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
Interest if he starts coordinating on the virus with the biden team. Like it or not, the president didnt win. The fall out this morning with ron klain, plus insight and analysis from our power house round table. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. Good morning and welcome to this week. We may not be surprised, but we should still be shocked. The Election Results have been clear for more than two weeks. Joe biden defeated donald trump. By recent standards it wasnt that close. More than 6 million votes nationwide. More than triple Donald Trumps 2016 margin in the key mid western battle grounds. Plus wins in georgia and arizona. 306 electoral votes. The same total trump called a landslide in 2016. Faced with those facts, the president and their allies have taken their baseless claims of voter fraud to court. Theyve lost 32 times. Last night in pennsylvania a judge dismissed their case with this words, the court has been presented with strai
More humidity. You can see the visibility dangerously low around petaluma and your neighbors heading up towards santa rosa. That will be there throughout the morning commute. You can see in emeryville, its quieter as we look northbound there. How about lets look at these temperatures, there you go. 70 to 74, except for mid to upper 60s along the coast. We have rain on the way, even healthier than our last storm. Ill map that out coming up. Some major news about a potential covid19. Mo tederna revealing its vaccins nearly 95 effective. What is the health and Human Services secretary saying about this. He says this is something to celebrate. With todays announcement moderna says theyre on track to ask for fda authorization in the coming weeks. The Moderna Vaccine can be scored at normal refrigeration temperatures making it easier to store and transport than pfizers vaccine. This morning on gma, health and Human Services secretary alex aszar says there are ongoig talks about distribution.
Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All after words programs are also available as podcasts. It is so good to talk to you. Another book journalist. How do you primarily think of yourself these days . Guest i still very much see myself as a book critic. This book is just sort of an extension of that work. These days i feel like i am a political journalist and just using books as a means to that kind of work. Is that something that you steered clear of . I didnt have a sense that i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book. Reading other peoples books was plenty and i learned a little bit if i went through the process of writing a book it would be sympathetic to the authors and ruin me for my day job but i think that its been useful to see that side of the process and all the work that goes into creating that product i usually get at the tail end. Do you think its going to change . I think it almost has to. I want to see i suspected it had to in some way
Like im a political journalist use the book says a means to that kind of work. Obviously this is your first book did you know you always wanted to write a book as a critical or is that something you steer clear of . I do not have a sense i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book reading other peoples books plenty in the process of writing a book to be far too much sympathetic warning me for my day job that has been useful to see with that side of the process is like and all the work going to finish that finished product i get at the tail end. With that change your approach is a book critic . I think it has to i know how it will. I want to see when im back into the swing of reviewing books but in some ways just beyond sympathy for authors i hope you will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking of where the book covers or how many chapters. I hope will make me better at my main job. Now you know the answers but before you get too far away he ran on read 150 books. What do