yesterday that it's just a matter of time before indoor dining will close. >> reporter: as for when schools will reopen, dana, could be possibly the week after thanksgiving, but that's still up in the air. >> sure is. polo sand val, thank you so much for the reporting. brianna keilar picks up coverage right now. hi there, i am brianna keilar. i want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. we are expecting big news any moment, the results of that by hand election audit in georgia. officials are expecting no significant change in vote total, just affirmation that joe biden won the state. this is the first time a democrat won georgia in nearly three decades. in michigan, two voters dropped pro-trump lawsuit there, challenging the biden win in michigan. the trump team also dropping their lawsuit in michigan today, they're still moving ahead with other lawsuits, including in

pennsylvania. president trump still refusing to concede, refusing to drop baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. he's also refusing to do anything to ada smooth transition to the biden administration. we are starting to see daylight between trump officials, former and current, who are reaching out on their own to biden counter parts, some quietly because they fear reprisal. today, president-elect joe biden and vice president elect kamala harris hear from members of the national governor's association executive committee. these are governors on the frontlines of the fight against the coronavirus. and while the biden team formulates plans to battle the virus, president trump largely ignores it, even as the u.s. is crossing a grim milestone here. take a look. a quarter million people dead. there are no tweets from trump about that. there's no sympathy for the dead or for families. in fact, the president's twitter feed presents as if we're not even in a pandemic.

we are hearing from the vice president's office. there will be a briefing today with members of the coronavirus task force, which is the first we have seen in months. as we do await results of that election audit in georgia moments from now, here's how the georgia secretary of state described this to jake tapper yesterday. >> we have not seen widespread voter fraud. the president has picked up some votes in a few of the counties that made some clerical errors, wasn't the machines. but at the end of the day, he started with 14,000, he is about 12,000 now. we are finishing up, waiting for a few counties to get back to us, large counties. i don't believe at the end of the day it will change results. >> you still president-elect biden will be the winner of georgia? >> yes, i believe that's the way it will turn out. >> amara walker is in atlanta tracking this as she has been. tell us what we know now, amara. >> reporter: hey, brianna. we're waiting on georgia

secretary of state's office to give us the full reporting, full results of the statewide audit. we thought around noon we would get the report, it is now after 1:00. doesn't come as a surprise. it has been a labor intensive process from the beginning with hand recount county by county, and once all of the numbers are put together and sent over to the state, the secretary of state's office has to go through the numbers and do the final checks against voter registration database. once we get the report, we will pass it on to you. as you heard from the secretary, brad raffensperger, he maintained all along he is confident, election officials are confident that the results of hand recount will affirm the original result. we know that 112 out of 159 counties in georgia are already reporting that they have seen virtually no discrepancies. state election officials repeatedly said there's not been evidence during the audit of

widespread fraud as the president has been baselessly claiming, and also they're confident the audit will show the voting machines were indeed accurate and fair, despite the fact that president trump has been tweeting repeatedly and falsely that voting machines have been voting votes for him by the millions and changing them in joe biden's favor. brianna? >> thank you so much for that, amara, for the update in georgia and fact check. always important. we are awaiting audit results from georgia. the president spent the morning taking aim at georgia's republican governor, brian kemp. the president tweeting baseless accusations of widespread voter fraud and that results would shift the state in his favor, like amara was telling us. i want to bring in boris sanchez. how is the president spending time, boris? it seems like he is entirely not focused on the crisis that is confronting the country he is in

charge of. >> tragically, you're right, brianna. the president clearly focused on trying to overturn results of the election or at least sew doubt about them. this is largely playing out on twitter. we haven't seen the president much lately. last week he had a public event at arlington national cemetery for veteran's day. other than that, we've seen him golfing. most of this is playing out on twitter. meantime, his legal team is flailing, filing contradictory measures in different states. rudy giuliani making all sorts of contradictory claims, incendiary claims, conspiracy theories about venezuela, things that don't make sense. he continues to push them and the president's agenda that the election was stolen from him. as noted, the president battling fellow republicans on twitter, too, and we can't ignore the backdrop of all this. coronavirus cases are surging across the country. the country in the middle of a crisis now.

really the only thing the president is tweeting about coronavirus is basically seeking credit for positive news on a coronavirus vaccine from pfizer and moderna. he is clearly obsessed with an election he lost. we should point out, coronavirus task force is holding a briefing today at 4:00. it is unclear, brianna, if we'll see the president during the briefing. >> all right. we'll be keeping our eyes peeled. boris sanchez reporting on the white house for us. so president trump is clinging to conspiracy theories, declaring victory on twitter, but reality has set in for others in the administration. some current and former trump officials are reaching out to members of president-elect biden's team, finding ways around obstructions of the white house to offer help with the transition. jeff zeleny is working hard on this story from wilmington, delaware, where he is following the biden transition. tell us about this, jeff. what are the interactions that folks are having with the biden

team? >> brianna, we are hearing reports from across the government, there are current trump administration officials and former employees that left the last few months who are quietly behind the scenes reaching out to some incoming counterparts in a biden transition. this is a handful of examples we have been told, and they're across the range of government. doing everything they can do to help in the words of one former official, they're trying to put country over party. these are not people that voted for joe biden necessarily, not fans of joe biden necessarily, but do believe a transition is appropriate, like it always happens after every presidential election. this is something that again is not widespread, doesn't replace the transition that should be going onto provide information and data to the biden team in waiting. the biden team offered thanks and gratitude but point out this

does not replace what should happen. let's look at a statement from former deputy campaign manager that's now transition adviser. she says this. it requires more than former officials choosing to step forward, be helpful to ensure transition of power. gsa, general services administration, should follow the law and ascertain results of the election so americans get a smooth and effective handoff between administrations. brianna, as this drags on, we're hitting two weeks come saturday. there's a sense inside the government that this needs to happen. these are officials generally reaching out to people in the same line of work, if you will, from a national security realm or health realm, even though they're told to not do it, these are people quietly giving all the help they can as the president is dragging this out for what seems to be heading into come saturday the second week. >> jeff zeleny, thank you so much live from wilmington. the president is losing or

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the pandemic has taken more than 250,000 lives. model after model has shown it could have been avoided. tens of thousands of families

will miss loved ones at the thanksgiving table a week from today. among them, mothers, fathers, uncles, grandparents, sisters. people you see here who will not be sitting at the table. other victims include an elderly father and grown daughter that died within minutes of each other, two parents who died before their son's fifth birthday. rare cases, children with no known prior health conditions. these faces are a fraction of people that are no longer with us. many of them did not have to die. more people died from coronavirus than the flu. more than typically die from the flu, suicide, strokes in a year combined. as hard as it is to believe, 250,000 people have died from one virus in a matter of months, there are plenty of indicators that darker days are in front of us. yesterday, the u.s. reported over 1800 deaths. more than 170,000 new cases, it

was the second highest single day total. hospitalizations broke records, and there are 80,000 people in the hospital fighting covid. there are 21 states reporting more people in the hospital from coronavirus than they have seen before in that state. while weeks ahead look grim, health officials predict this will be the last big surge of the coronavirus. both moderna and pfizer plan to produce 70 million doses in total of vaccines that are awaiting authorization and approval by end of the year. >> the vaccines are coming. i have never been as hopeful as i am now. we have to come together, give people what they need through winter, so when spring comes, we can have a new beginning. >> joining me, er doctor craig spencer, director of global health and emergency medicine at

new york presbyterian columbia university medical center. what's your reaction, something about when we hit milestones that they just put into perspective the type of loss we are talking about, 250,000 people. >> i think about this, i have been seeing this since march and april in new york city. things were really bad. i remember hitting 100,000 in may. people being blown away at such a high death toll. covid-19, third leading cause of death in the united states. it is deadlier than the flu. seeing it play out, 16, 1800 deaths per day. that number will only rise. still see cases increasing a huge amount on a daily basis, hospitalizations increasing. we know deaths follow both those indicators. we know that this winter will be really tough, regardless of the fact that we have two promising vaccine candidates, maybe more. the problem is that to get to

that place of safety into spring and summer, you have to climb mount everest together and we need everybody together to reduce spread in communities and lower risk of covid-19 to vulnerable populations. >> look, you say if people could see what you are seeing in the er, if they are privy to what's going on in the halls of hospitals, that they would cancel in person family gatherings for the holidays. can you talk to us a little about this? i know there are people out there, they're trying to do this, they're doing testing before they see people, but they really do want to get together and they're having a hard time saying no to thanksgiving with the family. talk to them. >> look, i completely understand, i haven't seen my parents in a long time. i have a toddler i would love to have spend more time with her family, but we're not doing it because the reality is right now in the united states, with our lack of testing, with the amount

of virus that's spreading everywhere armed the country, there's virtually no foolproof way to make any of the gatherings zero risk. i'm sure there will be many families that get together where they won't be spreading covid, but many instances a kid comes home from college, family members come from a different state, even if tested a few days beforehand will bring covid with them and infect other people in their family. yes, you can get tested, you can try to reduce risk, but again, no foolproof way to prevent spread, especially when you have so much going on right now, and we see this. it is a small proportion of people that get severe covid, but when they do, they come to the emergency room. >> i think we lost dr. spencer's signal. can we try to get it back quick? we're going to try to get dr. spencer back up. he has important words we need to hear. the number of losses, legally,

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i want to bring dr. craig spencer back in, he has an important message for people. you were saying, you said if people could see what you're seeing in the er, they would cancel in person family gatherings for the holidays. where we left off with you, you said there's no way to get risk to zero, even if people are testing ahead of time. you would have people coming back from college, traveling from other places, even in town. there's no way to avoid the risk. where would that leave us? >> i think it is exactly it. there's too much virus all over the community and all over the united states, even if getting tested beforehand, even if you're trying to stay isolated before hand. the likelihood is that many

families are going to have covid brought to the dinner table. yes, we all want this to be a wonderful, happy holiday together, but i think we need to wait because we have an end in sight, we have at least two vaccines, maybe more, but we have so much work, so many more cases and hospitalizations. unfortunately so many more deaths before we get there. as you allude to, it is really horrible to see patients struggling for any reason in the emergency department. seeing so many continuing to struggle with covid-19, short of breath, needing oxygen, maybe needing a ventilator, when we knew for many months how to keep ourselves and our community safe. getting people together now and over the holidays is only going to make it worse. the one way to protect ourselves and protect our communities and family is being safe. go virtual if you can. do whatever you can to prevent

spread of covid-19 over the holidays. >> what do you think the country needs from the president now? >> action. i think the president either needs to step up and do all of the things we have been calling for the administration to be doing since february and march, we need leadership. i'm heartened to hear the cdc will be out talking to the american public. we need the transition team for president-elect biden to be given access to all of that critical internal data that now they don't have access to. we need to let that team lead because even if we have a vaccine and have hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine sometime in the next few months, making the vaccine is one thing. logistically getting it out will be so much harder. we need billions of dollars, resources, we need to be working with communities and public health departments. they need resources to do that. incoming team needs access to

the teams and resources to hit the ground running, be able to get a vaccine out as quickly as possible to people. every day that the transition team is able to work together with the outgoing administration, more people will infected, more people will die. >> so important. thank you so much, dr. spencer, for sharing the message with us. >> take care. yes, everything we're hearing about a vaccine is optimistic. the time line, distribution plans, effective nness rate. truth is, people are getting infected and dying in heartbreaking numbers. the vaccine won't come soon enough for them. i want to bring in a nurse practitioner from arlington, virginia, outside washington, d.c. carol, thank you so much for joining us to tell us what's really going on inside medical centers like yours. i can't imagine what it is like to be in your world, day-in and day-out for months. it must be exhausting. you have been watching the

pandemic spread. we understand supplies are running short again. can you tell us what's going on? >> yes. thanks for having me, brianna. happy to be here. yes, it's definitely been a long haul. last several months have been exhausting and tough. unfortunately things don't seem to be going the right direction. yeah. the critical shortage we are having now is gloves. at first, had a shortage of masks, gowns, that seems to be catching up. but the critical shortage what i am told, it is worldwide. the supply of gloves is not keeping up with demand. the manufacturers are not keeping up with demand now and what we are anticipating that demand will increase over time. we are having a hard time getting shipments from suppliers and at our practice in particular, we are almost exclusively doing covid testing, doing rapid covid tests which gives results in 15 minutes, a

really critical part of getting the pandemic under control. we have to get accessible testing in the community where people can get an answer right away, in order to do that safely, we have to have gloves, be able to change gloves between each patient. and that's more important for not only the safety of my staff, health care workers that are on the front lines, but also important to keep patients safe. as we move from patient to patient to patient to patient, last thing we want to do is spread germs from one patient to another. >> yeah. >> that's why it is important to have a new pair of gloves and to sanitize all equipment, thermometers, pens, pulse o kmrk x has to be cleaned. >> if you don't have gloves, if you don't have enough gloves for the number of patients you're seeing, what do you do? >> well, so we haven't gotten to

the point where we have run out, so that's what we're trying to, you know, prevent from happening. the cdc put out some guidance, you know, in any other situation that's not covid, we wouldn't be doing these things such as reusing a mask for weeks on end, but that's what we have to do now. so yeah. for the shortage of gloves, there are strategies to extend life of gloves, not necessarily reuse them, because you can't take them off, put them back on. changing gloves in between each patient, you're basically cleaning them, the way you wash your hands. what we are having to do now just to sort of extend the life of being able to wear the gloves and keep the supply longer is to use hand sanitizer, alcohol based hand sanitizer, similar to how we disinfect equipment. gloves are basically becoming a piece of equipment, the life will be extended a little longer.

>> are you surprised, i want to be clear, you and your husband run the facility together. are you surprised, you're doing the ordering. are you surprised at this point in time you can't get the gloves you need? >> i mean yes and no. this has been happening a lot with a lot of our supplies. we're getting to the point we may not be able to get enough tests to provide a test we want to to patients, and shortages are something we have seen. actually, our suppliers, distributors we order supplies from have been telling me that gloves are going to be tough. there's a shortage coming. it is coming. we've known this for a couple of months that there is a shortage and they're going to be hard to come by. they've been limiting numbers we are allowed to order at one time.

they're on allocation. we have been ordering maximum number that we can in anticipation that we won't be able to get them any more, but unfortunately the needs are going up, the number of cases and infections are going up. even in the last week, the demand for testing has gotten more than what we're able to provide. we're expanding even more. so the need is going up and the supplies are going down. i can't see i am surprised but still it is just a little shocking we can't get something as simple as gloves, something that's basic, that we cannot do without. and the way it is going, it is a little scary. >> basic and essential. carol, we thank you so much for telling us about this. it is so important that we know this. >> all right. thanks for having me. >> thank you for coming on. we're standing by for a white house coronavirus task force briefing. this is the first briefing that has happened in over six months. plus, covid-19 is hitting

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the trump legal team that's having a press conference so bananas we can't bring it to you, it is so full of bs. it has been a bad week for them and the week isn't over yet. president trump added new lawyers to the mix in a last ditch attempt to boost his flailing legal efforts. last friday, team trump and allies lost or surrendered legal battles in rapid brutal succession in nine key states friday alone. there were six more lawsuits since monday, including one today. all of these trying to block election results. they're losing because judges want, who would have thunk, proof of the widespread voter fraud they're alleging and there isn't any. baseless lawsuits are a classic move of a donald trump on the ropes. historically he tried to bury his problems in a pile of will he continuing coverage us paperwork, like when he failed to pay contractors forcing them to take pennies on the dollars

for more work or bleed more money as he tied them up in court. in business, he did it to screw small businesses out of money he owed them. now test doing it to change the election outcome. reality is getting in the way. margins in states where the lawyers are contesting cases means the trump legal team mission is a mission impossible. that's even before you consider the collective lawyering abilities of this crack team that trump assembled, rudy giuliani, jenna ellis, victoria tomsing. before soliciting dirt and pedaling dirt about joe and hunter biden, before the fbi began investigating him, rudy giuliani was a reputable if controversial republican. a mayor's mayor, steady hand in

new york city through the aftermath of 9/11, which earned him title of time's person of the year in 2001. before that, a fierce prosecutor. to his credit. he concedes a downright brilliant strategy to ty the mafia board of directors at once under the rico act and it worked, 34 years ago, november, 1986. but that was 1986. when crocodile dundee was the top box office hit. knew he sounds as lost in the courtroom as mick dundee did in new york. remember, trump campaign wants you to believe the legal effort is about fraud on a massive scale. what guiliani claims is 1.8 million voters shouldn't be allowed to vote. can't seem to keep the lies straight. thursday, he represented them in pennsylvania in a lawsuit that doesn't allege fraud, and guiliani ranted how the election win was a riesult of a huge

conspiracy. the judge asked him if he was alleging fraud. quote, i don't see, your honor, we are not. then ranted about a fraudulent process. the judge said so you're alleging fraud? he confused the judge and anyone paying pay attention to the court. for getting boiler plate legal terms. it was called the worst lawyering in an election law case he has seen in his life. former chief of staff mick mulvaney raised questions about rudy's role. >> still concerned about use of rudy giuliani. strikes me this is the most important lawsuit in the history of the country and they're not using the most well noted election lawyers. there are folks that do this all of the time. this is a specialty. >> jenna ellis is one of the other lawyers on board the trump legal train, a frequent guest on

fox, senior legal adviser to the trump campaign, puree va or of election claims. >> he is fighting for election integrity. we want every legal vote to count not just for this election but every one after this. >> fighting for election integrity, suspect, considering trump made clearest an opponent of election integrity. he made that clear by firing his top election security official, chris krebs, a guy he appointed for saying the election was the most secure election in history. another authority who counter ellis' claims about virtuous pursuant. statements she made in 2016 on her official neighbfacebook pag ellis repeatedly slammed then candidate trump as an idiot who was abnormalish, arrogant, and bully whose word couldn't be

trusted as factually accurate. said comments he made about women were disgusting, suggesting he was not a real christian. casting trump as devoid of honorable qualities to insisting he is championing moral standards will give you whiplash. >> why should we rest our highest office in america on a man that goes back and forth, can't be trusted to be consistent and accurate in anything he says. >> ellis said i could spend a full-time job just responding to the ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, stupid arguments supporting trump. it is now jenna ellis' job to push those arguments. veteran washington husband and wife duo, big tv attorneys floated as trump legal team members of 2018, but sources told cnn there was concern about major conflicts of interest, and members of trump's legal team at the time opposed their hiring.

they now show up on fox news and other right wing media outlets to spread russian disinformation and conspiracy theories. >> there was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate hillary clinton. and if she didn't win the election, to then frame donald trump with a falsely created crime. everything we have seen from texts and all the facts developing shows the fbi and senior doj officials, inspired to violate the law, to deny trump his civil rights. >> victoria knew land and george soros, her buddy, would tell the ukrainians who they should di indict and investigate. >> and sidney powell, former federal prosecutor, turned qanon conspiracy theorist. she dedicates time to

appearances on fox biz, spouting lies about voting machines. >> we have so much evidence, i feel like it is coming in through a fire house. >> how will you prove this? >> well, i've got lots of ways to prove it, maria, i'm not going to tell on national tv what all we have. i just can't do that. >> she just can't do that, she says, but it is actually because she doesn't have the goods. the voting software and voting machine conspiracy theories are well debunked, a group of national, state, private election officials came out thursday, said there's no evidence of a voting system being compromised in the 2020 election. but powell continued on with media appearances, including an interview with super right wing news max where she said this. >> the math just doesn't add up for anything. >> the math adds up, sydney, but adds up for joe biden, it adds up to 306 electoral votes.

and an advantage of almost 6 million in popular vote. but perhaps some traction is a better way to think of this moment that we are in. subtract effective governance in the face of a crisis. subtract 250,000 american lives. subtract dignity of a commander in chief acknowledging what that loss means for this country. and that is the math problem that trump has never understood. that his fate was tied to fate of americans, not just his supporters, all americans, and their decision. the outcome of this election is clear, no amount of dust that trump and allies kick up is going to change that. ahead, we have breaking news. the cdc says college students coming home don't count as household members and need to keep their distance when they come home for holidays. the same guidance applies for people away on military duty, this as they're seeing the highers number of coronavirus

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this just in. we are learning about a major coronavirus outbreak that is happening aboard a u.s. navy guided missile destroyer and this is coming on the heels of a new one-day record of new cases in the military. the department of defense reported a record high of 1, 314 cases on tuesday. i want to bring in cnn pentagon reporter ryan brown. we have seen a big outbreak before, a ship is just a breeding ground for coronavirus. we saw that on the "roosevelt." what do we know about this outbreak on this navy destroyer?

>> reporter: officials telling us that this outbreak is different in that the ship is in port in hawaii and not seeing the high risk and difficulty that we saw in that case of the "theodore roosevelt," the aircraft carrier under way at sea and the ship's in port and able to isolate the crew, move them ashore much more easily. we are told a third of the crew has the coronavirus at present. of course, that number could go up as they continue testing and just days actually -- just the other day a u.s. coast guard vessel at a similar case at sea and they had to come home to port and just show that is there are continued challenges of containing this pandemic aboard these ships, even in port and something that the navy's taken action to come be the and still they have this serious issue

affecting their ships. >> i wanted to ask you about, the cdc is telling people, we have the holidays upon us. everybody wants to see the family members but the cdc said if you have college students coming home, those don't count as people in the household and make a distinction of service members who are coming home from military duty. how's that affecting things? because you might have some service members with a break around the holidays, a lot of times coming back from deployments they are going to quarantine before they do that, some folks living out of state from the families. how's this impacting how military families going to be going through the holidays? >> reporter: it's a unique challenge as you noted. a lot of time military members will kind of schedule the leaves in order to try to come home for the holidays and cdc issuing this guidance to say that if you are going to come home during the thanksgiving holiday maintain that distance, you are not a member of the household,

been away and of course the military issued a series of messages for personnel movement. certain bases have had their restrictionsen crea restrictions increase in terms of precautions to take off the regions and the bases and a difficult situation for them hoping to come home and return to normal in the break. the cdc advising they do not do that and maintain distance, take the other safeguards even at home, something that will not make for the homecoming that many hoped for but something as the entire population experiences this uptick in cases, the military, of course, representative of the population, healthier, more fit, under more restrictions to follow and seeing this uptick in cases both within the military as well as the general population. u.s. mail tear has much fewer deaths, only one active service members have died but compared

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hello. it's the top of the hour. the pandemic has now taken more than 250,000 american lives, a milestone that model after model shows could have been avoided. tens of thousands of families will miss loved ones at the thanksgiving tables one week from today and among them are mothers, fathers, uncles, grand parents, sisters, brothers that you are seeing here. other vicks include an elderly father and grown daughter who died within minutes of each other, two parents who died before their son's 5th birthday and children with no known prior health conditions. these faces here, they represent a fraction of those who are