Republican Senate Leadership roy blunt and newly elected congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis and nancy mace coming up. The country is crying out for healing. As President Elect biden fills his cabinet. Who will have chrome of the senate to potentially confirm them . Ill speak to georgia democrat candidate jon oshoff ahead. Hello. Im dane ma bash in for jake tapper in washington. The state of our union is preparing for the worst. Americans finish an unusual thanksgiving weekend, the nation is heading into what is expected to be a devastating month for the pandemic. Already 4 million new u. S. Covid cases and more than 34,000 deaths this month alone. We havent even begun to see the effect of thanksgiving travel, dinners, or black friday shopping. One Infectious Disease expert is now warning that the postholiday case surge will be destabilizing for the u. S. Health care system and the economy and Homeland Security with some projects of deaths will double double before vaccines are able to be
Its going to be a very hard thing to concede. What will be left of the Republican Party when he is gone . Ill speak to a member of the Republican Senate leadership roy blunt and newly elected congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis and nancy mace coming up. Plus, power play. Democrats and republicans face off in the last election of 2020. The country is crying out for healing. As President Elect biden fills his cabinet, who will have control of the senate to potentially confirm them . Ill speak to georgia democrat candidate jon oshoff ahead. Hello. Im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington. As americans finish an unusual thanksgiving weekend, the nation is heading into what is expected to be a devastating month for the pandemic. Already 4 million new u. S. Covid cases and more than 34,000 deaths this month alone. We havent even begun to see the effect of thanksgiving travel, dinners, or black friday shopping. One Infectious Disease expert is now warning that the postholiday case surge wil
To hospitals across the country anticipating their final. Now, more on this process. Reporter hey, maria teresa. Good evening to you. We are getting some new information from fedex about kind of their operations from today. What we know is that it is wheels down and then right back up. There are Freight Cargo Airliners right behind us here with the vaccine on, and they were here earlier today. They were able to transfer over into trucks and to other airplanes and go right back up again to other hubs and other routes across the country, like we mentioned some 636 sites total. Now, when it comes to all of this that goes into it, youll see here in this footage provided by fedex, it is a very urgent process but a delicate one. Each box has its own subzero housing to keep the temperature really low. It also has a tracker in it. There is Security Escort provided to these shipments, and of course faa is providing priority to any air flights going out that house the vaccine. And of course this
Despite urgent warnings, people are traveling this holiday week at the highest levels since march, more than 1 million flying in just 1 day tonight the parts of the country most at risk as hospitals see more Record Numbers. The search for solutions. How to keep schools open safely. Why some are succeeding even as the pandemic grows. The Big New Recall by gm, almost 6 million vehicles could be on the road with dangerous airbags. Which models are affected and holiday displays for our times, my report honoring the heroes on the front lines. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone there is Breaking News as we come on the air tonight. The governments General Services administration is for the first time acknowledging joe bidens win for president. Notifying the President Elect that the formal and official transfer of power can begin. The decision comes more than two weeks after biden was projected as the winner and after a series of legal an procedural defeats in Pr
And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten