Berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day, it is friday. Oh, fantastic we keep getting here pretty quickly now. But we keep being surprised by it. Its december 91, 6 00 here in new york. This morning, the first Coronavirus Vaccine in the United States is a giant step closer to arms in need. An Fda Advisory Panel recommended emergency use authorization of the Pfizer Vaccine. The fda itself could sign on as early as today, which means the first shots could be given in days, the beginning of next week. Hospitals across the country are now receiving supplies ahead of the vaccine shipments. Also overnight, a really interesting and important setback for a separate drugmaker. Sanofi and glaxosmithkline announced that their vaccine showed an insufficient immune response in clinical trials. The u. S. Government had actually been depending on this vaccine as well, had prepurchased, what, 100 million doses of this one, as well. Back to the drawing board for these companies, and now they dont expect their vaccine to be ready until the end of next year. Still, the pandemic raging out of control. The deadliest week in the u. S. Since it began. The cdc director says for the next 60 to 90 days, the u. S. Should expect more deaths each day than we had on september 11th. Every day for up to 90 days, he says. Hospitalizations in the United States, they just keep on rising, which means, frankly, the death toll likely will not drop in any substantial way for a long time. More than 107,000 americans hospitalized this morning. According to a cnn analysis, as of last week, a third of hospitals nationwide were at 90 capacity in their icus. We also have big developments in washington overnight. Stimulus negotiations appear to be on the brink of collapse. Finger pointing could lead to a shutdown of the u. S. Government tonight, if the senate is not able to pass a spending bill. The house has adjourned, members going home for a few days without getting the relief that so Many Americans desperately need. And these 106 House Republicans did find time to sign on to a farfetched trumpbacked texas lawsuit that seeks to invalidate millions of valid votes. We will get into that and who these folks are. But we begin with the pandemic. Cnns Adrienne Broaddus is live in chicago at a hospital preparing for the arrival of a Coronavirus Vaccine. What are they doing this morning, adrienne . Alisyn, good morning to you. Here at Rush University medical center, theyve transformed this hallway into a vaccination distribution center. You see behind me, they have bays set up, and when the vaccine arrives, theyll be ready to roll it out. But first, weve got to get through the next few weeks. As the pandemic continues to worsen across the country, one ray of hope, with an Advisory Board for the food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for pfizers Coronavirus Vaccine. I voted yes. I think we know enough now to say that this appears to be our way out of this awful, awful mess. Reporter after the full fda signs off, which can happen at any time, an Advisory Panel for the centers for Disease Control and prevention is expected to vote sunday, whether to recommend the vaccine. Once the full cdc signs off, vaccinations can start. Here in chicago, hospitals are preparing. Theyre starting to receive the Pfizer Vaccine by getting freezers capable of storing the vaccine ready at the appropriate temperature. Theyre also setting up vaccine bays like this one at Rush University medical center, to streamline the vaccination process once emergency use authorization is granted. We, as a nation, need to continue to wear the masks, to keep the physical distance, to avoid crowds. Were not through with this just because were starting a vaccine program. Reporter but as the country prepares for the potential first vaccine doses, some hospitals are quickly reaching their breaking point. Cdc director dr. Robert redfield thinks the next few months will be tough. Probably for the next 60 to 90 days, were going to have more deaths per day than we had at 9 11 or we had at pearl harbor. More than 2,700 deaths were reported thursday. And in the first ten days of december, the United States reported more than 2 million new coronavirus infections. More than 107,000 coronavirus patients are in the hospital, a record. In new mexico, the surge forcing the state to activate its, quote, crisis cares standards, including suspending all nonessential surgeries. Los angeles county shattering its daily case record again, reporting more than 12,800 new cases. Its happening so quickly, sometimes we cant even take in these numbers. Thats up 128 since last week. 300 since last month. 1,000 since a month and a half ago. Reporter and pennsylvania seeing a substantial uptick in cases this month. Starting saturday, indoor dining, gyms, and indoor entertainment, such as movie theaters, will close until january 4th. Over the past several weeks, its become clear that we need to take further mitigation actions to protect pennsylvanians and stop the spread of covid19. We all hoped it would not come to this. And lauter today, rush will test the system that they have put in place. You can call ate drill. Its their way of seeing any unforeseen issues before those muchneeded shots are given to health care workers. Good, yes. A dry run. That seems really important. Adrienne, thank you very much for that reporting. So also developing this morning, congressional negotiations on the critical Coronavirus Relief package appear to be on the brink of collapse. Sources tell cnn that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell sees no path for bipartisan agreement on two key sticking points, funding for state and local governments, which democrats are pushing for, and corporate liability protection, which republicans want. 12 million unemployed workers will lose aid by christmas if congress does not act by the end of next week. And desperately is growing across the country. Food lines stretched for miles in cities like los angeles yesterday. New u. S. Unemployment claims just hit their highest level since midseptember. While this is happening, the threat of a Government Shutdown looms over a separate shortterm spending bill that will only fund the government through next week. They wanted to fund it shortterm to reach this bigger deal, but even that might not work. The senate has until midnight tonight to pass this bill. Senator brrernie sanders is demanding the senate vote on a provision to give americans 1200 stimulus check and senator rand paul is also standing in the way over this in his opposition to a separate defense policy bill. The house has gone home for the weekend. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris will formally announce new cabinet nominees and more senior advisers today. Cnns jessica dean is live in wilmington, delaware, with a preview. So what do we know, jessica . Reporter well, good morning to you, alisyn. This is a larger group that were going to be introduced to later this afternoon. Let me walk you through some of the names that will be introduced, some of the people that will be introduced. Denis mcdonough has been tapped to lead the department of veterans affairs. Hes president obamas former chief of staff. And they were looking for someone with government experience to really know how to pull the levers of government in a notoriously challenging agency to run. Also, ohio congresswoman marcia fudge has been tapped to lead the housing and urban development department. And also, tom vilsack, former Iowa Governor tom vilsack has been tapped to reprise his role as agriculture secretary. Thats a role he had for the entirety of the obama administration. Now, all of those are Senate Confirmed posts. So they will all go through the Senate Confirmation process. Were also going to hear about susan rice today. Of course, she was in the mix as a potential running mate to biden and also as secretary of state, but she has been tapped to lead and be the director of the white house domestic policy counsel. So her portfolio will oversee, as it says, all of the domestic policy here in the United States. Thats a lot of bidens build back better plan that we heard about on the campaign trail infrastructure, clean energy. There are a host of things that shes going to be walking through and working on. That is not a senateconfirmed post. That is an appointee post. Now, we are also learning that biden is hoping to complete his cabinet by christmas. So theres a deadline, it might move around, but right now the hope is to get everyone announced by christmas, before the christmas holiday. Now, all of this is coming as overnight, Time Magazine named president elect biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris as its person of the year, saying theyre changing americas story. They also named dr. Anthony fauci and Front Line Health Care workers as guardians of the year. Of course, alisyn, dr. Fauci will continue to serve in his capacity that he has been and also come on as biden and harris chief medical adviser, as they work to get their arms around this pandemic. Alisyn . Jessica, thank you so much. Shouldnt person of the year be plural . Persons of the year. Also, apparently the president is suing Time Magazine because he didnt win. Hes filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court because he didnt win the person of the year. Oh, breaking news. Thank you very much for that update. Now, the Fda Advisory Panel has recommended pfizers vaccine, what exactly is next . We break down the next steps. Y terrifying. I felt like i was just fighting an uphill battle in my career. As a little kid i knew that i wanted to work with computers. So when i heard about the applied Digital Skills courses, that definitely appealed to me. Youre learning how to create spreadsheets, documents, forms and surveys. Im thinking i can become more marketable. I got to about the third course and im like, you know, i probably could do this for a living. You dont need to be a computer expert to be great at this. These are skills lots and lots of people can learn. 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First of all, its good news today that the eua may be issued today, or even if its not, early next week, thats just fabulous news. Start rolling out the vaccine. And that will be the beginning of a long road to recovery. I think the timeline of summer fall feeling like were back to normal, yes, i think its possible. A lot of stars will have to align. You know, we estimate with a group in new york that about 60 to 80 of the u. S. Population would have to be vaccinated in order to halt transmission of the virus. Thats a pretty high bar. It means well probably have to vaccinate adolescents and some pediatric younger pediatric population and we have to have those trials in place. Were going to need more vaccines. Doing it alone with the mrna vaccines, i dont think the technology is robust enough to have all of the Vaccination Program done through mrna vaccines. Its possible, but i think well need the other adnovirusbased vaccines, so well need more players in this. And then, you know, were going to have to convince americans to take the vaccine. And we have pretty aggressive antivaccine lobby. So far no one has shown any appetite for going up against the antivaccine lobby. So a lot of things have to happen. But definitely, the message is with each passing month now, im hopeful that things will start to get better. Well start returning to a more normal american life. And im so excited that we have this opportunity through vaccinations. So you say were going to need more vaccines. There was really interesting and perhaps Surprising Development overnight glaxosmithkline and sanofi, which had been or is developing a vaccine, a vaccine the u. S. Government has been counting on and preordered just as many of those doses as they did for the Pfizer Vaccine, 100 million doses, theyre not happy with the results theyre getting and going back to the drawing board. What are they saying . They say theyre not seeing the immune response theyd hoped for in older patients. You can look at this glass half empty, glass half full, i think it all the mark remarkable that moderna and pfizer are having the success that they have. It tells me that success isnt guaranteed and we should rejoice in the success that we have, but how much of a setback is it to get all the doses that you said you wanted . I thought it was great that sanofi and gsk were just transparent about it. Thats a sign of classy companies, willing to do that. Number two. The shingrix vaccine that many of us over the age of 50 have taken is a recumbent vaccine with aso1. The sanofi Covid Vaccine is a similar kind of thing. So im a little surprised that that happened. And the setback is not only for the u. S. You remember, we dont have a lot of vaccine options globally for low and middleincome countries, because were hearing that the Moderna Vaccine may be too expensive, were hearing that the Pfizer Vaccine with that minus 100 degree deep freeze requirement is going to be very tough for a lot of low and middleincome countries. So we were counting you know, sanofi gsk had been willing to indicate that they would be willing to donate 200 million doses to the sharing facility, so we were counting on that vaccine and were rung out of options for low and middleincome countries. Maybe the two adnoviruses, we really needed that one. I hope we can work this out. We hope so, too. Lets just put up on the screen what the next steps are that everybody wants to know, as far as we know, what lp happening today and early next week. So soon, the fda will authorize the emergency use. We dont know, again, if thats this morning, if its today, if its tomorrow. And then fooupfizer will begin shipping process. And we know that pharmacies and governors are waiting with open arms to receive those. On sunday, the Cdc Advisory Committee will vote to recommend the vaccine, if everything continues as scheduled. The cdc must accept a recommendation and tuesday, the first shipments of the vaccine could be available, if everything follows suit. Is there any way to speed any of this up . I mean, time is of the essence here. When i read the fda, yesterday, it green lit it, but it still has to authorize it. And the cdc has to receive it. And is this just bureaucracy standing in the way at this point . Yeah, i mean, the way it reads, it makes it sound like red tape, but i think its more substantiative than that. There are still questions that need to be resolved regarding how were going to handle this vaccine for pregnant women, because pregnant women are getting hit really hard with covid19. How do you manage that . How do you weigh risk versus benefit . There are some tough decisions to make with pregnant women. Theres tough decisions to make on the 16 and 17yearolds. We heard last night that the four dissenting votes might have been because of the 16 and 17yearolds and how you manage that. You know, you have the two allergic reactions in the uk. And, you know, theres and the uk took a very draconian measure of saying that were not going to give the vaccine to individuals for now who have a severe al