronavirus death toll now stands at more than 302,000 people with more than 16. 6 million cases and hospitalizations here in the United States right now are at an alltime high. Lets begin our coverage this hour with president elect bidens return to the campaign trail today. Our Political Correspondent mj lee is joining me now. This Georgia Senate Runoff Election has huge implications for the biden presidency. Reporter thats right, wolf. There is no question that joe biden is going to be sworn in as president on january 20th. What we dont know right now is what the balance of power is going to be in the senate co
Hospitalizations just yesterday, marking the 12th consecutive day of more than 100,000 people in the hospital. The second event unfolding moments from now, the Electoral College will confirm president elect joe bidens win, sealing President Trumps fate again, no matter what he says or which conspiracy theories he pushes. Electors from all 50 states in d. C. Will today follow the constitution and affirm what the voters decided on november 3rd. It is a process that is formally, well its normally a formality, but with an active attack to undermine democracy by the president and his republican allies well show you the vote from each state but first, we want to begin with the vaccine rollout. 189 boxes of vaccine vials are expected to arrive in all 50 states today. We have correspondents at hospitals across the country to watch who is getting the nations first doses and when. Sara murray is outside George Washington University Hospital in d. C. Where alex is aa czar and Jerome Abrams will o
It is such a moment of hope because we can see the light. I wanted to do it to inspire people who may be skeptical about taking the vaccine. I want you to know help is on the way. If i can be the one person who helps show person its okay to do this, its okay to get the vaccine, its safe, we trust the science, the methods, then im going to be that person. With the vaccines really rolling out, americans appear to be getting more and more comfortable with the idea of getting vaccinated. A new poll say 71 of americans definitely or probably get would get a vaccine. Thats up from 63 in september. But it is also important to remember that it will still be months before the majority of americans can get a shot. This is a moment that dr. Anthony fauci really has described as bittersweet today. Such hope with these vaccines but still the reality that the virus is ravaging the country as we speak. More than 300,000 coronavirus deaths now in the United States. 300,000 and almost 200,000 new cases
Alisyn camerota and john berman. Welcome to new day. This morning joe biden is president of the United States. Two weeks ago joe biden was president elect of the United States. I could keep going here. Whats different this morning is that the Electoral College met and officially gave its votes to joe biden. What is different this morning is that the president elect spoke to the American People and said its time to move on, and after giving the petulant, defeated president space to rant for weeks, biden had enough and called out donald trump by name for his sixth week assault on democracy and what is different this smormorning is that a numbf republicans are starting to come forward to acknowledge reality and stop lying about the election results. This morning were awaiting to see if Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell joins that list. And attorney general william barr, what brought this loyal soldier so willing to break so many norms and precedents to finally split from the president. What w