street, dow-jones crossing 30,000 the first time ever this morning. investors are encouraged uncertainty surrounding the election is ending with the formal transition process getting under way, contributing to the rally, promising results from three potential coronavirus vaccines. there you have it. thanks for joining us. kneenia malika-henderson picks coverage now. hello to viewers in the united states and around the world. i am nia malika-henderson in washington. the trump administration finally presses play on the transition, even as the president says he won't concede. a big market surge this hour. the dow crosses 30,000 after the transition moves full speed ahead. also today, a thanksgiving week test of america's coronavirus resolve. only four states pushing down coronavirus curves, 169,000

cases monday. the average number of daily new cases, 172,000 plus, highest number of the pandemic. uncontrolled spread is now a fact of everyday american life. dr. anthony fauci warns going home will amplify the surge. the holiday week mission according to the surgeon general, keep grandma safe. the consequences of not doing that are quite plain. look at the numbers. the u.s. now averaging 1500 covid-19 deaths a day. but every single one of those numbers is a person with a family to lose. >> i took care of a woman who after over a month in the icu was recovering from covid, and that should be a win. but we were trying to call her family every day to give them an update, we couldn't get a hold of anyone. one day we found out because her husband died of covid and her daughter died of covid, although

she was in the hospital. so how did you tell somebody that? how did you tell somebody their family has died. >> more on the virus ahead. we begin with a transition wait now over. the biden transition can formally start after getting approval from the general services administration. the acknowledgment is about nuts and bolts but also big priorities. the biden team gets office space, they get federal money, and federal resources to vet their people. they also get access now to covid-19 data. this is crucially important with the surge and also they'll get information about how to distribute a vaccine. a big rollout for the biden campaign slated for next hour. we have cnn's jeff zeleny in wilmington, delaware for us. jeff, so what is going to come next in the transition?

>> reporter: nia, no question this is one of the biggest moments we have seen yet in the transition. it is three weeks after election day, but we're going to see the introduction of the foreign policy team as well as national security team, their names are well known. they're rolling these out slowly for a reason. they want people to sit and savor on it. it is changing of the guard, no question. not many new faces, more old faces from the obama administration, even the clinton administration, and that is one of the points, trying to show stability. secretary of state nominee tony blinken, we hear from him for the first time. the nominee to lead department of homeland security, the nation's intelligence community, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, the national security adviser, and john kerry, he is going to be climate czar, a member of the president's cabinet and national security council. those are the first people introduced today. nia, what it means, this is going to set the tone going

forward. most of these nominees are likely to be confirmed, at least that's the sense now. we do not know how successful they'll be with their mission going forward of changing america's policies with the world, changing domestic policy as well. we do know this is part of the president-elect's plan to try to return washington to an era of normalcy, if you will. traditional sense, not necessarily a democrat or republican, obviously the democratic establishment, but pretrump era. one challenge is as the transition gets under way, cooperation between members of the trump administration and incoming biden administration is an open question. letter of ascertainment came last night. yes, they have to give them funding. beyond that, not much is required. nia, even in normal senses, transitions are usually rocky. once the biden team gets into the agencies to see what's in there, we do expect some road blocks still to be put up. this is a big development, three

weeks after election day. we'll see big announcements in the next hour. >> thanks so much for reporting on the developments, jeff. and listen, if you go to twitter, you will find a clear snapshot of the president's mind-set, willing to concede nothing, continuing to pursue a baseless fraud conspiracy theory about the election. we have cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house for us. kaitlan, the president's public position is that the election was a hoax. we all know that that is an outright lie. so why did he actually move forward with the transition to the biden administration? >> reporter: well, it is not clear the president is the one that made that decision because while he tried to frame it that way on twitter, saying he recommended to emily murphy, gsa administrator, make the move, she said in the letter she acted independently, chalked up the decision to supreme court losses you've seen happen in the last

several days for the trump team. that continues to happen as you see certification of votes in places like pennsylvania, something that the trump campaign sought to delay, also in michigan as they're pursuing that as well. you're continuing to see legal challenges that the president has relied on and his team relied on as an excuse for why the transition was not taking place continue to fail really all over the place. the question is going forward how does the president treat this. some see it as closest you can get to concession from president trump, but he says it is not a sign he is conceding, he says he is going to continue pursuing little challenges, though that path is dwindling and dwindling a lot. the question is how much further does he continue pushing this because you're starting to see republicans say the transition should start. we're waiting to see does this mean joe biden starts to get the presidential daily brief and all of the other factors that come with immersing yourself, taking over the federal government. so far, the president is

tweeting about gsa, saying it does not meanest conceding. he says gsa transitions do not determine who is the president. we know that's true, but we have seen what the will of the american people is. they decided joe biden will be the next president. nia, we will see president trump today for the turkey pardon. it will be one of the rare times we've seen the president in the last three weeks since the election, but whether or not he will comment on this is still to be determined. >> we'll see what happens at the turkey pardon. people are thinking of other people that may be pardoned by the president, not so much worried about the turkeys who the names i think are corn and cob. thanks so much for that report from the white house. joining me now, white house reporter for "the washington post," and we have laura barone lopez. thanks for joining us. i want you to listen to one of

the president's conservative media allies, what he has to say about the president's legal team that they promised a lot but delivered very little. >> you call a gigantic press conference like that, one that lasts an hour. and you announce massive bomb shells, then you better have some bomb shells. they promised blockbuster stuff and then nothing happened. and that's just not, well, it is not good. >> so does your reporting show the appetite for drawn out legal battle is disappearing because the trump legal team has been solidly beaten over and over again in court? you heard rush talk about all of the promises they made as well

as the president made about evidence and none of that evidence has materialized. >> the courtroom was where they were supposed to win back the election. instead they lost multiple times in multiple states, not only lost, they lost in spectacular fashion with judges smacking them down and essentially saying their ideas and allegations are really just hard to believe, hard to believe they made cases in the court of law. now that you're seeing conservative media move on, start to acknowledge the president is not going to have a second term, there are very few places left where the president is having the support that he had maybe in the first couple days after the election where there was a lot of energy around the idea that the election was being stolen from him, even though that was pretty baseless. now there's sort of a defeatist attitude. he continues to want to fight and show supporters that he is fighting and that he is going to continue to fight to have a second term, but i think a lot

of the people around him are starting to come to the realization that it is over, in the next two months he is not going to be the president, and they're all trying to figure out ways to get him to come to that realization, not have him continue to put up fights that are losing battles. we have seen him losing in court, losing in the court of public opinion, members of the media, some big supporters are starting to say what they're alleging in terms of fraud they say happened, they don't have evidence to back it up. all of it is conspiratorial and baseless and it is clear at this point they won't have the big bombshell they have been promising the past three weeks. >> and one of trump's attorneys, ellis, tweeted all the media chatter of biden picking his cabinet is like fantasy football, meaningless in the real game. do you get the sense the president never plans to concede? jenna ellis was on a different

network yesterday, saying that president trump actually won in a landslide. >> there's a real possibility that the president never says the words that he is conceding or that he conceded to biden. just leaves the white house come january, end of january, because whether or not jenna ellis wants to accept reality, the reality is that biden is going to enter the white house at the end of january and that president trump is going to have to leave and be a one term president. yes. trump and his allies can continue to say that he won in a landslide, but those aren't the facts. and we have increasingly said, a number of republicans haven't strongly rebuked president trump but said there's no evidence

here and the country needs to move on. they have been slowly acknowledging biden's election as the president. >> and let's stick with the biden transition. so far a lot of members have been washington establishment. those are folks he picked so far to fill out his cabinet. i want you to listen to jim clyburn, what he had to say about progressives, they should be happy with the likely treasury secretary pick. >> miss yellen would not be satisfactory to the progressives? i would think they hit the jackpot when he named her to be the first woman to be treasurer. i don't know that this is status quo, this is picking up, building on what we got away from four years ago. >> laura, is it your sense that progressive democrats are going to be happy hearing the biden

administration, they're essentially picking up and building on what the obama administration did? i imagine you want the biden administration to go further than obama did in his administration. >> yeah. a lot of what i heard from progressives is thatme are thes ideal draft picks? no. it would have been ended up being elizabeth warren at treasury, not janet yellen. is someone they can live with? yes. a lot of appointments rolled out in the last day are people that progressives say that they think they can work with, that they can live with. they aren't going to be angry and corner the biden administration about them, but they aren't officials that progressives are in love with. and so the progressive wing has

kind of scattered themselves a bit in the arguments they have been picking with the biden transition team. you know, they love their dream candidate for interior secretary, would be deb holland. they're still trying to push for their candidates there, trying to push for sanders in a place like labor which could also potentially be a possibility. that's even someone clyburn told cnn he could get behind because he thinks it would help with appeasing the basin terms of appointments to biden's cabinet. these aren't candidates they're in love with but picking fights elsewhere and ones that progressives can live with. >> any thoughts on how the cabinet is shaping up so far, maybe some of the battles that lie ahead? >> i wouldn't be surprised if joe biden picks some specific

members that the progressive wing of the democratic caucus wants, specifically in specific places. i wouldn't be surprised if he picked former or current republicans to join his cabinet. biden talked about having a broad coalition, he picked some people that are establishment, some establishment democrats. i wouldn't be surprised if as he talks about level of diversity in the cabinet that he focuses on ideological diversity, considers conservative or moderate republicans as well as left leaning democrats and progressives to join the cabinet to try to have a level of diversity he thinks will be helpful to him when he becomes president. >> fascinating to watch. bernie sanders potentially at labor, could he get through the senate, maybe, we don't know. seems like he is campaigning for the job, to have jim clyburn weigh in favorably is good for him as well. we thank you very much. up next, what the medical professionals want you to know

about possible covid-19 vaccines. first a warning from the u.s. surgeon general. >> we need to be very cognizant of the severity of the moment. a quarter of all coronavirus cases this year occurred in the last month. 40 states seeing cases go up. those cases are turning into hospitalizations and deaths. you may not be able to go in, get your heart attack treated. i heard hospitals not able to provide care for pregnant women because they're filled with covid beds, so that's the reality.

we wait for the ultimate weapon against coronavirus, a vaccine, an update this morning from operation warp speed on a potential time line for rolling one out. >> we believe we can distribute vaccine to all 64 jurisdictions within 24 hours of fda authorization. then we hope administration can begin as soon as the product

arrives. one of the private sector partners, cvs health, said they expect to be vaccinating residents of nursing homes, one of the top priority groups, within 48 hours after fda authorization. >> joining me now, paul offett, a member of the vaccine advisory committee. thanks so much for being here. so we know the committee that you're on is going to review the pfizer vaccine december 10th, moderna on december 17th. can you walk us through what the process is going to look like and how quickly a decision may actually come down? >> typically what will happen is we will get data to review before we meet. we'll go through all of the data, then we will meet and have a discussion for about nine or ten hours. then at the end of that discussion, we go to whether or not we think the vaccine should be approved, for which groups it can reasonably be approved, given data would support that. that will happen december 10th.

then within 24 to 48 hours, the advisory committee for immunization practice, the committee that advises the cdc will also meet and independently review data. if they agree this should be approved for various groups, then in theory the vaccine can roll off shelves into the arms of the american public. >> that's the other layer of the process, cdc advisory committee on immunization practice is meeting to discuss whether to recommend any of the covid-19 vaccines that the fda might authorize. i want you to listen to what one physician told the committee yesterday about reassuring patients about potential side effects. >> as a practicing physician, i have got to make sure my patients will come back for a second dose, so i think we have a good head start, hearing what the vaccine efficacies are, but we really need to make patients aware of that this is not going

to be a walk in the park. they're going to know they had a vaccine. they're probably not going to feel wonderful, but have to come back for a second dose. >> doctor, do you agree that this will be a challenge and that this could weigh on the committee's views on one vaccine over another? >> i don't think so. i think the immune system, our immune system needs a better public relations team. when you get a vaccine, you're being inoculated with foreign substance that should make immune response which is good. when you make immune response, uh- you can have pain, muscle fatigue, fever. that means the immune response is working for you, should feel good about that. shouldn't be any difficulty coming back for the second shot, knowing you're now in better position to fight off this awful virus which has killed more than

250,000 people, can cause a lot of long term effects. need a better public relations team for the immune system. >> a new poll is out that shows 51% of adults would get the vaccine when it is available, but that number goes up to 70% when they feel the vaccine has been proven safe by public health officials. you need 70% of the population to get vaccinated for it to be effective. how do you get to those numbers if you've got americans reluctant in the first rollout of the vaccine? >> well, i think what will happen is essential workers and variety of other groups will start to get the vaccine. hundreds of thousands of doses will be given, millions of doses will be given. assuming the safety portfolio remains, then people i think will feel better and better that it doesn't cause uncommon side

effects, we will know based on data generated so far, doesn't cause a rare side effect. people will be more and more comfortable. you're right. most people that get the vaccine are healthy young people. what they're worried about is safety. as we get more doses out there, i think people will feel more comfortable about safety. >> thank you for your work. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. this just in moments ago, the health and human services secretary said the official leading transition planning efforts has been in contact with the biden transition team. here's more of what he said. >> we are immediately getting them all of the preprepared transition briefing materials. we will ensure coordinated briefings to be sure they get whatever information they need consistent with statute, past practice. i have reiterated, i said publicly to you all, i reiterated to admiral schwartz my firm commitment that

transition, planning, execution will be professional, cooperative, collaborative in the best spirit of looking out for health and well-being of the american people. up next, president-elect joe biden is moments away from introducing his cabinet. first slate of cabinet picks. as we go to break, democratic senator bob casey celebrates his commonwealth making it official, biden wins pennsylvania.

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us. you wrote on twitter about the potential rahm emanuel, also about the potential for biden to give a post to former chief of staff bruce reed. this is what you wrote. we don't want bruce reed neither. do you think the biden team is hearing the complaints and concerns of progressives like you. i am going to bring you trump. >> absolutely incredible. nothing happened like that medically. people are acknowledging that, having a big effect. the stock market has just broken 30,000. never been broken, that number. that's a sacred number, 30,000. nobody thought they would ever see it. that's the ninth time since the beginning of 2020. and it is the 48th time that we have broken records during the trump administration. and i just want to congratulate all of the people within the administration that worked so hard and most importantly i want

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i ended up scribbling 30,000 and stock market is up. what was that presser about? >> reporter: that was the weirdest thing i've seen here at the white house, and i have seen a lot in the last several years. i will tell you, nia, the president came in there about 30 seconds, may have been longer than 30 seconds. he obviously wanted to tout the performance in the dow, down on wall street. the president wanted to take credit for that. there was talk on social media, twitter, people crediting the biden transition for general services administration to begin ascertainment procedures that are now in motion. and there was a lot of chatter on wall street that the pop in the dow was somehow related to the biden transition team getting going and janet yellen at the treasury department.

that probably precipated the president wanting to take credit for it himself. as you and i both know, nia, the president talks about the dow as a metric that he judges any administration by, particularly his own. not surprising he wanted to come out here. we will have another chance to see him later this afternoon, doing the ceremonial pardoning of the thanksgiving turkey at the white house. that was just the strangest thing to see the president come out in the briefing run, we have white house staffers shouting at us to get in our places, he wanted to walk in the room so he was ready, wanting to walk in the briefing room before we were in our seats because we had white house wranglers and staffers saying sit down, the president was about to walk in. he didn't take questions as we all know, and it is worth noting, he has been in this period of dealing with losing to joe biden for the last three weeks now. still has not taken any questions from reporters.

it is hard to put the cereal back in the box after you have gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs. strangest thing i have seen in the white house briefing room. >> he decided a tweet wasn't good enough for that announcement about or statement about the dow. so there we saw it. we'll see him later today pardon two turkeys. jim acosta, thanks for that. bringing back jamal bowman of new york, and pick up where we left off. talking about cabinet selection process for joe biden. and senator bernie sanders of vermont had this to say. it would be for example enormously insulting if biden put together a team of rivals and there's some discussion that's what he intends to do, might include republicans and conservative democrats, which ignore the progressive community. i think that would be very, very

unfortunate, bernie sanders had to say. based on biden selections so far, do you see anyone that's progressive enough for you? >> well, first let me say off the top thank you so much for having me. when i hear names like rahm emanuel being floated as part of biden's cabinet, considering the fact that he covered up the murder of laquan mcdonald, he closed over 50 elementary schools and 30 mental health institutions, it is incredibly alarming. >> so we lost the congressman elect. sorry about that. we'll try to bring him back. the color of coronavirus, disparity in the death toll and what's done to slow it down. we wait for president-elect joe biden to take the stage and

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you're looking at live pictures from delaware, we are waiting for joe biden and kamala harris to come out and introduce cabinet picks they announced this week and the nominees will be with them. we'll bring that to you live. a growing number of

americans without a loved one this thanksgiving due to covid-19. nearly 900 new deaths were reported just yesterday, the most for a monday since late july. more than 1500 deaths being reported on average every day now. as the pandemic has reminded us over and over and over again, not every community is impacted equally. joining me to share his findings, a professor at the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. thanks for being here. they have new research that shows risk of death disparity from covid-19 when it comes to race and ethnicity, risk of dying from covid is 6.9 times higher for hispanics. 5.5 times higher for blacks compared to white counterparts. what can be done, doctor, to prevent these deaths? >> thank you for having me.

also in our analysis we have shown also that elevated risk in hispanic, latino, black americans, african americans means risk of dying at age 50 for them is equal to risk of dying for a 65 nonhispanic white. we need to protect them, they kept food on the tables and through ppe and masks at workplace and social gathering at home. in terms of getting the vaccine, in terms of prioritization, they should be considered first and for them of course the age should be 50, not 65. >> some research shows that black americans aren't as keen on taking the vaccines that will be rolled out in the next months as white americans are, something like 70% whites are more likely to take it, something like 55% for african americans, you see the numbers there, hispanics at 72%.

how can you close this gap in terms of who is going to get the vaccine, who is comfortable getting the vaccine. we know african americans have a history of mistreatment from the medical community, so fears about the vaccine are often times based on history and experiences. >> very true. unfortunately we have bad history here in the united states. we have to address this. we have to make sure we have reach out to the community, leadership in the community, get help of everybody, make sure we tell them how safe the vaccine is, how important for them to take the vaccine to protect themself because they're at high risk and part of essential workers. it is on us to make sure we let them know how safe it is, why it is important to take it, and make it available for free to them. >> i want you to listen to the doctor on cnn this morning talking about disparity she's

seen at her hospital in minnesota. how does that line up with what you're finding, your research and what needs to be done to help folks that don't stay home because they simply don't have an option. i want you to take a listen to this. >> we're a safety net hospital that serves amazing and diverse population, but it is a lot of patients from marginalized communities and people that have fewer resources, less access, who are seeing a lot of essential workers that can't stay at home. we see a lot of families that have housing insecurity, they have no homes to go to. >> i imagine you're seeing some of the same disparities. >> yes. and quite honestly, we know before covid-19, african americans had lower life expectancy, higher ability of dying across the nation. we failed to protect them. same for hispanics and latino.

this covid-19 disparity came on top of pre-existing disparities going on a long time. now we realized in this country it is important for us, our health as a nation, is as good of the health of the weakest person in the community. unless we address disparities in terms of health, environment, socioeconomic equity, we can't keep up pace. >> we thank you for time and critical research as well. >> thank you. thanks for joining us. brianna keilar picks up coverage after a quick break. our adversaries aren't waiting.

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security security, and former federal reserve chair janet yellen, first female treasury secretary if confirmed. last night, head of general services administration finally acknowledging what the voters chose three weeks ago, signing off on election results to allow biden transition funds and the ability to move forward with security clearances. gsa administrator emily murphy wrote she came to the decision independently, was almost immediately undercut by president trump that tweeted he recommended she do it. meantime, president trump's legal challenges continue to dry up. yet he is still insisting he will not concede, soon will make a rare post election public appearance for the thanksgiving pardoning of the turkey, moments after a bizarre one minute briefing room appearance during which he touted the stock market performance. arlette saenz is in wilmington, delaware where the biden team is being introduced. arlette, tell us what rollout

we're expecting today. >> reporter: brianna, in a short while we will get the first glimpse at president-elect joe biden and his incoming administration. we are expecting that each of those six national security and foreign policy appointees, nominees he named yesterday will be joining him and vice president elect kamala harris on stage today. each of those nominees will have the opportunity to speak as this is a moment to introduce them to the american public. in this first batch, he focused on national security and foreign policy. he stressed one of the key pillars of the incoming administration is repairing relationships with allies, trying to restore america's standing in the world. and over the course of the campaign, you heard biden portray himself as the experienced candidate. you're seeing that extend all the way down to nominees and appointees that he will be

introducing today. between all of them, they have decades of experience in each of their sectors from the foreign service to department of homeland security. and biden is trying to show he's assembled a team of experts who are key officials in their areas to lead the country when it comes to these two issues. in addition to this official rollout of his incoming cabinet and what it is going to look like, this will also be the first time we hear from the president-elect since the gsa administrator said he can move forward with the official transition process. we know that biden's transition team has already been in contact with key agencies like department of defense, department of state and health and human services at a time when coronavirus pandemic is front and center for all americans, and as it continues to grip the country. we know the biden transition wants to get access to key coronavirus details as they're

trying to plan for what their response will look like in early days of their administration. >> all right. so many days and months ahead for them as they get ready. arlette saenz covering that transition in wilmington. we couldn't see a bigger contrast between 45 and 46 than in who they've chosen for cabinets. joe biden is picking people with long-standing careers. trump refled in the deep state. i want to discuss with david chalian. trump rald against the deep state which is just a lot of folks with institutional knowledge about difficulties of running government. biden is turning to policy veterans. what is your interpretation of how we're seeing this change. >> i definitely think as arlette was