-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello and welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. just ahead, joe biden hits the ground running. the president-elect taking action to show the coronavirus pandemic is his top priority. and he has a big job ahead of him. for the fifth day in a row, the u.s. reported more than 100,000 covid cases. with european allies alienated and sour relations with china, biden is inherited some major foreign policy challenges.

and many world leaders are already signaling an eagerness to work with the next administration. u.s. president-elect joe biden won't be sworn in for more than two months, but he is already working on the challenges facing the nation. priority one, the covid-19 pandemic. in the coming hours, he will speak about his coronavirus strategy and announce the 12 members of his new task force. virus cases surged to new heights while the u.s. was watching the vote come in. the u.s. has seen more than half a million new cases just since election day. and look at this map. it shows average daily infections are well over 1,000 a day in most of the country. texas and illinois are averaging more than 7,500 a day. the current president meantime still has not conceded and spent

sunday playing golf. his inner circle is reportedly fighting over whether to admit defeat. but sources say mr. trump wants a media blitz claiming, without proof, that the election was stolen. from the u.s. to europe and asia, cnn is covering this story from all around the world. so, let's start with our own jason carol. he's standing by in wilmington, delaware with what to expect from the president-elect in the coming hours. so, jason, multiple challenges ahead for jioe biden in his new role, the pandemic taking top priority. what is he expected to do in the hours ahead? >> right, rosemary. clearly the pandemic is the number one priority for this administration. health officials have already pretty much made it very clear that if the biden administration is going to get any sort of handle on the pandemic, it's really going to have to be an all hands on deck approach. this is something that the biden team knew. this is something that the biden

team was prepared for. they've been working behind the scenes for weeks meeting with health officials. in fact just last week vice president joe biden and senator kamala harris met with health officials about the pandemic. today, as you mentioned, the president-elect is going to be revealing more details about that 12-person coronavirus task force that he has put into place. he's going to be giving statements later today about what his plan is going to be to move forward with the pandemic and how to deal with the pandemic. that will obviously involve things like more of a national sort of plan to test people in this country, increase testing in the country. so, this is the number one priority set forth for this new incoming administration, and it's a very tall order. >> yeah, it all sounds incredibly encouraging, but realistically, jason, how much can the president-elect achieve

in the next 72 days while he waits to take office on january 20th? >> well, look, it's a good question. obviously there are a great deal of challenges that this administration, incoming administration, is going to face. they've been working behind the scenes, the transition team, since labor day behind the scenes trying to get things in order. there are certain things he can do as president-elect. he can put together his cabinet, make cabinet announcements. that's not expected to happen for a little while yet. but in these next time between now and when he's inaugurated on january 20th, these are the most important thing that this administration knows that lies in front of it is dealing with the pandemic. the big question is though will the outgoing administration, president trump and his administration, throw any monkey wrenches into the transition of power. these are some of the things that the biden administration is concerned about, but they're prepared for the good, bad and the ugly in terms of transition.

so, they're prepared for that as well. >> all right. jason carol, many thanks to you. joining us very late there in wilmington, delaware. we appreciate it. and far from conceding, donald trump's campaign is planning a messaging blitz to push the theory that his second term is being stolen through corrupt vote counts in battleground states. and that is just why it's also telling cnn that some key voices in the president's inner circle are encouraging him to accept defeat. boris sanchez is at the white house with more details on what we know at this point. so, boris, president trump refusing to concede, despite some, as we mentioned, within his own inner circle suggesting he accept his loss. what more are you learning about that? and of course this media blitz he's planning. what do we know? >> it's an interesting situation. first you have people close to the president broaching the

subject about a concession speech and whether the president should accept defeat at the hands of president-elect joe biden. according to our sources, the president's son-in-law jared kushner and the first lady melania trump has brought up the conversation with the president, but it is not something he is eeg tore do. instead, he is digging in his heels with denialism. the president being encouraged by aides, specifically his own attorney rudy giuliani, and according to sources his own son-in-law, again, jared kushner and other campaign aides to effectively go out there and take this denialism on the road. the president, apparently planning campaign-style rallies where he is going to try to make his case to the american people that this election was stolen despite no evidence at all of any inpropriety in the election. these rallies partly are expected to include moments where the president will reportedly read obituaries of people he claims passed away before the election but voted in

them. again, there is no evidence to indicate that any of these claims from the president and other republican officials are valid at all whatsoever. despite that, the president intends to move forward and he's being encouraged not just by these officials close to him but also very prominent republicans, senators like lindsey graham and ted cruz, even the governor of south dakota kristi noem saying the president should fight this. noticeably there are other republicans who are largely remaining silent. mitch mcconnell sent out a tweet effectively saying legal votes should be counted. very, very selected and careful lank waj, nothing like the boisterous incendiary claims we've heard from president trump. notably also we haven't heard much from mike pence. the last time we saw the vice president was wednesday early in the morning.

he followed up incendiary claims by the president with almost a hedging of the president's statement sharing only two or three sentences with the american people. he hasn't said much about the claims of dead people voting or the conspiratorial thinking that the president is engaged in. ultimately it appears they're waiting to see how the president responds to this, perhaps with a bit of hope that redwral will sink in. >> so, boris, what is likely to happen with these legal challenges, falsely claiming the existence of massive voter fraud. and what's next for donald trump when he does eventually leave office? >> so, as far as the lawsuits are concerned in different states, look, there are people that are close to the president, aides who will readily acknowledge in private that these lawsuits are weak, that ultimately they will not overturn the results of the 2020 election, especially when you consider some of these vote total leads by joe biden. more than 40,000 votes ahead of

president trump in the key swing state of pennsylvania, for example. ultimately, though, it's part of a tactic by the trump campaign and his attorneys to try to delay the transition and find a way to sort of circumvent the democratic process. as for president trump's future, he stills holds enormous power of the republican party. and you see that with the silence we're hearing from so many republican lawmakers and prominent republicans. the president ultimately will serve as a sort of king maker. and whoever he endorses or races national ily will get a boost from his support. after all more than 70 million americans voted for president trump. he'll also likely capitalize on that support. you can imagine there will be speaking engagements. perhaps ghost written books and more rallies. there are murmurs about a potential 2024 run if he ever

accepts he lost in 2020. >> many thanks. >> of course. meanwhile, former president george w. bush has congratulating biden saying though we have political differences, i know joe biden to be a good man who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country. the president-elect re-iterated that while he ran as a democrat, he will govern for all americans. i offered him the same thing i offered presidents trump and obama, my prayers for his success and my pledge to help in any way i can. republican senator mitt romney has also weighed in saying he has seen no evidence of widespread election fraud. here he was speaking to cnn's jake tapper. >> i understand what the president wants to keep on fighting. i do believe, however, that it's destructive to the cause of democracy to suggest widespread fraud or corruption. there's just no evidence of that

at this stage. and i think it's important for us to recognize that the world is watching. >> and many leaders from around the world are congratulating joe biden on his election win. there are still a few key heads of state holding back. cnn's nic robertson joins us now to bring us the reaction. so, what are the various leaders across the globe saying about this? >> you're right. people like president vladimir putin and the chinese, the li leader of china, xi jinping, who have not spoken out and congratulated as pretty much everyone else has. we heard from the saudis yesterday, the king and crown prince of saudi arabia offering their sin seen congratulations to joe biden. there's a real hope around the world that there is a real reset, that the uncertainty of a trump administration, the trade war that he started with china, the pulling back from

multinational, multilateral institutions that have been the hallmark of the u.s.'s sort of power and influence around the world and stop vacuums of powering opening up to be exploited by nefarious countries. that will come back under joe biden, president-elect. the assessment, i think you were mentioning and we've been talking about it here of what happens to president trump at the moment. how does he decide on his exit from the white house? of course that is really clearly being watched. but more than that, it's really now sitghts are set on president-elect joe biden. what is he going to do? how is he going to change things? the whole process very carefully watched. [ speaking foreign language ] >> a closely watched election,

not just in the united states but around the world. many leaders quickly sending messages of congratulations to president-elect joe biden. >> i look forward to forging a great partnership. >> it is clear now that the 46th president-elect is joe biden. >> even the uk's trump-friendly pm boris johnson shifting gears. >> i look forward very much to working with president biden. >> the win for biden is a hope for many u.s. allies that relations, strained after four years of donald trump's america first presidency, will return to what they once were. >> well, this is the image that people in europe are waking up to for the next american president. aviator sunglasses and all. and i think this encapsulates the message here that people around the world want as well, time to heal. you have it here in this newspaper as well. time to heal america, but time to heal the world as well.

there's a real feeling that president trump has bruised relations all around the world. people are now looking to biden to change that up. some trump allies still slow to shift. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who benefitted from trump moving the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem took more than 12 hours to issue a statement from the election results. and mexico's president andre manuel lopez obrador says he is waiting until the legal fighting is finished. >> translator: i can't congratulate one candidate or the other. i want to wait until the electoral process is over. >> reporter: iran is reacting with caution. its foreign minister says it will wait to see if biden abandons the, quote, lawless bullying of the outgoing regime. biden has said he would try to

revief the nuclear deal with iran struck by former president barack obama, which trump withdrew from two years ago. many people in iran said they would welcome relief from crippling u.s. sanctions that have hurt their economy. >> i feel things are somehow calmer. things will get even better for us, the people of iran. >> reporter: china also has had a rocky relationship with the trump administration over trade. some residents in beijing hope that will change. >> translator: i hope when biden becomes president, he can control the pandemic well and improve the bad relationship with china. >> reporter: but overwhelmingly many people across the globe say they've grown weary of the tweets and the tone coming from the current white house. >> i'm really hoping that, you know, outside of a late night reality show we never have to see him again. >> reporter: in london at the world famous madame tussauds' wax museum, they're working on

just that, trump not quite disappearing but off to play golf. >> so, president-elect joe biden top of his agenda as we hear is tackling the global pandemic. that really does seem to be the unifying international issue. you saw the european commission president congratulating joe biden. she is talking about strengthening and deepening those ties with the united states between the european union specifically on that, on the issue of the pandemic and the impact on the economy. and to that point as well, today you have eu-trained ministers meeting to discuss precisely that, new trade relationship resetting with the united states under a joe biden presidency. >> incredible. thanks for that great report too. nic robertson joining us there live. a surge in cases and a new strategy. president-elect biden is said to unveil his plan to fight coronavirus today as new case numbers in the u.s. soar.

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covid-19 is the first item on president-elect joe biden's agenda, and that's for good reason. new case numbers are exploding across the country, and many health experts say it's going to get worse. take a look at this. more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases were confirmed nationwide sunday. that's the fifth straight day new cases have topped 100,000. president-elect biden will outline his plan to fight the pandemic today and will name a coronavirus task force. it'll be led by prominent doctors and scientists. one former fda commissioner says biden can do a lot to suppress the virus without resorting to a national lockdown. >> we don't need to shut down the country, close businesses, tell people they need to stay at home to get some measure of control over this virus. we're not going to get perfect control over this virus. it's a contagious virus. it doesn't need to spread.

>> so, let's bring in dr. darra o-carl. good to have you with us. as the u.s. hits record numbers of new daily covid cases, president-elect joe biden making the pandemic his top priority, preparing to announce a 12-member task force guided by science. it is the polar opposite of what we have seen under the trump administration. what's your reaction as a doctor? >> yeah, really looking forward to it. i wish it would have happened sooner. it's been shown time and time again as soon as you politicize the virus and politicize the science, things go the wrong direction and that's what we're seeing at the moment. we're having the highest number of cases we've ever seen, record breaking every single day. and this is not portraying well for the rest of this fall and the winter.

and we've still got a lot of days and a lot of months to go. and what that means is a lot of suffering. so, if things were to change around, if say, you know, i would anticipate one of the first things they would do is something akin to a national mask mandate or at least a national testing and mask strategy, you know, that would save quite honestly hundreds and thousands of lives. >> yeah, i mean, it is -- it's hard to know what joe biden can actually achieve until he's actually in office. but once he gets there, let's talk about how he can turn this around. you mentioned there a national mask mandate. it is more than likely that that will be one of the first things he does. what would you advise him to do apart from that if you had his ear? >> sure, absolutely promote masks. we do know it's one of the simplest yet most efficacious tools that we have at our disposal and we'll continue to have at our disposal, increasing

the production of our vaccinations that are in hot development. we doe have to see the efficacy data. we do have to see the safety data. those aren't completely out yet nor robust at the moment so, we do need to evaluate those. but if they do come out to be efficacious, we need to increase the production and get those distributed. we do have -- most of our states have had to submit distribution plans and just continue to be a figure that promotes science, promotes the best epidemiological ways to combat this virus rather than strictly looking at the economy. the economy is very important, but what we do know -- and i have to say it again, what we're seeing time and time again, is that our economic health is tied to our public health. let's get our public health in line and then we can enjoy the fruits of unencumbered life from this virus. >> president trump remains in

power for another 72 days or so. he was seen playing golf over the weekend, so is pandemic is not pa lrnt ion his mind. we're not going to see a national mask mandate or more ppe produced by invoking the defense production act or rapid covid tests made more accessible. so, without all that, how bad could this pandemic get by january 20th, do you think? what will joe biden be taking on when he takes office? >> you know, some models are predicting that without a national mask mandate we're going to have another 135,000 deaths by january. and that's astronomical and that's inexcusable. and that needs to be rectified. and if president trump wanted to somehow turn around some sort of blip in his presidency and save american lives, you would think about following public health guidance because he's got nothing to gain by not at this point. golfing doesn't sound like he's thinking about it very hard, as you mentioned. so, i would recommend all of those things you just mentioned

and really looking forward to this being guided not only in the climate health sense because that is also going to be causing a lot of public health misery in the years to come. but getting this coronavirus in order. iem sure they're going to be like racehorses let out of the gate from day one. >> we'll all be watching. thank you so much for joining us and for all that you do. >> thanks so much. of course it's not just the united states. the rest of the world is also struggling to get the pandemic under control. the number of confirmed cases worldwide has now topped 50 million. that's according to johns hopkins university. more than 1.2 million people are confirmed to have died from the virus. the countries with the highest numbers of infections are the united states followed by india, brazil, france and russia. well, the republican party might not be congratulating joe biden yet, but some world

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welcome back everyone. how the world is reacting to the u.s. election. russian president vladimir putin has been silent on joe biden's win so far. it's worth noting that he congratulated president trump just hours after his win back in 2016. and russian state tv is amplifying mr. trump's unfounded claims of election fraud. meanwhile, south african president has offered his congratulations and says he's looking forward to working with

the new administration. and south korea's leaders are closely watching after seeing president trump take a different approach to handling north korea but say they don't expect the biden administration to revert back to the obama era policy of strategic patience. so, let's bring in our team from around the world, frederik pleitgen is in berlin, doug mckinsey is in johan necessaryburg and paula hancocks joins us from seoul. no surprise russian state media is repeating claims of voter fraud and president putin is remaining silent. what is the latest on all this. >> you're absolutely right. for the past several days russian state kremlin controlled state media has been amplifying the false claims president trump has been making, essentially calling the election illegitimate, especially the

mail-in ballots something they're taking aim at. pretty much all of that is for domestic consumption. the americans keep talking so much about the short comings of democracy in russia so, look at the election that's taking place there in the united states. again, amplifying the false claims that have been made by president trump to try and discredit the entire political process inside the united states. then you have the kremlin. you're absolutely right. so far vladimir putin remains mute on the election, and he certainly did only after a few hours congratulate president trump in 2016. one of the things that we've heard from the kremlin in the past from vladimir putin in the past is that obviously he knows that whoever is going to be in the white house is going to be the person he's going to have to work with. he's worked with several administrations, some that were more or less hostile towards moscow. the russians are going to take this the way it comes. essentially what vladimir putin has said is he said look, of course there are certain things

he leeked about president trump, a lot of things president trump said about vladimir putin, taking a soft line every now and then. but for instance as far as arms reductions treaties are certained, the russians are saying they do have a path there with a possible biden administration first and foremost the start treaty. >> let's go to david mckinsey in johannesburg. what's been the reaction to biden? >> all rather quickly congratulating on social media president-elect biden for his win. that was to be expected. i think there is a sense that the trump presidency, as an individual leader he had ignored the african continent in public. he didn't travel here.

and in private he was seen to make disparaging remarks that many see as racist towards countries on the african continent. there is an expectation that they'll get a more conventional american policy towards their country with biden coming in. he's obviously a known factor to many leaders because of his role in the obama presidency. it is a complicated relationship with different countries having different areas of concern with the americans, but i think there are a couple of factors that might change quite rapidly with biden coming into the presidency in just those first few days. the incoming president has said they will get rid of those restrictive travel bans that have affected several african countries in terms of immigration, rejoining the paris accord. and africa, of course, many countries adversely affected by climate change more than other regions.

as well as reengagement with the world health organization. and with the ongoing covid pandemic, there will be a sense from public health leaders that they might stand a better chance of having a multilateral approach towards accessing a vaccine from the biden campaign, something that could be critical for moving past this pandemic, rosemary. >> many thanks to david mckinsey there. we turn now to paula hancocks live from seoul. good to see you, paula. what's being said in south korea and any reaction coming out of north korea at this time? >> well, rosemary when it comes to south korea, there was a fairly swift congratulations from president moon jae-in, also says he's going to see there's going to be no vacuum, no gaps between the two administrations when it comes to the peace process. he doesn't believe it will change radically. also when it comes to alliances. of course we have heard from president elect biden. he wrote an op-ed that he will be encouraging closer alliances,

something he believes donald trump did something very different, the exact opposite in fact. but when it coms to north korea, we hasn't yet heard a response. it's not unusual. it does take pyongyang to react to whoever's won the u.s. election. but it's likely this is not the result that the leader kim jong-un wanted. had haez spent a lot of time and effort with president donald trump. they have had three historic meetings. there were countless letters which mr. trump called love letters. clearly it was a top-down approach. it was all about the relationship between these two leaders. that is likely to change quite radically now. we've heard from president-elect biden. he called kim jong-un a thug during one of the presidential debates. but he has said he could meet with kim jong-un if needed, but he would have to know there had been some kind of nuclear or

weaponry capability given up in order to get that particular meeting. and he has been very critical of the way that president trump has dealt with north korea. when it comes to what north korea thinks of president-elect biden, they have insulted him, as they do every leader they deal with really. they called him a fool of low iq. and clearly most experts would say there could be in the next few months a test of the new biden coming into power, north korea likely to do some kind of so-called provocation to see what the boundaries are and how biden would react. rosemary. >> all right. many thanks to paula hancocks, david mckinsey and frederik pleitgen . let's talk now to ambassador christopher hill, former u.s. ambassador to south korea, iraq, poland and north mass done yachlt great to have you with us. >> real pleasure. >> so, on january 20th,

president-elect joe biden will need to hit the ground running on foreign policy issues mending fences across the globe after four years of president trump turning u.s. diplomacy on its head. how big a challenge will this be and what will joe biden's top priorities need to be? >> as your question suggests, it's going to be quite a challenge. there's a lot to do there. i suspect one of his initial moves will be, of course, as he's talked about recently, which is to rejoin the paris climate change accord. i think that will probably be number one. but i think soon on its heels will be an effort really to work with our allies. joe biden is someone who really believes in relationships, and i think like all of us he's been very worried about what has happened to our alliances. so, i think you'll see a big effort to kind of reattach the u.s. to its partners and allies in the world. beyond that, a lot of other things going on, including dealing with crises and other

problems around the world. >> so, what does the president-elect need to do when it comes to north korea and russia, given the mixed signals both those nations received from president trump in the last four years? >> well, i think president-elect biden is someone interested in having relationships around the world where we can talk to people. so, i don't think he'll see this past problem the u.s. has sometimes had about not wanting to talk to people. but i think the president-elect will be very serious about being clear and what our problems are. we do have big problems with russia. we certainly have a huge problem with north korea. and i might add as somebody who spent four years negotiating it, it's not really in a better place -- it's not at all in a better place as a result of the sort of reality tv diplomacy we saw from president trump.

so, it's going to be a big effort there. and finally i think it's very important to look very hard at the situation which is also part of the effort to repair our alliance relations. >> yeah, i mean what needs to happen with the iran nuclear deal originally brokered of course by the obama administration abandoned by president trump in 2018. >> well, i think it will be -- in the united states it will be kind of tied to the effort that i think the president-elect has taukted about, which is the need to kind of regain some civil tone in this country and maybe lay things out to the republicans who will still be a powerful force in the congress and see if there can be a better understanding of what we have to do going forward. you know, there are a lot of orepublicans who really objected to the iran deal. i think we've seen in the last four years that whatever president trump thought he was going to put up in its stead, he

hasn't improved the situation. i think there will be a lot of diplomacy to be sure with the other countries involved in the iran deal, but there will perhaps be more diplomacy internally in the u.s. in trying to make people understand this is the best way forward. there may be other elements to it. there may be an element of working out the issues in the middle east. it's hard to say at this point. that's something for the president-elect to determine. but clearly something needs to be done because right now it is not in a good place. >> and ambassador, what about the trade deals donald trump abandoned during the course of his administration? how difficult will it likely be to renegotiate some of those deals? >> when you ask how difficult it will be, that's easy. it will be very difficult. there are a lot of issues, a lot of concerns certainly about china. and one of the distinguishing features of this american presidential election was the fact that there was a lot of similarity between the two

parties in their weariness and wariness about dealing with china. but i think what you'll see is a real policy and effort to kind of take up the issue and see what we can do with it. rather than pronouncements that were never often implemented and often kind of left out there as a sort of sound bite which really didn't need to any policy follow up. i like to think that one of the big changes we'll see coming up is we're going to have diplomacy to be sure but we're also going to have diplomacy with diplomats. i think the big issue here will be to rebuild the state department, which has really been allowed to -- has suffered greatly in the last four years. >> ambassador christopher hill, a pleasure to talk with you. thank you. >> thank you. well markets around the world are reacting favorably to joe biden's projected win. up next, a look at why investors

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well, joe biden's projected victory seems to be pleasing the stock market. cnn's selena wang joins us now from tokyo with a closer look. good to see you selena. favorable reaction so far. how sustainable is this? >> rosemary, clearly markets here are embracing a joe biden presidency. the markets before this weekend were already expecting joe biden to be victorious. and now the focus here is really on na senate race. investors are expecting republicans to withhold the senate. as well as leading to more moderate regulation. but others were hoping for a blue wave that they sebringing in even more stimulus spending and linked to even more economic

growth. rosemary, regardless of who becomes president, that big factor that is really driving the markets is the pandemic as well as the federal reserve. the fed is going to maintain those low interest rates. me meanwhile the pandemic continues to rage in the unitedstates with no sign of slowing down. joe biden can be more effective at containing the virus. he's already assembling a coronavirus task force. if you look at here in the japan, the nikkei trading at three-year highs is continuing to edge even higher. investors globally are really hoping that trump -- unlike trump, biden is going to bring diplomacy back to a more moderate stance wit comes to foreign policy and trade. when it comes to trade, markets rally here as well even though joe biden isn't expected to change the direction given the

bipartisan consensus of the tough china policy. at the least, the hope is it will lead to a predictable policy around china. rosemary. >> selena wang, thanks for joining us live. u.s. vice president-elect kamala harris is preparing for her new role. we'll look at the impact she's likely to has as second in command at the white house.

>> every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. and to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message. dream with ambition. lead with conviction. and see yourselves in a way that others may not simply because they've never seen it before. but know that we will applaud you every step of the way. >> kamala harris making history as the first female and the first black and south asian vice

president-elect. cnn's kyung lah looks at why this moment means so much for girls across the country. >> reporter: wearing the color of the women's right to vote movement a century ago, vice president-elect kamala harris showed the world what the future now holds. >> every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. >> the audience mirroring her message. >> now we know that we have hope to do that. >> from those who saw her in person. >> as a refugee myself, i came here 11 years ago, i'm really excited to see her in the office. >> reporter: to those who spilled into city streets. >> today was a monumental day. i didn't wake up this morning expecting for this to be one of the best days of my life, but it really is.

>> a woman made history! >> reporter: to posts across social media. ♪ women and girls, especially those of color, celebrating themselves, finally reflected in one of the most powerful positions in the country. paving the path has been a passion for harris. the daughter of jay may can and indian immigrants. >> when i see those little girls in particular i mean i see myself, right? and i see the children of my family and i see the children of our country. and i see the promise of our country. my mother had many saying, and one of them is you may be the first to do many things. make sure you're not the last. >> reporter: a dream now realized. >> while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not

be the last. >> reporter: and it's not just with future generations that harris hopes to have an impact. it's with women right now, as we saw during her presidential run and also her time as a senator, she hires a diverse staff, leaning on women of color, and placing those women in decision making roles. kyung lah cnn, scottsdale, arizona. >> thank you so much for joining us. i'm rosemary church. have yourselves a great day. want to brain better?

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to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is "early start," i'm laura jarrett. >> nice to see you. i'm christine romans, it is monday, november 9th. it is 4:00 a.m. in new york. 72 days until the inauguration of joe biden as the 46th president of the united states. a no concession, no problem, a biden transition official tells cnn that work preparing for a new administration is moving quickly, despite president trump rejecting the election results. biden's top priority coronavirus and with good reason. the