it is truly a milestone moment for america. at this very moment the first rounds of shipments of the authorized pfizer/biontech covid-19 vaccine are now on the road to hospitals across the country in a months long process to vaccinate more than 300 million americans. the largest inoculation effort that the world has ever seen. nearly 3 million doses of that vaccine are expected to be distributed this week. and as many as 40 million doses could be distributed by the end of the year. d-day was the beginning of the end and that s where we are today. while this moment is extraordinary in time and i m proud to be here announcing where we are with distribution, we have a lot of work to do. we are not taking a victory lap. we know that the road ahead of us will be tough. we know that situations will occur, but we will figure it out together. this symbol of hope couldn t come soon enough as the united states experienced the deadliest week in this pandemic, averaging 200,000 in
the prospects of those two senatorial candidates. so much at stake, welcome, everybody and happy saturday to you i m neil cavuto, let s get right to it right now with mark meredith at the white house , the president will be leaving a little later this afternoon for that big trip and that s what we don t know, right, mark, exactly how much time he s going to devote to those candidates and how much to his own election. absolutely neil we have not gotten those advanced remarks and it s unclear even if the president would stick to the teleprompter during those remarks down in valdosta. it s both the president an the first lady making the trip down to south georgia for an event being organized by the republican national committee. they are calling it a victory rally with a focus being supposed to be at least on those two senate republican candidates facing a runoff in early january. this trip to georgia comes as the president s own legal team files a it new lawsuit friday challe
i would say that closing schools due to coronavirus is probably the biggest public health blunders in modern american history. well the rockefeller christmas tree lighting is tonight in new york city. but there are plenty of precautions if you want to see it in person. snowflakes falling two lane. red bo wreaths on the window pane. steve: good morning, everybody. red, white, and bluetiful christmas tree on 48th and sixth avenue on this wednesday, december 2nd, 2020. tis the season to wear a coat. right now outside it is 37 degrees. ainsley: it is. we need a little christmas in our lives. don t we. this has been one heck of a year. brian: right, steve i wish you had called me 3:00 in the morning. did i not wear a coat because i was under the impression yesterday was today. yesterday my hair had additional body to it because of the humanity and todahumidity. and today i m freezing. my girls are very mad at me because they have my hair and it has actual body and extra wave
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, you ll 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
written responses to russia s demands in their ukraine. the secretary of state saying the ball is now in russia s court as tensions heightened between moscow and kiev. one california the first of its kind gun laws requiring canova s to purchase liability insurance and pay an annual tax. what it could mean for gun owners across the country. begin tonight with the story. global supreme court justice stephen breyer and what i am told is his eminent retirement. white house correspondent kevin corke has all the details tonight, including how the administration is responding to questions about seeking his successor. very interesting responses to that question. good evening. not long after it was reported that supreme court justice stephen breyer what in fact leave the bench at term s end, at least reportedly, white house press secretary jen psaki insisted that president biden would stand by his promise to nominate a black woman into the high court. critics of course and that stra