The major league defeat for President Trump and the possible signs of acceptance from him that he lost the election now even referring to a Biden Administration. Our nbc news investigation, new record covid outbreaks in Nursing Homes whats fueling the surge . Are they more prepared now than in the spring from the nfl to the ncaa, how bigtime college and pro sports are navigating new infections in their ranks. Will santa and all the presents make it this year . Dr. Fauci weighs in for all those Kids Big And Small who are wondering. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. As Public Health officials brace for the echo of Covid Infections they worry will follow a boom in holiday travel, the nations hospitals could hardly be more vulnerable tonight hospitalizations from the current wave of covid cases are setting new records. Icus finding whatever spaces they can to handle the spillover of very sick patients and now as millions get ready to travel home from thanksgiving, ho
Biden also unveiled a key figure on his Economic Team which includes his nomination of former Federal Reserve chair janet yellen to be treasury secretary, one day after he announced his Communications Team will be led by a Diverse Group of women. You see them there. And two weeks before the Electoral College meets to officially elect the next president , arizona officially certified joe biden as the winner. Were talking wisconsin. They will certify results later today after a partial recount ended with biden netting another 87 votes. The president himself remaining at the white house, still refusing to accept defeat and tweeting out more baseless charges and attacks. We want to begin with the latest on the transfer of power. Joining us is mike memoli with the Biden Transition Team in delaware. And carol lee near the white house, and sam stein politics editor for the bailey beasdail welcome. Mike, ill start with you on this. I want to start with those appointments critical in the Econom
How effective it is. Its good news. Lets go to senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Tell us about these numbers. More promising as they expanded the data pool than we first heard. Thats right. And the reason why theyre more promising, jim, its what you said, they expanded the data pool. We now have twice as much data as they had before, as moderna had before. More than twice as much data. That means the data is, well, twice as strong really. Lets look at what the data shows. It shows the vaccine is 94. 1 effective at preventing coronavirus. Now thats about as good as it gets. It doesnt get better than that. And that its 100 effective against severe disease. Lets talk a little bit about how moderna came up with those numbers. Nay didnt come out of the blue sky, there was a study that let them to those numbers. They took 15,000 people and vaccinated them and then they went out and lived their lives. The people got vaccinated, lived their lives. Only 11 people ended up getting co
There are no localized hot spots anymore either. The whole country is experien experiencing a major spread. If you follow the yellow line on your screen you see that deaths in the midwest are roughly double that of any other region. The u. S. Right now averaging 1,500 deaths and 164,000 new infections per day. Just on thanksgiving, the nation reported roughly 110,000 new cases. That actually does not even include reports from 20 states. They didnt report new numbers because of the holiday. The virus is raging with one of the busiest days of travel of the year still to come on sunday. More than 6 Million People have defied cdc guidance to stay at home and not travel this thanksgiving. Despite consistent guidance from Health Officials the state of florida remains defiant over the issues of masks and social distancing. The governor there, ron desantis extending an order this week that bans local municipalities for issuing fines for violating pandemic related mandates like face masks or li