Friday. That, too, a new high and in new mexico, the governor ordering statewide closure for all activities. Oregon announcing restrictions for the next two weeks including limits on gatherings. Idahos governor is now mobilizing the National Guard to help in the pandemic response. All of this as the Biden Transition Team is calling the pandemic a National Security threat. Noting the recent spike in cases and hospitalizations, calling this a grim day for the country, yet despite that very real threat and the numbers that dont lie. The white house is refusing to cooperate. Refusing to concede the election. Refusing to allow the Biden Transition Team access to daily briefings and classified information, information that could be vital in helping stop the spread of this disease. At this hour, thousands of President Trump supporters are gathering in washington. They are blasting the election, falsely claiming it was stolen. Cnn has a team of reporters around the country monitoring the latest developments on both the coronavirus and the biden transition. We want to begin in delaware where bidens team is meeting. Jason carroll there for us. The president elect has some Big Decisions to make in the coming weeks. How much of that could be a topic of discussion at the meetings today . Well, it definitely will be and, in fact, early this morning, cameras caught up with the president elect and his wife as they were out doing some exercising and someone shouted out are you closer to making any cabinet decisions and biden shouted back, yes. He did not elaborate beyond that. There will be continued conversations about cabinet choices. Names for all the key positions including treasury, health, as well as defense. Were told that biden is taking a deliberate approach to how hes going at namings the votes and fighting people. Everyone is going to come under intense scrutiny. Yesterday during a briefing with the Biden Transition Team they were asked, how your managing with all these road blocks being thrown up by the trump administration. As you say, the president elect not getting those intelligence briefings. The General ServicesAdministration Still holding up on that paperwork, not signing off. Not getting access to our resources. Not getting access to funds and so a Senior Adviser was asked, how are you proceeding when youve got the standoff between yourself and the gsa . Were not interested in having a food fight with the gsa administrator or anyone really. We just want to get access to intelligence information, to threat assessments, to the ongoing work on covid so that we can prepare to govern. Clearly, erica, the road blocks are there but theres some things the biden team, theyre doing to get around some of those road blocks with their covid19 response. They are working directly with state governors, with local officials on the ground in terms of coordinating that response. And in another example is when it comes to the pentagon. Basically what they are doing is theyve been reaching out to former officials from the pentagon who worked under former secretary jim mattis just to try to get a better sense of the inner workings of that department. So again, the road blocks are clearly there but the biden team clearly doing what it can to work around those road blocks. Erica . Jason carroll with the latest from delaware, thank you. Its now been one week since the election was called for joe biden. President trump still not admitting he lost the election, though he broke his silence yesterday to discuss the pandemic and a possible vaccine, although did not acknowledge his defeat. For the very latest, lets bring in Sarah Westwood who joins us from the white house. The president is not conceding. Not surprising at this point. The fact his administration is not yet helping the biden team with the transition. Weve heard what the biden team has to say. But thats really a Significant Development or lack of a development on its own. Thats right, erica. Thats a process that ordinarily would be well under way in a normal election year. Theres office space here in washington, d. C. , thats been set aside for the Biden Transition Team thats just sitting empty at the moment. Federal agencies across the government are effectively twiddling their thumbs being put in an awkward position because they havent received the signoff from this white house to begin making contact with their counterparts on the Biden Transition Team. And there are simply no signs that this situation is changing any time soon. President trump today is at the golf course. Theres no concession speech any of kind on the horizon for him now. And multiple cabinet members in Trumps Administration have also suggested that there might not even be a biden transition. And that is as the campaign is still pursuing legal challenges in states that biden won that are not going to overturn the results of this election. But yesterday, appearing in the rose garden, the president made just for a fleeting moment an acknowledgment of the possibility that he might not be getting a second term. This administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the whatever happens in the future, who knows, which administration it will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. Now pressure is mounting on the president from republicans to concede in some fashion, erica. Thats likely to grow in the coming days. Weve also heard from former white house chief of staff john kelly. He criticized his former boss yesterday. What did he say specifically . Yeah, former white house chief of staff john kelly is one of those republicans who is starting to put pressure on the Trump White House to initiate this transition process and to concede defeat in this eelection. I want to read you these strong words from kelly last night. The delay in transitioning is an increasing National Security and health crisis. It costs the Current Administration nothing to start to brief mr. Biden, ms. Harris, the new chief of staff and all identified cabinet members and senior staff as they are identified over the days and weeks ahead. And then he goes on to say, that said, the down side to not doing so could be catastrophic to our people, regardless of who they voted for. Now some republicans are also starting to push the white house to take steps towards a transition. Senator james lankford, a republican, is pushing the white house to allow president elect biden this access to the same classified information that President Trump receives in his briefing every day, erica. Sarah westwood with the latest from the white house, thank you. Also joining us, dr. James phillips, the chief of disaster medicine at George Washington university hospital. Good to see you this morning. As we look at these records, they really are mind boggling. Another record set on friday. More than 184,000 covid cases. New covid cases reported yesterday. Thats a jump of more than 30,000 from thursdays numbers. As you look at what is coming down the pike, you say were likely to see more of these restrictions and even perhaps shutdowns in certain areas. Put that in perspective for us. What could that really mean . How long could we be looking at . Thanks for having me on. You know, unfortunately, i think were almost right back to where we were in the spring. Its different than what it was when we saw cases spike simply in specific areas like new york. We watched as new york suffered and nearly had their Health Care System overwhelmed. But now were not dealing with just a single infection. Its every single major urban area in the country and in the state. What are we going to do about it and what do we have the collective courage to do . You know, the restrictions that are coming, and they are coming, and everybody should be prepared for that, they started sort of in chicago with mayor lightfoot and enacting some restrictions. Some stayathome orders. Weve seen oregon and the governor of new mexico do similar things. Hoping that its only for two weeks. But its the first dominos to fall and i think that americans need to be prepared that this is whats coming over the next few weeks. When you talk about americans needing to be prepared, i agree with you in a lot of ways. A lot of this feels like april because were seeing these new restrictions being announced one after another. There were a flurry of them yesterday afternoon. That being said, you know, as a people, i think the American People are in a much different place than in april. So how do you prepare people for that when were talking a lot about this spread being triggered in some cases by an understandable covid fatigue . Yeah, the fatigue is real. Its real for all americans, for the half that have been abiding by the appropriate restrictions and Wearing Masks and socially distancing. And for the other half of the country who seem to have taken a more political viewpoint of the science. Its the same. And what were seeing is that fatigue is leading to people taking chances. I am just terrified about whats going to happen with thanksgiving and the holidays like christmas and hanukkah. People are going to travel. People that would normally travel because they dont believe in the science and then those that are just fatigued who are willing to take some chances. And were going to see an unprecedented surge of cases following thanksgiving this year and, if people dont learn from thanksgiving, well see it after christmas as well. Leading us to what i hope will be a spike near the end of january based on the delayed times with incubation periods and the ten days it takes for people to be sick and have to be hospitalized. From a preparation standpoint, people need to remember, we have to flatten the curve. Were not talking about that anymore. Were seeing a spike thats really deadly, and we need to remember the basic things that are going to help fix this problem. When we look at hospitalizations, the fact theyve jumped significantly daytoday in the past week as well, were hearing from folks at hospitals around the country. We know the midwest is especially concerning for experts who are looking at that area. But its not just about having the beds to take care of people who are sick enough they need to be hospitalized. Its also about having the staff. That is a major concern today. Absolutely. As a disaster medicine specialist, those of us who work in the Emergency Management area, we worrying about Surge Capacity and plan for it. We think of it in three terms space, staff and stuff. Weve been working for ten months to increase our stuff. But when i go to work tomorrow im still going to be using one mask for the whole day. When it comes to space, were starting to run out. And thats nationwide. And that space is important, not simply because you may not have a place to be admitted if you get covid, but what about the people that have the normal routine illnesses and injuries. Heart attacks, strokes, trauma, infections. Were going to be losing out on beds for them. And those people are going to be are going to get sick and potentially die, and they will also be victims of covid despite having never contracted the disease. And at some point, if we get really overwhelmed, were going to be talking about crisis standards of care where we may have to be rationing materials and medicines for patients. And those are the decisions that no doctors want to make. Again, things were talking about now thatt we discussed in the spring. Appreciate your expertise. Thank you. Programming note for you. Dr. Anthony fauci will be on cnns state of the union tomorrow morning, 9 00 a. M. Jake tapper will be joined by senator bernie sanders, Governor Mike Dewine of ohio and reverend raphael warnock. Pro President Trump groups hitting the states in the Nations Capital. White supremacists among those calling for change. Plus, a new report says Rudy Giuliani is now in charge of President Trumps election lawsuit. So whats his strategy after a series of legal defeats . 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What are you seeing so far . There was a convergence of three different rallies. They had three different names. But everybody is sort of here together with a similar message. Theres a lot of folks here that believe the election was stolen. They believe that, obviously, incorrectly because even Donald Trumps appointed senior Election Security official has said that this is baseless. The fact that the election has been done and its been done properly. But i want to give you a look at the scene here. Were at freedom plaza. There are probably somewhere between 8,000 to 10,000 people that have now gathered. It started with a couple hundred this morning and has grown and grown and grown. We are expecting to march to the Supreme Court at some point. That was supposed to start a few minutes ago. But they are getting the crowd going here in washington, d. C. There are folks from all over the place, you know, from as far away as florida and texas and california. Weve seen a lot of different groups here including the far right proud boys, including mill ka itant groups like the 3 percenters. And some mainstream republicans who are expected to speak here, including members of congress. Well see if a couple of these folks will talk to me. Lets go through the crowd a bit here and give you a scene setter here. Theres folks all the way that way, this way and all the way down pennsylvania avenue. This young lady is on the phone. Can we ask you a couple of questions about your sign . Tell me what your sign says. Stop the steal. And what does that mean . It means that we want all of the votes audited and recounted and all of these swing states that stopped counting at midnight and mysteriously, miraculously came up with thousands of new votes, votes for biden the next day, and some of them are still counting and were saying we want an honest and Fair Election. Do you want the same places where donald trump won to also continue to count the vote . Sure. Sure. All of it . If theyre not done. The states have said they continued counting to when they were supposed to. Their laws are in place to stop counting at a certain point. But anybody that got their votes in before november 3rd or on november 3rd are counted, according to all of the different states. Do you think that all of the states that donald trump won were actually legitimate . Absolutely. And all the states that biden won, do you think those were legitimate . I dont think all of them were illegitimate. The ones that stopped counting mysteriously at midnight where trump had a significant lead and there was, what, water pipes burst in nobody stopped counting mysteriously at midnight. Yes, they did. Were watching the news. We follow it. We follow elections for years. Let me ask you something else. By the law, the media may say by the law. Thats not what our constitution says. Its what the state constitutions say. There are state legislatures are the ones that are going to step in now because the courts, as we know legislators have steps in and said this is a free and Fair Election, including one of the people donald trump put in place who is one of the federal security Election Officials who has come out and said that all of his claims are baseless and this was a free and Fair Election. What do you say to this . This is someone donald trump actually appointed to a position to be looking over for the security of the election . I think the people are not fooled. Weve been to the rallies. Weve watched the numbers. Weve watched the media who c