Is often what we talk about in this weektoweek comparison. This is the number of people dying from coronavirus from week to week with the sea of red lighting up the country. A vaccine is likely to be approved soon, possibly this week, Health Experts say the dangers right now could not be greater. I think it could be more of a challenge than what we saw with thanksgiving. So i hope that people realize that, and understand that as difficult as this is, nobody wants to modify, if not essentially shutdown their holiday season. But we are in a critical time in this country right now. We have to not walk away from the facts and the data. This is tough going for all of us. We need you to hang on just a little bit longer because we have vaccines coming but we want as many people to be alive to get them as possible. And a lot of that is going to depend on your behavior. That is such a sobering statement of reality right now coming from the outgoing surgeon general. President elect joe biden ann
Around the country today, even more people will receive their first dose of the Pfizer Vaccine. But even with that encouraging news, the reality today is bleak. The u. S. Reported more than 3,000 new deaths from covid just on tuesday, this marks the third highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. For the past week the country has averaged more than 212,000 new daily cases and set hospitalization records for ten Straight Days now. We will get to all of that in a moment, but lets begin with the breaking news this morning, so lets go to capitol hill. Our colleague cnn Congressional Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty joins us now. What do we know about negotiations, ie, are they going to vote on this soon and to jims really good point does it include direct stimulus payments . Reporter thats all of those things, poppy, that the negotiators and the leadership from the house and senate are sorting out right now, but they do at this moment appear very close to striking a deal. That expecta
Help is on the way. Vaccines are imminent. Our Health Care System is at the breaking point. I believe we could see fda authorization within days. The vaccine is critical, but its not going to save us from this current surge. This pandemic is ravaging the country. We all need to take precautions. We dont see anything that would overturn the will of the people here. They cheated and their rigged our president ial election. The mountains of misinformation are not helping the process. Th theyre only hurting it. This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is monday, december 7th, 6 00 here in new york. Alisyn is off. Erica hill with me this morning. Good morning. Happy monday morning. Breaking news, moments ago, president elect joe biden officially announcing his health team. He will nominate californias attorney general, Javier Becerra to lead the department of health and Human Services. Als
Vaccinations for front line workers kicks off today, there could be a second option within days. The fdas outside Advisory Panel meets tomorrow to formally review modernas vaccine candidate. Just ahead, well talk to a doctor on that committee. And from washington, we just got new reporting on the intensifying covid relief talks on capitol hill. There is new optimism about a 900 billion bill that could include direct stimulus payments. President elect biden set to formally announce new cabinet picks today after hitting the campaign trail yesterday for the georgia candidates who are going to determine control of the senate and, therefore, his agenda. Coming up this hour, well talk to one of the candidates, jon ossoff. But lets start with our nbc news reporters. Tom costello in washington, Jacob Soboroff where Vaccine Distribution starts today. And operation warp speed briefing is going on right now, and if there is any news from it, well bring that straight to you. Tom, let me start with
White house refreshingly not to fight over crowd size, but it turn his attention to the biggest crisis facing america, namely tackling the pandemic. For the past year we couldnt rely on the federal government to act with the urgency, focus and coordination we needed and we have seen the tragic cost of that failure. We didnt get to this mess overnight. Its going to take months for us to turn things around, but let me be equally clear. We will get through this. We will defeat this pandemic. Our National Strategy is comprehensive and its based on science and not politics and its based on truth, not denial, and it is detailed. We are in a national emergency. It is time we treat it like one. Together, with the National Plan, as the United States of america. Normal government. President biden signed a flurry of ten new executive orders today to combat the pandemic and part of a comprehensive National Strategy that includes invoking the defense production act, an increasing aid to states. A c