Heal the soul of this country so that we can effectively address this crisis as one country. Were hardworking americans have each others backs. And now to our top story at 3 and may be months before president elect Joe Biden Takes Office but hes already getting the ball rolling with a new Coronavirus Task force on the heels of pfizer announcing early data its covid19 vaccine is 90 effective. President elect joe biden says a lot of work still remains which is why Biden Announces New covid19 Task Force Washington correspondent alexandra le mon has the details. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around president elect joe biden says a lot of work remains to be done to battle the coronavirus pandemic nearly 240,000 deaths so far. Protecting the projections still it okay we can lose. 200,000 more lives in the coming months thats what biden announced his new covid19 task force which includes a former Surgeon General former food and Drug Administration or and a yale professor biden
Of the legal challenges under way to help keep the president in the white house. And pointed out unproven allegations that poll watchers in states like pennsylvania were denied observance of the vote count in some communities we want an honest accurate lawful counts. We want maximum sunlight. We want maximum transparency. We want every legal vote to be counted. And we want every illegal votes to be discarded despite President Trumps refusal to concede president elect joe biden is moving forward ready to take office in january when he and Vice President elect Kamala Harris are officially sworn in today he details his new covid team just assemble to combat the crisis there is a need for bold action. To fight this pandemic that Advisory Panel includes 13 doctors and scientists who are part of this new coronavirus Advisory Panel he says will make Rapid Testing widely available across the country while building a core group of contact tracers to help battle this threat on vaccines are distr
The forecast. A nice one out there for us strike. Air force two had to turn back around and pence had to take a today . Yes, were enjoying this weather with beautiful skies and military cargo plane to get back comfortable temperatures. To washington. Lets head concord. More new images of a fire low 60s here. We will see a few clouds around onboard a u. S. Coast guard ship sunrise and quickly clearing as it was conducting a mission out. We will see our trend heading upward with a warmup that will abroad. It happened on sunday. Lead us into upper 70s around the fire was actually in the engine area. Lunch time. It took two hours for crews to looking at our microclimates put the fire out. Well reach into the upper 80s. Some were injured. The coast stays in the 60s. The fire is now under investigation. Well talk more about a weekend the ship is currently docked in heatup. Japan but its permanent home is mike, whats the update on the Traffic Alert . In alameda. The mission involves tracking
And a world war veteran. Were standing in front of that home on 2300 block of eagle avenue in alameda. Whats left of this home following that morning fire. The house going up in flames and crews finding that man deceased inside. Lets show you some video from our nbc bay area skyranger. According to alameda fire, theyre saying their fire started roughly before 6 00 a. M. Started seeing smoke coming out of windows and basement areas the crews were able to knock this out in 30 minutes, but they found the elderly man inside pronounced dead on the scene. He lived here decades, mostly by himself. He was a world war veteran and folks the this tightknit neighborhood described him as a fine man. Their worst fears were confirmed when he didnt come outside. Here is one of the neighbors i spoke to speaking about her neighbor this morning. He was old and we would all try to pitch in and help. And, you know, he would come out and sit on his porch every morning and everybody, you know, would give him
And we still ask that folks stay away from their homes. Were not completely out of the woods yet. Reporter at this nursing home and in neighborhoods, thousands of mandatory evacuation orders in place. I didnt take things that i need. Pictures and things like that that are very dear to me. Reporter in other communities, residents now returning, finding utter destruction and small signs of hope. Don meyers digging his wife julies wedding ring out of rubble of their home. Dropping one knee and proposing again. He and there is now a new wildfire down in san diego county, forcing more evacuations. There is not much relief in sight with these strong winds expected to continue into the weekend. Live in sylmar, california. And were getting a birds eye view of the thomas fire. The aircraft took this photo showing a gigantic plume over Ventura County earlier this week. Nasa says the aircraft wasnt even planning to capture the photo. It was actually performing an engineering flight test of one of