hi. i'm boris sanchez. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. unfortunately the holiday week is ending just as it began with a record number of americans hospitalized with coronavirus. in fact, for 17 days now, the country has shattered the hospitalization record set only the day before. the latest count from the covid tracking project more than 90,000 people are being treated for coronavirus by doctors, nurses and other medical staff as they are sounding alarms saying that our health system is being pushed to the brink.

there are no localized hot spots anymore either. the whole country is experien experiencing a major spread. if you follow the yellow line on your screen you see that deaths in the midwest are roughly double that of any other region. the u.s. right now averaging 1,500 deaths and 164,000 new infections per day. just on thanksgiving, the nation reported roughly 110,000 new cases. that actually does not even include reports from 20 states. they didn't report new numbers because of the holiday. the virus is raging with one of the busiest days of travel of the year still to come on sunday. more than 6 million people have defied cdc guidance to stay at home and not travel this thanksgiving. despite consistent guidance from health officials the state of florida remains defiant over the issues of masks and social distancing. the governor there, ron desantis

extending an order this week that bans local municipalities for issuing fines for violating pandemic related mandates like face masks or limiting restaurant capacity without justification. this comes at a time when the use of hospital ventilators in the sunshine state is surging. rosa flores is in miami. what's the situation with ventilators and how are people reacting to the news from ron desantis, to the order? >> reporter: you know, there's so much frustration here in florida because of this. here's the back story. last week, five mayors met, they had a virtual press conference because what they want is for governor ron desantis to do more so that they can stop the spread of covid-19 in their communities. now that got followed up by a letter that was written by miami beach's mayor, directing to the governor, asking him

specifically for several things. that includes more money for testing, a state mask mandate, better contact tracing and also exactly what you were talking about, the return of the power to localities so they can curb the spread of the coronavirus. things like being able to impose mitigating measures so that restaurants can abide by these rules and also so they can fine individuals that refuse to wear a mask. now that is where the rubber meets the road because i've been in contact with both city of miami's mayor and they have not heard back from the governor. they've been trying to contact him since last week. i contacted his office as well for several days and i have not heard back from the governor's office. but, boris, here is why there is so much worry. the number of hospitalizations here in southeast florida is beginning to increase. the number of ventilators in the

past two weeks increased by 48%. now i do want to give you some perspective here briefly because it's important. in july when we were talking about the surge of hospitalizations here in miami-dade, we were talking about 2000 people that were hospitalized. right now there's 667 individuals fighting for their lives here in miami-dade only. so boris, it's important that there's only 667, it's not 2,000 but this is what leaders are trying to do, they're trying to curb the spread so that number doesn't continue to increase. >> troubling figures there, rosa. we're going to speak with the mayor of st. petersburg later on. we'll likely hear frustration about that order from governor desantis. rosa flores, in miami, thank you so much. i want to get to the west coast now, california where positivity rates are spiking. stephanie elam is in los angeles for us. what are you learning?

>> reporter: boris, let's compare it to what we heard rosa talking about there. here in the entire state of california, they're saying nearly 7,200 people are in the hospital right now. and they're saying there's less than 2,000 icu beds available. now the state does have a plan to bring on 2,000 more beds and open up 11 more facilities if necessary. this may be the case because right now the positivity rate is at 6.1%. we're starting to see the numbers go back towards the highs we saw over the summer surge when we hit above 7.5% for our positivity rate there. this is obviously concerning. california did report numbers yesterday. yesterday's number 14,640 people testing positive for the coronavirus. we'll likely see numbers again today. they're not going to be as big as we've seen. we saw two records hit within the last week. obviously during a holiday those numbers are going to be smaller which means next week we should be prepared we might see larger

numbers as the virus is clearly spreading throughout the entire state here, boris. >> preparations for larger numbers and potentially preparations for stricter restrictions, california being one of the most strict states in the nation. stephanie elam reporting from los angeles. thank you. we're joined by dr. mark morocco, an emergency medicine physician. doctor, thank you for being with us today. california, your state, is number two in the country for coronavirus infections with a recent disturbing spike as we just heard in positivity rates. but putting all the numbers and the charts aside, because they only tell part of the story, i want you to share what you're seeing behind closed doors and what you're seeing in your hospital right now. >> i think in our hospital, even nationwide in emergency rooms and intensive care units, the care givers, the physicians, respiratory therapists and

nursing staff, very frustrated and angry. you'll never see it because we're professionals. we believe this is a time for a call to unify our un-united states and to go to war against this coronavirus. this is really a war. and the time is now. the next six weeks is going to tell the tale about whether this is an inconvenient winter or a disastrous winter. right now the virus is a fire and we're dry grass and it's burning sea to shining sea. >> how are you doing on supplies? the does your staff have enough masks and gloves and other ppe to weather the surge, and how about beds for your patients? >> there's a big diversity of hospital experiences in a place like los angeles, california, and even across the country, places that are lucky to be in relatively resource rich environments we'll do well for a long time. but smaller hospitals are going to struggle, some of them that

are burning hot spots in the midwest and dakotas, they're already running out of supplies. we're in a danger zone, which is why we wanted to reach out now and say we need to get together, get a unified message and move on against this virus. >> doctor, i'm glad you mentioned some of the frustration that you and your staff are feeling, because i'm sad to report that there's a mental health crisis tracking with these coronavirus numbers. suicide rates among health care workers, especially, those numbers are up. how is your team doing in terms of fatigue and burnout? how do you cope with the stress and pressure that's on you? >> well, we're trained to do that. that's kind of what we signed up to do, but this is an unusual, once in a lifetime event. something we rarely dreamed about. so we're trying to put in place lots and lots of checks and balances, and making sure people ask how are you doing? unfortunately sometimes you ask that question and they really tell you and then you have to do

something about it. so our institution has been aggressive about providing support. but there's never going to be enough until we feel it from the public. even today, you know, there's a supreme court ruling that came down. that's going to be something that's going to make for some of us to be purely frustrated because it seems like that ruling is reflective of the polarization of something that shouldn't be polarizing. the virus is not partisan, it does not have a geographic location, it doesn't care if you live or die, it's going to attack all of us and the recent ruling may make it more difficult to do what we need to do. >> doctor we have to leave it there. take care of yourself, sir thank you for joining us. >> thank you, boris. have a good weekend, be safe. >> same to you. president trump said he will leave the white house if electors choose joe biden but he's still falsely claiming victory and pushing

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if you look at what's going on. you have to really take a look at what's going on. they're finding tremendous discrepancies in the votes. so i can't say what's first and what's last in terms of is this the last one or is this the first one of a second term. we'll see what happens. >> let's go ahead and take a look at what's really going on. fact check. there was no widespread election fraud and his legal team has declined to argue there was widespread fraud in court. we don't have to wait and see anything. you can see it on your screen. president-elect biden won 306 electoral votes to the president's 232. if the president does get a second term, it'll be because he runs again in 2024. nevertheless, here's one unexpected portion. >> if the electoral college does elect president-elect joe biden, are you not going to leave the

building? >> certainly i will. certainly i will, you know that. >> it's a step in the right direction that he admits it. but it's obvious he has no choice. he has taken enough steps, pardoning, michael flynn, troops, et cetera. but one step toward, two steps back. >> if the electoral college votes for joe biden will you concede? >> if they do, they've made a mistake. >> but will you concede? >> this election was a fraud. >> again, there is no evidence of widespread fraud. that's according to state election officials, both democrats and republicans, who notably voted for and donated to him and officials in his own government. listen to this. >> it's the most secure in american history, there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes or changed votes or was in any way

compromised. >> yeah. i stand by that. >> that was the director of the cyber security and infrastructure security agency, you might recall the president fired him for contradicting claims of fraud. here's what happened last night when the president was pressed on the lack of evidence again. >> the timeline of when you're going to present the evidence of voter fraud. >> it's happening now. we're in courts, but we're also in front of legislatures. we're doing very well in front of the states. >> they're actually not doing well at all. the election is over. it appears many of the claims that the president is making are just a kind of snake oil riling up supporters to donate to his legal fund so he can continue a fight he knows he lost. but point of fact. those hundreds of emails the trump team has been sending out since election day about raising funds for the legal fight.

if you read the fine print it states the vast majority of the money is going to his action committee to fund his life post presidency. a note on the trump legal team their efforts are falling apart. lawyers have fled that team and another who pushed some absurd conspiracies went so far-off the deep end she got exiled from the rest of his legal team of conspiracy theorists. even some of the strongest trump backers are balking. take chris christie from new jersey, who called the trump legal team a national embarrassment. and the president and his allies have outright lost or withdrawn 30 cases since election day. the only wins they've scored in court both affecting a small number of votes, not nearly enough to overturn election results anywhere.

>> i don't know what is going to happen. i know one thing, joe biden did not get 80 million votes. i got 74 million. but there were many ballots thrown away so i got much more than that. i got 74 million. 74 million is 11 million more than i got last time. >> so in his world, there's no way biden got 80 million votes. but all of his 74 million votes, those are totally fine, they're real. they're not worth questioning. >> those machines are fixed, rigged. you can press trump and the vote goes to biden. all you have to do is play with a chip. >> that's false. it's a baseless conspiracy theory. he's trying to also sow doubt in the runoff elections in georgia and defame the secretary of state there. >> they have a fraudulent system. the secretary of state, who is really -- he's an enemy of the people.

>> that's secretary of state is a formerly trump backed republican. he supported the president. in fact, in a recent op-ed, brad raffensperger touted the state's record turn out and how the process was completely fair and then he said this, quote, my family voted for him, donated to him, and now are being thrown under the bus by him. the president also erupted at a reporter for asking three times whether he would concede. >> don't talk to me that way. >> sorry, sir. >> you're just a lightweight. don't talk -- i'm the president of the united states. don't ever talk to the president that way. >> point of fact. that was jeff mason of "reuters." jeff is someone i consider a friend, full disclosure, i work with him on occasion. he's one of the most professional reporters in the press room. he's sharp, asks fair questions,

this isn't about defending jeff who has been complimented by trump on previous occasions. i want to repeat the legitimate and obvious question that trump was asked. quote if the electoral college votes for joe biden, will you concede? it's a simple question. here's another way he tried to answer it. >> it's gone na be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud. >> the president is right about an aspect of that. a concession is something he doesn't have to do, although in a democracy it's the tradition and custom that most gracious candidates and incumbents, even though bitter on the inside, it's something they've done to maintain the integrity of an election and the will of the voters to maintain an air of civility within our democracy. still with our without a concession, trump lost. >> i think it's not right that he's trying to pick a cabinet.

>> we can't stress this enough. this is not bush versus gore. there's no legitimate dispute of an outcome. there are no hanging chads or complaints from senior citizens in south florida about confusing ballots. this election was not even close. the president lost. and it's the winner's right to start the transition and build his administration, just as then president-elect trump did, very famously before cameras at his properties. >> the biden administration said that's okay we'll get rid of america first. we don't want to get rid of america first. we want to put america first. >> so that is a correct claim from president trump that biden has promised to pivot from the president's slogan over the last four years when it comes to global relations. it's fair to point out that many do not feel that america first actually puts the united states in the best position to lead the world. including the president's former defense secretary, the one he hand picked who recently said

that biden should get rid of the america first mantra on day one. this is no typical person. this is mad dog mattis. james mattis. perhaps what's most troubling in the president's gaggle with reporters is that threw the lies and conspiracies he barely referenced the pandemic ravaging the united states. the main point he brought up regarding coronavirus was only to make sure that he gets credit for the coming vaccines. >> don't let joe biden take credit for the vaccines because the vaccines were me. >> joe biden has so far in no way tried to take credit for the vaccines. regardless, hospitals are hitting record after record, doctors, nurses, hospital workers, you just heard them, they're all overwhelmed. beds are running out in p some states. more than 2,000 americans died in each of the past 48 hours.

and millions of americans are going hungry as the pandemic also ravages the economy. but let's take a look at his tweets. fox ratings, twitter trends, the dow, not to mention pardons, he's more consumed about himself and what people are saying about him and what credit he thinks he is due than with the crisis he refuses to call one. >> you wouldn't know that to listen to the news reports, but the whole report is suffering. and we're -- we are rounding the curve. >> we've been rounding the curve for months now. there's a lot to talk about here. joining me for analysis on all of it is cnn contributor michael d antonio. he's also a trump biographer and author. you've written about the president. you had close encounters with him, some good, some not so

good. when you hear the sound bites back to back, trump spewing lies about widespread voter fraud, lashing out at a good reporter, calling the georgia secretary of state an enemy of the people when the guy is a republican who voted for him. what do you make of all of this? >> this buffoonery, i think it's cruelty as well as you noted, there were americans who literally died in the time that the president was giving us that horrific display. it's all consistent with who he is and who he has always been. he is a profoundly incompetent person. a loser, if you might say. he's so incompetent, he cannot even succeed at being a loser. he's failing at this essential task, which all men face at some point in their lives. we all lose at various moments.

and he can't man up and do the mature thing. and do the right thing by the country. which is acknowledge that the system worked, that there was no fraud. that our democracy is strong and our institutions have held. instead, he's dragging us through this show and it's really reticence of all of the flaws in his personality and character that have been present almost since birth. this is the creature he has always been. >> wow. the president said he would leave the white house if the electoral college affirms joe biden's victory. but he wouldn't commit to attending biden's inauguration. do you think he would actually skip it? >> i think he's quite capable of skipping it. i think that the answer to that will be determined by what he thinks will profit him the most.

and by "profit," i mean literal profit, dollars and cents in his pocket. but also what he imagines will profit him going forward. so he could very well declare a 2024 run before inauguration day, and thereby, try to deprive biden of the attention that he deserves and the respect that he deserves. so i don't think that it's a sure thing that he will attend the inauguration. he will leave the white house, because he doesn't want to be frog marched out by law enforcement. but the rest of it, i don't think we can assume he'll do anything normal. >> we've heard from people close to the president that he is contemplating a 2024 run. i'm also wondering whether some of the republicans that have yet to acknowledge that joe biden won the election whether they would show up to his eventual inauguration. we have to end the conversation there. thank you so much for the time.

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we have some breaking news to share with you. a top iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated outside at the rain -- tehran. i want to get to nick paton wal walsh. any idea who would be behind this. >> reporter: a man whose name you wouldn't hear before, mohsen fakhizadeh, you would expect fingers to point to israel. that also has been echoed by the country's foreign minister who not only confirmed that

terrorists murdered an iranian scientist today he said this cowardice shows warmongering. those photos are from the attack. this, of course, is a secure area, obviously, where a man of this importance would have been traveling. his name has been used in the past by israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, in a lengthy speech he gave making the case that iran is still pursuing and retaining the knowledge for a nuclear weapon. unclear what roll mohsen fakhizadeh retained at this point. he was indicated in a u.s. state department report last year as having this reservoir of knowledge. the important point now is that the biden administration, the president-elect, is weighing up what it's going to do in january with the nuclear deal that donald trump pulled out of as one of his key foreign policy tenants. there is an avenue for diplomacy

here but maybe not such a big one if iran's hawks feel their backs are put out by key figures like this being assassinated outside of tehran. with this assassination today, regardless of who ends up being behind it, it makes the avenues for diplomacy in the weeks and months ahead a little tighter. >> details are scarce but you can tell from the photos as you pointed out, nick, it appears to be a sophisticated and orchestrated attack. nick paton walsh reporting from london, thank you. let's discuss it further with max boot, a senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. what are your thoughts upon learning this news? >> as was suggested, obviously, israel would be the obvious culprit behind this assassination. it's a sign of the alarm that

israel and other countries, including the united states, have about the iranian nuclear program. it's important to point out that the program was under control thanks to the nuclear accord negotiated by the obama administration. and then, the trump administration exited the iranian nuclear accord in 2018. since then the amount of enriched uranium that iran possesses has increased eight fold. they can now make three nuclear weapons should they decide to weaponize. so the trump administration has been a failure. iran's nuclear program is more advanced than ever. with attacks like this one or cyber attacks, one would expect that israel and potential if the united states involved as well is trying to limit the program. it's not going to do the job. one nuclear scientist can be replaced. iran has a durable program. this is an attempt to mitigate

this run away iranian nuclear program that requires i think a diplomatic solution, which is something that the biden administration is going to be looking at very hard. >> just offer a different perspective, there were those that felt the jcpoa wasn't strong enough and trump did the right thing but i want to make sure we have time to ask you about new reporting from "reuters" that said that north korean hackers launched cyber attacks on vaccine maker astrazeneca. apparently they were trying to gain access to computers belonging to astrazeneca staffers. south korean lawmakers accused north korea on carrying out a similar attack on their vaccine maker. what do you think the angle is here? >> north korea has an active cyber warfare program. you wouldn't expect it, but their hacking capabilities are

sophisticated. one may surmise they're trying to gain the formula for the astrazeneca oxford vaccine. it should be pointed out that 172 countries around the world have joined the international vaccine alliance organized by the world health organization, the united states has not, and north korea has not. the u.s., of course, we're able to develop our own vaccine. north korea is not. so you can imagine they're probably desperate because they don't want to be part of this international organization. they just want to steal from it. this is another sign of how decrepit the north korean dictatorship is and what a high price it pays for its isolation from the world. >> it's really difficult to imagine what the circumstances must be like for the average north korean having to deal with coronavirus on top of the nightmares of being stuck in that dictatorship. thanks for the time, sir we

appreciate it. >> thank you very much. of course. mayors in florida are begging the governor to make a change on the pandemic. you'll hear from one of them. plus hear what the u.s. military is doing to prepare for the likely coronavirus surge that's coming as hospitals are already running short on beds. hundreds of youth soccer teams are headed to arizona amid the pandemic despite pleas from local officials. we'll take you there, next.

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i want to return our focus to florida for a moment where local officials are accusing the governor of thwarting efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus. florida has reported over 6,000 new cases every single day this week. and intensive care units are filling up with over 4500 patients in icus right now. leaving only 25% of adult icu beds available across the state. so what is governor ron desantis doing? he's banning local officials from issuing fines when people violate mandates like face mask requirements. where does this leave the mayors trying to keep communities safe. joining me is the mayor of st. petersburg, mayor thanks for spending time with us. you joined five other florida mayors, bipartisan group, democrats and republicans,

calling on the governor to give you more freedom to implement covid restrictions. what's your reaction to this decision from desantis? >> you know it makes it that much more difficult for us to have an impact and really do what we can to lower these numbers in our communities. and, you know, the governor, the most important job of an elected official, whether you're president, governor, or mayor, is public safety and health. and it's about leadership. and, you know, if this governor is not up to it, then he really needs to step aside, because there are those of us trying to lead and he's getting in the way of us trying to make a difference. >> you've had a mask mandate in st. petersburg in place, help us understand how enforcement has worked. >> and we have, and i think as a result of us having it and creating that culture, we are more than a point below the rest of the state when it comes to a

two-week rolling average percentage of positive testing. i firmly believe it's because we have the mandate and because we had tried enforcing it. so what we've done is we've cited businesses if they aren't requiring their employees to wear masks, and the patrons that come into their businesses to wear masks and to socially distance. the governor is trying to take that ability of us to enforce away from us. and it's really been problematic. >> so the governor has said that local governments in hot spots can coordinate with his office to keep some of the mandates in place. is that an option you're pursuing? >> certainly, if we start looking at limiting occupancy in our restaurants and businesses, we definitely will pursue that, but, you know, it just -- for a governor who claims to be all about economic development and businesses and looking out for businesses, this is a very shortsighted policy he has in place. it will be far worse for our

business community and the people who work in those businesses if we have to do a complete shutdown because our numbers explode and our hospital -- and there's no beds in our hospitals. it makes so much more sense to allow us to have a mask mandate and to enforce social distancing. >> mayor, we don't have much time left but i wanted to give you ten seconds to send a message to the folks in st. petersburg in florida and the rest of the nation. >> if you want to continue to be able to go shopping, to go eat dinner, wear your mask, socially distance. if we all do this, it's very simple. if we all do these things we'll reduce our numbers, less people will get sick and less people will go to the hospital and unfortunately die. it's very simple. >> mayor, thank you again for the time. >> thank you. so will president trump attend joe biden's inauguration? hear his answer ahead. plus the pope takes a swipe

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as coronavirus cases explode nationwide, hundreds of families are traveling to phoenix for a youth soccer tournament featuring more than 400 out of state teams, despite covid restrictions and the mayor's strong disapproval.

>> reporter: public health officials from the cdc to the task force to sanjay gupta have been clear on one thing, boris. traveling during the pandemic surge is a dangerous, bad idea. but those warnings haven't stopped organizers of a massive youth soccer tournament in phoenix, arizona. they're going ahead with plans. the desert super cup features 500 teams. 460 of them from outside the state. technically, pandemic restrictions in arizona for big gatherings of this size. but the rules have enough wiggle room to allow the phoenix city council to go ahead and sign off on something like this and allow it to happen. therefore, desert cup kicks off today for three days of youth soccer. boris? >> i wish all those folks good health. thanks for that. president-elect booijoe bid facing a big week and big test.

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this year's cnn heroes, an all-star tribute, will be a special celebration of heroic efforts of the many men, women, children around the globe that faced two simultaneous crises, covid-19 and racial injustice. here is one of the year's most inspiring moments. >> sometimes a photograph can capture the mood and attention of the world. in june, one image did just that. during a protest in the streets of london, events turned violent. black lives matter group was there to condemn statues of people with racist ties and many white protesters there to protect statues. things got heated. one man, a white former police officer, wandered into the crowd, started to get beat up.

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