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I think if every Health Care Worker realized how transparent and independent the process is, they would feel much more comfortable about getting vaccinated. Woodruff well rto the vaccine story, right after thery news sum u. S. Attorney general william barr has dea a fresh blow to President Trumps claims of widespread election fraud. Barr told the sociated press today that, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a diffent outcome in the election. Meanwhile, the president sued to disqualify 221,000 ballots in wisconsin, which already certified a win for president elect biden. The Biden Economic team was introduced today. Leading the list is janet yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve, for treasury secretary. She called for urgent new action to address economic damage done by the pandemic. Well look at all of this, later in the program. Get Economic Relief moving in the lameduck congrea. Partisan group of senators pitched a 900 billion proposal. But, both Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer insisted that th other side give ground. We just dont have time toe wame. We have a couple of weeks lefthe. Obously it does require bipartisan support to get out oe co, but it requires a president ial signature. He knows darn welhouse is democratic majority. Ed he knows he democratic votes in the senate since a number of his people wont vote for any proposal. And yet he connues to negotiate in a partisan way. Woodruff schumer and house wneaker nancy pelosi sent a new version of theirroposal to mcconnell last night. In brazil, a criminal gang carried out a brazen attack on a city overnht. Police say at least 30 gunmen armed with assault rifles invaded criciuma, taking over streets and assaulting a bank. Thtakeover lasted about two hours. Theres no word on how much money was stolen. Su china says iessfully landed an unmanned craft on the moon today. Chinesesupplied animation showed the probe leaving orbit and landing. Ea its to collect rocks and soil and return to earth. Only two nations, the u. S. And soviet union, have ever brought back material from the moon. Back in this country, the u. S. Er soccer fion and the Womens National team reached a settlement on working conditions. It calls for charter flights, Hotel Accommodations and onal Staff Support thats on a par with the Mens National team. Pu an ongoing d over equal pay was left to further ittigation. And, wall streetew highs today on hop that covid vaccines will boost economic recovery. The dojones industrial average gained 185 points to close near 28,824. The nasdaq rose 156 points, to , record finnd, the s p 500 added 40, also reaching a new high. Still to come on the newour breaking down who will get the first covid vaccines. What president elect bidens picks say abt how they will tackle an economic recovery. How the pandemic is forcing more millennials to move back home with their parents. And much more. Woodruff the recommendationa late today by the c. D. C. Advisory committee about whom g shou the earliest doses of a covid vaccines kick off a t e coming weeks. Ions in todays vote is nding. But it is expected to influence how states make their ow decisions about distributing the vaccine. There are many tough questions ahead. Re amna nawaz expsome of them. Nawaz judy, the committee did indeed say 24 Million People, healthcare personnel and Older Americans living in Nursing Homes anesother facilishould receive the first doses of a vaccine. Ut but even distrg those early doses will take more time than people may think. C. D. C. Officials say there will only be enough doses to vaccinate between two and five Million People a week initially. Determining who gets priority after that initial wave is even more complicated. This all comes as nearly 37,000 americans died of covid19 last month, the most in any month since the early days of the pandemic. Doctor paul offitt, who is a member of f. D. A. Advisory committee on vaccines, is he is director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Childrens Hospital ofel philia. Dr. Offitt, welcome back to the newshour. When we look at the 24 Million People who have been given thegh t priority, thats still a lot of people and they cant be vaccinated aevl at once. Within that group, how do you decide who gets it first and who makes that cal . Its going to be hard. I know at our hospital were trying to prioritize among the healthcare workers, which are most at risk. E, thor example, in the Emergency Department who are constantly coming into contact wth childo potentially are excreting this virus. So it willbe a challenge. The hardest part is initially we available, which is 20 Million People. Of the 24 million in jufit the t group, then we have to go to the second and third and fourth gup before we get to the general population. Were not quite there yet. Were still in the science by press release moment here. These phase three trials, the large trials by pfizer and moderna havent been published yet. The f. D. A. And the Advisory Committee to the c. D. C. Needs to approve this, i think that will happen in december, and then these vaccines willstart rolling out. Whats hardest is, obviously, this virus has killed more than 260,000 people this year, the next couple of months will be enough to vaccinate everybody. We dont. It will be a limited addition vaccine and that will make it very valuable. Nawazkpeople tal about classified that da way byheirs state or municipality and youre talking about millions moreop. 87 million americans qualify as essential workers and that includes police, firefighters, education workers, food service, agriculture workers, transportation and waste workers. Dr. Offitt, when you look at the next potential tranche of people, 87 million more, two to five doses a week, how long ar we talking about just to get through the highest priority groups . The hardest part is making the vaccine, getting it out there and making sure people are getting a twodose vaccine. You get the first dose and make sure you come back three weeks late tore get the second dose. One to have the vaccines has in that itas to be shipped and stored minus 70ntdegree rade which means dry ice. It then can go into the o refrigeraty a day or two, and then you only have about six hours to give it and it comes in multidose vials. Theres many challenges for this much needed product. This is our way out of this mess. This is a product that could save our lives. I justish we hd enough all a the beginning and we dont. Nawaz you menoned the challenges, one is trust in the vaccine. When you look at the latest numbers of whether or not Americans Trust the vaccine and say theyll get it, gallup conducted a recent poll at the end of october and asked people about it and 58 saired the willing to get the vaccine. That number is slightly up. 42 of american adlts say they will not get the vaccine. That a significant number of people youre talking about. How much of a challenge are you talking about when youre talking out getting to the light at the end to have the pandemic tunnel. The poll was conducted in october. Were asking that you get a th tretical vaccine becau vaccine wasnt in existence yet. Topline data it appears to be 9d 5 effective, that it appears tas perfective in people over 60 and 90 to 100 effecve in preventing severe disease. When you ask people the questioh way, then how will theyer an the pfizer trials, 44,000 first trial, moderna 30,000 firs trial. Thats as big as any pediatric vaccine trial. That the length of time in which youre seeing effectiveness is relativen short. You ly say its effective for a few months. You cant say necessarily its b going highly effective six later. Or a year or two yea on the other hand, youre not going to do two or threeyear trials with these vaccines when a quart million peodyple arng per year. Its not exactly a leap to believe something is 95 effective after two or three months, its heil likely to be effective six months or a year later. Nawaz briefly, how many people are we looking at need to be vccinated, these need get this vaccine before we can consider ourselves at a safe level of immunity . I would imagine twothirds of the American Population would need to be vaccinated before we say comfortably weve stopped the spread of this virus. Allllight, weollow in the weeks ahead. Good news for people. Dr. Paul ofitt of Childrens Hospital of phk adelphia. Thu for your time. Thank you. Woodruff now, to president elect joe bidens rollout today of his teaof economic advisers. They come with a new agenda thats intended to make a sharp break with the trump years. Lisa desjardins reports. Desjardins the president elect slowly made his way into wilmingtons queen theater, wearing a walking boot after he fractured his fo playing with his dog over the weekend. But inside, he said hes moving ahead full speed on the nations economic troubles. I know times are tough, but i want you to know that help is on the way. Desjardins at the tableske around him, hiEconomic Team and a theme repeated by each, to not just regain a full economy, but to tackle einequality and make it m fair. We can build a new American Economy that works for all americans, not just some. All. We need to act now though. In desja its a team of policy heavyweights former Federal Reserve chair janet yellen to serve as treasury secretary; neera tanden, the president and c. E. O. Of the f cent american progress, a liberal think tank, to lead thea office of ment and budget; and, labor economist cecelia rouse to chair the president s council ofconomic advisers. We will be an institution that wakes up every morning thinking about you. Your jobs, your paychecks, yr struggles, your hopes, your dignity, and your limitlessl. Potent desjardins if confirmed, neera tanden would be the first womaof color to be o. M. B. Director. She reflected on being raised by a single mother, an immigrant from india. I am here today because of social programs, because of budgetary choices. B desjardin tandens become a lightning rod for some republicans, like arkansasm senator tocotton, who say she has been a partisan, divisive figure. I think neera tandems nomination, like so ma of the nominations joe biden has made, show that he is not committed to unifying the country. Desjardins among the other biden selections princeton deae lia rouse would be the first African American to lead the council of economic advisers. This is a moment of urgency and opportunity, unlike anye weced in modern times. Desjardins nigerianborn attorney and political advisor wally adeyemo, who worked with biden when he was Vice President to serve as deputy treasury secretary. Longtime biden advisor Jared Bernstein would serve on theun l of economic advisers, boushey, the presint, c. E. O. , and cofouer of the Washington Center for equitableh. President trump continues to fight, suing wisconsin to try and throw out 221,000 ballots in two heavily democratic counties. He repeated baseless claims of voter fraud, this thme day as attorney general william barr said there is no evito support those claims. Woodruff and lisa joins from wilmington, delaware, and Yamiche Alcindor is here in washington. Hello to both of you. So, lisa, picking up on that, now that weve seeen th Economic Team that joe biden wants advising him, what does thas tellout what they want to do now and once theyre in office . Well, this is a team that faces unprecedented double crises and rarely a new president taking over with them at the sme. However, this team is also unique in that the president who is elected, will be their leader, has had many plans in the works for a long time. Ght off the bat, judy, we know this team is working on aarger plan, bigger stimulus, bigger covid relief coming next year, in ahition to what tey hope will be perhaps relief coming in the next few months, and i think we see in this am some of th hints of how they hope to get this done, and i think what ll see from more ben announcements, this is a team of expericed people, they are diverse and known for doing the hard work of policy. Also what i noticed todaythey e disciplined and very coordinated right down to the masks, each one wearing the exact same mask that was hat nd them beforehand. Theyre also coordinated in another goal, trying to not just respond to the economic crisis, but to try and smore than one problem at once. Listen to the coordination on these talking points. We heard from yllen shes concerned about the disproportionate impact ofishe , from tannedden, she wants a fair shot from american workers, frm adiamo, he wants to reduce inequality. R biden is vy aggressive in signaling he is concerned about inequality in america. He wants whatever plan theyome up to address the crisis to scwawrl tackle inequality and perhaps Climate Change as im told by some who are working with him that thats something wepaould also see a of their plan. Ite other thing, judy, that they have to continueh, of course, is congress and whether or not any immediate relief will come out. As we reported earlier, this is a tricky situation for a newt, presidoesnt want to spend any capital before he comes into office, but they also would like to have soe kind of stimulus moving now. I want to als add saker pelosi sent out a statement late today saying inrestingly enough that she says there must be some covid reef passed in this lame duck session of congress, thats the next two weeks. So we sees both es at least acknowledging they need to do something, whether they will is weve heard it before. Time. See if its real this lisa, thank you. Earlier, the attorney generaled bill barr said today in an interview the department of justice has found no widespread evidence of fraud that would change the ou of the election. G w is the president , how is his campaign respond this . Well, attorney general william barr has really angered the president s campaign as well as allies of President Trump mply by telling the truth, and that truth being that the election was not full ay sort of voter fraud that would have tipped the scales and changed the outcome, thus lending credibility to president elect biden is in fact the projected winner and President Trump is in fact the projected loser. Who are close to the president all day about this, they say they think attorne general william barr is a total failures and s a complete betrayal on his part talking to the Associated Press in that interview william barr told the Associated Press that some see the department of justice as a fixitall. Fahe was hinting at tht that people want to look at the courts and the criminal justiceu system that verturn this for President Trump and try to do that. Attorney general bill barr is making it clear hes not goi do that. As this goes on, the rhetoric is getting more tense from the Trump Campaign. We heard yesterday a Trump Campaign lawyer sug christopher krebs, the former u. S. Head of Election Security that preside trump fired, th he should be shot, judy. He said those words and now christopher creb says hes all of this is hang as a republican official in georgia tonight is saying someone is ing to get killed. We need you, President Trump, to really low down t rhetoric, calling out to the president. The president has not done that as of yet. Another thing to note, as all of this is happening, the president has continued to fund raise for this election defense fund. Hes raised at least sources. Lion, were told by so as the president is dealing with all of this, hes continuing to get supporters toe give him for what is really now a longshot bid to try to win back ne electn some way. Woodruff so disturbing, those reports about theia potefor threats and for loss of life, reabilly dist. Yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, we thank you both. Woouff while president elect joe biden won a decisive victory in this years president ial election, down ballot democrats across the country struggled to hold on to se8. S they narrowly won in 2 representative dna shalala, a democratic congresswoman from south florida, was among those who lost. She joins me now. Congresswoman swlal shalala, thank you for joining us. You ere one ofhe firstterm democrats who are defeated. What happened and how much of it was republicans target