Its ranks. More on the investigation and why a multimilliondollar program created to help survivors is not working. And dancing through pain. Sam smith on how they turned heartbreak into hope and found a way to express their true self on their new album. Cant wait to hear from sam. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Too many people still seem to think covid19 is a hoax. There is no way to sugarcoat any of these numbers. We need to redouble our efforts. More than a quarter million americans have died from the coronavirus. We are in an absolutely dangerous situation. This is not crying wolf. This is the worst rate of rise in cases that weve seen in the pandemic. Joe biden met virtually with Frontline Health care workers as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. As many as another 200,000 dead by the time we get sworn in. Its skyrocketing. It is skyrocketing. The u. S. Army is responding to an exclusive cbs news investigation into Sexual Assault in the military. It is clear we have significant work to do to regain our soldiers trust. Hurricane iota swept through central america. Crews are continuing to search the area for survivors. Nevada rnd a state of emergency. All that first round of the nba draft is complete. With the first pick, the Minnesota Timberwolves select anthony edwards. And all that matters. Supermarket chain is apologizing for an ad that reads hosting . Plan a super spread. If youre going to go, death by shrimp cocktail is not the way to do it. According to reports, trumps news has become increasingly bleak to the point hes even decided to cancel his annual thanksgiving dinner at maralago and stay at the white house instead. Trump is so upset, those two turkeys, the president usually pardons, have gone straight to the electric chair. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. Allow me to translate. I just said, what . Theres an annual tradition. I know. And the turkeys are spared. I guess i will remind people weve got one week until thanksgiving. If you havent secured your thanksgiving, please do so. Nice pivot. Im like, huh . Were going to begin with this. The raging debate over how to respond to this pandemic as it spirals out of control. More than 250,000 people in this country have now had their lives cut short due to the coronavirus. More than 19,000 people have died in this month alone. Think about that for just a singled. The daily cases are now up 80 in just the last two weeks. Our team is covering the crisis from multiple angles, including the toll on hospitals and breaking news about another possible vaccine. But first, our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is in new york where the nations largest Public School system is going remote again starting this morning. David, good morning to you. What led mayor bill de blasio to make this call . Well, look, he said if we had 3 test Positivity Rate in the community im going to shut down the schools. A lot of parents and Health Experts are saying, wait a minute, mayor. Youre shutting down the schools but havent closed the bars and restaurants . What sense does that make . The mayors 3 threshold is reportedly the most conservative threshold in the country and the School System, you know what their test Positivity Rate is . 0. 19 . It was the announcement a lot of parents were dreading. New york city closing schools and going to Remote Learning 100 . Textbooks, backpack. So i guess were ready, but were not really ready. Its ridiculous that restaurants and gyms are still open and schools are closed. Its really disappointing for parents who are constantly scrambling. Reporter some of the kids are just as frustrated. How long are we going to not be able to go to school . They havent told us. Youre going to be at home again. Ugh. Reporter mayor bill de blasio called it a setback but said the city and state officials are working on a framework to restart inPerson Learning as soon as possible. Well be deploying a lot of our Testing Capacity towards the schools under this new model. Reporter new york city is not alone. Inperson classes have recently been suspended in all or parts of michigan. South dakota, georgia, indiana and new mexico. Suspensions are planned in philadelphia and a large kansas district. While plans to reopen schools have been delayed in las vegas and chicago. Here in new york city, rates of transmission inside schools have remained very low since schools reopened eight weeks ago. But the rate of spread outside of the classroom is an important part of school safety. According to American Federation of teachers president randy winegarden. In new york city, should be credited for doing what no other major School System did which was to reopen inschool instruction for kids in a safe way. But having a Community Spread the way its now going all across the country, schools are not impervious to that. Reporter the White House Coronavirus task force is not advocating for the closure of schools because, as of right now, the data just doesnt suggest the virus is really spreading in schools to the point where they need to be closed down. The task force is advocating for the close are of restaurants and bars. Well took mayor bill de blasio first here on cbs this morning. Despite the terrifying upward trend in coronavirus cases, many are still reluckant to take action that could save lives. Carter evans is in twin falls, idaho, where the numbers are alarming. Carter, good morning. Good morning. Community spread of covid19 in idaho is severe. According to the covid tracking project, there are now more than 85,000 cases in the state. 2 in every 5 people who get tested in idaho are infected with covid19. With hospitals across idaho nearing capacity, doctors worry about what will happen when there are no more beds. We would be in the unimaginably bad situation of needing to make decisions about who gets it and who doesnt. Reporter dr. Souza if a heart attack victim comes in and the icu is full of Covid Patients, what do you do . We do our best. If one of those Covid Patients has a lower chance of survival, we make decisions about who gets the bed. How far away are you from Something Like that . Our modeling is suggesting that we may be facing that scenario in december. Reporter despite nearly 800 deaths, idahos republican governor has resisted issuing a mask mandate, a requirement some residents oppose. All theyre trying to do is control you. Everything you do is based on the mask and the disease. And its wrong. Reporter with the u. S. Now averaging about 160,000 new cases a day, nearly three dozen states now have a mask mandate with kansas being the latest to issue the order on wednesday. How we choose to respond can turn the tide for our businesses, our hospitals and our schools. Reporter but in south dakota, which is experiencing one of the worst covid outbreaks in the country, republican governor christi nome reiterate ed. I dont want to approach a policy or mandate just looking to make people feel good. Reporter around the country, frontline workers are concerned and frustrated. In nebraska, more than 1700 Health Care Workers signed a letter pleading with people to wear masks stating the life you save may be your own. Theres a sunny day on the other side. Im way more interested in cooperation than compliance. So youre saying, wear the mask, social distance six feet and you dont have to shut down the economy. Thats exactly what im saying. For doctors to decide which patient gets a bed and which doesnt, the governor would have to declare a crisis standard of care. In the meantime, with hospitals inundated, doctors are concerned they wont be able to give a highlevel of care to current Covid Patients. Carter, thank you very much. We have breaking news overnight on another Coronavirus Vaccine candidate. The most recent testing shows astrazenecas works well, is safe and highly effective for older patients. Charlie dagata has the story. Reporter its peerreviewed evidence that it not only triggers the robust immune response theyd hope forward but packs a punch where its needed most, on older adults. The vaccine is even tolerated better in older people than younger people. The results published in the lansen medical journal reviewed oxfords study. It reviewed people over the age of 70. The group at a significantly higher risk of severe disease and death, more likely to fill overstretched icu hospital wards and earmarked to receive the vaccine first. The good news from pfizer and moderna was a boost for oxfords vaccine, too. They use a similar approach. The studys chief investigator said the news is encouraging but not definitive. Were not in a rush. And its not a competition with the other developers. What were trying to do is to make sure that we have very high quality data. Reporter researchers say they are hoping for more high quality data in terms of efficacy and safety in the coming weeks. Its worth remembering that this vaccine can be stored in a basic refrigerator, rather than a deep freeze. Gayle . Thats good news. Very good news. Thank you, charlie dagata. Dr. David agus joins us to sort this all out. When dr. Fauci was here earlier, he said the cavalry was coming. You were very excited about the pfizer news. Now the oxford vaccine. What does this mean for all of us . Well, i mean, it really is hope in a bottle. Its the notion that these vaccines can prevent spread of the virus. The critical question we dont know about these vaccines is are you still contagious when youre asymptomatic with the vaccine . The oxford study is the only one that actually was swabbing people every week so well know that data very shortly. And if that data show you were not infectious, there will be a much smaller tail to the curve and were going to end this sooner in the united states. I like the sound of that. The oxford vaccine seems to work very well with people in their 60s and 70s. How significant is that . You know, obviously people in their 60s, 70s and 80s have much higher likelihood of symptomatic covid19, being in a hospital. Many other complications. If it works, they have a strong immune response, were cheering for joy. It showed a 94 protection in elderly. So thats exciting that these are going to work in the broad population. Have you seen any side effects that concern you, david . Well, whats interesting about vaccines and really over the last several decades is that almost all vaccine side effects are in the first several weeks. In the first several weeks of these studies, we have seen side effects of fever, chills, pain at the injection site. Occasionally fatigue. But we have not seen anything that is long lasting or very serious. And thats an over 90,000 patients that have been told to be vaccinated. Thats very, very positive. A big story here in new york, were going to talk to the mayor later on. The new York City Schools have shut down after 3 Positivity Rate in the city. Yet the bars and restaurants remain open. The schools are closed. Does that make sense to you . Well, obviously the priorities are a little bit strange. But, you know, the notion of it, trace 3g . In the state of new york that threshold is 9 . And not saying in schools that are doing it right, with almost no infection, were going to let them stay open, doesnt make a lot of sense. Broad policies in todays world, we can use data to make targeted policies for various neighborhoods. Schools are not the vector of spread right now in new york city. And yet were shutting them. We had an interview with a little girl when her mom said youre going to go back home for school and he went, oh, a lot of kids feel that way. How does it affect your kids mental and physical health, not to mention how the parents are feeling. Right. Thats what i was going to say. Parents also are very similar to that child. The children are isolated. Many children cant thrive educationally in those kinds of environments. They are distanced from all their friends. All the interactions are twodimensional, rather than threedimensional which our brains are designed for. Its really difficult for children. We have to think of the cost of doing this. Its not just blocking virus spread. It is the longterm mental cost on these children thats part of the equation. All right. Well be talking to the mayor in our next hour. David, thank you very much. You are looking at pictures of the white house where its been six days since President Trump made any Public Comments about the coronavirus. He is staying out of sight while he challenges the election results. President elect biden speaks with democratic and republican governors today in a Virtual Meeting to discuss the pandemic. As ed okeefe reports, the next president had an emotional and revealing meeting yesterday with medical workers. I have not been tested yet, and i have been on the front lines in the icu sfebruary. Youre kidding me. Reporter president elect joe biden virtually coming face to face with the crisis hes set to inherit in january as he heard directly from nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. There is something seriously wrong when nurses have to take to the streets to beg for protection in the middle of a pandemic. Im sorry im so emotional. No. Its just you got me emotional. Reporter biden said the trump administrations refusal to certify his victory means he cannot yet coordinate with federal agencies responding to the pandemic. Meaning the distribution of a vaccine could be delayed. Weve been unable to get access to the kinds of things we need to know about the depth of the stockpiles. We know theres not much at all. Reporter President Trump remains out of public view and made no mention of the pandemic. Instead he spent the day tweeting baseless and unfounded accusations of voter fraud. His tweet comes as a new poll finds while 7 in 10 americans as a whole agree mr. Biden won the election, when it comes to republicans, nearly 7 in 10 say they are concerned the election was rigged. The president s Campaign Continues to spend time and money trying to reverse the election results. Securing a recount in two counties in wisconsin where mr. Biden won by more than 180,000 votes. Meanwhile, today the president elect is set to speak with nine democratic and republican governors about the pandemic. Mr. Biden says hell keep pushing state leaders for stricter covid restrictions. So one of the things im going to be doing is thanking the governors who have already moved but calling on all the leaders in the states to have mandatory masking, testing, tracing, social distancing. Reporter and just as Many Americans are adjusting their thanksgiving day plans, the president elect said yesterday that his family is also significantly scaling back. Usually they head to nantucket island in massachusetts. Aides wouldnt confirm thats the plan but the president elect seemed to suggest that they would be staying here in delaware instead. Heeding the suggestions of the cdc that people scale back their holiday plans. Tony . Well, sometimes the only thing harder than seeing family for the holidays is not seeing family for the holidays, which will be the case in many households. Ahead, the final part of a massive cbs news investigation into the militarys failure to fight Sexual Assault. Advocates fired by the military to help stop the abuse tell Norah Odonnell why some cases were never turned much more news ahead. Californias governor tries to explain how and why he attended a large dinner party at the same time he asked the public to keep their distance from each other. And there are pictures. Princess dianas legendary tv interview shattered the royal familys image. 25 years later theres investigation trying to figure out if she was tricked into opening up. Youre watching cbs this morning. We thank you for that. Be right back. Many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. 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