Latest on president elect joe biden. He spent his first full day as president elect attending mass with his family at his church near his home. He also visited the graves of his late son, beau, his daughter, and late wife. Is expected to quickly begin appointing members of his team for the transition to the white house, including a chief of staff. Caroline shively is at biden headquarters in wilmington, delaware. Reporter he is turning his attention to the transition process. President elect joe biden is in his sons grave after attending Church Sunday in delaware. Ahead of his first full day of action, building his number ministration. The Transition Team already announcing that had of a new covid task force. Dr. Vedvik murthy, a former Surgeon General who had been serving as a Public Health advisor for the campaign. As a candidate, biden made an effort to reach across party lines. This could extend to his cabinet. The progressive who helped build the coalition which led biden to victo
A third wave of uncontrollable Coronavirus Spread is gripping the country. Health officials continue to urge americans not to travel for thanksgiving, but errants just had their busiest weekend since before the pandemic began. Nbcs blayne alexander joining us now from atlantas airport. Blayne, good morning. Reporter phillip, good morning to you of course weve heard those warnings from Health Officials, from the cdc for days now not to travel many not listening and has dr. Anthony fauci concerned about what thiscould like like after thanksgiving a direct and dire warning to travellers like these already packing airports ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. When you get in a crowded plane, youre in a crowded airport, youre lining up, not everyones wearing masks. Reporter friday and saturday the tsa processed more than 2 million passengers, the highest twoday total since march. She travelled from dallas to New York Laguardia airport. The think that surprised me more than anything was that m
The mahomes magic on full display in the chiefs showdown against the raiders. Early today starts right now. Glad youre starting your week with us im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. As we begin this holiday week, a lot of americans seem to be shrugging off warnings not to travel despite Health Officials urging people to stay home for thanksgiving, about 2 Million People passed through airports on friday and saturday nbcs lindsey riser joins us from new Yorks Laguardia airport. Lindsey, good morning. Reporter phillip, saturday saw 984,000 people going through u. S. Airports. Friday saw nearly a million, so clearly even though right now the cdc is warning against holiday travel, not everybody is listening. Here at laguardia weve seen a steady stream but nowhere near some of the scenes were seeing play out in some other airports across the country some images people elbow to elbow, people, no room for social distancing. This is the backdrop right now the u. S. Is at 12 million cases a
Are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look east. We see the sparkling bay bridge. Good morning, it is monday, november 23. Im michelle griego. Im len kiese. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Lets start off with a check of our forecast. It is noticeably warmer out there. We are in the 50s. A lot of clouds out there for much of the bay. That is the first thing youll notice if you got to step outside this morning. In some places we are 10 degrees warmer than where we were yesterday at this time. If you were an early riser on sunday, it is 10 degrees warmer. Much of the numbers in the 50s. It is 37 in santa rosa, a huge difference up there. We dont have quite as many clouds in the northbay. Everybody will get sunshine by around 9 00 this morning. Clouds will clear out and we will go to the low to mid 60s. Gianna, anything on the roads . No, not yet. If you are out early this morning, probably a good way to be on the road ways. The only thing we are seeing is som
Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay