because of what's happened. testing measures are the way forward to build confidence and get people flying again. i'll see you in london tomorrow. >> sounds good, darling. thank you so much. thank you for joining us this hour. kate bolduan. john king picks up coverage right now. hello to viewers in the united states and around the world. john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. dr. anthony fauci wants you to know a new coronavirus vaccine development is, quote, good as it gets. president trump wants you to know he won the election. dr. fauci lives and works in the real world, a place where science and facts matter. the president favors conspiracy and is pedaling theories even his own lawyers are backing away from. another tweet from the president, i won. the man that did win, president-elect, joe biden, plans a big economic speech next hour how to build back better and how to dig out of a deep

pandemic recession. this vaccine could be an assist to the next president, navigating the next several months until it is available is a giant public health and economic challenge. early data suggests moderna vaccine is 95.5% effective. truly outstanding the way dr. fauci frames preliminary results. president trump's reaction, tweets historians better give him credit. the news comes at a bleak moment in the pandemic fight. 11 million cases, 246,000 american deaths, 45 of 50 states trending the wrong way. 13 consecutive days with 100,000 plus new infections. the vice president leads a coronavirus call with the nation's governors. the president can't be bothered with such things. multiple task force officials now publicly confirm the president has not physically met with the nation's top coronavirus experts in five months. in those five months, nearly 9 million new infections and

126,000 american lives lost. dr. fauci this morning says the virus is not going to call timeout, which is why we have two transitions to worry about, one, trump to biden, the other from raging pandemic to a vaccine. >> with the vaccine, i say help is on the way, it certainly is. but the fact that help is on the way should spur us even more to double down on some of the public health measures to be able to use the combination of a vaccine and public health measures to turn this thing around. we can do it. >> we can do it, dr. fauci says, but there's a difficult crossroads now, the trouble we're in at this moment and hope of a vaccine down the road a bit. let's look at the numbers right now. this is the here and now. a vaccine is several months away for most americans. 45 states, orange and red. 45 states. that means more new coronavirus infections now compared to a week ago. 45 states headed the wrong

direction. you see deep red, 50% or more. more covid infections now compared to a week ago. you see 11 states, including california, colorado up here from the midwest toward the northeast. 50% more, at least new infections now, compared to a week ago. the death trend sadly up in many states as well. 28 states, 11 of them 50% plus more deaths this week than last week. 28 states in all reporting more deaths from coronavirus now compared to a week ago, eight are holding steady, 14 having a downward trend. this is stunning. 300 days ago we had the first confirmed case in the united states. you see the steady climb of cumulative infections. here's what's stunning. november 9th, we hit 10 million. yesterday, we hit 11 million. six days from 10 to 11 million. you see the climb, it is growing exponentially because of the spike in new cases. here's what the case time line

looks like. back at the beginning, bit of a plateau, up to summer surge. dropped down, now straight up. sunday, 133,000 new infections, 13 consecutive days. 13 consecutive days of 100,000 new infections across the united states. that's the steepness of the challenge we are in now. with more cases comes hospitalizations. you see again, shy of 70,000 americans hospitalized yesterday from coronavirus. in the first and second times up the hill, 60,000 was the peak of hospitalizations. we have blown past that, destination unknown as the number continues to go up. because of that, because of new cases and hospitalizations, accurate states announcing restrictive measures since friday, from new jersey in the east to california, oregon, washington in the west. new restrictions as governors decide i have a problem on my hand, i need to do something to fix it. eight states we'll watch the weeks ahead as case count goes up if we get more.

that's the fascinating, challenging crossroads. states thinking about new restrictions because of what's happening today, while dr. fauci talks about hope. but it is still months down the road. >> now we have two vaccines that are really quite effective, so i think this is a really strong step forward to where we want to be about getting control of this outbreak. we project that by the end of december that there will be doses of vaccines available for individuals in the higher risk category from both companies, we hope. >> let's get more from cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. it is hopeful news, moderna following phizer. walk us through the preliminary data. >> it is exciting preliminary data, showing a vaccine 94.5% effective, very few side effects, some had headaches or muscle aches a short period of time and that was it. john, talk about how moderna did its study. they put shots into arms, then

said live your life and let's see who gets covid. sadly, the numbers you have been reciting the past five or ten minutes, there's a lot of covid in the united states. a fair number of the people got covid. the trial did not give these folks covid, they caught it out living their lives. specifically let's look at the numbers. what moderna did, they gave 15,000 people a shot of saline, a placebo that does nothing. over several months, 90 came down with covid living their lives. another 15,000, different people, received the vaccine over a period of months only five of those people contracted covid or got sick with covid. none of them got severely sick with covid, it was all mild to moderate. not true for people that got the placebo, 11 of them became severely ill. those are numbers that are important to think about. they're early numbers, they're interim data. important to say we may need to get the shot every year, this could be a seasonal thing kind

of like the flu shot. let's talk a little bit about one of the advantages of the moderna vaccine, that's the way it can be shipped and distributed. let's look at a big difference between phizer and moderna in this sense. phizer has to be shipped and stored minus 75 degrees celsius, that's way colder than any other vaccine currently on the market in the u.s. doctors and pharmacists don't have freezers that go that low. once you take it out of that temperature, only lasts five days in the refrigerator. moderna, it needs to be stored and distributed at minus 20 degrees. doctors and pharmacies do have freezers that go to that temperature. and once you take it out of the freezer, can be kept 30 days in the refrigerator. that's a huge tactical advantage to the moderna vaccine. i spoke last night with dr. tal zack, he talked about the tactical advantage. >> our vaccine requires only

minus 20 which is readily available freezer that is available in most doctor offices and pharmacies. we anticipate our vaccine should be able to be deployed to those locations without any difficulty. >> i also spoke with dr. anthony fauci last night and he said he expects the first vaccinations to be given second half of december. >> grateful for the reporting an important insights. let's continue the conversation with michael mena from harvard school of health. the question is where are we, you hear phizer, moderna, what elizabeth laid out, every american here and around the world could be watching. for many people it is months down the line. dr. michael osterholm describes it this way. >> we are in a dangerous period, most dangerous public health period since 1918.

if we don't basically take important steps, stop swapping air with neighbors, friends, colleagues, we're going to see numbers grow substantially. >> describe how you see the challenge ahead in the sense that we are in a transition to a vaccine, but at a time of high crisis. >> i think that it's actually too early to say really in the transition to vaccine. that's giving too much credit in terms of when most people will get access, especially at a global level. we are in the united states in a terrible position now. i would say we are practically in one of the worst case positions that we warned about many, many months ago, and we're seeing exponential increases of the virus across the whole of the united states really. it doesn't seem to be abating, no reason to think it would abate on its own. i am encouraged by vaccine

results that came out today and recently from phizer, but we have to not lose track of what we have to do now which is do everything we can without a vaccine at the moment to try to stop spread and limit onward infections. >> with the case count so high, we've had the conversation, frustrating conversations going on eight months about testing, lack of testing, why isn't testing ramped up, are we surging test to go the right place. this is frustrating because of the trump administration response or lack thereof of this for months. you're an advocate of antigen testing can be done at home, when you have a soaring case count, it is critical. walk through what you're talking about. >> so if we can get rapid antigen tests, we can use that

in lieu of a vaccine for herd effects, to help people use them frequently so they know when they're infectious early in the infection, so they can stop onward transmission before they spread to other people. these can be a way to truly curb epidemics even before vaccine and without necessarily having to close down the economy, and can be done on people's own terms, in their house, in the privacy. >> so to get there, let me ask in the context of this, to get there, how much do you need hands on from the existing administration, we have two months of the trump administration left. reporters were talking to two members of the president's team, we're in the middle of the pandemic, everyone has seen the fall surge, now we're in dangerous level, when it comes to the president meeting with the experts, this is the answer. >> the last time the president was physically at a task force meeting was several months ago.

>> "the washington post" is reporting that the president has not attended a coronavirus task force meeting in at least five months. is that accurate? >> that's true. >> hard to imagine the ceo of any company in america, any organization in america not attending meetings while the company was in crisis and in collapse. to your point about what has to be done in this period, i am glad you corrected when i used the term transition, if we're not optimistic yet to get testing, and other things done. what must be done at the federal level? >> we have to get the federal government to start, to not just use the regulatory mechanisms that have always been in place, not just use that, but the federal government to treat this virus like the war that it is. we should have for months now been on a wartime sort of mode,

not just asking will this test or that test be authorized, but actually having the federal government be a partner to the companies, hand hold them across the finish line to get these tests out into the hands of americans as soon as possible, get them to the hospitals, get them to the clinics. for this massive screening program which is working in other parts of the world very well, get it in homes and out to the public and take a very proactive stance. we have yet to see the government especially as pertains to testing take a proactive stance. it has mostly been a stance of we will purchase things if they come out, but we would never do that if bombs were getting dropped on the united states and killing a thousand people every single day, we would be actively engaged in defending ourselves, not just sitting around until the next product comes on the market. >> it is a sober analogy but necessary, perhaps. grateful for your time and insights, sir.

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that determination hasn't been made. >> the president-elect's chief of staff says it is a potentially dangerous standoff. >> we now have the possibility, we need to see if it gets approved of a vaccine starting perhaps in december, january. our experts need to talk to those people as soon as possible so nothing drops in this change of power we're going to have january 20th. >> with me now, white house correspondent, "the washington post." it is interesting. we're starting to see more and more cracks, this one comes right from the west wing. the president's national security adviser robert o'brien who is loyal to the president, he seems to get the math. >> if there's a new administration, they deserve some time to come in, implement their policies, we may have policy disagreements, but look, if the biden/harris ticket is determined to be winner, obviously things look that way now, we'll have a very professional transition from a national security council, no question about it.

>> obviously things look that way now, candid from m mr. o'brien. simple fact. shouldn't get credit for stating a fact. will they get to the president and say sir, at least authorize the transition, we're in a horrible moment in the pandemic, team biden should be allowed to talk to team trump about vaccines and more. >> what you have right now is the president essentially denying reality, continuing to tweet out i won the election, continuing to try to get his own officials to tell everyone that he won the election, that the biden administration is not happening, when so many administration officials know better, they know that there already has been determination that biden and harris won the election. they're waiting for the gsa to make it official, but it is official in the eyes of most americans, in the eyes of the biden/harris team which started its own transition. so as alex azar says, gsa needs to make a determination that transition is under way, there does not need to be a

determination, because the transition is already under way. biden and harris are choosing cabinet, starting to choose major officials to work in the white house. what they don't have access to are current administration officials who are currently putting together policy and that policy will need to continue into the biden administration, and without having access to those people and access to resources will be difficult for the process to play out. so you have a number of administration officials in the trump administration who know what's going on, they know they need to begin preparing for the transition, but they have the president who is not acknowledging reality, president continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories, it is very difficult for them to act under that circumstance unless they defy the president and we have not seen very many cabinet officials and administration officials willing to defy him and i don't expect that to change the next couple of weeks. >> you see some republican governors, mike dewine, subject of the president's tweets, asa hutchinson in arkansas, their

citizens have covid. their citizens will need the vaccine and help from the federal government, including when joe biden is president in 60 plus days, but instead what you do get from the white house is the president's, the one doctor he listens to, doesn't go to important meetings, scott atlas tweeting out after new restrictions were announced in michigan, the only way this stops is if people rise up. you get what you accept. he tweeted hey, i never was talking about violence. this is still scott atlas tweeting, telling people pay no attention to your governor at a time when the surgeon general himself this morning was tweeting this is a war, we have to get on wartime footing. i thought republicans believed in states, states making decisions. this is mixed messaging from a president and his team at a critical moment. >> yeah, we're at a record high when it comes to coronavirus cases and we're at the beginning of a surge in deaths while we get a thousand people dying every day, and that number is expected to grow as the case

number continues to go high. we have not heard from the administration, we haven't heard from the president or his top medical doctor, scott atlas, wear a mask or socially distance or practice all these various public health measures. instead, the president is consumed with denying the facts surrounding the election, not getting his hands around this incredible pandemic that's been infecting so many people and killing so many americans. so the fact that scott atlas is using his major platform and access to the president to attack a governor who is trying to get her hands around the pandemic and trying to reduce the case load, it shows sort of the situation we're in. that's why you do have the biden/harris team saying they're ready to get going, putting together their own task force and saying they want access to administration officials because there's a sense from that team and a number of public health experts that the president and his team have not been taking it seriously, have sort of given up on the idea of getting control of the pandemic in the final

months of his administration will not involve any public health measures to get control of a pandemic that's surging out of control. >> certainly is. dr. fauci going on the record saying he completely disagrees with what dr. atlas said. continued problems and the president that won't allow the transition to start. grateful for the reporting and insight. we look at one of the states facing critical crisis, illinois. ♪ ♪ irresistibly smooth chocolate. to put the world on pause. lindor. made to melt you. by the lindt master chocolatier.

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the governor of illinois. you see the positivity rate here is 13%, 51% in iowa. 58% in south dakota. in the middle of america, illinois, populous state, things are getting bad. you look at the top five states total of confirmed cases in the united states from beginning to now, illinois here after texas, california, florida, then illinois and new york. you look at the top five states reporting new infections sunday, illinois. more than 10,000 new infections.

the trend line is a problem state weighed and in the state. things are getting worse fast and thanksgiving is around the corner. >> we have seen just in the last month our cases go up five times, hospitalizations go up three times, deaths go up three times, and the biggest problem is that we have seen no slowing of that increase, at least here in chicago, we recommended cancelling traditional thanksgiving. >> let's discuss the problem with illinois the director of illinois department of public health. graf grateful for the time. explain how this is happening, rate of cases, seven day average of new cases, illinois is the green line on the chart, united states is the orange. getting cases more than twice the national average per million residents. why? >> so we definitely have had

increased disease transmission. we have much more infection in our state and we are identifying a lot of this infection because of testing. 100,000 tests run in a single day in our state. we had at least three or four days at that level. it is definitely a combination of finding those cases as well as having purely increased transmission of this deadly virus. >> so as you well know, you have been on the front line every day, people are tired. government is trying to do what they can, most people, most people are trying to do what they can but get tired. your governor says if this doesn't turn around fast, he has to think about drastic measures. listen. >> we're running out of time and we're running out of options. our growth in new cases is

we have that in the flu shot as well, to decrease hospital capacity minimizing flu hospitalizations. >> grateful for the time today, more importantly, grateful for work you try to do every day to keep people safe. appreciate it. we'll keep in touch. when we come back, counting votes in georgia, recounting. the election is behind us, preparing for a critical, two critical senate runoffs just ahead. . when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa and now your co-pilot. still a father. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying.

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georgia is finishing its post election audit, a hand recount of 5 million votes cast here. and what the president says in his tweet, ignore it. despite what he says, the lieutenant governor of the state says they're past the halfway point and all is well. >> we have a deadline of wednesday for that to be complete. i believe they're 3 million votes into the process of counting 5 million ballots. continued to not see any systemic issues or fraud or improprieties. >> you heard that. that's the republican lieutenant governor. no issues, improprieties. the president is alleging that. joe biden winning by more than 14,000 votes there. at the end of this, he will be the winner in georgia, part of his 306 electoral college votes. we close the door on the race in 2020, it will carry into 2021 because of this. georgia, look at the senate races, number one.

get over 50%. david perdue has to have a runoff in january against john ossoff. that's one senate runoff in georgia. top two candidates here, democrat, raphael warnock, kelly loeffler, they'll be on the ballot in january. these elections matter. why? look at where we are at the moment. 50 republicans, 48 democrats, two seats on the ballot in january. if democrats win them both, it is 50/50. vice president harris would break the tie. democrats have a chance to control the united states senate if they win them both which is why the president-elect's chief of staff says joe biden most likely is heading to georgia. >> we're going to work hard to help win those senate seats in georgia. i think you'll see the president-elect campaign down there as we get closer to election day. we're putting people, resources there, help our two good candidates win. i am hopeful we can win those seats.

>> joining us now, someone else trying to win the seats, andrew yang, cnn commentator. great to see you. you're in new york today, about to go to georgia, about to camp out here. talk about your view of the challenge ahead. you know the history, democrats do miserable statewide runoffs in georgia. that's the history in the rearview mirror. why do you think it can be different now? >> georgia in 2020 is a genuine swing state. we saw it. it went to joe at the top line. we have a lot of work ahead to try to animate the same voters who came out to come out in january, but the path to victory is there for democrats and the stakes are so high because we've seen the movie where mitch mcconnell gets to play obstructionist in the senate, we can't have that with the nation's recovery at stake. thrilled to get down there, not going to did i s-- you know dem

have a lot to do in the days ahead. >> i need one of those hats, i use that term a lot. i need a math hat. hang on one second. the president-elect and the vice president elect are letting reporters into see a meeting. let's take a look a second. facing a dark winter ahead, you all have perspective how to deal with this issue. make sure there are workers --

[ inaudible ] we all agree on these common goals. we can't just build back the economy. you have to build it back up. i think there's a lot of opportunity. i don't want to be falsely optimistic. i really think that -- >> the audio is not very good. reporters allowed in the room for wide shots, no microphone on the president-elect. he is meeting with union leaders and ceos, vice president harris in the room as well. this part of, number one, president-elect biden's plan to show the american people every day, he is busy about the business of transition, even if president trump won't cooperate. number two, this is interesting. you can't see clearly the faces on the call.

there are several leaders of american labor unions there, there are also several leaders of american business there, mary barra, president of microsoft, chairman of target, ceo of gap is there. you have this moment where the president of the united states, current president, continues to deny the biden victory, you see more institutions and leaders in american society and business recognizing the truth, the fact. joe biden will be the president of the united states. we apologize for the bad audio, need to work with the president's team how to pull that off. andrea yang, i want to ask about the importance of what we saw. you come from the business community. president of the united states, incumbent denies reality, denies an election. there you have the ceo of general motors, american iconic company, ceo of target who has been at the white house for events recently in the trump presidency in terms of getting

the economy going during the pandemic, ceo of gap, ceo of microsoft. that's a signal from corporate america, business community, no disrespect for labor unions, they're more traditionally democratic. you would expect them to show up if joe biden asked them to come to a meeting. it is a signal from america, labor unions, corporate america to president trump, get over it, let's work with the new guy, like him or not. >> i agree. the ceos know that again, there's no time to waste in terms of the nation's economic recovery, they want to get down to business. want to talk to the president-elect. certainly aren't going to stand aside, wait for these thee atri to subside. they know they don't have time to spare. >> let's come back to the georgia race. you know the play book republicans are using, they think it will work, think it worked in this past election and in georgia. yes, it is a swing state, but has republican pedigree. this is kelly loeffler tweeting

about her opponent, pastor warnock. we should cover pre-existing conditions, we should lower health care costs. we should not socialize medicine and i will never let that happen. that's kelly loeffler. and this is an exchange between senator perdue and john ossoff in the other race where the same themes come up. >> we heard schumer last week say if we take georgia, we change america. heard aoc say they have to have these two seats because they don't want to negotiate, they want total control. >> this race is not about me and chuck schumer's name isn't on the ballot. what's on the ballot? health care is on the ballot. >> you can see the republican play book, again, aoc, schumer, socialism. how do democrats counter that, what do they need to do? >> they need to do what worked in november and the republican party is nationalizing this race quickly. you had a couple of senators already in georgia campaigning.

republicans are sending out a thousand field operatives to get out their vote. already committed $32 million, i am sure it will go much higher than that. i am heading to georgia in part to animate voters on the ground. 4.7% of georgia voters are agency american, i may increase turnout. they went 2 to 1 for joe. that's the game plan for democrats, get our voters out and it's going to be a lot of work. the republicans, they're already descending on the state. we should be doing the same. >> i want you to listen to john ossoff. joe biden is winning georgia, but barely. president trump had a lot of voters that turned out, he decided to take a risk, take it straight on. >> very, very few people. >> the risk to the american people remains low. >> the risk of virus remains

low. >> we had flu before. >> we had more flu seasons with more death. >> going very well. >> going very well. >> david perdue ignored medical experts, down played the crisis. >> tries to velcro the senator to the president. do you think the covid, the president's response to it, is the best message carrying to 2021? >> unfortunately infection rates are surging and going up in georgia as well as other states, senator perdue was a trump loyalist when it came to coronavirus messaging, so it is a legitimate line of attack for john ossoff because it draws sharp contrast. it is not even just trump's messaging, it really was something embraced by senator perdue. >> andrew yang, grateful for your time. keep in touch on the campaign trail in georgia. it will be fascinating. >> i will be down there this

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moments ago we saw biden and harris getting an update on the economy. joining us, political commentator. great to see you. the challenge for joe biden is figure out what do you take from the campaign and push as is or what do you have to change because the situation is dynamic. you have a surging pandemic, economic impact, don't know the answer to the question today,

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president-elect joe biden having a round table with american labor leaders and american business leaders. next hour giving a speech on his view how to build back as he puts it, build back better from the coronavirus pandemic. before the break, we lost a connection with errol louis. we got you back. in the age of covid here. i want to discuss the challenge for biden, they had a detailed plan, extend unemployment insurance, have a public health jobs corp, then you have to govern. not sure which party controls the senate. he will know by the time he gets there, not sure if the lame duck passes a stimulus plan or whether it falls on you, not sure of the toll of the daily 100,000 plus new infections. what's the challenge to get ready with an economic plan? >> the main challenge is make sure that they have a plan ready to go because they're never going to have more political capital than now into the first six months of the new administration. joe biden knows this very well.

it was in the first few months of the obama/biden administration they got most of the recovery done, when they got the basic outline of health care done. he knows that. he's only getting one shot at this, he has to get it right. it was interesting to see that he has corporate leaders there, including head of gm, going to make a difference in places like detroit and elsewhere in michigan. he has to get the consumer economy going, that's the engine to power the economy back to life, john. so regardless whether congress acts properly or intelligently during the lame duck and provides much needed relief, when the bell goes off, when the clock strikes 12 on january 20th, that's when real work starts. he has to be focused like a laser getting all this money off the sidelines into the economy and getting people back to work. >> it is a fascinating situation in the sense that he is talking two americas, 75% of trump voters think the economy is good, only 10% think doing

poorly. 24% of biden voters think it is doing good, 87% that it is poorly. big challenge. we have to leave it there for time. bring you back another day. just in, the trump administration beginning a leasing process for oil and gas drilling sites off the arctic national wildlife refuge. environmental groups are worried, call it a last minute give away to the industry. it is unclear if bureau of land management can finish this before the biden administration takes over. former president obama has advice, he says conceding can preserve trump's legacy. >> when your time is up, then it is your job to put the country first and think beyond your own

ego and your own interests and your own disappointments. my advice to president trump is if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put country first, it's time for you to do the same thing. >> we'll see you tomorrow. thanks for your time today. brianna keilar starts now. hi there, i am brianna keilar. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. we begin with one of the best developments of the u.s. pandemic coming during its darkest time so far. moderna's vaccine candidate is nearly 95% effective according to initial trial data. the second major vaccine break through this month, the other from phizer. these companies still need to submit detailed data to the fda in coming weeks, but results of these trials are extremely