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Trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court. This is total fraud, and how the fbi and department of justice, i dont know, maybe theyre involved. I have confidence in the security of this election. I know based on what we have seen that any attacks on the election were not successful. A star wars icon passed away. Actor david prowse who played darth vader in the original trilogy has died. Vanderbilts sarah fuller becoming the first female to play in a power five football game. And all that matters. The 2020 soul train awards. A lot of the veterans in the soul r b and Hip Hop Community made their way to the stage. R b is not dead. We are forever. Thank you. On cbs this morning. The nailbiting finish against the carolina panthers. Touchdown lets go lets go thats a big time play. Adam thielen having to watch from home. Lived and died throughout that fourth quarter. 54 yards out. Wide to the left. And its still good yes yes yes yes you got to be kidding me. You got to be kidding me. This mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. Welcome to cbs this morning. At one point his son looked like, dad, is dad okay . Dads happy dance. Covid made for a crazy weekend. A lot more about that later on. Still very into the game. Were going to begin with this breaking news on a promising potential vaccine. Moderna announced that its asking the fda to give its vaccine emergency use authorization. It was found to be nearly 95 effective in trials. The company says the fda will likely need to discuss it on december 17th. More than 4 Million People tested positive for covid in november. Take a look at the spike there. That total, more than doubled any other month since the pandemic began in march. Friday we hit more than 200,000 cases in a day for the very first time. David begnaud is in los angeles. Whats the situation there . Well, starting today in l. A. , you cant go to someone elses home to visit. You cant have people over to your home to visit unless they live with you. Thats part of the new stayathome order which is the strictest in california and maybe anywhere in the country. The only gatherings that are allowed here in l. A. Will be Outdoor Church services and outdoor protests. Were not going to stop living just because of covid. Reporter millions of americans were on the move again over the weekend. As people headed home for thanksgiving gatherings. That is despite weeks of warnings from state and local officials to stay at home. The travel that has been done has been done. Reporter the countrys Top Health Officials put on a united front sunday with their blunt assessment of what is coming next. We may see a surge upon a surge. We are deeply worried about what could happen post thanksgiving. Its going to get worse over the next several weeks. Reporter as it stands now, 24 states set records for new coronavirus cases in the last week. While the u. S. Reached about 180,000 cases per day. In new york city, despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, mayor bill de blasio plans to reopen schools next week for kids in prek through fifth grade. He closed them almost two weeks ago when the sevenday average Positivity Rate hit 3 in new york city. Now its approaching 4 . But the mayor still wants to reopen schools after the thanksgiving holiday while increasing testing and requiring consent forms. Meanwhile, the number of americans hospitalized with coronavirus is approaching 1 100,000. This doctor works in a covid ward at united memorial in houston and hes work forward the last 255 days straight. Thats him in this photograph taken on thanksgiving holding an elderly coronavirus patient who was alone and weeping. Im telling him, look, everything is going to be fine because i understand whats going on for him. You dont know who you are talking to. So especially in the elderly, they get disoriented very easily. They get frustrated because these are people that at some point in time, they were used to being in control. So out of the blue you put them in a place where they are pretty much in prison. I felt the need to help this poor gentleman. I have to do it. The doctor told us that man is expected to make a full recovery. What you dont expect is violence when it comes to mandating masks. But thats exactly what happened in puerto rico and we have the video. A man who was traveling from the states to san juan was at the baggage claim at the san juan airport. He wasnt wearing a mask so a National Guard soldier walked up and said, sir, you have to wear a mask here on the island. He refused to so they told him again. And then the man hauled off and started punching the National Guardsman. They grabbed him. Threw him to the floor until the police arrived. The cops arrested him, and it all started because the man simply did not want to wear a mask. Wow, david, you know, you go from that picture in puerto rico to the picture of the Doctor Holding the elderly man who was very afraid, which image do you want . Thank you very much. Were joined by a member of president elect joe bidens new coronavirus advisory board, dr. Michael osterholm. Hes an epidemiologist and director of the center for Infectious Disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. Good to see you. Always good to have you here. Good to see you again. Thank you very much, gayle. Im so glad youre here. Now weve got not one but two drugs who are going for emergency use authorization. Why are you so encouraged by this . This sounds like great news. It is great news. I think we have a light at the end of the tunnel, but we have to get to the end of the tunnel. And thats what is really sobering today is the challenges we have before were going to see most americans having access to this vaccine. So heres a big question. Has team biden started talking to team trump . Because now were going to have to figure out a way to coordinate all of this. Have those conversations begun . The Transition Team is talking to the administration, to the Senior Leadership at the department of health and Human Services, and thats a really good thing. Are you getting the information you need, michael . We are. Were getting information relative to, you know, whats being done. The challenge is what is being done is not nearly enough. Right now i have a major fear that although these vaccines will start to become more available over the next several months, Many Americans wont take them because of the fear that theres some safety issues with the vaccine. Weve done nothing to really reassure americans what these vaccines are, what they will do, how they will work, and why they are so important. What should we be doing . Right now we now say good time to start with the reassurance. Now is a good time. Im happy to do that and tell you these vaccines are going to make all the difference between dying from this virus and living and beating this virus. These vaccines are going to be very safe, relative to any other vaccines we use out there. These vaccines are going to likely be quite effective in the earliest days and all the rumors that theres something unusual about the vaccines that make them dangerous are not true. They are rumors. Thats it. We have to reassure people. Id be the first person in line to take this vaccine but there are others who need it more than i do right now. And thats the message we have to get out. In the black indigenous and communities of color, we have a lot of distrust. As high as 75 of these populations dont believe this vaccine is safe. Weve got to give them the information so that they themselves can judge why they want to take this vaccine. If youve had covid, do you still have to get a vaccine, michael . Yes, at this point were saying go ahead and get the vaccine again to make sure you have adequate protection. We believe that a clinical case will give you good protection, but we want to make sure. Rather than try to distinguish who has and who hasnt had it, everyone will be in line for the vaccine regarding the recommendations coming from the cdc tomorrow. 100,000 people are in the hospital right now. As dr. Fauci said over the weekend, were in the middle of a surge. He believes there will be a surge upon that surge. How bad do you think the next few weeks are going to be . Well, you know, its at this point, tony, where or, its really hard to say i meant to say anthony, thank you. In the sense that we look at where were at, 200,000, just two months ago, we were at 40,000. We could go much higher than 200,000. I think what happened during thanksgiving is, in fact, a lot like 100mileanhour wind now coming in to a very intense forest fire. And we dont have a clue yet. Could this go up another 50,000, 60,000 cases a day . It sure is possible. What i also worry about then is were going to see the virus activity then slingshot into the Christmas Holiday season. And we have many more people who are going to travel for that. Michael, a lot of people broke the rules. Now they are going back home to families. We hear Different Things about quarantining. Do you still have to quarantine for 14 days . Whats the answer . And then weve got to let you go. Whats the answer . No, not 14. At this point, i think if you say 10 days, maybe even 7 days, that will be more than adequate right now for what we need to do. All right. Michael osterholm, thank you for being with us this morning. We heard from President Trump over the weekend. His first interview since losing the election and he repeated false claims and conspiracy theories he frequently mentioned on twitter. He slammed some of his own appointees, including chris krebs whom he fired. On 60 minutes last night, krebs called legal efforts by the president s lawyer an apparent attempt to undermine confidence in the election. Paula reid is at the white house for us. Good morning to you. Good morning, tony. Over the weekend, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed yet another loss to supporters of the president who are trying to overturn the outcome of the election. Now nearly all of these lawsuits have failed. So President Trump is taking his case to the court of public opinion. President trump says there is no amount of evidence that will sway his opinion that he won the election. My mind will not change in six months. There was tremendous cheating here. Reporter while he acknowledged for the first time that the courts are unlikely to overturn novembers results, he continued making baseless accusations about the integrity of the election. This is a fraud against the American People. Its a fraud against the United States of america. Reporter as such claims have been rejected by nearly every judge who has reviewed them, nearly two dozen cases afltd with the campaign have been dismissed, denied or withdrawn. The president also criticized the justice department, an agency hes relied on to pursue politically motivated investigations and lashed out at when they failed to deliver. This is total fraud. And how the fbi and department of justice, i dont know, maybe they are involved. Reporter republican congressman Adam Kinzinger dismissed the president s accusations of federal involvement as baseless conspiracies. The president also took aim at christopher krebs, the former top cybersecurity official he fired via tweet earlier this month. Sunday, krebs dismissed claims of voter fraud. Theres no foreign power that is flipping votes. Theres no domestic actor flipping votes. I did it right. We did it right. This was a secure election. Reporter and explained one of the changes his team implemented to ensure a secure election. Paper ballots. Paper ballots give you the ability to audit. To go back and check the tape and make sure that you got the count right. And thats really one of the keys to success for a secure 2020 election. 95 of the ballots cast in the 2020 election had a paper Record Associated with it. Compared to 2016, about 82 . Reporter President Trump claims that other World Leaders have called him and told him they believed the u. S. Election was, quote, messed up. Weve asked the white house which countries made this allegation. Theyve not provided us with any names. Anthony . All right, paula, thank you. The next president is facing an unexpected new difficulty as he assembles his new administration. Mr. Biden broke his foot over thanksgiving weekend. Nikole killion is covering the biden transition in wilmington, delaware. How did the president elect get hurt . Well, anthony, the president elects office says that he was playing with his dog major and slipped. A ct scan later revealed he suffered hairline fractures, but he did flash a thumbs up as he left the Doctors Office sunday night. His physician says that he will likely wear a walking boot for several weeks. Mr. Biden also announced his new White House Communications team. It is a diverse allfemale group including several mothers of young kids, according to newly named press secretary jen psaki. Kate bedfield for White House Communications following a similar role in the campaign. This week, the president elect is rolling out his Economic Team to sources familiar with the process, confirmed that he is expected to nominate janet yellen for treasury secretary. The first woman in history to lead the department. Cbs news has also learned he is expected to nominate Cecilia Rouse and neera tanden as white house budget director. Both would be the first women of color to serve in those roles if confirmed. Gayle . Thats an amazing picture when you look at it all together. Thanks, nikole. The president elect will get the president ial daily intelligence briefing starting today. That will be the First Time Since his election. It comes at a tense moment right after irans Top Nuclear Scientist was apparently assassinated over the weekend. Holly williams looks at the challenges a Biden Administration will face in the middle east. Reporter theres been an outpouring of grief in iran for Nuclear Scientist mohsen fakhrizadeh, gunned down in an ambush last week. Irans president Hassan Rouhani blamed israel for the killing on saturday, though israel hasnt commented. President rouhani said his country would take revenge in due time but wouldnt fall into a trap. That could be a reference to hopes in iran that president elect biden will rejoin a deal that gives iran sanctions relief in return for restrictions on its nuclear activities. President trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018. At this base in iraq, used by American Forces to coordinate air strikes, they told us their threat level hasnt changed. The pentagon announced this month that troop numbers in iraq would be cut by 500 just before president elect biden takes office. General ryan writeout told us it wont impact operations. I think were capable. I dont think youd see much of a difference, i guess. Reporter critics say it could give a boost to militia groups backed by iran that have fired scores of rockets at u. S. Targets this year alone. And across the border in syria, the fight against isis still isnt over. This sprawling camp is home to more than 60,000 displaced people. On the ground, the 82nd Airborne Division is patrolling the desert. Its thought thousands of the extremists are still at large. The point of these patrols is to stop isis from coming back and gaining a toe hold in villages like this one. Lieutenant colonel val morrow told us that trying to persuade locals the u. S. Will stick with them in the struggle against isis. Were not going away until theyre gone is the bottom line. But following President Trumps decision last year to open the door to an incursion by turkey into syria, some locals told us they are finding it harder to trust the u. S. Tony . The situation will be monitoring. Holly williams, thank you very much. Ahead, the Denver Broncos played a game with a member of the practice squad in at quarterback. How a violation of the covid rules led to four other quarterbacks getting benched because of we have much more we have much more news ahead. Millions of americans are getting ready to ship holiday packa packages, but will their ontime arrival be affected by the distribution of Coronavirus Vaccines. Plus, the escape of a driver after his race car exploded in a huge fireball. Thats coming up on cbs this morning. Through the walk of life, walgreens has always been there to help make life easier. And