Retailers and the Small Businesses fighting to survive. How to find a deal and support your community. Shocking death the founder of zappos, the revolutionary shoe company, dies after a house fire keeping it real. The sudden run on Real Christmas trees. Why are so Many Americans dumping the fake one and kicking into history. I just want to tell like all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to. Like you really can. The first woman ever to play in a Major College Football Game this is Nbc Nightly News with jose diazbalart good evening. The message from Public Health officials remains the same socially distance. Wear a mask. But the numbers keep changing this weekend we surpassed 13 million covid cases in the u. S. We now have more people hospitalized for the virus than ever before. And tomorrow the number of people traveling is set to hit its highest number since the pandemic began. In one city the number of cases quadrupled in a month. Theyre now taking extreme
Because people have to get home by 10 00, that means i have to close an hour earlier. We lose revenue. Bills dont get paid because we count on that money on a friday and saturday night. Those are our busiest nights. Reporter down the street at this brewery, the owner says adapting to all the pandemic restrictions has been a roller coaster. But he thinks the temporary curfew wont change his bottom line by too much. We normally close at 10 00 anyways, and we do our last call like at 9 30. So by 10 00 we should be almost done. Reporter customers say theyll likely start coming out to eat a little earlier, but most say theyll keep coming. Not everyone agrees on the need for a curfew. We got to cut this virus. We got to take charge of it and, you know, thats one way to do it. Just close down early. To me, the virus doesnt have a time schedule, so doesnt make sense . It doesnt matter if youre out at 10 00 or 2 00. Youre going to get it, youre going to get it. Its just a reminder for everybody
Joe biden spoke earlier today. He is projecting confidence but also just asking for calm, asking for patience while the final votes are counted. As the battlegrounds finalize their vote counts, Democrat Joe Biden is gaining ground in a game of inches. We have no doubt that when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winners. So i ask everyone to stay calm, all the people to stay calm. The process is working. Reporter tonight President Trump refusing to acknowledge that his path to victory appears to be narrowing and claiming with no evidence whatsoever that the election is being rigged. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. Reporter earlier, his campaign challenged vote counting and made baseless claims of fraud in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and nevada. Give us access reporter on both sides today, very serious concerns. Protesters gathering outside a philadelphia counting c
Reporter meanwhile people are trying to adapt to a day without power. Most stores here are closed but not all of them. This couple says they managed to buy what they needed. We shopped by flashlight, and we paid cash. We were due two cents change, but we all forgot about that. Reporter people here understand they need to make sacrifices to stay safe. Were surviving. It could be much, much, much worse. Reporter in oakland, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. I want to give you a more detailed look at exactly where those outages are happening. First lets talk about the east bay. Most of the outages are in the oakland hills, which is right here. This is that whole montclair area that she was talking about. Some people without power on the Southeast Side of walnut creek, so were talking about this area right here, and then all along danville, which is right down here. So lets look at the north bay. 9,000 customers without power. Thats just in napa alone. So were talking about this region ri
Safe. We are in danville tonight with more. Reporter this is what the early voter found, this photo from a social media post was shared with us by the registrar of voters. He was called to the site this afternoon where he met the concerned voter who found the open ballot box. I personally went and inspected the box and it had about 100 ballots in it that were deposited within the hour that it wasnt completely secured. Reporter he said they had actually been at that and several other boxes in the area. Many were jammed pull of ballots. The Deputy Registrar says leaving the box unlocked is an embarrassing mistake. I was just coming to put my ballot in the box. Im very upset. Its disturbing. This is what were all worried about. Reporter the Deputy Registrar of voters says he doesnt believe anyone swiped or tampered with the ballots. But anyone who has concerns can track their ballot online. If they have any questions they can call the registrars office. If there is any reason a ballot is